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	<title>Comments on: Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes</title>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Studying comparative religion, history and science basically obliterated my religious faith.
Jesus is a solar myth and Yahweh is a volcano god. It&#039;s so freaking obvious.
All religions on this planet eventually go back to nature worship.
They must borrow from each other in order to survive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Studying comparative religion, history and science basically obliterated my religious faith.<br />
Jesus is a solar myth and Yahweh is a volcano god. It&#8217;s so freaking obvious.<br />
All religions on this planet eventually go back to nature worship.<br />
They must borrow from each other in order to survive.</p>
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		<title>By: irishpoetry</title>
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		<dc:creator>irishpoetry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen to yourselves, some of you commenters.  Your language and your abusive comments against God are appaulling and some of them could be blasphemy themselves.  Blasphemy is committed against God and cannot be committed against other people.  Some of these comments are also disgusting and insulting to people who believe in God.  Why do some of you commenters sound so angry against God.  Could it be you really want to believe in God.  Why say with conviction &quot;There is no goddam god&quot; - sorry but you will be in for a rude awakening.  As for the scandals in the Catholic Church - peadophiles lurk in all areas of society and even moreso some years back - there was hardly a family which didn&#039;t house one or two of them.  Who is going to hunt them down?  Or the ones in families right to this present day.  Good and bad exist everywhere and in every profession.  Just remember the old saying &quot;If you have nothing good to say, say nothing.  But this must apply firstly and foremostly to God.  My father used to say to us &quot;If you don&#039;t do it for love, you will do it for fear&quot;.  So I say to those who would mock God, If you don&#039;t stop these comments for love, stop them for fear.  Because one day you will suit before Him, as surely as you are reading this comment now.  Think about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen to yourselves, some of you commenters.  Your language and your abusive comments against God are appaulling and some of them could be blasphemy themselves.  Blasphemy is committed against God and cannot be committed against other people.  Some of these comments are also disgusting and insulting to people who believe in God.  Why do some of you commenters sound so angry against God.  Could it be you really want to believe in God.  Why say with conviction &#8220;There is no goddam god&#8221; &#8211; sorry but you will be in for a rude awakening.  As for the scandals in the Catholic Church &#8211; peadophiles lurk in all areas of society and even moreso some years back &#8211; there was hardly a family which didn&#8217;t house one or two of them.  Who is going to hunt them down?  Or the ones in families right to this present day.  Good and bad exist everywhere and in every profession.  Just remember the old saying &#8220;If you have nothing good to say, say nothing.  But this must apply firstly and foremostly to God.  My father used to say to us &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do it for love, you will do it for fear&#8221;.  So I say to those who would mock God, If you don&#8217;t stop these comments for love, stop them for fear.  Because one day you will suit before Him, as surely as you are reading this comment now.  Think about it.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The three Abrahamic desert cults are nothing but a telephone game gone horribly wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The three Abrahamic desert cults are nothing but a telephone game gone horribly wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God is dead
Karl Marx is dead
Henry Miller is dead
And I&#039;m already feeling quite sick too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God is dead<br />
Karl Marx is dead<br />
Henry Miller is dead<br />
And I&#8217;m already feeling quite sick too.</p>
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		<title>By: Feuille de Violette.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Feuille de Violette.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um.

Grossly abusive or insulting comments? Moot.
Grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred? It&#039;s possible some comments are. The majority of comments aren&#039;t even about matters &quot;held sacred&quot;.
Thereby causing outrage to a substantial number of adherents? Yes, you have a readership of religious adherents who are positively apoplectic.
Intent to cause such outrage? Mmm, of course, publishing comments on a site highlighting the folly of a piece of legislation demonstrates a clear intent to outrage.
Intent to mock the Defamation Act. PASS! 

The Act is nonsensical, but claiming it curtails the freedom of expression or silences the exchange of ideas is bizarre.

Expressing an opinion, criticism, repudiation, negative thought or feeling is entirely different from being abusive or insulting. Not even if every adherent is outraged.
Being abusive or insulting hasn&#039;t been criminalised either. Unless your intent in expressing it is to cause outrage... to a substantial number of adherents. 

So it is against the law to succeed in a mission to cause outrage amongst people who have beliefs which fall under a particular definition by being grossly abusive about what they hold sacred. Shocking violation of your rights.

The Act is unjust because does not regard all people as equal before the law.
100% support a referendum to completely secularise the Constitution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um.</p>
<p>Grossly abusive or insulting comments? Moot.<br />
Grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred? It&#8217;s possible some comments are. The majority of comments aren&#8217;t even about matters &#8220;held sacred&#8221;.<br />
Thereby causing outrage to a substantial number of adherents? Yes, you have a readership of religious adherents who are positively apoplectic.<br />
Intent to cause such outrage? Mmm, of course, publishing comments on a site highlighting the folly of a piece of legislation demonstrates a clear intent to outrage.<br />
Intent to mock the Defamation Act. PASS! </p>
<p>The Act is nonsensical, but claiming it curtails the freedom of expression or silences the exchange of ideas is bizarre.</p>
<p>Expressing an opinion, criticism, repudiation, negative thought or feeling is entirely different from being abusive or insulting. Not even if every adherent is outraged.<br />
Being abusive or insulting hasn&#8217;t been criminalised either. Unless your intent in expressing it is to cause outrage&#8230; to a substantial number of adherents. </p>
<p>So it is against the law to succeed in a mission to cause outrage amongst people who have beliefs which fall under a particular definition by being grossly abusive about what they hold sacred. Shocking violation of your rights.</p>
<p>The Act is unjust because does not regard all people as equal before the law.<br />
100% support a referendum to completely secularise the Constitution.</p>
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		<title>By: Jesse Hopkins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesse Hopkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Religions are cults. They ostracize and demolish the human spirit. They justify war crimes. There is no promised immortality. All religions can suck my dick.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Religions are cults. They ostracize and demolish the human spirit. They justify war crimes. There is no promised immortality. All religions can suck my dick.</p>
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		<title>By: Cliff Kelsall</title>
		<link>http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-publishes-25-blasphemous-quotes/comment-page-23/#comment-2955</link>
		<dc:creator>Cliff Kelsall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A wonderful French writer said,

