My latest Pajamas Media column is up.
For the record, all I know about the science stuff is what I read on Wikipedia, so don’t consider me an expert. But it’s fun to read about.
My latest Pajamas Media column is up.
For the record, all I know about the science stuff is what I read on Wikipedia, so don’t consider me an expert. But it’s fun to read about.
Loved it so much I came looking for your blog. Very few out there who can write really good satire. Maybe the big fish take themselves too seriously.
My calculator couldn’t keep up, Frank. 🙂 Even so, it’s the ATTITUDE of the fringes of both “sides” that disturbs me:
If you believe in god, you’re just plain stupid. — But if you’re not of my faith, you’re not going to heaven. — Hmph! I’m mortally offended by that statue of mary in your yard. — You know, people who don’t confess their sins are going straight to hell. — My ACLU lawyer will make sure that the 10 commandments are removed from every cemetery, federal building, and school lawn. — I guarantee that my bible is better than your koran. — Well, you’re guilty of child abuse if you take your kids to church. — But my god can beat up your un-god, dog double dare!
And on and on.
I just don’t find that the average jane and joe on the street care to engage in religious insults. It’s the few on both fringes that carry the signs, shout the obscenities, hire the lawyers, etc., rather than just living and letting live. It’s all about respect and tolerance. Until the fringes reach that conclusion, maybe mom was right: It’s usually best not to discuss religion, money, and sex in polite society.
(But it sure can be fun!)
Sigh.
[Explain sigh or I shall construe it as a hostile act! -Ed.]
I always been interested in Obama’s faux accents and effete pronunciations of words along with grammartical errors such as Michelle and I instead of me.
I would love Obama to begin his press conference in his faux MLK and as he got flummoxed he could keep changing accents until he just starts talking gibberish. It would make a great You Tube video.
Oooo! Do Galatians, DO GALATIANS!!!
… and it was good.
Not so much hostile as, sigh.
It’s hard to be an atheist and a conservative, you get crap all the time from everybody.
I was reading Levin’s book and he spends a nice chapter calling me an asshole.
I’ve heard Glenn Beck’s book does the same thing.
I’ve been dealing with it for 20 years, since the days of the Moral Majority (obligatory, which was neither), but sometimes it gets to me.
Sigh.
[It was supposed to be fun teasing (I personally like the scientific explanations of the origin of the universe and life). Have fun! -Ed.]
No, do Revelation! That would be some good satire. Now that we have the logical beginning, I want to hear how the atheists come to the ‘logical’ conclusion.
Veeshir – I’m sorry to hear this. I’m about to read Levin’s book, so I can’t speak to that. My assumption would be that he is speaking about the vehement lawsuit-happy type atheists, but perhaps not. Personally, as a creationist evangelical Christian, I (and most of my kind) hold no animosity towards athiests or anyone else who believes differently. My problem comes when others (whether they agree with me spiritually or not) try to trample my freedoms. On this, I think you and I can agree.
The problem is probably mine, it’s just that I’ve had too many religious people casually insult me.
“If you don’t believe in a god, then anything goes. You can kill and steal without fearing hell” and similar sentiments. Apparently, I can’t be a nice person and not believe in their god.
I do try to follow most of the teachings of Jesus, all except the part about honoring His Father.
That’s why I defended Bush when he said that Jesus was his favorite philosopher. We agreed on that. As Heinlein wrote in Life LIne, most western philosophers are idiots prattling on about things they don’t understand.
I also have to laugh.
I’ve written a few things that I intended as a way to get Ed to talk to me (like saying “Good one Harvey” on a FrnakJ post last week, and well, calling him FrnakJ) and the one time I wasn’t trying to do it, Ed chimes in.
Atheists find facts and logic insulting? I had no idea!
I shall refrain from expressing any statements of fact or logic around Atheists in the future, reserving them only for believing Christians.
Naturalists have NO answers. If the Bible said all matter and energy started as a pin point and exploded, naturalists would have laughed at how unscientifically rediculous that is. Also where did the pin point come from? If the universe is eternal and constantly expanding and then contracting to a point, how do you transform useless disipated heat energy back into useful energy?
The universe is not only expanding but it is accelerating. So naturalists created “dark energy” that is pushing the universe outward. Can’t see it. Can’t detect it. But who are you going to believe? The naturalist stories or scientific data?
