Ted Rall for January 16, 2015

All religions are made-up lies, but not all made-up lies are religions. Otherwise, we’d be worshipping Ted Rall. (Which he’d like, but that’s not my point …)

TJDestry

You mean you DON’T worship Ted (Peas Be On Him)

Blasphemy!!!!!

BTW “Old Human-Sacrifice Religions” of course some modern religions sacrifice many humans. Just because they skip the altar doesn’t really alter anything.

Some people might worship Obama; but that is different than following a ‘religion’. Conservatives follow the ‘religion’ of Capitalism. They follow the tenets of Adam Smith and Ayn Rand; and throw the book of mythology (the Bible) in for good luck.

“ALL were created by small groups of men to control the rest of the population, consolidate power to the church through lies and intimidation, and, more recently, to scam and outright steal as much money from as many gullible, scared, and stupid people as possible without actually being prosecuted for fraud and theft!”No, that’s why/how religions get organized into a centralized leadership. Religious belief developed naturally by early man to explain the world around him.

Every publication in the world that believes in free speech should trump religious nonsense by printing not only the original cartoons fron Charlie Hebdo, but printing them multiple times to desensitize the teeming masses and tire out the Islamists. If the Islamists don’t like it, tough, they don’t have to look at the cartoons. If they don’t want to live in that sort of society, then they should leave and go to KSA or Pakistan or some other place where they are more comfortable. They shouldn’t expect the secular west to kowtow to their beliefs. I have traveled extensively in Islamic regions and have zero interest in living there. Why should they go to a region where there values conflict with the rest of the society? Just saying…

I’m content simply to mock Ted Rall…

The Iraq War was a religion.

Simply put, humans kill other people; sometimes they use “religious belief” or a belief that they are better than the other person or some other reason to justify their action.

Rall likes to be very provocative – so be it. And some of us take great comfort in a religious belief – so be it.

Yes. I would allow anyone the right to draw any cartoons I disagree with. Some of the right wing cartoons here offend me. Big deal. i don’t make any demands to limit their hateful speech, and would never do so.

I prefer to study science to search for the beginning (if there can actually be a “beginning”) For those who believe God created everything for there to be order, what created God.(Yet in billions of years, some form of universal intelligence may have developed.)

The real issue with curtailing freedom of expression is the question of who gets to decide what’s appropriate and what should not be allowed. As far as I am concerned, unless you harm me physically, you have every right to say what you wish. I don’t have to listen to you, however.

“Creationist” documents support that Charlton Heston waived a staff, parted the Red Sea, and led his people to kill anyone who stood in their way. “Evolution” in their eyes is Charlton Heston waiving a musket, while passing out M-16s and AK-47s, to kill even more of their “enemies” in the name of progress over the sword.

‘There was Nothing and Nothing happened to Nothing and then Nothing magically exploded for No reason , creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for No reason what so ever into self –replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs”’

I like that. It makes about as much sense as anything else on that subject, and does without the extra character some people put in.

Whoa, excellent! Thanks. My kid has some 50 Dr Seuss books but I was totally unaware he did these…

Well, er, OK. The topic du jour is the Islamist murderers. As far as I am concerned, fine, re-print anything. No big deal. I don’t see the Christians killing the irreligious, though. Or at least if they have done so, it is nowhere near the same level of contemporary activity of the Islamists. As to the Nazis, yeah, go ahead and offend them (please!). As to the Jews, why not offend them as well? If your beliefs are so fragile that they do not stand up to ridicule and scrutiny, then how srong were they in the first place?

@Night-Gaunt49Can you be protected ( inoculated ) from the “Red Death?”

Science, as I understand it, is not a set of beliefs, but a method. It doesn’t claim to have all the answers, and it’s always open to revision. Whatever creationism is, it isn’t science. If people want to believe in it, fine, just don’t say that it’s science.

Back around 2002–3, I found those Dr. Seuss political cartoons while looking for Barnaby strips in the bound volumes of PM that they had at a college library in Williamsburg. I spent a couple of months going in on evenings and weekends, and copied them all out. Two or three years later, someone published a collection of the cartoons — looks like I missed one. It was worth it, because I copied out a lot more than just those cartoons. Fascinating tabloid.

Waitaminute…… It isn’t a religion already?