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Zeked
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 08/24/2008 : 14:44:56 [Permalink]
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Holy shit!
Last time I visited my sister, there was a picture of her kids next to a large dinosaur statue hanging on the fridge. Seems they visited a Hovind theme park a while back. They know my views and didn't even wait for comment. The whole family had become mindless pull string toys, circling me and saying the same phrase, "I aint a monkey man, I aint a monkey man". Bug nutts batty, right out of sci-fi mind bender on TV. (I exaggerate only slightly).
If this Willis diatribe makes the AIG newsletter, pull string minded mobs will be putting skeptical folk on the end of pitch forks and claim they impaled themselves - "because the mob was actually stationary".
Bug nutts, absolutely bug nutts batty. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 08/24/2008 : 17:25:39 [Permalink]
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| another one. Seems that great many of these bibical hitch-hikers are enlightened atheists who, having seen the tragic error of coherent thought, went for the just-so stories of the Bronze Age. Hell, I don't blame 'em; fantasy is a lot more fun than intense study and involves considerably less effort. And evidently, there's pretty good money in it. |
Nice find filthy!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 12:25:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
| another one. Seems that great many of these bibical hitch-hikers are enlightened atheists who, having seen the tragic error of coherent thought, went for the just-so stories of the Bronze Age. Hell, I don't blame 'em; fantasy is a lot more fun than intense study and involves considerably less effort. And evidently, there's pretty good money in it. |
Nice find filthy!
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Thanks! And just to make sure we get the the point, AiG lends us a timely hand: Confessions of a Former Atheist
by John UpChurch, AiG–U.S.August 26, 2008LaymanKeywords
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My story starts in a small college town. We had moved there a few years before as an escape for my father, a former pastor who had given up on a church that had given up on him.
I would not say that my father was an openly religious man (even during his years as a minister), and he had never told us what to believe. When we had moved there, he became even more reticent. The only conversations that I remember having with him about his faith concerned the “fluidity” of biblical interpretation—something he had learned from seminary. To be honest, looking back, I am not sure he ever believed what he had once preached. Being the son of a minister, despite certain expectations, does not mean that you will have any sort of faith in God.
To be fair, I did try it. My mother has never given up on her belief, and she made sure that we at least went to church occasionally. It was a timid experiment to say the least: four boys who preferred high jinks to hymns. But we enjoyed our church bulletin artwork and crawling under the pews whenever the chance arose. We were mostly biding our time until we turned 16 and could make the “adult” decision not to go to church. It turned out, however, that we really didn't have to wait that long.
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It's a little long and not a little smarmy, but there stands yet another. One wonders if not all were forner atheists....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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