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There's very little more rewarding than to see th appreciation we get from people for responding rationally to irrational emergencies.

This thread we'll post many of the kind comments that have been said about us. If you have your own kind comment please feel free to leave it for us.

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YOU GUYS ROCK.

You should see if you can get Lee Strobel on your show. 90% of the Christians I debate with tell me he's the dude. I decided to do some research and read "A Case For Faith" and was horrified. That book is nothing but claims without citations or references.

I would love to see you pick his books apart.

Keep up the great work, and if I can be of any help, let me know.

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i found a dead man in a car at mcdonaldswrote

thank god for rational response =]

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brian how many times can i say you're my hero...

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Wow......I glanced at your website.....I'm home....

Every job Ive ever had, I've been ambushed in the hallways by people telling me I need God in my life, or I need to come with them to church, or "Here, have this bible, it will do ya good"

Fuckers.

I had to take a sick day two years ago at my current job, because I needed a break from the old ladies pushing their shit on me. Then I got promoted and informed them that if there are any further acts of religious persecution, that they will lose their job. Smiling

As soon as I'm not swamped in work, I'll be looking into you guys further. I really wish I could use my band's fan resources to promote you, but my drummer is one of the brainwashed, so I can't Sad

Charlie

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Sapient,

Not only are you my hero, you are (dare I say it?) a god to me.

You have had incredible patience throughout the MySpace thread and have continued to offer rational, common sense replies.

Great job!


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Thanks so much Susan. Cool

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Chat room comments during our first show airing:

<TheeInformant> this is funny..the show

[Amanda] 9:24 pm: This is the most entertaining show I have ever
heard! I have been laughing non stop.

[Ikeman5k] 9:37 pm: I'm digging the show, man.

[SilkyShrew] 11:27 pm: gj guys
[Nixami] 11:28 pm: It was a good show Sapient
[Reitstoen] 11:28 pm: that was a really good show ????
[Leda] 11:28 pm: ditto
[sleepr] 11:28 pm: nice show guys
[ophideus] 11:28 pm: Great show. Take care guys
[sleepr] 11:28 pm: funny in a lot of spots

[Flawed_Existence] 11:42 pm: Yes, the show was magnificent.

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AWESOME SHOW
better the 2nd time you hear it too.
Will I listen a third time?
hmmmmmm

Find out next time...
Laughing out loud

"If nobody was listening to God, there would be nothing left for us to do but listen to each other."
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I just caught your show tonight -- consider me a fan. Keep fighting the good fight, and I will keep listening/spreading the word.

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--L. A. Repucci, evangelical atheist.

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From: Wolf in Wolf's clothing
Date: Mar 3, 2006 7:51 PM

...on the air with the Rational Response Squad. You guys rock in the most cogent way possible...thank you for the 1st show, Rook. Hooray for reason!

By the way, check out my blogs -- don't make me track you down.

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Please help me get my resources so I can finish my book more quickly.

My wish list.

Et suppositio nil ponit in esse.

"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt every­thing. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threaten­ing him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies

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From: Jack-o-lantern
Date: Mar 5, 2006 1:08 AM

Dudes, I'm glad someone is coming out and saying Christianity is a load of shit...I especially like the video on here, it's true. Well keep up the good work.

Matt

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Subject: Rational Responders - Feedback: The King is in da house!

Message: What's up guys..
This is Kemo D. (a.k.a. no.7) from Houston, TX. I am Proud to say that there is no better site then Rational Responders. I assume the moderators are basically volunteers and I think it is great that they provide this service to connect people from around the world who share the same ideas. Keep up the great work!!

Kemo D. (a.k.a. no.7)

Thanks man!

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I LISTENED A THIRD TIME!!!
IT WAS BETTER!!!
OTG!!!

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From: Trent
Date: Mar 8, 2006 4:12 PM

In my heroes list.

I love what you guys do and support you 100%.

Never give up and never surrender!

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Date: Mar 8, 2006 9:59 PM

i thought christianity was about peace and love or something but it's people like that who make me want to not be christian even more...they claim they try to save everyone yet they just exploit someone's weaknesses to make them feel bad...you guys really are doing a good job

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You're awesome. That's all that needs to be said.

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blech kudos for you actually trying to communicate with them.
i'd feel like a vulcan finally making contact with hu-mans after centuries!! gaaahh!!
can't stand christians. i experience cognitive dissonance every time i have to interact with them. Sad

-penHELLope k.

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Hey man... you're my hero! Thanks for standing up so effectively for atheism against the hordes of irrationality!

