Comments on: Religulous review: Bill Maher’s brutal and intelligent take on religion

By: DB Skeptic

DB Skeptic — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:00:53 +0000

Jeane,

If possible, can you (or another reader) translate what you wrote into English, so we can understand and respond?

Andy

By: jeane

jeane — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:04:30 +0000

vc é um tolo em pensar que Deus não exite , que ele possa ter misericódia de vc , Deus esta em todos os lugares , vc é famoso porque te abençou , porque não somos nada , e temos as coisa por sua infinita graça , vc não é ninguém sem ele , ele esta no ar que respiramos , na mulher ao dar a luz , no simples fato de vc ser pai , ou até mesmo de viver . Por isso agradeça a Deus sempre e peça perdão .

By: j

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:04:45 +0000

First of all, I’m an agnostic and I think if God exists it would be a deistic type God more than likely, I’m almost sure there is no God but can’t say for 100% certain. Now then, atheists like you will always rant about how people in the church are bigots and zealots, etc. The fact is an atheist who is anti-religious is no better than the fundamentalist who is anti-atheist. Honestly, both groups need to get over their fundamentalism. First of all, science may say that the world wasn’t created in 7 days but that’s typically only the sorts of situations when it clashes with religion. Secondly, most religious people are not all insane bigots. Atheists, and religious people will never fully agree but on an individual basis they do get a long well. Most religious people probably think that the church was wrong in burning heretics and that it conflicts with their religion(though this is not always the case, as the Bible does condone witch burnings and other similar things). Most religious people are not even familiar with the immoral passages in the bible, why they think atheists are immoral is probably because they do not have a true reason to be moral(not saying this is the case here) or because they think to reject the Bible is to reject the golden rule(yes I know this has been said by people before Jesus was ever born). The thing is some atheists see religious people as all immoral and stupid and religious people sometimes see atheists similarly. Atheists use the same logic as blacks, because whites used to have black slaves then whites today owe something to the current black generation even though it was the previous generations which did wrong. Today almost no whites do wrong to blacks, and they might think they are racist based on the past which is not true. Atheists are comparable to blacks here, they can’t hold religious people responsible for what they did eons again, almost none of them do it today. Yes I admit atheists are widely discriminated against, but that does not justify hate of religious people. Isaac Newton was religious, so how can it be said that all religious people are morons? Atheists adopt science as a religion most of the time, it’s not meant to be a religion and they misuse science the same way some Christians do to say that science states God exists. In summary, all I’m saying is atheistic fundamentalism and zealous behavior is no different than religious fundamentalism and zealous behavior. We do not need more fundamentalists. I’m also saying it’s wrong to stereotype an entire group of individuals many of whom may have individualistic views of religion. It’s just as wrong for religious people to accuse all atheists of being immoral. You are a zealot yourself if you disagree with this.

By: Uncle MythMan

Uncle MythMan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:32:16 +0000

When an “intellect” (Bill Mahar)uses brutality to make a point, it makes me think of a machanic who uses a monkey wrench to fix things.

What brutality? What point?
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The only ‘brutality’ that comes to mind is the church’s brutality which Maher dutifully reports to make the ‘point’ that power–no matter how wonderful its source may be–can be made just as “evil” as sin!

By: matt the coolist

matt the coolist — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:40:26 +0000

When an “intellect” (Bill Mahar)uses brutality to make a point, it makes me think of a machanic who uses a monkey wrench to fix things.

By: Uncle MythMan

Uncle MythMan — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:27:31 +0000

I agree with part of many atheist arguments (and thus dislike the church, which prefers a Roman attitude of conquest to a Christ-like one of compromise). In most respects, I am an a-THE-ist (as God does not exist in one-and-only-one-and-no-other place, but rather in all places … even the ones you choose not to see God in).

But I’m also what one might call an ‘Old Testament Apologist’ … maybe I don’t “know” that any of it actually happened, but it ends up making good sense.

I don’t think “The Ten Commandments” were really meant to be “the best grouping of laws God and Moses could create.” That argument is one of the ways Churchianity’s KGB-like hypnosis has trained people to understand works: not by their entireties, but by choice sound-bites from within.

I’m sure there ~were~ “rules against torture, rape and other horrible things” in the reported hundreds of laws below the ‘top ten.’ They didn’t “leave out rules for the really bad stuff, and include commandments prohibiting comparatively lesser infractions”; I’m not even sure the ‘commandments’ WERE ‘rules’ and not just ‘general guidelines’ (like longitude … if I tell you to head north as a rule, and you head north-northwest, then what circle of Hell shall you fall to? lol)

By: J. J. Ramsey

J. J. Ramsey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:46:34 +0000

Fudge.

For the sake of any spam filters, I’ll try to keep it down to one link. Anyway, here’s a relatively recent IIDB link on Mithras: http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=5574210#post5574210

This should at least be useful as a starting point.

By: Andy Kaiser

Andy Kaiser — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:04:27 +0000

Hi J.J.,

I get an email for moderation for any comment containing a link. I’ve just checked the stats, and I do not see any other comment from you requiring moderation. Sorry, but it looks like your earlier comment was lost.

Andy

By: J. J. Ramsey

J. J. Ramsey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:49:55 +0000

DB Skeptic, there should be more detail in a comment that I submitted earlier that had several links, but it seems to have been “eaten” or perhaps spam-filtered. If I don’t see the comment show up soon, I’ll try to get back to you.

By: DB Skeptic

DB Skeptic — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:13:22 +0000

J.J., do you have more detail you can point to? I actually first heard about Mithras from IIDB, long before I reviewed Religulous.