Maybe this guy's definition of science is what *scientists* recognize as "physical science". A physicist might describe boiling water as the result of dumping heat from the stove to the teapot. A social scientist (they *do* exist) would have much to say about why this guy's wife would turn the stove on for him, while a psychologist, and they are indeed scientists, or a physiologist would be able to hypothesize as to why Haught Wants Tea in the first place.

So, sticking to physics as his definition of science, Haught could safely deny the work of neuroscientists and experimental psychologists, which clearly indicates that the mind is biological and understandable. His preconceived (by millenia) notions of supernatural origin of humanity, ensoulment of sufficiently evolved animals (us), and cosmic teleology blind him to the fact that science can, and does, and will, say much about nature and reality.

Isn't this some sort of tribal mountain tradition? Forced marriages? Why haven't any of these commentators brought out the old "shotgun marriage" phrase? This is the time and place, you know.

Seriously, forcing teenagers to marry teenagers is pre-modern stuff, right? It's cool if the nobles do it?

Cyrillic does include a 'T' character. Replacing the 'T's with 'Г's made the headings a bit hard to read, especially if you're used to pronouncing them as 'K's...

Otherwise, funny what for being true.

Maher repeats this same argument that you hear all the time in these circles; other similar anti-religious comedians, Hicks, Carlin, repeated it. They say that all the worst wars, or most of them, are owed to religion, or religious hatred. That's bogus. I'm an atheist, and one that will tell religious folks what I think of their dumb ideas, but this 'wars of religion' thing is just another dumb meme.

Take recent history for example. Were the Vietnam or Korean wars about religion? What about the Chinese Civil War? The Japanese invasion of China? What about the Russian Civil War? What about World Wars 1 and 2? The Franco-Prussian War? The Opium Wars? The War of the Spanish Succession? The 100 Years War? The American Revolution? The American Civil War? The Manchu Invasion of China? The Mongol Conquests? The Ottoman Conquests? Wars of the Chinese, Roman, Greek, Persian, and other Empires? None of them were about religion. Most of them were about political, or ethnic conflicts, or about gaining territory. Is that a reason to argue against ethnicity, or policy? If anything, truly religious wars are an exception to the rule.

Saying religion is dumb is fine; just don't employ equally dumb arguments in doing so...

With the rest of you, I recognize that O'Reilly is a jerk. I'm as leftist as you can get. Normally I passively swallow liberal political rhetoric, to keep my health up. But sometimes it goes too far. Really, look at what is going on here.

As this little article says, "true enough", O'Reilly never exhorted his followers to violence or murder or vigilantism. So what is he responsible for? This article, along with others I've seen, quotes O'Reilly calling Tiller a Nazi, among other things, saying he had to be stopped. So... calling someone a Nazi, calling for them to be stopped from doing what you perceive as something immoral and criminal, makes you somehow culpable for their violent death? You should take time out of your TV show to backtrack, self-examine, and apologize?

It does not. You should not. Here is some logic for all you anti-O'Reilly mouth-foamers. O'Reilly is anti-abortion. Tiller was at the peak of pro-abortion activity, and it made good sense to identify him with the general practice of abortion. So, naturally, to be self-consistent, O'Reilly should be anti-Tiller. Why should his position change just because Tiller is now dead?

Going out and grabbing O'Reilly lines that villainize Tiller, then using them to somehow apportion blame for Tiller's death on O'Reilly, is nonsense. To think that the correct behavior for O'Reilly in this situation would be to extend heartfelt condolences and prayers to Tiller's family, who in his eyes are the family of a Nazi abortionist with 60,000 deaths on his hands, and to heap some noble praise on the man... You people are such wimps.