CommentsDisplaying Curious Visitor's 10 most recent comments.

• Prom Picture Pandemonium: Deck Collapses Underneath Students During Photo Op!

  May 15, 2012 at 1:11pm

  First I would need to know if these students were mostly Liberal or mostly Conservative, and then I can decide whether I enjoyed watching them fall through the deck. That’s how it works, right?

• The Blaze Invites You to Ask Prominent Atheist Your Most Burning Questions

  May 10, 2012 at 4:48pm

  In reply to mycomet123.

  @cessana

  If an atheist is trying to convince someone to abandon their religion they are doing it for the same reason religious folks try and win people to their side: because each group feels they know a way to live a true and fulfilling life. I never understand why believers are so taken aback by outspoken atheists when, for thousands of years, people of all religious stripes have been spending vast amounts of time, money and lives converting non-belivers and heathens.

• Rev. Billy Graham’s Daughter: ‘I Would Not Vote for…an Atheist’ (POLL)

  April 9, 2012 at 4:41pm

  In reply to lebowski113.

  @Colt

  I don’t see how this has anything to do with my post, but I am of course quite happy that I was born in the US rather than North Korea. North Korea is a pretty bleak place at the moment and I hope it won’t be too long before things can be worked out there.

  The existence of a creator is an opinion that you have a right to, but even saying that one exists, I’m not aware of any Christian dogma that points to God having special preference for Americans. I don‘t get the connection between God and one nation doing well in relation to another’s failings. Is there a Biblical source for this belief?

• Rev. Billy Graham’s Daughter: ‘I Would Not Vote for…an Atheist’ (POLL)

  April 9, 2012 at 4:08pm

  In reply to lebowski113.

  @Modily

  You’re exactly right, it is not a new concept. People have struggled to live up to their culture’s version of “good” for millennia, long before the life of Jesus of Nazareth, himself a great moral teacher who attempted to expose many of the corruptions of his time and place. You ask the OP if he is curious about where morality comes from, and I can’t speak for him but I will say that many people are indeed quite curious. We are learning more and more about it everyday in fields such as neurobiology; while philosophers, teachers, artists and other thinkers continue to help us find our way, as they have for all of history.

  The mistake is to take the leap from being curious about the exact nature and origins of our morality to thinking that there must be a divine being who created these structures, and that this being’s will is perfectly knowable by reading a very old book written by people in the Middle East. If we take that approach we no longer have a need to be curious about morality because we know all we need to know about it. It stunts the human intellect and is a terrible waste of our tremendous potential.

• Rev. Billy Graham’s Daughter: ‘I Would Not Vote for…an Atheist’ (POLL)

  April 9, 2012 at 3:59pm

  In reply to nyanyo.

  r/atheism is indeed trolling, which is something I suspect they would admit to freely. However, it’s r/atheism, meaning the people coming from there are atheists, which suggests that they would, in fact, vote for an atheist president. So they might be “trolling” in that they are coming to this site, but they are human beings who are answering this question honestly. If they didn’t come over here and the results were largely in favor of option B or C, would you accuse the Blaze community of trolling because they answered truthfully?

  Do we want a giant echo chamber where someone makes first comment and everybody just replies “right on brother!”?

• Meet the Teen Exorcists Who Claim They’re Battling Real-Life Demons

  April 6, 2012 at 6:16am

  So God writes a book that trashes Satan but tells everyone how great he is instead. Satan takes the high road and doesn’t respond to this slander with his own book. What do we do? Naturally we believe God’s one sided version of the story, because that’s a perfectly logically thing to do…

• New Evidence Suggests ‘Medieval Warming Period’ Was Global: Proof of Naturally-Occurring Global Warming?

  March 26, 2012 at 6:08pm

  In reply to Curious Visitor.

  I am not questioning the scientist and the research they are doing is in no way controversial. I’m questioning the author of this piece and the way in which she framed her headline, which is a shameless display of yellow journalism. People should not be lead to believe this research suggest anything other than what it does.

• New Evidence Suggests ‘Medieval Warming Period’ Was Global: Proof of Naturally-Occurring Global Warming?

  March 26, 2012 at 6:05pm

  In reply to Lloyd Drako.

  @MIKEM1969

  No scientist has ever claimed that natural changes in temperature do not occur. The failure in reasoning occurs when people think, “Well since it is possible for climates to change naturally, that must be the only way they can change.” This assertion isn‘t based on observed evidence of any kind and is really just a manifestation of that person’s particular beliefs

  When you say that man made climate change is not possible, I’m not sure if you are being intentionally hyperbolic as a means of arguing against anthropogenic factors contributing to our current climate, or if you really believe that man can never affect his environment. If it’s the former, than I will concede that at least that point is being debated in the academy, even though the score is about 97% – 3% in favor of anthropogenic warming. If it’s that latter, then it’s a patently and absurdly false statement.

  Look at Venus, which is hotter than Mercury despite being further from the Sun, for evidence of what happens to a planet when greenhouse gases cross the point of no return. I would love to be enlightened how you know that 100, 1000, 10000 years in the future, we would not be able to pump enough gas into the atmosphere to cause runaway warming. Please tell me.

• New Evidence Suggests ‘Medieval Warming Period’ Was Global: Proof of Naturally-Occurring Global Warming?

  March 26, 2012 at 5:50pm

  In reply to cloudsofwar.

  You think that pollution levels are lower now than they were in the late 18th century?

• New Evidence Suggests ‘Medieval Warming Period’ Was Global: Proof of Naturally-Occurring Global Warming?

  March 26, 2012 at 5:45pm

  This article makes me question very seriously the credentials of Ms. Klimas as a journalist. I understand The Blaze is an opinion site and that its goal is to put forth a certain message, not simply report on the news; but this is unbelievable. Proof that warming can happen naturally? This has been known for a long time now. I‘m sure the purpose of the headline is to prey on many people’s lack of reasoning skills by suggesting that if indeed this was new information, and that warming COULD happen as a result of natural causes, then it must mean that this is the way it ALWAYS happens and the way it is happening now.

  Taking advantage of people’s ignorance to increase site traffic and bolster your message. Very shameful stuff.