Religious Idiots and Priceless Comedy (Curb Your Enthusiasm) DO NOT MATCH.

Are people not allowed to complain about it? Complaining has nothing whatsoever to do with asking for free speech to be taken away. If someone took a huge dump on a photo of your dead grandma, are you not allowed to tell them off or ask for an apology because you don't want 'to sacrifice their rights to free speech'? No, of course not

lolol it was a great episode

My description of faith is spot on. Faith is a result of NOT approaching the issue of religion and God with a rational and scientific mind and method. Sure, you can be a world class scientist and have faith, but you can NOT be a world class scientist and have faith if you have approached the issue of religion with a rational and scientific method.

Why?

What do you mean 'why?'. Why what? Why is it clear that religious people have not followed a rational method in approaching their religion?

Because there's no convincing evidence, that's why.

There is evidence is in the scriptures, the evidence is in thousands of years and majority belief, the evidence is in the world around us, there is no evidence against god. Evidence, or lack of, is down to the individual.

Oh Please. Middle America hates gays, Muslims, Jews, Arabs and most others. Don't cry about mocking Christians when the people complaining preach far worse hate.

Oh Please. Middle America hates gays, Muslims, Jews, Arabs and most others. Don't cry about mocking Christians when the people complaining preach far worse hate.

Oh please, this is simply not true, I know as I bloody well live in the States!

Those types of Americans are the ones the media shows you, and you're dumb enough to believe it, but the typical American is NOT like that.

People can complain 'til they're blue in the face, but it isn't justified in the slightest. As I have said, over the past years religious have shown continuously that they are constantly offended by things on TV, things on the radio, things in books, things on the internet, and things non-religious people say in conversation. If it is clearly the religious people do not agree with any of these things then why do they persist in watching them?

You know, Anton LaVey wrote a book called the Satanic Bible, and that is, in essence what it was. Now people would look at the word 'Satanic' and run a mile, but if you actually look at the list of rules within the Satanic Bible, some of them make a lot of sense. Would you like to hear one of my favourites? Here it is:

DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT WHICH YOU NEED NOT SUBJECT YOURSELF TO.

Oh and yes, I am bitter and hateful. But again, being bitter and hateful aren't inherently bad things, it depends on what you're bitter and hateful about. I'm hateful of the BNP and bitter about the fact that they gained two seats in the EP. I'm hateful of murderers and rapists and bitter about the easy time they have with our broken justice system. I'm hateful of religion, and I'm bitter about the fact that people all over the world are deluded by this nonsense and I have to put up with them.

Oh please, this is simply not true, I know as I bloody well live in the States!

Those types of Americans are the ones the media shows you, and you're dumb enough to believe it, but the typical American is NOT like that.

Middle America doesn't equal the typical American. Middle America is terminology for the well to do American Middle Class (who are the one's complaining) who usually hold traditionally conservative views on subjects like morality, family values, immigration, homosexuality and so on.

Yes, and I do remember what happened after the cartoons of Muhammed. Muslims went out and started murdering people in riots, firebombing embassies, and putting fatwas on the heads of cartoonists.

I also remember what happened to Theo van Gogh after releasing his 10 minute video about women in Islam called 'Submission'. He was shot 8 times in the middle of the street, followed by being nearly decapitated, stabbed multiple times and having a 5 page note pinned to his torso with a knife - a note that listed a bunch of people who would be future targets for this particularly irate muslim.

I also remember what happened when Salman Rushdie published a FICTIONAL NOVEL called the Satanic Verses which had a less-than-friendly depiction of Islam. He had a Fatwa put on his head by powerful Islamic officials and had to live in hiding for a decade.

But I think we'll both agree that the BAD guys in these stories are not the artists. The bad guys in these stories are the religious nutjobs who went about murdering people for no good reason.

So why even bother suggesting that it's unfair that Islam doesn't get offended as much? First of all, it isn't true. Islam is constantly depicted in a negative light in comedy. Secondly, even if it was true, it would be for all the wrong reasons.

If you want Christianity to be free from criticism, then I suggest you follow the methods of Islam, and revert back to Christianity as it was during most of the last century - an evil, murderous tirade against innocents.

Lol, no, evidence is not down to the 'individual'. There are standards of evidence that are acceptable, and there are standards of evidence that are unacceptable, and that is the cornerstone of modern science that has taken us so far in the past few centuries.

Majority belief is CERTAINLY not evidence, that's just plain stupid and you're showing your true colours by stating that. Majority belief was once that the earth was flat and situated at the centre of the universe, and this was also written in rather a lot of scriptures. Guess what. It's not true, and there was never any evidence to suggest that it was.

As for there not being evidence against God... who cares. We don't need any. The lack of evidence FOR God is enough to dismiss claims that he exists, because they are founded without evidence! There's no evidence that it's not Allah rather than Yahweh. There's no evidence that it's not Ganesha and Vishnu, rather than Allah. There's no evidence that it's not the Flying Spaghetti Monster, rather than Thor. There's no evidence against lots of things, but that doesn't mean you're justified in believing them.