I’m feeling sad, I can’t seem to break contact with this JW boyfriend.

anglophone comments on Mar 12, 2020:

He needs to live his own life, just as much as you need to live *your* own life. My guess is that he cannot abandon his own *ir*rationality any more than you can abandon your own rationality. He may be too driven by his own fears to question what he has been told by his theology teachers. It seems that religious trauma, such as he may have experienced, results in catastrophic damage to the pre-frontal cortex of the human brain, so the irrationality of "My god is the real god, all other gods are false gods" would not be apparent to him. Care for yourself. Know that there are others out there. Be kind to yourself, and be patient.

This Christian man is known to me and I am protecting his identity and only exposing his outrageous...

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

That Christian man's irrationality has left me breathless.

Surprises, yay or nay?

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Some surprises can be good, many surprises can be bad. Being paid a compliment is an example of the former, getting engine oil in the radiator coolant is an example of the latter. P.S. I like your style here.

Apparently they don't have much faith in their faith healing abilities.

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Sigh.

Ancient Shell Has Revealed Exactly How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago

anglophone comments on Mar 11, 2020:

Nice work! :)

Okay, I was talking with a friend yesterday.

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I would recommend any source that debunks those crazy claims. Try the following: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/03/what-archaeologists-really-think-about-ancient-aliens-lost-colonies-and-fingerprints-of-the-gods/#d094fdd7ab0c https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-idiocy-fabrications-and-lies-of-ancient-aliens-86294030/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts I hope this helps.

After Invocation Snub, Satanists Hold “Infernal Ritual” Outside WA Capitol | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

The bigotry, it hurts.

Greek Orthodox Church: Coronavirus Not Transmitted Via Holy Communion | Michael Stone

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Ignorant dimwits!

Okay, so there is always the Atheist vs.

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

It strikes me that equating agnosticism with a fence is a false position, as opinions can range 100% certainty that the God of the Bible exists to 100% certainty that the God of the Bible cannot exist.

Wondering if this situation occures often when visiting with religious freinds and in the ...

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

I would be unable to give a polite com back. The best I could do would be "uh-huh". In reality, none of my friends are sufficiently religious to make such an observation.

Religious figures blame LGBT+ people for coronavirus

anglophone comments on Mar 10, 2020:

Such religious figures are (in)famous for their culpable stupidity.

Catholic Churches Are Removing Holy Water Out of Fear of Spreading Coronavirus | David Gee | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Oh, the irony!

Orthodox Israeli Rabbi Claims Coronavirus is God’s Revenge for Gay Pride Parades | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

That rabbi was given his non-existent brain by his non-existent god.

You were right. Mr. Email My Friend was a scammer.

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Thanks for letting us know. :)

Orthodox Israeli Rabbi Claims Coronavirus is God’s Revenge for Gay Pride Parades | Beth ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Said rabbi is an idiot.

How are these god pumping people dealing with the current virus?

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

Such people cannot properly be said to think.

Atheist/Agnostic

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

My exit from belief in the Sky Fairy started 10 years after being psychologically abused by a religious fundamentalist, and took a decade to complete. It takes a lot of skill and effort to construct polls that work properly.

Bars near Florida university give women a secret way to alert bartenders if they feel unsafe on a ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

I would like to see that in other parts of the world as well.

Back on here after a long time.

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

If you are agreeable to it, this community will be part of your support network. Ask us anything. And thank you for sharing your post with us.

I'll settle for acknowledging my delusions, not sure they're avoidable, they just get replaced by ...

anglophone comments on Mar 9, 2020:

If an idea, or a set of ideas, has more explanatory power than another idea or ideas, I would not call it delusional. I would call it a better understanding (presumably of the world about you) or a more useful model of reality (whatever that is). Yes, I am a pedant when it comes to English usage, and being a pedant has both its advantages and its disadvantages. I am also blessed and cursed by having an analytical habit of mind, which is why I make a distinction between delusions and (better) understanding.

Right-Wing Pastor: God Sent Us Coronavirus Because of Homosexuality | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I feel sorry for the people who believe the ravings of such lunatics.

The bible god/Yahweh/Jesus is the greatest abortionist.

