Atheist Zone | DrBob | Mentions https://atheistzone.com/members/drbob/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning DrBob. Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:44:37 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 499172dffc179122993049592dd6a479 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Catholic Schizophrenia in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/catholic-schizophrenia/page/3/#post-46911 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:32:47 +0000 @DrBob – I do not know what it is about my previous post that you do not get.  I thought that I had explained that I am unable to understand how Catholics, like your good self, do not see the paradox or contradiction in believing that they can be vegetarians even when they “Eat of my flesh and drink of my blood”.  I began my post by asking you to …[Read more]

]]> 29e2819ff44856d24c9d19e9e447aff3 Strega replied to the topic Above the law and why we cannot allow theist freedom in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/above-the-law-and-why-there-we-cannot-allow-relilgious-freedom/#post-4671 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:35:14 +0000 @DrBob. “We theists”?  I don’t think you speak for the majority of theists. I certainly wouldn’t attempt to write, “we atheists” followed by anything except the dictionary definition of atheists.

I wish in some ways that you did speak for more than the slender channel of Christians with similar mindsets to you, but truthfully, that’s just not…[Read more]

]]> da6e1a09f71ff0b7a2419f582febb822 Strega replied to the topic Random Number Questions in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/random-number-questions/page/2/#post-4468 Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:54:10 +0000 @Drbob the moderators are me, Reg and Pope.  You were welcome at TA and also welcome here.   I expect we will get around to updating the rules at some stage.   The most basic rule is , “don’t be a dick”. The one you might bump into occasionally is , “don’t preach your gospel here”.   Guided by those, you should be ok!

]]> 21ef7277c45d4b82ac69108767447ca1 Strega replied to the topic So Long and Thanks for all the Fish in the forum Theism http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/#post-1765 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:36:37 +0000 @bellerose hey! We don’t all use you! Well, we use your posts to cheer ourselves up because they’re great :). Let it go, honey.

@DrBob. So long and thanks for all the fish, a great quote from a bloody marvelous atheist, Douglas Adams – now that IS someone I miss.

]]> a102d56b0517395fd8f1c8345307e50f Simon Mathews replied to the topic So Long and Thanks for all the Fish in the forum Theism http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/#post-1738 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:55:34 +0000 I will be sad to see @drbob go. It may be there are plenty of shitty sites with shitty apologists but Dr Bob is not one of them. He is an apologist of a rarer type with more quality.

As such I got a lot from the debates I had with him. I obviously don’t know everything that happened but I’d appreciate if someone in the know could fill us in. I…[Read more]

]]> 02c3896d0d91ba55defd98679b13bc85 Kuba Adamów replied to the topic Is theism evil? in the forum Theism http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/is-theism-evil/#post-1032 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:14:35 +0000 @DrBob, @Unseen, @Davis, @Simon—Thank you, I’m genuinely grateful for your thoughtful words. It’s a never-ending journey for me, with quite a few arrogant and not-quite-informed claims (some really ill-informed ones, sadly, too) over the years. Your responses give me hope and encourage to tweak and verify my views. My use of words and the edito…[Read more]

]]> 6b081570246a211a85c29a62b64f6476 BeckyL replied to the topic So, I am atheist. in the forum Introductions http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/so-i-am-atheist/page/2/#post-883 Sat, 18 Jul 2015 22:30:33 +0000 @DrBob – I think it has something to do with the misconception that atheists are amoral or “just want to sin.” After all, I work in a helping profession that is often compared to “angels of mercy” and so forth. But, I don’t think I would be fired for those reasons, at least not ostensibly. I should hope they are conscious enough of the EEOC to…[Read more]

]]> b88edacc634b840dca69664a915cd096 Simon Mathews replied to the topic So, I am atheist. in the forum Introductions http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/so-i-am-atheist/#post-824 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:36:36 +0000

DrBob wrote:

On the very first day of catechism, the nun teaching our class told us that snakes used to have legs, walked upright, and talked.

*FACEPALM*

Sheesh.

And yet, @DrBob, albeit in fear of sounding like a broken record, apparently when someone informs us that Jesus died and then came back to life three days later it is not a case…[Read more]

]]> 58e2b73d2a2a6061e7ff988e2b386adf BeckyL replied to the topic So, I am atheist. in the forum Introductions http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/so-i-am-atheist/#post-821 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:58:04 +0000 @DrBob Hello! I did some lurking for a while over at TA and always appreciated reading your contributions to the fora. It’s good to “meet” you.

]]> 5d85074d356bee0253042ee6c9230374 Simon Mathews replied to the topic Might the predictions of climate change be wrong? Or do you believe on faith! in the forum Science http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/might-the-predictions-of-climate-change-be-wrong-or-do-you-believe-on-faith/#post-704 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 05:26:34 +0000 I agree with @DrBob that climate shouldn’t be considered the same as weather in the sense that general trends over time are easier to model as statistical noise is lessened. So whilst we cannot say whether it will rain next Tuesday we can say with some confidence that polar ice caps will continue to melt (for example).