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Julio wrote:
Dear Brian Sapient,

This is my story for today that i wish to share with you almighty person of rationalism (i assume)

I woke up round 7 in the morning, Had no school today. I listened to the rock station and what not and checked out the news. Later i finished reading Meno from on of plato's dialogue. I was pissed of at the logic given to Socrates from Plato. I read in an essay ( so it would be a 2ndary resource) that that socrates wasn't really him, but after the apology it was mostly a character made by Plato. This goes back to ancient philopshy though. But i was pissed off at the direction "socrates" was heading with meno that virtue wasn?t teachable because of this and that. I noticed their flaws in their conversation. This was the first thing that gat me mad today. Then i went on the computer and checked out my myspace mail. I gat bored after a while, so i started looking at "favorites" and ( i categorize websites according to topics) i went down to religion and i decided to watch "the way of the master part 7". I did this to work on my knowledge on refuteing claims of logic and the like. I watched it all, and i refuted everything that was said by the 2 guys. One toke me 2 minutes of thinking.

2 things were said. The absolute truth in gold in China, and also knowing 99% of all knowledge. I combined these two claims made by the 2 speakers to refute their claim that i dont really know if (their) god exists because their is a possibility that in the 99% knowledge i don?t gat, absolute evidence exist that it dose.
Let me share this with you.

They said that if someone were to make the claim that there is no gold in china then they would need to know 100% that there is absolutely no gold.
If someone were to make the claim that there is gold in china then they would only need to know one atom of Au to be able to make that claim.
ALso, they said that if all my knowledge is 1% of all the knowledge that there is, then there (might) be a chance that in the 99% that i don?t know, there is evidence that (their) gold exist.

I actually had to pause the video for 2min on this. I remembered a few arguments i had from some of my relatives and the logic involved, so if i were to refute these arguments that could be used against me, then i would need to come up with some good shit .
After a while i came with this.

So in order for me to make the claim that there is no gold in china i would need to check every last unit of a measurement of it and also define the borders of china and whatnot to make the absolute claim. Like wise if i were to say that there is gold all i need to do is look into a person's mouth and say, ah here it is gold.

But of course out of all the 100% knowledge there is in existence, all i know is 1%. So of course they would say that there is 99% more knowledge out there that i haven?t obtained that (their) gold dose exist.
Of course in order to the claim that their god dose not exsist all i would actually need is one bit of evidence that it doesn?t. And if that one bit was in the 1% of knowledge that i have in my brain then that is all i need to refute their god. Like wise all you need is one piece of gold to say that there is gold in china. (yes god and bibles/holy documents have been refuted before.) This is my "belief" at least. ( i believe that all human gods are false.) So i thought this was a good "counter attack" in an argument against somebody who uses those claims against another. Well later i finished watching the video, but after i gat done watching the it i was pissed again. I asked myself "why do these stupid retards believe this shit?" Why are people so stupid an believe everything that is told to them? I get over it. ;p I actually told myself ima write a book one day refuting all that shit (dogma, religion, society, religion, nations, religion, and talk about some of my philopshys, metaphysics, and concerns for humanity.) But this was the 2nd thing that gat me pissed today. Then i went back to my bedroom and gat a few news papers from the las vegas review and checked out what i missed. I was reading for about half hour and read a few commentaries and articles from the ap. I did lateral thinking with other stuff i knew from 9-ll and other news from abortions and what not. and yet again for the 3rd time i gat pissed. I told myself "why dont the american people rebel" against this president? Why do people support north Dakota's anti abortion bill? Why is this nation "under god"? "why dont people open their eyes and see this shit?" Then i claimed down and started doing some personal thinking and wrote some stuff. later i went back to the computer and decided to check out some of the forms. I came across that "ray comfort" link you posted a while ago and now im listening to it.

I write to you really to say that I love people like you. The "rationals" People who know shit and who have logic. I didn?t know "ray comfront" was from "the way of the master" until you guys (in that radio talk show) started talking about the 10% knowledge jokes. While im listening to this and listening to the logic in the arguments, i feel better. It is nice to know that there are people in this world who are not dogmatic, radical, and in logically. People like you and your groups and people like luigi from italy might just change the world one day. This at the very least i do hope.

Something to think about- If lugi can destroy the vatican religion peacefully without violence when all the crusades and unpeacefulness attempts to destroy it have failed, then who knows what is possible with knowledge.

The only thing that can stop it is main stream media or censorship. But i believe that eventually humans are not stupid. But i hope im not foolish in believing in this.

