It's time you people realized you're all just figments of my drug-filled mind. Only in a LCD stupor could I think up Nuclear War, Ebola and Overly Dramatic Gophers...

I heard Doc_M was recruited into the virology field by the CDC because he's the only living being that ebola is scared of. He doesn't need to wear a biohazard suit in the lab; the viruses do. Mad cows get their shit together when they see him enter the pasture.

Forget about his work place; just walking into his house is an assault on your genome. And if you touch any *sticky surfaces, contact your next of kin.

If a friend would choose Jesus over you, they shouldn't be your friend anymore.

I am not from the US, so I have never really been in an environment, which is so heavy with religious belief (I'm from Denmark), but I think the sheer absurdity of religion in all its forms scares me.

I would have loved to have the same opinion as Steven Weinberg and just "not really care" about religion, because it's irrelevant to everything - except its historical and cultural impact. But lately it has become apparent that the biggest religions have gotten sharper edges (Christianity and Islam), and I think it is time for reasonable people to say, "enough is enough!" I really, really don't want creationism even mantioned in a proper school, I really don't want people to think and actually believe that they can speak to a God or angels or whatnot.

I do share the concern that Daniel Dennett has: "what could replace religion", given that there are many cooks that NEED religion to not break the law. All the people that argue "you wouldn't be moral if it wasn't for the bible" are those cooks. If we somehow stripped religion away from them, then, and I use the expression advisedly, all hell would break loose.

If you, like me, look at religion as a form of virus; and not a biological one, you silly person, an "idea-virus", a virtual virus, if you will; then the weaker versions - all the moderates - like a common cold, are not dangerous. However fanaticism, like, say, Ebola, is highly toxic to us. Atheism is decidedly NOT a religion no matter how much the religious want it to be. It is precisely non-religion. Atheism's primary "tool" is knowledge (science), where Theism's "tool" is faith. If you think you are inherently superior because you have faith, you are deluded. If you say it to my face, I'm going to respond.

This is how religion spreads: you want to spread the word of jesus (or whichever deity) and no one protests. This word (or idea) spreads to all those incapable to know what's true and false, primarily children. If someone keeps their religion in their own home, and prays silently (like Jesus actually told you to do - score 1 for the bible) the virus wouldn't spread and silently die out. But when evangelicals and other fanatics spread their toxic dribble it must fall on those who can call them on their shenanigans to protest and say, "Enough is enough!"

Dennett proposed a way to avoid this peacefully: teach all religions equally. I dare say that it would be impossible, but teaching even a number of world religions would immunize people towards the blind faith that most religions require and slowly expunge the idea of a religion completely.

I am sick and tired of people treating people with different political opinions like they have Ebola.

And it drives me CRAZY that the President and Congress play tit-for-tat instead of making decisions that are good for America.

glad to see you can still vote for my sifts dispite your disdain of my religious rantings :-)

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“Poor man in the big yellow hat, how could he have known he was bringing back something worse than Ebola? ”

Poor man in the big yellow hat, how could he have known he was bringing back something worse than Ebola?

@archchef, I believe skforty has indeed sifted t3h correct, but to put it a step farther, I've heard a few fundies say that, "Homosexuality isn't natural, God never intended a man to lie with another man." Since a large number of Christian fundamentalists (if not all) believe that God created the Earth and all of its inhabitants with specific intentions, this video demonstrates that, if you accept the axiom of creationism, you must then accept the inference that God intended the animals shown in this video to be homosexual, therefore homosexuality is natural and in accordance with God's Plan.

I certainly wouldn't say "natural" = "good" (Ebola, for instance, is very natural), but I don't believe that's what this video is saying.

Cillian Murphy? Yum? Jesus woman the man looks like he's gone through a bout of ebola or something!