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Fundamentalist Christianity, fascinating. These people actually believe the world is twelve thousand years old. Well how fucking scientific. Didn't know you went to so much trouble.You believe the world is 12000 years old?Muh-uh.You think it would be mentioned in the fucking bible.The trail was blocked was a huge brontosaurus. What a big fucking lizard, Lord.But Jesus was unafraid. And removed the

Fundamentalist Christianity, fascinating. These people actually believe the world is twelve thousand years old. Well how fucking scientific. Didn't know you went to so much trouble.You believe the world is 12000 years old?Muh-uh.You think it would be mentioned in the fucking bible.The trail was blocked was a huge brontosaurus. What a big fucking lizard, Lord.But Jesus was unafraid. And removed the

In some ways, I'm glad that there has been a resurgence in the U.S. in recognizing that theology matters to the church. Maybe that's because the anti-intellectual impulses of evangelicalism combined with the anemic ecclesiology of Protestant churches to cause a corrupting (though sometimes hard to communally diagnose) incoherence within U.S. churches. This spawned reactionary movements which som

I am getting a lot of hits from the Fighting Fundamental Forums. I guess they like to find liberal sites so they can go and pick fights. You can go there to hear them strategize!The person who started the forum asked:Would like to get some input as to how to engage him-- or should I deem it a futile exercise in pearl-casting to a pig?I would call engaging me "a futile exercise in pearl-casting to a pig."So don't bother.

"Mission Accomplished" : five years later, Iraq is dead. Around one million Iraqis are dead. Around four million Iraqis have been displaced by the war. Collateral damage : moderates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, USA, and the rest of the World are, more or less literally, either already dead or on their way.Five years later and as expected and announced in these virtual pages*, fundamentalism is blooming because from the start this war was meant by fundamentalists in favor of fundamentalisms (of all shapes and sizes - Islamists, Christian, Jewish... you name it).The war in Iraq ? Five years of total success for George W. Bush.I'm talking about the fundamentalist, not the POTUS. His Mission is Accomplished indeed : he served a second term and further destroyed the U

In part one, I gave an example of a book that you could have someone read, when that someone preferred a Biblical version of the age of the earth. The book was Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth. The reason I’m suggesting this book as an example is that it [...]

Here are my suggestions for the rules of ethical debate that you can use for awarding points. The first items have more points because they are the most important ones; focusing the strongest attention to them acts as a wedge for introducing ethical debate. The high point items do the most to destabilize a civilized discussion, so they are the first ones you'll want to get under control.

Podcast: Recovering Fundamentalists Date: September 20, 2007 Title: More Blue Grass and a Strange Message Download the show: Episode 164 Jeri Massi's listeners are exhausted refugees from the religious wars, beaten down, she says, by the hectoring authority of fundamentalist Christianity. Neither did Jesus make them rich, nor save them, nor heal their wretched diseases. They're emotionally whipped and sorely disappointed. Good thing they've got my songs to cheer them up! Now, Jeri, who played The Ballad Of Morris The Cat on a previous edition of her Recovering Fundamentalists podcast, suspected I'll Get Old And Die might appeal to her flock as well. But damaged nerve endings remain delicate, and Jeri requested a few changes, purely for medical reasons. From your mouth to God's ea

Podcast: Recovering Fundamentalists Date: September 20, 2007 Title: More Blue Grass and a Strange Message Download the show: Episode 164 Jeri Massi's listeners are exhausted refugees from the religious wars, beaten down, she says, by the hectoring authority of fundamentalist Christianity. Neither did Jesus make them rich, nor save them, nor heal their wretched diseases. They're emotionally w

The story of Noah and the Ark leaves much to be desired, from many different fields of knowledge. ’Tis true, dear friends, ’tis all too true. They loathe, despise, and outright hate that wretched Flood and it’s associated Ark with a malevolence usually reserved for Communists, Democrats, gays, atheists, sex because it feels good, anyone named Clinton, and those who accept the Theory of Evolution, whatever their names & titles. Of course, you’ll never get the first of ’em to admit that. It is extremely difficult, nay impossible, to defend the Noachian Flood Story as anything other than a myth; a yarn to be spun and passed on by nomadic, tribal elders around the evening fire. All one needs to do is study the geologic record to cast fatal doubt upon it. Such an event in the so-recent past would have left a huge and unmistakable imprint upon the world; indeed, it would show up all over the world, explainable by no other process. But no such imprint exists, and we’ll be gett

Many of today’s environmentalists are concerned about the state of our planet and if it might be too late to fix things.  Apparently the problem we face is that the greatest threat to our planet is mankind itself, and with our depraved nature there is little hope for the future. The general consensus among this group is that early in the Earth’s history the world was pretty much perfect. Man even knew how to live harmoniously with  all of nature. This changed when man’s arrogance, pride and selfish tendencies began to exact their toll on the natural balance. War, famine, pollution, poverty as well as natural disasters became the norm. Now the Earth is worse than it has ever been and apocalypse looms on the horizon.  The extinction of humanity may be inevitable and in fact a good thing for the rest of the world. Many of today’s Christians are concerned about the fate of the Earth and don’t believe that there is any chance of saving it. The

