Views about Chris Hitchens, please!

[mariab]

The world might be a little bit more cerebral (less absurd) without religions. :-P

[DVV]

People do act differently according to what they believe in.
Atheists believe in different things, and can do many things.
Animal fans (dunno in English, and it's late) are ready to kill those who like corrida, even when they don't believe in God.
Stop thinking that the world will be perfect without religions.
It would be the same different ****, if I can say so.

[DVV]

Oh, yes, Steven. Muslims and Christians and Moloch believers are all the same.
Shall we compare Pasteur to Hitler ?

[Steven Russell]

For those who do not believe religion is dangerous, have you seen the news story about a fourteen-year-old Pakistani girl? She spoke out on the issue of women's rights to an education and was shot in the head. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility. The girl remains in a critical condition. Sickening.

Steve.

[Steven Russell]

Hello Steve,

Oh dear. I was trying to make a joke! The joke being that I can accept your views on God and Jesus without any problem, but that when you mentioned The Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas not being real then I just had to say something. The smiley was part of the joke!

Most of my jokes on Casebook do seem to full flat on their little faces, I'm afraid.

As you say, you have as much right as I have to express your views.

Friends?

Carol

Dear Carol,

It's clear to me now that I completely misread your post. Profound apologies. Yes, friends, absolutely. I only mentioned the smiley as a cheap crack so I could come back with "Not a very Christian attitude" or something.

I suppose it just goes to show how easy it is to misconstrue written communications. I'm sure if we'd had the exchange face-to-face, we both would have picked up on the jokes and sarcasm straight away.

I get it now and thanks for putting me straight. Apologies once again.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Carol]

Hello, Carol.
I'm sorry you were upset by my post. I do not enjoy upsetting people - far from it - but I have as much right to express my views as you have to be upset by them. Perhaps I should have been more specific. I do believe that Jesus, for example, was probably a real person with many good and, especially for the time, progressive ideas.

I suppose I was thinking more of the Old Testament stuff like Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark etc., both of which are demonstrably untrue and impossible. But of course, the believers have an unbeatable get-out clause as usual: God is magic so he can make anything happen.

It's God I was equating to Father Christmas, not Jesus. Although I also believe that much of the New Testament is invented, exaggerated, or adapted from other sources. Assuming Jesus existed, I would imagine him as being a charismatic preacher type in the Martin Luther King mould (only not so popular during his own lifetime).

Actually, what am I saying? God is nothing like Father Christmas! Especially in the OT he's a total psycho!

Best wishes,
Steve.

PS Does your smiley denote that you would like to hit me over the head with a hammer?

Hello Steve,

Oh dear. I was trying to make a joke! The joke being that I can accept your views on God and Jesus without any problem, but that when you mentioned The Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas not being real then I just had to say something. The smiley was part of the joke!

Most of my jokes on Casebook do seem to full flat on their little faces, I'm afraid.

As you say, you have as much right as I have to express your views.

Friends?

Carol

[Ally]

I'll fill in the blanks ______Jordan is a redneck idiot who makes me embarrassed to be American______. Are those the blanks you meant?

Mike

Amen.

[DVV]

Heretic !

Especially in the OT he's a total psycho!

Badly expressed but not false...
I do not think that the OT and the NT are talking of the same God (with the exception of the Psalms).
I may deserve to be burnt.

[The Good Michael]

An atheist who died an early and painful death from throat cancer. You fill in the blanks
Jordan

I'll fill in the blanks ______Jordan is a redneck idiot who makes me embarrassed to be American______. Are those the blanks you meant?

Mike

[Steven Russell]

Hello, Carol.
I'm sorry you were upset by my post. I do not enjoy upsetting people - far from it - but I have as much right to express my views as you have to be upset by them. Perhaps I should have been more specific. I do believe that Jesus, for example, was probably a real person with many good and, especially for the time, progressive ideas.

I suppose I was thinking more of the Old Testament stuff like Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark etc., both of which are demonstrably untrue and impossible. But of course, the believers have an unbeatable get-out clause as usual: God is magic so he can make anything happen.

It's God I was equating to Father Christmas, not Jesus. Although I also believe that much of the New Testament is invented, exaggerated, or adapted from other sources. Assuming Jesus existed, I would imagine him as being a charismatic preacher type in the Martin Luther King mould (only not so popular during his own lifetime).

Actually, what am I saying? God is nothing like Father Christmas! Especially in the OT he's a total psycho!

Best wishes,
Steve.

PS Does your smiley denote that you would like to hit me over the head with a hammer?

[Carol]

I like the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas as much as the next man but these are stories and not to be taken seriously.

Best wishes,
Steve.

You've gone too far now, Steve. How can you say such an awful thing?

You've really upset me.

Carol

[Carol]

Hello Carol!

The best one to answer would probably be John Lennon himself, I guess!

But for me personally this means; God is a reflection of our feelings.

My personal belief is, that if God exists, He's something not connected to any mankind's religions.

All the best
Jukka

Hi Jukka,

Interesting thoughts of yours. Thanks for your reply!

Carol

[Carol]

Hello Carol

means God is long like a French baguette.

Thanks for that, David. I'm even more at sea now.
Carol

[Steven Russell]

It would be interesting to see statistics relating to cancer and religious beliefs and any correlations between the two. I would expect devout muslims to come out well but only since they neither smoke nor drink. If God has struck Hitchens down then that makes him an insecure, sadistic tosser in my book.

Wait a minute, though. Since writing on this thread, I have developed a boil on my bum. Oh, bollocks! The old git's at it again! Help me!

Best wishes,
Steve.

[DVV]

Hi Jordan
Now it's time to quit Drambruie.