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

And then there are the dimwits that worship said psychopath.

Pastor Puts Anti-Gay Sign on Lawn After Realizing His Neighbors Are Lesbians | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

It was people like him that caused me my childhood trauma. He is in urgent need of professional psychiatric help.

He asked me to email his friend, sight unseen. A scam?

anglophone comments on Mar 8, 2020:

I see nothing but red flags there.

Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...

anglophone comments on Mar 7, 2020:

That is absurd as the trope that there are no atheists in foxholes. The willful ignorance of the people that keep peddling that line both amuses and saddens me. (Edited for a missing word.)

Yesterday i had a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE).

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

"No, I only drink Carlsberg Lite." TEE, as in TEE-HEE? ;)

I found this on VOX its kinda like a feel at points.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

Anybody who in all seriousness asks "What is the meaning of life?" has failed to realise that the question is nonsense.

I try to find humor in almost everything.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

Hateful and racist rhetoric is used by deeply damaged people who are in denial about their own damage.

Apparently there is a connection between being gay and possessing some sort of artistic talent.

anglophone comments on Mar 6, 2020:

I find your post to be extremely well constructed and extremely well written. Not many people can do that. Kudos to you. (btw, I write a regular column for my local newspaper.)

Someone recently argued that greater educational attainment in first nations is the driver behind a ...

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

I am not sure that I can agree with your "*instinctual* attribution of the unknown to supernatural forces" (emphasis added), though I agree with everything else you say.

‪This 'gay, atheist, leftist' is taking on Poland's right-wing government — by running for ...

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

It is high time that the International School of Lies lost its stranglehold on Poland.

I have to be honest.

anglophone comments on Mar 5, 2020:

Well done you for recognising the myriad of logical fallacies that are used by the God Squad when they attempt to demonstrate the existence of their particular God. You might want to look into the history of the Bible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible ), the two Councils of Nicaea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea ), a comparison between the Bible and the Torah, and the mythology of virgin births ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births ). It is worthwhile pointing out that it is trivial to show that the God of the Bible cannot exist: the claimed seven days of Creation does not match the observed 13.8 billion years, which immediately invalidates the rest of the Bible. Get out there, and *enjoy the rest of your life!*

Some Atheists can be just as self righteous and judgmental as Christians/religious people.

anglophone comments on Mar 4, 2020:

Yes, I am totally ruthless when it comes to demanding of theists that they produce falsifiable evidence to support their existence claims of their gods.

New Zealand Pastor Blames Coronavirus on Airborne Demons Controlled by Satan | Beth Stoneburner | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 4, 2020:

It saddens me that there are people who are sufficiently mentally deficient to believe those sorts of dangerous idiocies.

A Catholic apologist attempted to defend the story of the Exodus... And failed. [youtu.be]

anglophone comments on Mar 2, 2020:

Why would any sane person want Catholic answers or even Protestant answers when evidence-based answers are available?

Once.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

You picked up that line about teachers from George Bernard Shaw. Unlike your bystander, Shaw had forgotten that he was taught by a teacher.

Speaker on Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) argues that therapists should not feel ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

I had not realised that the God Mob had managed to infect the teaching of psychotherapy with their mind poison.

Greetings.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Welcome to the asylum. :)

Here’s a Picture of Mike Pence’s Team Attempting to Pray Away Coronavirus | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

It takes a world class idiot to imagine that prayer will remove Coronavirus from the world.

Important message for the Christians; It is approaching Armegedon.

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Everybody all say together: "Harold Camping!" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Harold_Camping . See also https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world#21st_century .

‘It’s not just AI, this is a change in the entire computing industry,’ says SambaNova CEO ...

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

I like the shift in paradigm.

School policy forbids kids from saying 'no' when asked to dance

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

That is a sure-fire way to shame any kid that has clumsy child syndrome. That is typical of f^cking Utah!

