Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1324 Editor's Choice: 20
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John Anderson
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]mean people suck
Oh, I quite agree:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
--Ann Coulter, This is War column, Sept. 13, 2001
"The Jews of Temple Beth Sholom are sinful, greedy, Hell-bound, money-grubbing sodomites; and they have dedicated their synagogue to be a gay and lesbian propaganda mill and recruiting depot, soliciting young people to sodomy."
--Rev. Fred Phelps - Sept 7 1998, Westboro Baptist Church press release, re: protesting Jewish groups
"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."
--Rev. Joseph Morecraft,Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Marietta, Georgia, quoted in "the Public Eye," June 1994
"A civil war is brewing in which we must deal with the Jews. It is a time of reckoning for their pact with the devil."
--Robert G. Millar (1925-2001) http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/Elohim.asp
"The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ." --D. James Kennedy, "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993
"The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." -- William Rehnquist, Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985
"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good.... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
-- Randall Terry, quoted in The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 16,
"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
-- John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999, upon receiving an honorary degree at ultra-right-wing and ultra-fundamentalist Bob Jones University, also known for its anti-African-American segregationist policies
"We are going to remove the mythical separation of church and state."
--Bishop Carlton Pearson
"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."
--Jay Grimstead, February 1987
" u inconsiderate a$$holes!!!!!!! TO HELL W/ ALL OF Y'ALL!!!!" - guestbook
And to think that 'Christians' lay claim to 'morality'. Go figure.
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God of Biscuits
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Has God talked to Haught?
Very unlikely.
I find it difficult to believe that, assuming God exists, he'd be so thoroughly dishonest and dissembling, and so completely unable to get his facts straight.
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Perlovsky
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Atheist’s positions are scientifically untenable.
Obviouly untrue, since atheism, like science, goes strictly according to factual reasoning, whereas religion necessarily rejects factual reasoning, and is therefore dishonest by its nature, and is therefore immoral:
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.
- Martin Luther
Science agrees with John Haught
Preposterous.
You, sir, are no professor of physics at Harvard University. You, sir, are a lying fraud.
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kiwiorange
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]walter_map, this person, unlike you, actually posted under his real name here. He also did not say that he is a professor, just a Phd in Physics, which is true, according the above Harvard website
Not possible. A physicist wouldn't get his physics so wrong.
I suspect the right-wing religious hacks have come out because Haught's take on religion been so thoroughly discredited here today. And that you're one of them.
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Perlovsky
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the level of basic physics there is no contradiction between mechanistic causality and purpose. Physics can be formulated causally (Hamiltonian formulation) or purposefully (Lagrangian formulation). Particles, fields, and quantum superstrings move as if they know their final purpose
You're attributing human characteristics to material objects.
That's not science, my good man. That's mysticism. A real scientist like Newton or Einstein could not engage in this kind of irrationality, despite their religiousity.
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Perlovsky
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is God? This question was never asked during the interview.
And you don't answer it either. Why the coy evasion?
There are answers to this question, which are perfectly good for scientists and for theologians, and which make clear that one cannot live without God.
Great. Let's have one.
And make it clear, as you have claimed. Try avoiding the mystical claptrap.
Here's your big chance. Don't blow it.
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edziu's muse
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am relieved to see Haught mentions Teilhard deChardin and gives him credit for saying these things a long time ago.
Teilhard de Chardin was a perpetrator of the Piltdown fraud.
Maybe you should try citing somebody who hasn't been exposed as a con man.
Show me the unicorns. Then we can talk.