tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post6408441439276178940..comments2023-07-28T09:29:30.176+01:00Comments on Nuts and Reasons: Richard Dawkins reacting to the Pope's first speech on British soil.quedulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-48321853942274391772010-09-21T16:59:34.267+01:002010-09-21T16:59:34.267+01:00@quedula you have read emotion into my post that w...@quedula you have read emotion into my post that was not there. I simply asked valid questions as your post read "The religious believer is ....." not "Belief in religion is.... " As you have clarified that this was a mistake and your post was infact "directed at religious belief, not the believer. No," it reads you must admit in quite a different way. <br /><br />PBWY Xxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173655733453717693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-59185913765684570692010-09-20T20:40:43.589+01:002010-09-20T20:40:43.589+01:00@Double. You seem to be describing your emotional ...@Double. You seem to be describing your emotional reactions to my post rather than taking issue with any of the specific points I make in it. My aim is simply to say what I think, as does the Pope. <br />Everyone has the absolute liberty to believe exactly what they want. How could it be otherwise? I suppose my post sounds rather serious but I don't know why you read hate into it. In any casequedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-17652346570856759152010-09-19T22:14:52.710+01:002010-09-19T22:14:52.710+01:00@Wingbeat i like and agree with your post. @quedul...@Wingbeat i like and agree with your post. @quedula I agree with you one does finds love & joy everywhere. and certainly the Catholic church does not hold the monopoly, @Wingbeat did not say we did! neither do I!<br />I am concerned by the direction you have taken in your post. What is the aim of your post? What do you want to happen? Do you want all religious believers to be gathered PBWY Xxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173655733453717693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-90483200068076541722010-09-19T19:20:29.857+01:002010-09-19T19:20:29.857+01:00@Wingbeat. One finds love & joy everywhere. Ce...@Wingbeat. One finds love & joy everywhere. Certainly the Catholic church does not hold the monopoly. <br /><br />The religious believer is a mental slave to an insubstantial idea, a phantom presence inculcated in a youthful developing mind with the object of control and obedience. It develops with the mind to become a source of mental refuge and comfort, and consequently becomes near quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-29893184792475401402010-09-19T18:40:58.536+01:002010-09-19T18:40:58.536+01:00whatever the problems with its teaching, which are...whatever the problems with its teaching, which are many, and even whatever its history, standing on the field at Bellahouston with RC's many of whom disagree at least as forcibly, I could not but be impressed with the love and joy that was there. <br />The nastiness of atheism, without the corrective that is there for nasty religious folk, becomes quite obvious, both in Prof Dawkins' Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05470661038564349186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-76526351262011478182010-09-18T23:36:02.854+01:002010-09-18T23:36:02.854+01:00Hitler was a Catholic. Nazi uniforms had slogan &q...Hitler was a Catholic. Nazi uniforms had slogan "Gott mit uns" ("God on our side") engraved on belt buckles. Stalin also not atheist, according to own guards:<br />Letter from TLS Novemeber 21, 2008<br />Stalin at prayer<br /><br />Sir, -- A pendant to the letter from Ann Shukman (October 31) concerning Mikhail Bakhtin's strong involvement with Orthodox Christianity.<br />Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034269198524567445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-53075509663230814872010-09-18T20:20:38.841+01:002010-09-18T20:20:38.841+01:00@Vanya. I Imagine RD would say 'for the good o...@Vanya. I Imagine RD would say 'for the good of mankind'.quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-5503763714814661972010-09-18T20:10:21.180+01:002010-09-18T20:10:21.180+01:00Why does an atheist care what the Pope says?Why does an atheist care what the Pope says?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10204597027183465208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-2742849290976676172010-09-18T19:12:29.269+01:002010-09-18T19:12:29.269+01:00Atheists love just fine, "Dermot". What ...Atheists love just fine, "Dermot". What they don't love is jerks like you.<br /><br />When bigots of your ilk have put some distance between them and us, we suddenly become nice again.Juan Castrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17460907797734424386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-81002878504889603852010-09-18T04:47:03.831+01:002010-09-18T04:47:03.831+01:00. . . .and the way to reduce abortions is to use c.... . . .and the way to reduce abortions is to use contraception which the catholic church forbids. Of course most catholics in the developed countries of the world ignore the Vatican's teachings on this. It is poor people of the third world suffer the most damaging effects.quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-28558112011029598682010-09-18T01:29:51.168+01:002010-09-18T01:29:51.168+01:00Paul Brown: sorry, I posted carelessly in my origi...Paul