User:Neural

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{{User:UBX/Monty Python|Monty Python's Life of Brian| is not the Messiah! He is a very naughty boy}}

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Current favourite quote:

'What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.' - Christopher Hitchens

Articles started:

An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Atheism (a book by Daniel Harbour)
Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (a book by Alister McGrath)
The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation (a book by Peter Hitchens)

Likes:

Freethinkers (see freethought)
Computer games such as Deus Ex, Morrowind, and Civilization IV
Monty Python
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Horror fiction and science fiction
Films
Erotica, non-exploitative porn, and sex in general
Women
The Wicker Man (the restored 99 min 1973 version)
The insights and efforts of Richard Dawkins
Questioning beliefs and assumptions

Personal Dislikes:

Social conservatism
Censorship
The "big three" Abrahamic world religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; especially all forms of religious fundamentalism
The constant proselytising of many Christians and Muslims
Attempts to enforce brands of religious morality by passing laws that apply to everyone, religious or not
Uncritical faith in anything
The popular anti-paedophile witch-hunting
Poverty
Neo-Nazis and those with a similar mentality
The nonsense that some people take seriously
And the mouth-foaming insanity that some people think is a virtue

General Interests:

My Political Compass:

[http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.50&soc=-6.26 My political compass result] (Economic: -2.50 Social: -6.26) I am strongly libertarian (or perhaps I should say anti-authoritarian), and slightly to the left on the economic axis. My result for the latter seems a bit exaggerated to me, although I did answer every question honestly. I think my natural distrust of huge multinational corporations and my belief that writers/artists are as important as manufacturers is showing here. [http://politicalcompass.org/ Take the test here]

Some interesting and/or controversial links:

[http://www.richarddawkins.net RD.net]
[http://www.rationalia.com Rationalia forum]
[http://www.rationalskepticism.org Rational Skepticism forum]
[http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/whynotchristian.html Richard Carrier: Why I am not a Christian]
[http://www.samharris.org Sam Harris: The End of Faith]
[http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/iranfem.html Women and the death penalty in modern Iran]
[http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.htm The Bible]
[http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm The Qur'an]
[http://www.determinism.com/05042002.shtml Free will vs determinism]