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13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Daily Gut: On Tolerance · 4 replies · -9 points

Your bizarre obsession with atheists (note: lower-case "a") is showing again. Where in Gutfeld's post is religion or epistemology ever mentioned?

And you know that Breitbart is a self-admitted agnostic, right?

What's that Jesus said about removing the beam from one's own eye before noticing the mote in another's?

Yeah, I'm an atheist. I'm also a libertarian and a fan of small government, the 2nd Amendment and capitalism. I despise Obama, but don't despise the religious simply because they believe something I don''t.

But I'll make an exception for you, Ron. Not because you're a Christian, but because you're just a bigoted jacka$$. You're Bill Maher with a religion.

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - In Which I Say Goodbye... · 1 reply · +13 points

Actually, Hank, I'm another Canadian who's unaware of hockey. I attribute this to my American mom, who taught me to revere the one true sport of Baseball.

Grit, though, is even more clueless about Canadian politics than he is about hockey. Heck, his screen name comes from a party that got crushed into irrelevance during the last election here.

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Same Jon Stewart Who U... · 0 replies · +7 points

So you're a progressive AND a fan of Schickelgrueber? Hardly surprising.

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Report: John Lennon Cl... · 1 reply · +10 points

I'm an atheist, but I've always hated that song: the nasal whine, the faux-naive lyrics, the monotonous piano riff For such an allegedly "pacifist" song, all it does is send me into a violent frenzy the moment I hear those opening chords. Must .... find .... hippie ... to stomp!

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Primetime Propaganda'... · 0 replies · +4 points

Ludwig the Mad is correct. An Iranian friend and colleague of mine recently converted to Christianity after realizing he no longer wanted anything to do with Shi'ism after seeing what the Mullahs did in its name to their own citizens. He still has family in Iran and every time he goes back to visit he risks imprisonment or death if his "apostasy" is revealed.

I also once tutored an Iranian robotics engineer who told me he'd been jailed for 24 hours for -- wait for it -- dancing in public.

13 years ago @ Big Journalism - Admitted Communist Van... · 0 replies · +2 points

He's also a 9/11 truther.

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Jon Stewart to Chris W... · 0 replies · +13 points

"Masquerading of indigenous?"

What is that -- forcing Indians to wear clown costumes?

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Mr. Mission Impossible... · 2 replies · +4 points

I don't mean to argue, joyce, but just for the sake of balance I'd like to point out the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an atheist-run charity.

That said, I recognize and welcome the work done by Christian and Jewish charities. As a few others on this thread have pointed out, being an atheist doesn't automatically mean opposing religion. A good deed is a good deed, no matter what the motivation is.

13 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Mr. Mission Impossible... · 0 replies · +3 points

Thanks for making the distinction, Cap. As an atheist, I've always used Maher as an object lesson as the kind of sanctimonious jackass NOT to be. Interestingly, Christopher Hitchens himself uses the phrase "anti-theist" for his confrontational brand of non-belief, predicated as it is on opposition to religion.

Anti-theism, I find, violates the basic tenets of libertarianism (to which I subscribe). If I'm free not to believe in gods and have a right to non-belief, then others are equally free to believe in a god and join a religion and do not deserve scorn or ridicule for exercising that right. To paraphrase Jefferson (IIRC), it matters not whether my neighbor believes in no gods or many gods, since it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket.

13 years ago @ Big Government - Reason.tv: What's the ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Pro-life libertarians are more common than people think, Dar. Over at the Cato Institute, the venerable Nat Hentoff is both a strong libertarian and an outspoken pro-life advocate, and has cited the argument you used in your opening sentence.

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