Brown: sorry, I posted carelessly in my original post. Just to confirm there are 600 abortions each day in Britain, not six million per day!!! 600x365=219000 abortions per year in Britain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-22736937677660280702010-09-17T22:49:29.176+01:002010-09-17T22:49:29.176+01:00Dear Richard Dawkins you are what? 69Yrs old give...Dear Richard Dawkins you are what? 69Yrs old give or take? Making comment on a war and a faith during a war you have no experience of. I do here is mine: My Pa defended Britain and fought for the freedom of us all. He was a pilot in the RAF during the 2nd world war. He was left deeply traumatised by what he experienced, rarely sleeping more that 4 hours a night, until he died last year at 88Yrs.PBWY Xxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173655733453717693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-45022157733042164902010-09-17T21:22:14.095+01:002010-09-17T21:22:14.095+01:00Mike. you might be interested in the list of Hitle...Mike. you might be interested in the list of Hitler quotes given here:-<br />http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/09/list_of_hitler_quotes_in_honor.php<br />It surely dispels any arguments that he was an atheist or agnostic.quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-39685322661578267112010-09-17T21:15:18.803+01:002010-09-17T21:15:18.803+01:00It's quite a masterful media stunt by the Pope...It's quite a masterful media stunt by the Pope. He's deflecting attention from the child abuse scandal, and apparently it's working if people like Richard Dawkins are "incandescent with rage". That's probably exactly what Ratzy was aiming for. He's relying on people generally thinking that the Nazi party was against religion, and I'm guessing that this is a safe Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-32439079838472777672010-09-17T20:16:46.571+01:002010-09-17T20:16:46.571+01:00So, Dermot, how are 1 million unborn children kill...So, Dermot, how are 1 million unborn children killed in one abortion? There are no species on earth that I know of that can have a million young in one go.Paul Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247954135752131284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-87937622303639500682010-09-17T19:35:36.861+01:002010-09-17T19:35:36.861+01:00600 is the figure I heard from the BBC. That's...600 is the figure I heard from the BBC. That's 600 abortions, on average, in Britain each day. That's 200,000 a year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-29204722019545111202010-09-17T19:07:04.402+01:002010-09-17T19:07:04.402+01:00You haven't clarified your first statement. Ar...You haven't clarified your first statement. Are you saying that 600 million abortions are carried out every day in Britain?quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-2954905529560326672010-09-17T18:41:08.872+01:002010-09-17T18:41:08.872+01:00Quedula: If you live the Catholic faith, that is, ...Quedula: If you live the Catholic faith, that is, by living a holy lifestyle, there will be no 'unwanted' pregnancies. When sex is reduced to an indoor sport, it's hardly surprising that the fruits of that sport should be sacrificed on the altar of 'choice'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-1742732401496555692010-09-17T17:29:20.184+01:002010-09-17T17:29:20.184+01:00Thanks for commenting Dermot.
Not quite understan...Thanks for commenting Dermot.<br /><br />Not quite understanding you though. Are you suggesting that 600 million extra lives per day should be surviving who don't survive at the moment, for whatever reason you might have in mind. <br /><br />If so where are we going to put them all? How is the earth supposed to feed them?quedulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737971867539674984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-14584501676389239092010-09-17T17:16:16.790+01:002010-09-17T17:16:16.790+01:00Dear Ex-Catholic,
Let us talk about humanity. For...Dear Ex-Catholic,<br /><br />Let us talk about humanity. For example, 600 million unborn children are killed each day in Britain. One day this country will wake up to the reality of what it has done. Then we shall see that we were more like the Nazis than we realised at the time. They killed Jews; we kill babies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-54915988980213194422010-09-17T15:03:41.840+01:002010-09-17T15:03:41.840+01:00Dear Dermot, please keep your meandering idiocies ...Dear Dermot, please keep your meandering idiocies about Atheists "not loving" to yourself. You are not better than an 18th century slave owner who thought his chattel were undeserving of sympathy as they were less than human and merely animals.<br /><br />Your failure to understand the full humanity of those who claim no faith show just how bigoted you and your ilk are. You disgust me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-73752589832479672212010-09-17T14:59:25.080+01:002010-09-17T14:59:25.080+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.aikighosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748347998921420463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1226216199663753298.post-85909955457219044552010-09-17T14:51:59.313+01:002010-09-17T14:51:59.313+01:00The Church is intolerant in principle because she ...The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice because they do not love.<br /><br />-- Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com