Once you can get a person to believe absurbities;
You can get them to commit atrocities!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A wonderful French writer said,</p>
<p>Once you can get a person to believe absurbities;<br />
You can get them to commit atrocities!</p>
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		<title>By: Ed Buckner</title>
		<link>http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-publishes-25-blasphemous-quotes/comment-page-23/#comment-2954</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Buckner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First, I&#039;m happy to have you publish my e-mail-- ebuckner@atheists.org --and second, let me (belatedly) commend you for letting loose upon the world so much fine humor and rich wisdom, both in your original 25 and then through your contributors (most of them anyway). This site is well worth referring others to from anywhere. 

Bravo and thanks.

If you update your list at some time in the future, please allow me to send you a copy first of Baubles of Blasphemy by Edwin F. Kagin--published first by the Atlanta Freethought Society and more recetly by American Atheist Press.

With especially high regards,

Ed Buckner
President, American Atheists</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, I&#8217;m happy to have you publish my e-mail&#8211; <a href="mailto:ebuckner@atheists.org">ebuckner@atheists.org</a> &#8211;and second, let me (belatedly) commend you for letting loose upon the world so much fine humor and rich wisdom, both in your original 25 and then through your contributors (most of them anyway). This site is well worth referring others to from anywhere. </p>
<p>Bravo and thanks.</p>
<p>If you update your list at some time in the future, please allow me to send you a copy first of Baubles of Blasphemy by Edwin F. Kagin&#8211;published first by the Atlanta Freethought Society and more recetly by American Atheist Press.</p>
<p>With especially high regards,</p>
<p>Ed Buckner<br />
President, American Atheists</p>
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		<title>By: Golibaaj</title>
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		<dc:creator>Golibaaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Allah ki maa ki choot, Allah lund kata suar. Jesus bhonsdi waala, Jesus ki maa Mary lendi lund darjan, kendi mein ta virgin ... ma chuda lo anrej madarchod chutiyon.</description>
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		<title>By: Rosita</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosita</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Raoooul

1. If &quot;the symbolic meaning of Genesis integrates Darwin&#039;s theory without any problem&quot; how do you explain the two distintly different version of creation in the book of Genesis: one by the El god (a Babylonian god) and one by the Yahweh god (a Middle Eastern desert god)?  Which myth is symbolically correct, and why is the other one included in the book?

2a. Where is your evidence that people coming from an oral culture are immune, or even significantly better, at repeating spoken material correctly after many repetitions, even from the same person let alone through several others?  Are you familiar with studies which have tested your hypothesis that those from oral traditions make no mistakes in passing the material from one generation to another.  
2b.  How do you account for the variety of copies of the various books included in the Christian Bible, which have wildly different texts?  

3. It is apparent that your version of god is not &quot;big&quot; enough to ensure that his followers agree of the &quot;deep meaning that stays through the different versions&quot;.  The world of Christendom is one seething mess of incompatible interpretations of these texts and of the traditions behind them.  This is not helped by the fact that the bulk of the original scriptures were written in minor world languages which are no longer spoken and which is re-interpreted every time they are translated into another language.  An all-knowledgable being would be well aware of the serious problems attached to this method of information dissemination.  An all-wise and all-powerful one would have avoided them.  If Jesus shared these characteristics he would have written his own book in all the major languages of the world or turned up in all the major and remote cultures so that every human had a fair and equal chance of getting the message - unless they were deaf, blind or intellectually impaired.  He would have at least picked disciples who were literate in at least one language. 

In other words, your version of god is fatally impaired.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Raoooul</p>
<p>1. If &#8220;the symbolic meaning of Genesis integrates Darwin&#8217;s theory without any problem&#8221; how do you explain the two distintly different version of creation in the book of Genesis: one by the El god (a Babylonian god) and one by the Yahweh god (a Middle Eastern desert god)?  Which myth is symbolically correct, and why is the other one included in the book?</p>
<p>2a. Where is your evidence that people coming from an oral culture are immune, or even significantly better, at repeating spoken material correctly after many repetitions, even from the same person let alone through several others?  Are you familiar with studies which have tested your hypothesis that those from oral traditions make no mistakes in passing the material from one generation to another.<br />
2b.  How do you account for the variety of copies of the various books included in the Christian Bible, which have wildly different texts?  </p>
<p>3. It is apparent that your version of god is not &#8220;big&#8221; enough to ensure that his followers agree of the &#8220;deep meaning that stays through the different versions&#8221;.  The world of Christendom is one seething mess of incompatible interpretations of these texts and of the traditions behind them.  This is not helped by the fact that the bulk of the original scriptures were written in minor world languages which are no longer spoken and which is re-interpreted every time they are translated into another language.  An all-knowledgable being would be well aware of the serious problems attached to this method of information dissemination.  An all-wise and all-powerful one would have avoided them.  If Jesus shared these characteristics he would have written his own book in all the major languages of the world or turned up in all the major and remote cultures so that every human had a fair and equal chance of getting the message &#8211; unless they were deaf, blind or intellectually impaired.  He would have at least picked disciples who were literate in at least one language. </p>
<p>In other words, your version of god is fatally impaired.</p>
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