Can someone remind me how an online forum which, while having several on-topic sections, is very laid back is comparable in any way to a program on a news network that's ostensibly there to dive into issues and inform its viewers?

Putting aside the differences in medium, of course.

Methinks Randy went to the same school of analogy building that Drich dropped out of.

(June 21, 2015 at 6:07 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Methinks Randy went to the same school of analogy building that Drich dropped out of.

Randy compared his donations to the Catholic Church after the molestation scandals broke to my taxes after the drone strikes ... as if he would go to jail if he didn't donate to a bunch of child molesters.

(June 21, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 6:07 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Methinks Randy went to the same school of analogy building that Drich dropped out of.

Randy compared his donations to the Catholic Church after the molestation scandals broke to my taxes after the drone strikes ... as if he would go to jail if he didn't donate to a bunch of child molesters.

That calls for only one thing:

He's a real piece of work, I tell you.

(June 21, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Esquilax Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The "New Atheists" include people like Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett and Harris - the Four Horsemen. What made these atheists "new" was not their arguments but their attitude that religion should be reviled. Secular humanist Tom Flynn wrote:

We don't need new arguments when your side has utterly failed to address the old ones; and I must remind you that smug insistence that you have is not actually a rebuttal. Your arguments are only convincing if you already accept the conclusions that they were geared to lead to.

I'm clear on your position.

No need to keep repeating it for my benefit. Or yours.

(June 21, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 6:07 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Methinks Randy went to the same school of analogy building that Drich dropped out of.

Randy compared his donations to the Catholic Church after the molestation scandals broke to my taxes after the drone strikes ... as if he would go to jail if he didn't donate to a bunch of child molesters.

I still think Drich's "you exist in a world that once had slavery in it, therefore you are personally culpable for slavery, so stop criticizing the bible," wins that score.

(June 21, 2015 at 7:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Randy compared his donations to the Catholic Church after the molestation scandals broke to my taxes after the drone strikes ... as if he would go to jail if he didn't donate to a bunch of child molesters.

I still think Drich's "you exist in a world that once had slavery in it, therefore you are personally culpable for slavery, so stop criticizing the bible," wins that score.

Well, we're talking false analogies, not is/ought fallacies here.  

But yeah, Drich was a  ... well ... funny guy.

And I don't mean he made me laugh.

Hannity is a top notch racist and pompous windbag. But then so is just about all of the clone people on Fox.

(June 21, 2015 at 7:57 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Esquilax Wrote: We don't need new arguments when your side has utterly failed to address the old ones; and I must remind you that smug insistence that you have is not actually a rebuttal. Your arguments are only convincing if you already accept the conclusions that they were geared to lead to.

I'm clear on your position.

No need to keep repeating it for my benefit. Or yours.

(June 21, 2015 at 2:55 am)Randy Carson Wrote:

(June 21, 2015 at 2:28 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I sincerely dislike David Silverman. He is always doing such a terrible job when he camps out at Fox News. He is terrible at this. And he always comes off just as Fox News wants to portray atheists. That's why Hannity has him on all the time as the token atheists.

I wasn't going to comment, but since you posted this, I will.

Hannity's questions exposed what Silverman's organization is all about to a very large audience. For many, it would have been a shock to learn what the "new atheists" believe and what they are up to.

Less than 1% of American atheists belong to American Atheists. What do you think they're up to?