Comments on The Pensive Quill: Made In God’s Image

Marty, PZ Myers said you can always claim it stan...

2011-06-19T10:41:18.022+01:00

Marty,

PZ Myers said you can always claim it stands for adultery!

Marty, it is great to have you back. Your with w...

2011-06-18T13:23:02.059+01:00

Marty,

it is great to have you back. Your with was much missed.

Anthony that badge with the A on it could stand fo...

2011-06-13T01:38:49.572+01:00

Anthony that badge with the A on it could stand for Anarchist, Atheist,or asshole, but worse still it could be ADAMS !!!let the kids run free!

I,m back ! fsm and pastafarianism .is alive and br...

2011-06-13T01:15:54.597+01:00

I,m back ! fsm and pastafarianism .is alive and breeding!!!!!

Jim, I sort of know the feeling.

2011-06-12T17:43:51.132+01:00

Jim,

I sort of know the feeling.

What about our very own religious leader Gearoid, ...

2011-06-12T17:26:43.793+01:00

What about our very own religious leader Gearoid, walk in the steps of Jesus Adams.
This righteous and pious man is now demanding a 'truth commission'
Is there no end to this man's virtues?

"Humanity is the highest form of life." ...

2011-06-12T17:11:42.527+01:00

"Humanity is the highest form of life." God knows, I have known too many low-lifes in my time to agree with that!

John McGirr, “He who proves too much, proves noth...

2011-06-12T14:19:59.534+01:00

John McGirr,

“He who proves too much, proves nothing.”

Religion's tame response to science.

AM 'The products of a long process of scienti...

2011-06-12T14:04:10.096+01:00

AM

'The products of a long process of scientifically verifiable evolution,...'

Qui nimis probat, nihil probat : “He who proves too much, proves nothing.”

John McGirr, we don't regard her as an athei...

2011-06-12T07:53:53.301+01:00

John McGirr,

we don't regard her as an atheist child in any strict sense of the term. She is encouraged to think for herself. She knows she is free at any time to go to a religious event. Yesterday she saw a book for children on Noah's Ark in the library and jokingly said we should get it for her younger brother. I told her she could get it for herself if she wanted but she declined. If she acquires religious superstition at some point in her life it is a matter for her. I hope she does not.

Is your daughter now officially an atheist child? ...

2011-06-12T00:20:08.352+01:00

Is your daughter now officially an atheist child? If so, what does Richard Dawkins think of that?

"The world holds two classes of men - intelli...

2011-06-12T00:13:30.340+01:00

"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence - Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri"

Perhaps he is alluding to the fact that intelligence needs to be suspended to accept 'faith' as a reason to believe and that many intelligent people who profess or practise religion do not actually believe in it and use it for social reasons and not to appear to be outside the fold.

Nuala, it is more funny than accurate

2011-06-11T23:04:17.483+01:00

Nuala,

it is more funny than accurate

Mackers, a bit of a nonsense and condesending stat...

2011-06-11T23:02:29.551+01:00

Mackers,
a bit of a nonsense and condesending statement by Abu Ala ......
Sweeping as it sounds, there is absolutely no way it could be passed of or backed up as logical.
Also, Abu seems to ignore the fact that women make up more than half of the human race. Is atheism nothing more than the flip side of religious fundamentalism?

Fionnchú, thanks for this. Did not know it previo...

2011-06-11T22:33:56.258+01:00

Fionnchú,

thanks for this. Did not know it previously.

You and your daughter might like to know in the US...

2011-06-11T22:16:32.840+01:00

You and your daughter might like to know in the US, at military cemeteries, the approved symbol for atheists atop headstones is a capital "A"-- surrounded by the atom!