Comments on Alexander Cornswalled: The Skeptics Guide Responds

I have also reviewed the Skeptics Guide to the uni...

2008-11-25T08:40:20.203-06:00

I have also reviewed the Skeptics Guide to the universe.
Podcast reviewing doesn't happen so widely in blogs as it should - IMHO

Anne

If a majority of the people in the country prefer ...

2008-10-13T14:38:36.869-05:00

If a majority of the people in the country prefer chocolate ice cream we shouldn't go an ban vanilla.

All ice creams were created equal and none shall have the justification of the government as being a prefered flavor of our nation.

That was we can protect everyones right to have any flavor they want.

Hid you ever hear of the 14th Amendment to the Cos...

2008-10-11T13:58:14.895-05:00

Hid you ever hear of the 14th Amendment to the Costitution - specifically Section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Check out the legal doctrine of Incorporation of the Bill of Rights.

I have little to say about her review. It's largel...

2008-10-09T10:18:07.050-05:00

I have little to say about her review. It's largely the kind of rationalization I've come to expect.

You mean like the rational kind of rationalization? Can't have none of that, can we? People might start understanding what the bible is really telling them...

She comments on my post "The Coward who could save...

2008-10-05T03:25:01.381-05:00

She comments on my post "The Coward who could save Billions of Lives." In it she criticized me for accepting the word of an anonymous source, clearly ignoring the fact that the entire POINT of the post was my complaining about the fact that the source is in fact anonymous. Such cherry picking attempts at criticism fall flat when you read my actual article about the unknown vaccine researcher and his claims.

I don't think she missed the point at all, rather that you have missed the point in your rebuttal. Rebecca takes the view that there is no point treating claims made by RandomAnonymousSource as real when there is no way of verifying who made them and what authority they have to make them. You seem to be accepting that they are genuine, and will continue to do so even if you don't find out who made them.

World of difference.

Sir,Do I understand that if we are not men of God ...

2008-10-03T16:39:03.571-05:00

Sir,

Do I understand that if we are not men of God then we shall be cast out. But are we not ALL God's children as decreed in the Bible?

Also as Christians only account for about a 1/3 of the world, does that mean that God will be banishing 2/3's of us?

As usual, dressed in the trappings of religion, a ...

2008-10-02T12:59:34.463-05:00

As usual, dressed in the trappings of religion, a man who thinks too highly of himself has reduced the Almighty God to nothing more than an angry "Ward Cleaver."

Religion is man's creation as a means to understand the message of the Lord. Without which we would simply lack any means by which to *attempt* to comprehend that which exists outside of space and time.

Sir, flatly, your obvious disdain for education is an offense that the teachings of Christ, the blessings of God and the message of the Spirit that were left to us after Christ the man was killed.

You are no man of God and surely not follower of Christ. Christ encouraged questioning. God is not afraid of our questions, rather, they are a key component as we walk this earth in search of meaning. While the answers may not be immediate or what we want to hear, through the Spirit, our own free-will and the intelligence we have gained over centuries they are often there to be discovered.

To ignore these discoveries and express disdain over that which man has achieved is to deny the power of God by placing arbitrary limits on his creations. Who are you to judge that which God created and speak on behalf of the mind of the Lord??

Christ tossed the Pharisees out out of the temples for a reason. Sir, I do believe you have overstayed your welcome as well...

-Sean Robert Reid
Christian/Skeptic/Rational Thinker

I have little to say about her review. It's largel...

2008-10-02T10:34:19.954-05:00

I have little to say about her review. It's largely the kind of rationalization I've come to expect.

We'll leave all the irrational thinking to you sir.

Yeah, slight problem there, bub. Federal laws trum...

2008-10-02T07:05:56.454-05:00

Yeah, slight problem there, bub. Federal laws trump state laws, so if the US Government is barred from declaring an official religion, so are states, counties, cites, etc.

You might want to tell that to Sarah Palin.

The myth of a church / state barrier was injected ...

2008-10-02T02:22:41.097-05:00

The myth of a church / state barrier was injected years, even decades later by humanist thinkers seeking to exclude God from the pubic sphere. I think my understanding of the Constitution's actual words is highlighted in my essay "It's legal for the states to ban Islam." The Constitution's goal was to prevent the Federal Government from making a national religion, in part because many of the original 13 states already HAD an official religion.

The Fed is banned from making laws regarding religion, not the states. A stab against federal hegemony is being misused to alienate God himself.

Yeah, slight problem there, bub. Federal laws trump state laws, so if the US Government is barred from declaring an official religion, so are states, counties, cites, etc.

Successful troll is successful. I applaud you, Al...

2008-10-01T23:49:41.384-05:00

Successful troll is successful. I applaud you, Alexander Cornswalled, for hooking Rebecca into your trolling. Good job. Keep it up.

It's good to know that your God isn't even powerfu...

2008-10-01T16:44:37.656-05:00

It's good to know that your God isn't even powerful enough to smite people who have been vaccinated. It's a shame that other religious people have bought into the apparent heresy that their God could make them sick even if modern medicine attempted to inoculate them.

Or we could just drop the pretense and apply a little bit of Occam's razor, realizing that disease can be explained quite readily without reference to supernatural agency.

Read what the Fifth Congress unanimously approved:...

2008-10-01T16:39:19.461-05:00

Read what the Fifth Congress unanimously approved:

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Cornswalled by your logic all people that fall sic...

2008-10-01T03:42:12.050-05:00

Cornswalled by your logic all people that fall sick from an illness is being punished by God for some sin they did. But by Christine logic we are born sinners so we should not make it past birth. Which would be bad for the human race.

O whell I'm happy I got vacinated as a child saved me from dying of polio or something like that

Yeah, damn those "humanist thinkers" like Thomas J...

2008-10-01T00:26:33.782-05:00

Yeah, damn those "humanist thinkers" like Thomas Jefferson. What does he know about Constitutional law?

Seriously, folks - Cornswalled is a joke. He isn't...

2008-09-30T18:43:25.955-05:00

Seriously, folks - Cornswalled is a joke. He isn't real. It's all a hoax. I thought the Christians were sheep for reading this crap, but the rational thinkers?

Yikes!

By the same logic you use to show that "separation...

2008-09-30T18:13:08.783-05:00

By the same logic you use to show that "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution, "separation of powers" (you know, the idea that the different parts of the government get to do different things) isn't in the Constitution, either. So you can either allow the President to create laws, Congress to decide decide who goes to jail, and the Judiciary to run the military, or you can admit that just because the Constitution doesn't include the exact phrase "separation of powers", it doesn't mean that the concept isn't woven through the document, and similarly, that "separation of church and state" is in there too. (Hint: "[N]o religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States", and the 1st amendment)

...particularly Article 11.

2008-09-30T17:22:34.475-05:00

...particularly Article 11.

Treaty of Tripoli.... look it up.

2008-09-30T17:20:41.161-05:00

Treaty of Tripoli.... look it up.

If I supported a belief for which the only "eviden...

2008-09-30T13:09:43.632-05:00

If I supported a belief for which the only "evidence" was anecdotal and/or unfalsafiable, I think I'd complain, too.
I haven't the patience to detail Alex's cherry-picking, misinterpretations and inaccuracies; I leave it in the capable hands of the rest of Rebecca's horde of smitten admirers.