What do you suppose gives rise to and supports belief in God?

anglophone comments on Mar 1, 2020:

Deities seem to have been the best explanation that early Man was able to come up with to explain the world around him. Examples include ancient Egypt, with its subsequent translations into the Greek and then the Roman gods, the Mayans, and the First Australians. As far as I know, the first monotheist was Akhenaten (died around 1335 BCE), and then there was Zoroaster (a.k.a Zarathustra) about 800 years afterwards. That theism still seems to be embedded in some cultures may be due to tribalism (the need to belong to a band of humans for survival purposes) being stronger than rationalism. (edited for typo)

Is forgiveness required? Is it hypocritical to judge others? I see hypocrisy all the time.

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

I judge, and I can never forgive, the Bible Thumper that put fear of his God into me at age 10.

One of the most problematic concepts I have found is the idea of permanence.

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

My identity is real for the simple reason that it exists. The assertion that identity is an illusion is thereby invalidated. Please check both your assumptions and your reasoning. Thank you very much.

When I started reading this post, I thought it was going to be full of judgement but it was to my ...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

This is what can happen when people confront their own fears and their own prejudices.

Is the Coronavirus a message from God or a tool of the Illuminati that the new world order is taking...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Oh, you silly SILLY boy. It is *both* a message from God *and* a tool of the Illuminati!

If I were a religious person, I would say that the Lord has sent us a test (the corona-virus) which ...

anglophone comments on Feb 29, 2020:

Nice idea, but that would require the said evangelicals to use their brains, and they are not renowned for doing that. It's almost as if their brains were given to them by their non-existent God.

Christian Writer Claims Her PMS is One of the “Effects of Sin” | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

It would be wrong to accuse her of using her brain.

We all believe in evidence-based science, and that's why we're agnostic/atheist, right?

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

No, I do not believe in evidence-based science. I find the models of the natural world that science provides to be the most useful models available. The issue of replication is just a part of a wider debate between scientists.

A question: There is a bill circulating in the Utah legislator to legalize polygamy.

anglophone comments on Feb 28, 2020:

In the interests of equality, if one husband with many wives becomes legal then one wife with many husbands should also become legal. The link https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51562737 might answer your questions.

There is a coronavirus whistleblower from HHS claiming A lex Azar of HHS exposed the whistleblower ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Trump wants to fire everybody who does not subscribe to his highly warped view of reality.

All the way back in 1917 a famous "miracle" supposedly took place in Fatima, Portugal where three ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Children tend to be credulous. It is part of their survival mechanism as children. Being able to question what you are told develops as an adult, but some people are so brain damaged during their childhood that they do not develop that ability. Welcome to brain damaged adults inflicting brain damage on the children of their day. I am glad your brain survived.

AG William Barr: “Men Are Far Likelier to Obey Rules That Come from God” | Hemant Mehta | ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

For Barr to cite his non-existent God when it comes to men obeying rules shows that he is delusional.

Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Anybody who claims that doctors "are [priests] of the medical cult" can only be described as being clinically insane.

I get tired of all this discussion about creating or listing reasons not to believe in a god or ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

Would you care to discuss the finer points of tiddlywinks instead?

WHY does the AHA questionnaire keep asking "do you believe---" As a Scientist one doesn't BELIEVE ...

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

The word "belief" is ambiguous in its usage. Not everybody is aware of this fact. Where context establishes which meaning is implied, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt.

Why You Should Never Say "It's Just A Theory" - YouTube

anglophone comments on Feb 27, 2020:

This reminds me of Eugenie Scott's YouTube video about science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M1hxGj5bMg

Faith Healing Kills: Conservative Christian parents in Michigan who refused to get their dying ...

anglophone comments on Feb 26, 2020:

I have nothing but contempt for the dangerous fuckwits who use religion as an excuse to deny medical attention to a vulnerable person. Such fuckwits do not have religious rights, they are committing religious wrongs.

Do you think your lack of God affects how you feel about the insults of aging?

anglophone comments on Feb 26, 2020:

I accept my aging process and the consequences thereof as being mere facts. I do not suffer fools gladly. The half-life of religious fools being in my company is about 2 minutes.

From There to Here

anglophone comments on Feb 25, 2020:

The models of the natural world that come out of science are far more useful than the models that come out of religion. Putting it simply, "It [science] works, bitches!". There is also the issue that different religions and different sects within each religion often contradict each other. Again putting it simply "Therein lies madness!". My own journey out of theism started with Karl Popper's idea of falsifiability, the upshot of which was "Nobody has ever provided any falsifiable evidence to support the existence claim of any god in the last 5,000 years.".

