[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

IT'S A GODDAMNED CRACKER!


Reproduced from: Pharyngula: IT'S A GODDAMNED CRACKER!

Well, it just seems to get better. Check out the response:


Pharyngula: Now I've got Bill Donohue's attention

The Catholic League is preparing a stake for me. They're going to go straight for the jugular and threaten my job...

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That last paragraph is marvelously blind. Hey, Bill! I can think of something more vile! How about intentionally desecrating the bodies of young altar boys who respect the position of trust held by Catholic priests? I think that is a lot more vile than mistreating a cracker. In fact, I can think of innumerable vile acts going on all around the world right now, and not all of them even involve Catholicism. It takes the moral vacuum of a purblind ideological bigot like Bill Donohue to think that goring his sacred cow is the worst thing in the world.

Pharyngula: Fight back against Bill Donohue!

So far today, I have received 39 pieces of personal hate mail of varying degrees of literacy, all because I was rude to a cracker. Four of them have included death threats, a personal one day record. Thirty-four of them have demanded that I be fired. Twenty-five of them have told me to desecrate a copy of the Koran, instead, or in some similar way offend Muslims, because — in a multiplicity of ironic cluelessness — apparently only some religious icons must be protected, and I would only offend Catholics because they are all so nice that none of them would wish me harm. I even have one email that says I should be fired, that the author would like to kill me, and that I only criticize because Catholics are so gentle and kind.

Oh, and of course, the university president's office has also received lots of mail demanding my immediate ouster (keep in mind, though…Catholics are no threat to anyone at all.)

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So no poll-crashing today. Instead, I would appreciate it if you would write a short note to President Robert Bruininks in support (he's going to hate me for this)

Be sure to click the links and read the full page. I sent a letter to the university president in support. This is downright ridiculous how frenzied these sheeple religiots god-loving and peaceful people have become over a stupid cracker.



Back to the thread topic... You're goddamned right religion is harmful to society.

[Overdog]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Back to the thread topic... You're goddamned right religion is harmful to society.

I second that. With the technology for WMD becoming more and more prevalant, how long will it be before some zealot nukes a city, or releases some devastating biological or killer nano agent on all of us?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Overdog

I second that. With the technology for WMD becoming more and more prevalant, how long will it be before some zealot nukes a city, or releases some devastating biological or killer nano agent on all of us?

As any religious person is bound to tell you, it's not their religion that is causing the problem, my religion is a religion of peace and love, it's those other guys who hate other religions that are causing the problem. if my religion had control we would eliminate all those bad guys and the world would be in peace and harmony. what we really need to to arm my religion and destroy all those other violent hateful religions that worship the god in the wrong way. Only my religion has the real answers and we have the right to protect ourselves from those guys so we need all the weapons we can get to destroy them burn their cites, kill their children, and then maybe they will see the light and come over the side of love and peace

[InfiniteNow]

BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Registrar wins same-sex tribunal

Until December 2007 registrars in Islington effectively worked on a freelance basis and could swap with each other to avoid same-sex ceremonies.

But since then they have been under direct control of the local authority which, it is claimed, has led to far less flexibility about the registrars' responsibilities.

Miss Ladele said she was being effectively forced to choose between her religion and her £31,000-a-year job as a result.

She said she was picked on, shunned and accused of being homophobic for refusing to carry out civil partnerships.

Miss Ladele said: "I am delighted at this decision.

"It is a victory for religious liberty, not just for myself but for others in a similar position to mine.

"Gay rights should not be used as an excuse to bully and harass people over their religious beliefs," she said.

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"Lillian Ladele claims she has won a victory for religious liberty. No, she has not. She has won a victory for the right to discriminate," he said.

"Public servants like registrars have a duty to serve all members of the public without fear or favour. Once society lets some people opt out of upholding the law, where will it end?"

[Overdog]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

As any religious person is bound to tell you, it's not their religion that is causing the problem...

Your post reminded me of this...

Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, "why do airplanes fly?" on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

"First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.

Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:

If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.
If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic."

The student, Tim Graham, got the only A.

[Southtown]

That was forwarded to me also. lol

Does all that exists have mass?

[InfiniteNow]

Not photons.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Not photons.

How about photon torpedos?

I have many time tried to point out to very religous people that if they are right then heaven is a very lonely place and hell must be quite full but of course they always say I am headed to hell and I will know for sure at some point.

[Southtown]

Originally Posted by Overdog

Your post reminded me of this...

Originally Posted by Southtown

That was forwarded to me also. lol

Does all that exists have mass?

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Not photons.

I thank you, sir. And so the question begs 'why must we postulate that souls must have some mass.'

[InfiniteNow]

I dunno. Why must we postulate that unicorns are purple?