There is nothing redeemable in this podcast. It's a propaganda mouthpiece for Satan and his followers. The content is a lock step repetition of the same humanist lies that have plagued the United States since the invention of the "separation of Church and State" fiction.
Despite their lock step service to Satan and the intellectual dishonesty of claiming to be skeptical while accepting the same beliefs as the rest of their peer group, I can't help but feel sorry for these people. This is because of one episode where they interviewed an atheist musician who had written a song about his dog's death. This song was an attempt by someone with no belief in an afterlife to deal with the death of his pet. The shoddy, hopeless, empty shell of "consolation" he came up with was so "moving" to other atheists that one of them had this song, about the death of a DOG, played at his mother's funeral.
What was the best the atheists could come up with to console them on the death of a loved one?
"The deceased won't have to miss me."
Despite everything these people are doing to drag souls to Hell, I can't help but pity such lost, hopeless, pathetic creatures.
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So instead, we should accept your lies about an afterlife in heaven as long as we accept that your god created everthing even when all reason, logic, and fact goes against that? No thanks. And all those 'humanist lies'? What, the lie what we should help our fellow man? How evil are we to think such a thing.
The death of a beloved pet is nothing to laugh at. Dogs really are man's best friend, as unlike people they are loyal and true to the end. I love my dogs, how dare you say that this man's tribute to his beloved pet is something to mock! I think it is a touching thing that this man did, even if I am a Christian I see no problem with a man consoling himself by singing about his dog.
I can't help but pity you, that you have so much hatred in your heart.
"an atheist musician who had written a song about his dog's death"
'They're coming to take me away' by Napoleon XIV?
Besides, atheism isn't wrong just because it's not comforting.
A religion where everybody goes to Heaven would be more comforting than Christianity, but that doesn't make it true or more believable.
Death IS hard to deal with. It's a known fact, and bullshitting around it is not a good idea, and it does not make the bullshit true.
@Zabimaru
It should be in one of the podcasts at The Skeptics Guide to the Universe .
Also from Cornswalled:
"Even if you set aside the wholesale endorsement of vaccination, their wholesale rejection of homeopathy,"
So it looks like not only is compassion anti-Christian, seems like curing people of diseases is too.
I remember that podcast. The songwriter's point was that atheism can be a hard row to hoe when dealing with loss, that you would like to believe you will see the person or pet you loved again, and that coming to terms with the fact that they are forever gone from the world and your life is tremendously wrenching.
It was very moving, and as a hopeless lover of pets, I certainly understand his feelings of loss over his dog. I've said goodbye to several in my life, and it's always hard. Dogs are good folk.
anonymous_troy: Coulda sworn it was by Neuroticfish... is it his song or a cover?
But yeah, this guy's a doucheshit.
Yeah I posted this - he is talking about when the Skeptics were interviewing George Hrab who wrote the sonce and who is a cool dude.
I thought that he may be a Poe but he has went out of his way to say some truly horrible things here.....the jury is out?
GreenEyedLilo: I think "Road to Nowhere" by the Talking Heads is a pretty good affirmation of an atheist's view of death. It basically says, "When you die, you're gone forever... but who gives a crap? This is your life, just keep going!"
As for Cornswalled... Cripes, you could play Hateful Christian Bingo with his blog.
Took a peek at his blog. What a pompous,arrogant, self-important pig he is! (No offence meant to any pigs that might be reading this.) What a perfect example of a fundie! What a great way to convince non-believers to not become xian!
Sorry, just to clarify if this was not clear, The Sceptic's Podcast is brilliant! Um, not this blog.
It's old and there were good comments. Only addressing one point that I find is always relevant: there we have someone who's so fundamentalist that it thwarts their view of the world in a way that everything is perceived as evil. This also makes them call other people sheep, mere followers of some ideology. Unsurprising though, because that's how religion works. But an invalid argument, considering that the others may have very good reasons not to subscribe to the original poster's particular view of the world. This reminds me of creationists and conspiracy theorists trying to dismiss the scientific consensus on something as mere "groupthink".
A bigot who needs to feel better than everybody else, likely because of an inferiority complex. It's possible that this social anxiety is enforced by cognitive dissonance, itself enforced by elitism and cutting oneself from the world, resorting to demonizing it at all cost instead. A reality evasion coping mechanism that prevents progress and facing the actual personal issues.
At the same time it shows the heartless message of the poster. Nothing redeemable in that rant. It's even questionable with those hate mongerers if the target is really atheists or a straw man of atheists, it's usually the latter. Of course, the "Satan worshipping non-believer" is nonsense that can only come from ignorance, reflection and hate. Somebody mourns a loss and the psychopath's message is that there's no suffering, that it's instead some kind of Satanic plot.
You call yourself a Christian when not having any respect whatsoever for the main message of your prophet. Hypocrite. It's not for no reason that you aim to violate the constitutional separation of church and state, nobody would embrace your bullshit, you'd have to impose your savagery on the people with a new Inquisition.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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