The peicurmudgeon, also known as John Underhay is just your average mentally ill, atheist, left wing libertarian, SCUBA diving, snorkeling, biker.
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I like to think of myself as a sceptic, especially of the supernatural – as in anything that people try to explain by ignoring the laws and rules of physics, chemistry, biology, or by being otherwise contrary to our natural world. I post about science, pseudoscience, politics, religion, or anything else that intrigues, angers, or interests me.
If you landed here searching for the 1998 movie, I am not Jackie Chan.
I’m a 6th generation Prince Edward Islander, living on a disability pension and just getting crankier as I age.
Just wanted to say that it is great to see another Atheist here on PEI, living in Summerside right now and the number of the faithful here is staggering. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for reading. Summerside can be a bit on the religious end of things alright.
Hi Curmudgeon,
Do you know that the term “athiest” is self-refuting? If there is no God, then why use a word meaning he doesn’t exist? It makes no sense. A more honest word would be to call yourself an agnostic because, let’s face it, even you don’t know for sure and in you last breath on earth, you will be wondering if you might have been wrong. Some food for thought. An athiest is really just someone rebelling against God, who hasn’t really looked at all the possibilities.
You may want to read “The New Athiesm and the Erosion of Freedom” by Dr. Robert Morey which explains all of this and uses very logical thinking on the existence of God, etc. and how, without God or a higher standard to live by, there are no absolutes, i.e. no right and wrong. It goes very deep if you think about it. Who built the hospitals, schools, churches? It wasn’t the athiests. What have they added to the world? Oh ya, there was Hitler, but without right and wrong, he would be okay. Do you think Hitler was good? If so, then God help you. How do you explain creation, our planet, the stars, their alignment, the sun? You can’t claim evolution, because it’s already been debased, though a lot of the non-thinkers cling to it because they have nothing else. Even Darwin denied it on his death bed. So, you really need to have a lot of faith to be an athiest, so much more than anything else. Good luck with that.
How many times will you have to write the word atheist incorrectly before you realize that you are spelling it wrong?
Food for Thought – I was going to write a rebuttal to your comment, but then realized that it would be a complete waste of time. You have just posted two paragraphs in which virtually every sentence contains at least one falsehood. Do some homework and come back.
The ignorance and lies of people like Food for Thought is simply astounding. Keep up the great work, John. PEI needs all the rational help it can get!
I’ve dealt with folks like that before, on the net and in RL. definitely agree with you.
Thanks for the kind words
Thanks Dan, for leading me here.
PEI needs more people who can think, rather than “Food for Thought”, who apparently starved their thinking processes long ago.
Once FFT debunks the other thousands of gods in conflict with their specific belief system, including the variants of their own theology, I’ll be happy to hear them out. But until then, the site content is much more interesting than the rambling foolishness of a theist who doesn’t even bother checking their “facts”.
John – have a proposition for you. Can you ping me at this email address?
Nice blog! I’m an islander and fellow skeptical atheist but living in a land far far away. Out of curiosity I googled PEI atheist groups and came across your blog.
Is there any sort of group presence around here? ‘Skeptics in the Pub’ or the like? Could use something like that around here, certainly.
I don’t know of any skeptical/atheist groups, but I’d be happy to meet for a coffee or beer some day.
We have a SITP in Halifax now. It was started about a year ago. The guy who started it also started a CFI group here, but I think the whole SITP thing need not be associated with any particular group, if you were to start one up. Or if you’re ever in Halifax, look us up
http://www.meetup.com/CFI-NS/
Was just searching for folks who were blogging about Kandace…interesting read, your blog. Keep it up. Will be back