Comments on: Just what Haiti needs: solar-powered Bibles and a shedload of Scientologists

By: What is the nutritional value of a Bible? « He's Spartacus

What is the nutritional value of a Bible? « He's Spartacus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:53:20 +0000

[...] is the nutritional value of a Bible? A talking Bible, that is, as I suppose it could be argued at a stretch that munching on a few scraps of paper might [...]

By: He's Spartacus

He's Spartacus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:26:30 +0000

Am I understanding this correctly?

Good question. Let’s see now….

Would the recession have ended any faster had these advertisements not appeared on buses?

Doubtful. Indeed I was always led to believe that you spend your way out of a recession.

Would the non-appearance of the advertisements have ushered in an era of world peace?

Scratch one “war” argument.

What kind of impact on poverty would there have been had the same advertising budget been allocated to a series of faith-based announcements, or if the panels had just been left blank?

Marvel at the brass neck of adherents to a faith whose teachings on AIDS and birth control condemn millions to a life of disease and penury, lecturing us on poverty!

No, I don’t think you are.

By: He's Spartacus

He's Spartacus — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:45:16 +0000

I guess we’ll never know how many people died because these 600 talking bibles took the place of a consignment of MREs, drinking water or plasma.

Here’s an idea…. Why not just get the Pope or some other shaman to bless a nuke, then just turn the place into a sea of glass? This seems to me to be a far more efficient means of sending them wholesale to a “better place” than just allowing a handful of them to starve or bleed to death.

By: Mariano

Mariano — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:05:26 +0000

Am I understanding this correctly? For the past few years atheists worldwide have literally wasted enormous amounts of money during times of recession, war and poverty not in helping anyone in any material need but in order to purchase bus ads and billboards attempting to demonstrated just how clever they consider themselves to be; and now they want to become the charity policeâ€”please! Futher dissection of this particular atheist hypocrisy here.

By: lebigmac95

lebigmac95 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:55:01 +0000

Hitler just found out about this solar powered bible nonsense. He is pretty pissed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPNT5he1rs

By: AudioBible

AudioBible — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:57:47 +0000

Hello all-
First of all, thank you for helping us spread the word. Second of all, I wanted to let you know that in times of crisis, people greatly benefit from spiritual guidance. It is comforting to many and we see this all the time (for instance, the increase in church attendance after 9/11). So when the Haitian people requested the solar powered audio Bible, we wanted to do our best to fulfill that. Thirdly, we agree that their emergent needs are top priority and although we cannot use our funding for that (our donors provide funds to make and distribute audio Bibles only), we have partnered with other organizations to help meet those other needs. Fourthly, please, please, please consider the children. My family personally has been hit with a lot of tough times and during those times, it has been helpful to my children to try and maintain normalcy, as well as have an opportunity for fun. In Haiti, the children enjoy gathering around for story time, find comfort in connecting with their friends in group settings and therefore will benefit from hearing the stories in the audio Bible. This tragedy will forever have an effect on these little ones and however we can help, we will.

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:23:05 +0000

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By: rog

rog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:12:29 +0000

@kiwibro so, in your opinion, exactly how is the ‘aid’ mentioned in the original article going to help the people of Haiti? I would be interested read your explanation as I am sure it will explain your motives for that comment.

By: kiwibro

kiwibro — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:09:52 +0000

What a bunch of armchair, whining, back-seat driving critical arseholes! All of you can be bothered to sit and throw abuse at others out there giving a hand so long as it doesn’t endanger your ‘right’ to sit back and throw remarks as to how this or that aint the way it is or shouldn’t be this or that way. Get off your dumb arses and lend a fucking hand and maybe your criticisms would mean something!

By: H. Davids

H. Davids — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:27:57 +0000

People in Haiti are back to praying and praising, as priests are telling them god is still around, I guess enjoying the devastation. Which makes me wonder: why should people be helped who believe this swill? Maybe their god wants them to suffer a bit more.