What do Atheist think about reincarnation?

anglophone comments on Feb 25, 2020:

Nobody has provided any falsifiable evidence to support the hypothesis of reincarnation. To answer your question, it is not even pseudo-science. My own view is that reincarnation is merely wishful thinking.

‘Belief’ definition I surmise that one cannot think about beliefs in the singular as if they...

anglophone comments on Feb 24, 2020:

Belief: a position accepted as being true, but in the absence any supporting evidence. Belief system: a set of beliefs on a set of related matters. A belief system need not have a core concept as it can be built around an approach to explaining the natural world. Think of the Greek and Roman gods, along with Buddhism and Daoism.

Hello coming from a catholic background,how do you fill or erase the psycological void of God ...

anglophone comments on Feb 24, 2020:

The void that is God became for me a fiction. I avoid the subject when it comes to friends. (My family is/was atheist.)

Small town residents threaten to sue their own kids’ financially strapped school over a rainbow ...

anglophone comments on Feb 23, 2020:

Such bigots are part of Donald Trump's support base. Edit: these right-wing lunatics are wrong-wing lunatics.

I am an atheist in a supernatural God but I have come to see that as long as someone is talking ...

anglophone comments on Feb 23, 2020:

The concept of God exists. To claim that "God exists ... as the beauty we see in the natural world" is to conflate ideas which conflating inevitably results in confusion. Religions, along with all their associated concepts, also exist. Trying to get rid of all concepts dealing with religions is as absurd as trying to get rid of the ideas of balrogs, pixies, and phlogiston.

Who has been the most influential Atheist/Agnostic famous person for you?

anglophone comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". He was not so much influential in me becoming an atheist (that happened 30 years previously), but I found his perspective enlightening.

My mom's concern for me and my husband's atheism.

anglophone comments on Feb 22, 2020:

What a blatant case of moral blackmail! I cannot stand people who push the line of "more in sadness than in anger". :( :( :(

Who or what created the covid-19 virus?

anglophone comments on Feb 22, 2020:

As @Matias says, good old-fashioned evolution by natural selection.

What would you say to a friend that was a flat earthist?

anglophone comments on Feb 22, 2020:

I do not have such so called friends.

So, how many of youse out there in 'agnosticland' have actually considered whether your position is ...

anglophone comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Please define which statistic you are using in this context.

So I'm at work and I had a customer ask me if i was a lover of jesus.

anglophone comments on Feb 21, 2020:

If you were a lover of Jesus, would that make you a homosexual?

Christian parents sue their school district to force it to out trans kids / LGBTQ Nation

anglophone comments on Feb 21, 2020:

It saddens me that such Christian parents suffer so much personal insecurity that they need to use gender as an excuse to persecute other people.

So I'm at work and I had a customer ask me if i was a lover of jesus.

anglophone comments on Feb 21, 2020:

The arrogance of that ignoramus is an unsettling reminder of the stupidity of Homo (in)sapiens.

The religious point of view: "I do not understand anything about the universe, and I am to lazy ...

anglophone comments on Feb 21, 2020:

I find your words to be a magnificent portrait of Donald Trump and those who support him.

BIG wobbles in Salt Lake as member ship levels fall so low, the big three have decided to make huge ...

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

I don't care how they (the LDS) try to dress it up, they are still a bunch of pathetic people.

Mormon Church Formalizes Punishments for Trans Members

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

That handbook is nothing but pious bullshit from end to end, written by intolerant frightened fuckwits.

What is your reaction to Commencement address by Tim Minchin? Is there meaning? [youtu.be]

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Best: "Be a teacher". My reason is simple: without teachers, the sum of human knowledge cannot be passed from one generation to the next.

"We are aware the Satanists and Atheists have decided to pile on this poll.

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Anything less than chauvinistic support for the god espoused by such lawmakers is seen by them as an attack.

80 year old Atheist scores a token win.

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

That some petty oik thought Hart's request was being vulgar and obscene shows the obscenity of the oik's thinking processes.

Christian Lawmakers Group Blames Satan After Twitter Poll Goes Badly Awry

anglophone comments on Feb 20, 2020:

That is hilarious!