There isn’t enough gravity in the universe to keep the stars in round clusters. So naturalists invented “dark matter”. Can’t see it. Can’t detect it. But 90% of the universe must be filled withe Dark energy and dark matter.
I don’t know which are funnier. Naturalists trying to explain the universe or the Negro party trying to make Obama’s healthcare plan sound good. Both are way out there.
Thanks for making my point for me there Jonathan.
Tool.
I’m done here, I try to avoid religious threads because of the gratuitous insults, but once in a while I just have to chime in.
[A lot of it brings out very un-Chrisitan like behavior in “Christians.” The point of religion isn’t to feel superior to everybody and insult them. -Ed.]
Veesir, it seems you are not in the mood for humor. Being quite serious now, you must realize the implications of the naturalist philosophy regarding morality. The universe does not define good or evil, only what is and what is not. If you want to be a “nice person”, then you have to have some idea of what “nice” and “not nice” is, and that definition isn’t found on the periodic table or Fermat’s Last Theorem. Only religion—the revealed and the believed—can define that.
This is the painful reality of Atheism. I cannot change that fact and conclusion for you, no matter how much I care for you or wish you well. (Make no mistake, I do care for you and wish you well.) 1 + 1 will never equal 3, even if it hurts your feelings that it is 2.
If you are somehow able to derive a system of ethics and morality from the basic laws of the universe, the entire world would like to hear what you have to say and how you did it. You will have succeeded where every other philosopher has failed.
Oh, by the way–the proof of God? “Ask, and ye shall receive.” You can’t argue with those who have received simply because you haven’t received—yet.
*sigh*
Pick up your NEW bible — the Bawney Fwank edition. It all started when a group of liberal homos met in an oort cloud disco. Soon after there was the BIG BANG. that is the origin of the human race according to Bawney.
Obamacare Genesis: In the Big Inning was the PLAN, & the PLAN was without form or substance. And O-bah-muhh said, “Let there be Healthcare!” And the assumptions came frothing forth, though below the surface lurked the Darkness, for it was said to be Deep. But Free Men saw thru the Darkness, and said,”It is a crock of —-, & it stinks.” They E-mailed their congressperson, “It is a pail of excrement, & none can stand it’s odor.” Congressional aides informed the congress, “The Free Men say it is a container of dung, and has a strong stench.” Congress consulted with high paid lobbyists,who said,”Fax O-bah-muhh, “It is a vessel of fertilizer,and none may abide it’s strength.”O-bah-muhh-bots in the White House basement(where the Fax and shredding machines reside)shredded the Fax and wrote this memo,”Congress says it has the ability to promote growth, and is very powerful.” Rahm Emanuel received the memo, reserved the right to revise and amend it, and did so. HE sent O-bah-muhh THIS memo, “All agree that Obamacare will actively promote growth,streamline paperwork,cost less, and cover everyone.” And O-bah-muhh looked upon the Plan, and said “It is Good.” So the PLAN became POLICY>>>AND IF YE PARTAKE OF THE PLAN, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE.————NOT!
It’s only the evangelical atheists I find annoying.
You are banned for FOUR lifetimes now!!!
Read the article. (and it was Good)
Read the comments. (there and here)
Some guy named Steve quoted extensively from a Dr. Gerald Schroeder. (Brilliant)
So now I’ve got another author to add to my List of Books I Really Have to Read One of These Days.
I learn something new every day! 😉
I found the comments funnier then the article itself on the website.
I guess most rabid “atheists” (not all of them) can’t tell from satire to actual news.
Their logic must be flawed.
Atheists and Gnostics are right in most of their thinking
It has been common among religious believers to look with misgiving to atheists and Gnostics, and to think that they are mistaken; however, in many instances the opposite is the truth; some religious beliefs are not just irrelevant, but baseless. The “God” of main line traditions simply does not exist. I accepted the challenge of finding the One who may be recognized even by Gnostics and atheists: the Existence itself, “All-That-Is.” If something is there, that is God. Look at the book “Christianity Reformed From ist Roots – A life centered in God” (Amazon.com). I am confident that some of your friends will be relieved of the illusion, as I did myself.
Jairo Mejia, M. Psych., Santa Clara University
Retired Episcopal Priest
Carmel Valley, California
http://www.mbay.net/~jmejia/Grudzen.htm
http://www.mbay.net/~jmejia/Churcher.htm