...to see so much of the world's population, in our advancing times, still beholden to superstition. As a non-believer in any religion, I'm in a pretty small minority on the planet as a whole. To think that there are still areas of the world where I can be executed for my beliefs is astounding given what is known to be true about the planet and the universe. It's terrible.

He's a Nigerian human rights advocate and skeptic. Interesting guy.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Igwe

I can't afford any more irony meters.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Their made up bullshit is not as legitimate as the made up bullshit of the older religions....[/font]

but not golden tablets and spaceships. Come on. That's just logic.

Enough of this bullshit. If your faith can't stand criticism, then your faith is weak and your God is an insect.
I don't mean that they should say that, exactly, but they do need to say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and the freedom to believe or not believe. Laws of apostasy need to be abolished worldwide, or those countries should face sanctions.

If Pam Geller had called her movement a religion, there are a lot of people who would call us bigots for pointing out her bullshit and accusing her of hate speech.

(For example, in every other forum where I have posted this sentiment I have been accused of being a bigot for supporting Pam Geller. I don't support Pam Geller. I never have. I never will. But as soon as you point out the special kid glove treatment that religions get, the uber-religious come unhinged and do everything they can to discredit the one doing the pointing out.)

When Westboro Baptist tells lgbt people they deserve to get AIDS it's called free speech because ...religion.

When Geller hosts a cartoon contest it's called "incitement" because...religion.

"When Geller hosts a cartoon contest it's called "incitement" because... one of those other Abrahamic religions that doesn't get along with the other 2 Abrahamic religions."


There fixed it for you.

If you lump all the Abrahamic god believers together (and why not...they get their "authority" from the same pace&quot you have a dreadful, disruptive, divisive, dangerous large group of people.

Hinduism and Buddhism don't seem to bother us too much over here.

The people in GD who demand we respect religion don't specify.

As a matter of fact they regularly throw "non-threatening" religious beliefs into the mix and claim their very existence is a reason we should refrain from criticism.

he told the joke about the Jewish guy stranded alone on an island. He built two synagogues because he had to have a place he would never go. If there are 3 Jews, they need 4 synagogues...
I remember David Steinberg telling those jokes and my Jewish mother just laughing and laughing...

I was listening to Dean Obudallah saying the problem with the Muslim faith is no humor. I think he's got a point there.

A) I respect him, his beliefs, and his followers.

B) I acknowledge that a significant percentage of his followers are violent and may kill me if I do.

Religion is special. If you can't PROVE a belief is wrong, why then it's just as likely to be right and therefore SHUT UP YOU ATHEIST.

I think I have summarized the argument.