Judith van der Roos

Asianne wrote:
I think we need to stop this idea that “men are all assholes and women are all victims” because it’s creating a huge divide between men and women.

Jesus Christ who let this cliché mysogenist onto our website? Asianne you perfectly typify the “men are the victim” stereotype. Just spot on. When women fight back…it’s the oh no…po…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:
usefulness and the history of belief

All I’m saying is, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a good analogy because it bears no relation to everyday life, whereas the God of Christianity and Islam is intimately connected with everyday life. So, we cannot compare the two.

Any my response is that it is nonsense, a…[Read more]

Asianne wrote:
All these rich bitches complaining is making it more dangerous for those of us who have serious shit happening and now we really have nowhere to turn

Are you trying to say that the experience of rich women who were sexually assaulted is more trivial than poor women who were sexually assaulted? Are you proposing that rich women who…[Read more]

Women have been ignored, not believed or punished for being the victim of abuse, in numbers most of us wouldn’t possibly believe were true if it weren’t for witnesses and the sheer number of people who can attest to a persons sexual sleaziness and assault. A movement has started to stop avoiding the police who often ignore you, fear not the crowd…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Has the Flying Spaghetti Monster caused a book with genuine wisdom in it, to be written? Does the Flying Spaghetti Monster help people in their everyday lives?

Would you please stop appealing to usefulness and the history of belief of something as somehow relevant to the existance of Gods?. As many of us have been over this…[Read more]

Simon you are failing to distinguish between two things. One being the ability to have absolute certainty. The other one being default skepticism vs. Cultural-motional-conditioning. In no system ever used could you prove anything absolutely is as you say so. Its an annoying yet true thing. We don’t and so at cannot know everything. A tiny sliver…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
What does a religious person mean, when they say that atheism is like a religion?

They mean that religious knowledge, scientific knowledge and critical thinking are equal in terms that they all require a belief in that which lacks at least some certainty.

This is wrong for several reasons. The clearest being that religious…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
“So it appears to me that the one who works in mysterious ways is standing here before me in living and mysterious color.”

+1

Some people respond to the “drastic punishment by God” if he…say…destroys the world per evil… with the argument that, as children our parents may restrict us and even spank us because they lovingly know that it is for our protection, education and development as a person. And yes…it really does come from love. We should note that  many…[Read more]

No. No it is not.

Predator in the sky:

Yes. An undeniable yes. It is the most perfect description of the monster and mobster of the old testament.

A more interesting question is: Was Jesus a predator? Is he now in whatever bizarre form he has in heaven…a predator?

As Jake said, mother theresa had her own agenda when it came to politics. She gave voice to any politician who advocated against abortion. She accepted donations from the most crooked politicians. Her goal wasn’t to make life easier or better for others. She didn’t dispense a remotely reasonable quantity of painkillers and provided less than…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Maybe God is a description of certain properties of the universe, like energy is. Maybe God is our common humanity, which has properties of its own (e.g. maximising).

Simon, again, you are projecting higher level abstract concepts, and highly culturally loaded ones, onto what needs no higher level abstract.

The properties of…[Read more]

Clearsky,

Just so you know it’s all been a parody lampooning of a Christian who used to visit here. Of all his brilliant appologetics his greatest was that, like God, energy is just a concept. By the way, he was also a physicist…or so he claimed.

In other words, energy, God, they’re both just concepts, help you understand the world and yada…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That energy and matter are two different states of one thing is a fact.

Unseen my brother, the only thing in God’s great universe that can be two things in one is the Lord and his son as himself and a holy lord thrown in there plus his love for all the people he sent to his eternal torture chamber and his divine plan. Okay, that’s…[Read more]