Recovering Fundamentalists, Episode 111 Date: May 28, 2007 Full episode: Avians, Napoleans and Morris The Cat Summary: Jews don't preach to nobody, so we're not often in need of toxic religious decompression on the order of Taylor Kent's Snark Infested Waters or Jeri Massi's Recovering Fundamentalists. Howsomever, I'm always glad to contribute a song to the cause, and Jeri selected The Ballad Of Morris The Cat from the collection plate for a recent episode of her podcast. The show appears six days a week (with Sundays off for football) as a sort of 15-minute daily devotional, featuring some funny songs, some gospel songs and a shot of scripture. A subdued Jeri, a bit worn perhaps from contemplation of an impending Newt Gingrich candidacy, narrates. Hope for battered Christians "My podcast is an odd duck," Jeri writes. "I try to create a 15-minute haven for people who have been abused in really, really strict and legalistic Christian Fundamentalist churches. So I do that wi

Recovering Fundamentalists, Episode 111 Date: May 28, 2007 Full episode: Avians, Napoleans and Morris The Cat Summary: Jews don't preach to nobody, so we're not often in need of toxic religious decompression on the order of Taylor Kent's Snark Infested Waters or Jeri Massi's Recovering Fundamentalists. Howsomever, I'm always glad to contribute a song to the cause, and Jeri selected The Ballad Of Morris The Cat from the collection plate for a recent episode of her podcast. The show appears six days a week (with Sundays off for football) as a sort of 15-minute daily devotional, featuring some funny songs, some gospel songs and a shot of scripture. A subdued Jeri, a bit worn perhaps from contemplation of an impending Newt Gingrich candidacy, narrates. Hope for battered Christians "My podcast is an odd duck," Jeri writes. "I try to create a 15-minute haven for people who have been abused in really, really strict and legalistic Christian Fundamentalist churches. So I do that wi

Recovering Fundamentalists, Episode 111 Date: May 28, 2007 Full episode: Avians, Napoleans and Morris The Cat Summary: Jews don't preach to nobody, so we're not often in need of toxic religious decompression on the order of Taylor Kent's Snark Infested Waters or Jeri Massi's Recovering Fundamentalists. Howsomever, I'm always glad to contribute a song to the cause, and Jeri selected The Ballad Of Morris The Cat from the collection plate for a recent episode of her podcast. The show appears six days a week (with Sundays off for football) as a sort of 15-minute daily devotional, featuring some funny songs, some gospel songs and a shot of scripture. A subdued Jeri, a bit worn perhaps from contemplation of an impending Newt Gingrich candidacy, narrates. Hope for battered Christians "My podcast is an odd duck," Jeri writes. "I try to create a 15-minute haven for people who have been abused in really, really strict and legalistic Christian Fundamentalist churches. So I do that wi

NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka – “Beware of Fundamentalists" warned the thousands of leaflets Church workers handed out to the 25,000 Catholics who gathered on Divine Mercy Sunday at Risen Christ Church. The volunteers were busy on the hot afternoon of April 15 in front of the church in Kadolkelle, Negombo, about 25 kilometers (about 15 miles) north of Colombo. According to local church sources, the 4,000-

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/16/4358/82856">Daily Kos has a great article by Mary about why fundamentalists struggle to maintain their numbers in the modern, scientific world. The title, "Who Are You Going to Trust, Me or Your Lying Eyes?", basically spells out the central idea of the essay that the younger generation has trouble rejecting reality enough to buy into the fundamentalist nonsense since science and reason does a much better job appealing to a person's common sense.I can't speak from experience. I grew up in a casually religious family, so there was never an insistence to adhere to any rigid dogma. However, the conclusions in Mary's article seem reasonable to me because, when it came to choosing one worldview or the other, I quickly went with the one that conformed to reality.At any rate, the article gives me hope that the continued march of science will bring a slow death to the scourge of religious fundamentalism. Call me an optimist, but it keeps me go

With a dramatic introduction, the Burlington County Times reports on a disturbing hostage drill at the Burlington Township High School. BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — The scenario has played out in real life across America: Gunfire echoes through a school and students are held hostage.Thankfully, school shootings are not all that common and I hope they never have the air of familiarity implied by this

The disarmament of Hezbollah is under way thanks to... Hezbollah itself : the organization is methodically getting rid of its stocks of weapons over Israel. Tel Aviv's attacks are not meant to destroy Hezbollah but to make sure Eretz Israel has strong enemies for the decades to come and thus, to make sure Israeli fundamentalists remain in power. Paradoxically and just like Bush's counterproductive "War on Terror" helps terrorists recruit new followers, new waves of antisemitism will lead more Israelis towards the welcoming arms of their country's extreme right.Whether from Iran, Israel or the USA, fundamentalists don't want peace : peace means living without fear nor coercion ; peace means opening up and accepting the world as it should be, diverse and tolerant ; peace means the irrelevance of fundamentalism. Look at them cheer up all over the world : radical Sunnis and radical Shiites applauding each other's victories ; Amerikan New-Born Neo-Cons and Iranian radical islamists u

(As a general warning, NEVER take me seriously in controversial posts, especially if its tagged under [sick and twisted] humor) Links: An interesting article article, with an even more interesting comment, with a comment on the said comment by me. I refuse to give further comment. Yes, I do refuse to give further ...