-peace out and GLHF with the things you do
(forgive me for not making paragraphs or caring to check for grammar, but i hope you enjoyed reading this "fan mail"Eye-wink

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All the sentiments above, combine in my appreciation for such a site. You guys indeed rock. Glad to be on board, let me know if you ever need my help in anyway.
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I should be thanking you all for being rational in an ever increasing irrational world.

Its nice to here a clear and decisive response to an argument without resorting to the supernatural or blind faith.

I saw that you all interviewed that nut job Ray Comfort, who would gladly see the ungdly burn in hell, and thought i have to get these shows!!

I'm putting a like to your site on mysite www.myspace.com/freethought26 (thanks Myspace)

Please keep being rational; for humanity and science!

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Lee Strobel, I heard you mention via quoting someone.

Is he the one who writes all those "Case for--" religious books, including the one I recently read called, "The Case For Easter?"

He proclaims he use to be a logical atheist, but interviewed all these people and heard their arguments, and, somehow, recorded all those conversations word for word to put in a little book in a nice little poetic fashion, talking about how so-and-so takes a sip before he says his next lines.

It seems to me he was never atheist and all this is a load of predetermined bullshit he writes about, but that aside...

He provides ZERO evidence for anything! ZERO conclusive arguments! All the crap he says is, "Oh, they didn't find the body?! He must have risen!" He doesn't doubt shit during his arguments with those thiests in the book, he takes EVERYTHING they say for granted,

And so does every idiot thiest he reads and hoists that book as if it's anything worth a dime.


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Yup, that's him.

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Hello you all!
I was reading you profile, and I thought that you all were some of the greatest people alive.

But do have fun being one of the few rational in the biblebelt.

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From: </3 Puff-Money $moke-2-green</3
Date: Jun 26, 2006 11:56 AM

i love your group and the ideas. we need some free thought in this fucking country. sometimes i still feel like we live in a overly human world. wars, famine, religious persecution, etc.

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From: Mr K. Foto-Graph-Ie
Date: Mar 26, 2006 5:57 PM

AMAZING. I LOVE YOU.

theres so many people that are soo blind to this shit. STRAIGHT ON TO FOX NEWS nigga, we'll bring that shit down. for real.

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I finally took a listen to your show and I was really impressed! I haven't been able to listen ever since I listened to your show with Jared Paul. I've been listening to IG a lot and getting a lot of inspiration. I've always been an atheist, but just started studying religion 7 months ago. So far I have read The Atheist Debaters Handbook by BC Johnson, Losing Faith In Faith by Dan Barker, Atheism: The Case Against God by George Smith, and just recently I finally decided to open up a bible for the first time. Ive been really upset about the harmful effects religion has on humanity over the past couple of months. I was really stoked to finally listen to your show to discover how much you guys know. I really hope to work myself up to your level someday (with a complete open mind).

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This site is so refreshing!

In a world filled with so many judgemental freaks
looking down upon me just because I don't think
like them... never knew so many people were on
the same page and actually think logically and aren't
afraid to speak about it... good for you.

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Message: When I saw your profile on my myspace friends request I thought "no, can't be the rational that I am thinking of". However I clicked your link and nearly went to tears. You guys are the best thing since Wasteland of Wonders Atheism. Ben Franklin, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton. These are the people we should be worshipping. All I have to say is that with you guys, we may just see an end to circular arguments and crappy relgious biases. I wish I could talk to you guys in person, but since I'm sure you guys have plenty of fans out there, I just wnat to say good job, you guys are a beacon of light, hope, and strong leadership for atheists in a world of religious bullshit. I just wish I could be part of it too! Keep up the good work, and don't give up. It won't be easy, trust me, I know!

- Matt

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This one means alot:

"RRS ? You guys truly, truly rock! Congrats on a terrific show, and I don?t just mean this one episode. Every episode has been a really fantastic listening pleasure and a rewarding experience. You guys really ARE the rational responders, no doubt about it." - Buckster (said here)

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This one seemed a little too personal to reveal the author:

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I recently lost my job because I spoke my mind in the workplace, and if I had the chance again, I'd most certainly do it again.

I feel they made me resign for such an ignorant and unjust reason, but I couldn't help it, everyone who worked there was a vicious christian. Its amazing what can happen when you tell the truth.

I just wanted to say while in the process of quitting my job your orginization came to mind, and it made me feel much better about myself. Thank you, and keep fighting the good fight Eye-wink

Thank you again to the author of this email.

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