Comments on: Albuquerque City Councilperson Don Harris Responds About Attack on Atheism

By: thilina

thilina — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:14:25 +0000

believing in G-d is like believing in the tooth fairy, they are not respecting their fellow man.

And you Sir have no respect for those who believe in the tooth fairy.

The author of this blog is not even willing to allow people to freely express themselves. Moderate is another word for censorship. What do you fear?

A spam filter is also a form of censorship, but i doubt you have a problem with that. Censorship is good or bad depending on the relevance of the content being censored. If you are posting relevant information that is being censored by Hermant, I and many others here will gladly defend your right to rant.

Now. back under the bridge you go.

By: Kilre

Kilre — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:36:06 +0000

Y halo thar, troll. How are weather?

By: Real Atheist

Real Atheist — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:03:22 +0000

Atheists are some of the most close minded people. Many do not respect the views of other people. When an atheist writes, believing in G-d is like believing in the tooth fairy, they are not respecting their fellow man. I am sure he does not fear you because he has already won his race. This will all be forgotten when he has to run again.

The author of this blog is not even willing to allow people to freely express themselves. Moderate is another word for censorship. What do you fear?

By: muggle

muggle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:10:35 +0000

Oh, and I’ll kick anyone’s butt that says simply capitalizing the A makes Atheism a religion. They ever officially call it one, I become a Nontheist.

By: muggle

muggle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:09:02 +0000

Oh, please, I capitalize the A in Atheist, for Pete’s sake. Let’s not over-react to that one.

Sounds like someone’s had their mind broadened at least a tiny bit and that’s a good thing. And also commendable that he thought about it at least that much. It’s a small step but an important one, especially if he is sincere about working on relations between believers and nonbelievers in his neck of the woods. Again, a good thing.

Thanks for sharing and updating us, Vas.

By: Vas

Vas — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:11:28 +0000

well if he got a bunch of angry letters including mine at least he responded to at lease one of us in a personal way. I don’t really think I’d like to have a beer with the guy but at least I’m getting some scene of regret from him, I’m not anymore sure than anyone else here exactly why but I know he is at least reading the stuff I’ve sent him links to. I think it may have dawned on him the we are regular people, so there is some small progress. Again it is in large part due to Hement and the rest of the folks here. Tim makes a good point and I think this is a case that Illustrates the effect just a few personal emails can make. I mean really how many emails could he have gotten? not all that many, and he did respond, not how I would have liked but he did respond. a few emails = a small response, a lot of emails warrants a larger response. This guy actually read the emails and he came here to read more, I’d say Hement’s article was successful in initiating change. a few day, a few people and a small change. not bad if you ask me.
Vas

By: Siamang

Siamang — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:49:25 +0000

Buy him a beer for me, Vas, if you can.

I appreciate your building a bridge of communication with him.

By: Brian Westley

Brian Westley — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:14:53 +0000

I hope he saw the blog entry about the atheist/agnostic etc Kiva group hitting $1,000,000

By: Tim D.

Tim D. — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:05:40 +0000

That's what I like about you and your work, Hemant --- when you encourage people to write letters to officials, you actually encourage them to write their own words. Most Christian "leaders" just have a pre-written letter posted on their blog/website/etc., which they then direct followers to copy, print out and then mail to their officials as though they had written it themselves. It's times like this that the impression of individuality is most important; if I were a congressman, I can tell you that I would respond a lot more to 500 angry letters than I would to 1000 copies of the same angry letter. Then again, maybe that's why I'm not one....

By: Stephan Goodwin

Stephan Goodwin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:30:59 +0000

That isn’t an apology. We are going from a demonized group back to an ignored one. He shouldn’t “not bring up Atheism” (why is it capitalized?) he should only bring it up when people are discussing atheism and bring it up fairly.

You are allowed to talk about the Jewish vote, and the black vote. You just don’t demonize them at the same time. Apparently if he can’t use atheists as a scare tactic, then they aren’t worth mentioning.

That, my friends, is NOT an apology.