It's every parent's nightmare.... your son is secretly an evangelical christian.
"I caught him watching The 700 Club once when he thought he was alone in the house, and last week, I found some paperbacks from the Left Behind series hidden in his sock drawer," his mother, Eileen Faber, said. "I'm sure he'll grow out of it, but even if he doesn't, I will love and accept my son no matter what."
I just checked my new buddy ZDenny's blog to read his condemnation of the latest vile horse shit coming out of Pat Robertson's mouth, but couldn't find anything. How weird.
It seemed to me that someone who is constantly lecturing anyone willing to listen, and more who are not, about how he and his fellow members of the christianity cult have some kind of special grasp of Love(TM), that the non-brainwashed masses couldn't possibly fathom, would want to distance himself as quickly as possible from comments as repugnant as Robertson's.
*tumbleweed*
For those of you living in a cave, Robertson's has recently given his explanation for the earthquake in Haiti:-
They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said 'we will serve you if you will get us free from the prince.'…so the devil said, 'ok it’s a deal.' And they kicked the French out….But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.
He could have slipped in a quick "A car has a designer, therefore a human needs a designer", but the tornado/junkyard/747 metaphor repeated many times sufficed nicely.
Ah ha!! That explains it!!
You might not believe this, but when I woke this morning I found none other than jebus stood at the end of my bed. I know!! I couldn't believe it either!!!
Science depends on high moral standards, stability and the implication of a design which can be known. If these preconditions are not met, science cannot be done successfully nor is anyone really thinking about science itself.
It should be no surprise that the greatest nation scientifically in the world today is America. As futher support, the most religious nation on the planet earth currently also happens to be America.
I'm not kidding here, I've read about as much as I can take of Hovind's "dissertation", but I think I've already found the BEST. PART. EVAH!!!!
How could this sweet, sweet irony be topped? Just a bit of background; Hovind's main theme throughout this, er, document, is that evolution has no evidence and is just a religion, so should not be taught in public schools. (Yes, he does in fact concede that religion should not be taught in science class, his problem seems to be proving that evolution is a religious belief).
So here's Kent Hovind in his own words from page 57 of his "doctoral dissertation" (emphasis mine):-
Evolution is a religious faith. If the evolutionists want to believe in evolution, they are free to do so. We live in America which is a free country. We are free to choose what we want to believe. What I am upset about is the fact that their faith is being taught as science in the public school system at my expense as a taxpayer. That upsets me greatly!
Probably more than any other man, Haeckel is responsible for the influence on a young man who was to come later and radically change the world, Adolf Hitler. In reading Haeckel's ideas and experiments, Hitler decided that the strongest race was the one that was to survive. His imperialism led to his belief that the Germans were to take over the world. Much harm as (sic) come to the world by this man, Ernest Heckel.
Continuing the trend of taking something from the mainstream and "christianizing" it, I give you these preppy white boys rapping about hugging from the side to prevent any kind of accidental alignment of the genitalia...
As ever, with something so cringe inducing, so unlikely to attract favourable opinion, so laughable, comments and ratings have been disabled.
...why is it that christians have to create their own christian versions of popular websites?
I'm sure there's loads, but just a few I've come across recently:-
This was going to be a post about the perpetual fucktard Bill O'Reilly, but I got distracted along the way and it's now about a reviewer on amazon.com called 'Gen. JC Christian, patriot', who is infinitely more entertaining.
Just sticking with Billo for a moment, I was going to talk about his most recent "Talking Points" where he bemoaned the "blatant left-wing bias of the American press" because, as he claims, the AP put 11 fact checkers on Sarah Palin's recent tome, but none on Obama's books.
My feeling was that the nature of the books was different, the timing was clearly different and, let's face it, she's developed a reputation for talking horseshit. Some would regard her book as something of a manifesto for a potential Presidential run, but I'd be less concerned about that as there's plenty of time to dig into all that. Personally, I venture that the best reason to check out her claims would be purely for the lulz.
Anyhow, I've not read any of the books in question, so I figured I'd check out the premise behind the books from publishers and critics. I started at amazon.com and there I found Gen. JC Christian, patriot's review which I'll partially quote:-