In terms of solutions, I’m…[Read more]

]]> 4b1e542d1420c51bbd28de74e2bfaaae DrBob replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/6/#post-665 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:50:21 +0000

Says who, @DrBob ? This is an atheist website and all our atheist members are free to be as unfair and irrational as they like.

LOL. Well, that’s true. And as I have said in this thread and on multiple occasions on the old TA site, I am completely understanding of folks who just want or need to vent. If I lived in the Bible Belt of the…[Read more]

]]> c742dd07d5b5519f7c545b6f199e5560 Strega replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/5/#post-603 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:11:04 +0000

There is a great deal to criticize about religion or the religious, but it should be done fairly and rationally.

Says who, @DrBob ? This is an atheist website and all our atheist members are free to be as unfair and irrational as they like. You are a visitor, as you have often clearly recognized in posts. Don’t think for a minute that you…[Read more]

]]> d20509ef2ff220f5c076d6093b7ca2a2 More Real Than Any God (Mr Tag) replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/2/#post-300 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:06:48 +0000 @DrBob: maybe I knee-jerked, here. With respect, you’re doing what a lot of apologists do: playing with words. What do you mean “my faith decides how it chooses chooses to…” And “my faith is the group that compiled the thing…” And “that’s what my faith teaches.”

It sounds like you’re casting this “Faith” as an entity. Yet, you use “faith” as…[Read more]

]]> 6a2a890e2de44dd087987720136ad2f2 More Real Than Any God (Mr Tag) replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/2/#post-298 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:35:20 +0000 The premise of the Bible – despite protestations otherwise – is faith* in magic and mysticism. There simply is no other way to avoid this elephant in the room. Consider: talking snakes, asses, & bushes and a virgin-born water-walking resurrected flying zombie whose bloody death supposedly substitutionally “atones” for mankind’s nature. To rele…[Read more]

]]> 189991e7c47d82c3efed7086df65b202 Simon Mathews replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/2/#post-297 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:18:52 +0000 @DrBob, if the bible is just one book out of thousands why not take the good bits of out it, put them in a new book and ditch the wretched thing. You’d think Christians would want to do this to stop silly atheists like us quoting all the nasty bits. And yet the bible is retained as some kind of special tome. You can’t argue surely that most…[Read more]

]]> 3f396ce2961653c82fecd13bf150385a Simon Mathews replied to the topic Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry in the forum Advice http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/reeling-from-christian-friends-bigotry/page/2/#post-282 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:36:03 +0000 @DrBob takes want he wants from the Christian canon and leaves out what he wants. He is a cafeteria Christian. Thanks goodness for that because fundamentalists are scary. There’s no point in trying to use bible quotes to catch Bob out. He doesn’t think the Bible was written by God, only inspired by God. He says it was written by man. Therefore we…[Read more]

]]> 067df5c9956256949fa7b15aed19002b Matt replied to the topic How cold will it be tomorrow? in the forum Small Talk http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/how-cold-will-it-be-tomorrow/#post-250 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:56:49 +0000 @SteveInCO You know kelvins have the same scale as celcius, right? Like the difference between any two degrees is the same for both kelvins and celcius. 0K = -273C and equivalently 273K = 0C.

Good thinking with the rate of heat loss @DrBob

]]> 9fae69192e9c703bda47b3988e10152e _Robert_ replied to the topic Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America? in the forum Politics http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/fly-the-flag-of-the-confederate-states-of-america/#post-248 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:39:18 +0000 @DrBob,
Darwin’s book does not endorse racism and I believe the morality of human eugenics is not exactly clear yet. We sure use selective breeding for crops and livestock. The Bible directly endorses slavery. Ironically, anybody who connects the theory of evolution with racism is probably biblically driven.

]]> 8831a76dbd1792fda6b8964f38d8f908 Simon Mathews replied to the topic Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America? in the forum Politics http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/fly-the-flag-of-the-confederate-states-of-america/#post-235 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:38:30 +0000 @DrBob, Hi – you’ve decided (for now) to come with us. Excellent. At the moment there is no threading here. Threading has advantages and disadvantages – can’t decide yet whether I prefer it or not. People seem to be adopting a convention of putting @ with the person (or people) they are replying to as the start of a reply.

I don’t think we should…[Read more]

]]> 0c5a77dfc97ce1715ccea4b77faf5202 _Robert_ replied to the topic Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America? in the forum Politics http://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/fly-the-flag-of-the-confederate-states-of-america/#post-231 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:55:57 +0000 @DrBob,
Agreed, and we should also stop saluting that book called The Bible as well, since it was used as providence to set the positive morality of slavery for generations.

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