Comments on: A Battle Cry for secularism http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/ Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anon http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-1362 Anon Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:08:08 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-1362 Alright… let me try to make sense of this.

Up to 1/3rd of people apparently question the existence of God, and therefore the university must cater to those people? What about the rest who honestly have no problem?

If the thought or idea of God bothers you so much, you might want to identify exactly *why* it does, and take a long look inside of yourself. It’s really kind of disturbing for somebody to take religion and another’s belief so personally — not to mention, your pathetic causes and obnoxious and pretentious behaviour embarrass the rest of us who would otherwise like to identify as Atheists, but want nothing to do with the stereotype you morons perpetuate in freaking out over phrases that mean absolutely nothing.

It sounds like nothing more than an ego trip of a typical university pseudo-intellect, sorry to say. Wish I could support it, but it is truly lame…

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By: Meeting the candidate | Terahertz http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Meeting the candidate | Terahertz Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:32:21 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-509 [...] a 14 day moratorium on the article, but the positions are summarized by my previous post on attaining a secular convocation. The article will hopefully run Tuesday if everything goes [...]

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By: Clubs Fair 2009: The first two days | Terahertz http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Clubs Fair 2009: The first two days | Terahertz Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:58:03 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-452 [...] In two days we’ve collected around 120 interested names and around 50 signatures for the Secular Convocation petition. Last year in total we received around 300 names of interested [...]

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By: quantum_flux http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-434 quantum_flux Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:28:25 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-434 Please tell the McCain/Palin Campaign (preferrably politely) why teaching creationism in our public schools around America is superstitious and is not in our nation’s best interests. These are the feelers McCain has out there, the way in which Americans can have a voice and be heard by his campaign:

Contact his campaign directly here:

http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/

Or go to his blogs and leave a polite message about the subject matter wherever appropriate:

http://www.johnmccain.com/blog/

Remember, McCain does a lot of things right and is a great heroic war veteran who genuinely puts his country first, but Creationism is one key area where he is completely wrong and could potentially create a major setback for American students and businesses. We can’t let America fall behind foriegn countries in the departments of Science and Technology because of his superstitious beliefs.

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By: Ian http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Ian Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:20:04 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-419 Fixed, thanks.

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By: Ian http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Ian Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:19:11 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-418 This was raised 3-4 years ago and the answer then is that they thought it was inclusive enough and didn’t care to mess with tradition.

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By: thoughtcounts Z http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-416 thoughtcounts Z Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:16 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-416 From the response:

An objection to use of this phrase has already been recently considered by the President’s Standing Committee on Convocation. The majority of Committee members voted in favour of leaving the Admission as it presently reads.

That’s pretty unsatisfying. Do you know what arguments they found particularly convincing or unconvincing? They should have explained why they made the decision they did. As it stands, it looks like the committee members just voted their personal religious beliefs rather than considering the larger issues.

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By: James Bell http://terahertzatheist.ca/2008/08/27/a-battle-cr/comment-page-1/#comment-415 James Bell Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:19:01 +0000 http://terahertzatheist.ca/?p=574#comment-415 (who’s tax dollars support this institution) -> should be (*whose* tax dollars support this institution)

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