Let's ask the big question: why is religion a fraud, & why am I not getting laid?

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Religion: lying about God. Getting laid: lying with a woman. Remember poor Mary, Mother of God: She had a God almighty fuck (with her own unborn Son).

Love Your Neighbor!!!! No Exceptions!!!!! Agree/Disagree?

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Disagree. Love is for those with whom I am compatible, and its cousin "respect" is earned. I cannot possibly "love" any neighbour who steals my horse! I rejoice in diversity.

Evolution is just a Theory? CORRECT.

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Remember Christina Wilkinson of Oswaldtwistle in England who claimed "Evolution is not a fact. That's why it's called a theory!" https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/headteacher-mocked-over-evolution-is-not-a-fact-tweet-34421575.html

PLEASE READ! The red car was at a complete stop behind a bus stopped at a train crossing.

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I have no time for those who would cheerfully commit manslaughter for the sake of their own egos.

If you ever come across someone trying to say atheists can't be good people because without religion...

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I have no time for aggressive pea-brained idiots who claim that you cannot be good without God. Oh, and thank you for the link. :)

Anyone else hear the phrase, "I'm better than I deserve"?

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Anybody who states "I'm better than I deserve" is suffering from more issues of personality and more issues of cognition than I care to name.

Have you ever thought of religion and communism as not being that different?

anglophone comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I presume that you mean both extreme religion and extreme communism. The former has a God that is *not* on earth, while the latter has a God that *is* on earth. Both subjugate the masses to terror at the whim of an individual. Think of Ferdinand and Isabella, and Pol Pot.

I see this here all the time.

anglophone comments on Feb 18, 2020:

You write "my way of being an atheist or an agnostic is better/more correct then your way of being an atheist or an agnostic." but fail to cite examples. If me having no time for the willfully ignorant is me being oppressive of them, then so be it.

It's Official.

anglophone comments on Feb 17, 2020:

An ordained atheist? Wow! Tell me, do you wear a Holy Colander on your head when you perform a marriage? ;)

It is an established fact that believers are deluded and liars.

anglophone comments on Feb 17, 2020:

As @Novelty suggests, if you cannot say it in at most 20 words, then it is not worth saying. (The above is 19 words long.)

know why you re an Agnostic because you re not afraid to think.

anglophone comments on Feb 17, 2020:

I laugh at those who claim that their particular god or gods exist.

So unlike my parents, whom I love, lol I am letting my son decide what to believe or not to believe.

anglophone comments on Feb 17, 2020:

At age 11 he has yet to acquire critical thinking skills. I went from ages 10 to 30 accepting the absurd claims of the God Squad.

A friend of mine posted this on FB today : So it seems that God has all these universes and species ...

anglophone comments on Feb 17, 2020:

LOL! If Man is made in the image of God, with what or whom does God have sex with?

This is a summary of an excellent BBC programme I watched on "chronic" pain and pain killers.

anglophone comments on Feb 16, 2020:

That is why I am extremely cautious about being prescribed any opioid. I have found that paracetamol (called acetaminophen or Tylenol in the USA) coupled with ibuprofen to be extremely effective in managing severe pain. It was much better for me than tapentadol (an opioid). Tapentadol also has no effect on me, and made me feel ill as well, which did not go down well when coupled with pain!

Humanist Action Headquarters - American Humanist Association

anglophone comments on Feb 15, 2020:

You can tell Trump anything you like, but he will not listen unless it conforms to the views of conservative Christians.

I've just started reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and he say something that I never ...

anglophone comments on Feb 15, 2020:

Once I realised that belief in the Catholic god was absurd, I realised that belief in *all* gods was absurd.

Richard Carrier - Testing Religion Claims with Science and History - YouTube

anglophone comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I think Richard's excellent piece will be lost on religious fundamentalists as they reject the idea of using rational thought.

Richard Carrier - Testing Religion Claims with Science and History - YouTube

anglophone comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Thanks for the link.

Iceland Declares All Religions Are Mental Disorders [patheos.com] What are opinions here?

anglophone comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Vote: None of the above. Religions are belief systems given credence by the mentally infirm.