Your knowledge of what a Christian is or is not is quite humorous. You have very wittingly shown that all of the founding fathers were a bunch of nutcases. The caricature and generalization that we are all a bunch of blood thirsty crusaders is even more laughable. Then I remember the lake of fire and it’s not so funny to think about real people going there. Unfortunately, some misguided people (not sure if I would say they are Christian) have apparently posted emails that they hope you burn in hell. Any Christian with any belief at all would not wish this on you. Moreover, the judging is for Him not us so I wish you would have a Christian response page and a crackpot response page.
Anyway, I cannot prove Jesus saved the world any more than you can prove great, great….grandma is a monkey. So, either conclusion is in the realm of possibility, including the FSM, for the non-believer. However, if I am right, the creator of the universe will judge justly.
If I am wrong, the only thing I have lost is a life that came to live by the 10 commandments and better understand the beauty and wisdom of our founding fathers by understanding their faith.
I have also come to understand the FSM philosophy. That is, make fun of believers. My friend, you are in the majority of today’s mainstream media, news, education elitists, and federal courts. But, it hasn’t always been that way so take some time to really consider the path of righteousness. Don’t let this pop culture pluralist society prevent consideration of Him as a real savior rather than an object of ridicule. No person can ever convince you that He is real any more than you can figure out how you know you are in love. I do know that any person that seeks Him will inexplicably find His love.
God Bless Rob
Thank FSM that some of use remember history class. Our founding fathers were in fact Diests, just like all of the other bright, intelligent, open-minded people of the time all over the world. Look at the Declaration of Independence, it’s full of Diest ideals. Get over yourself, our founding fathers promoted slavery, illiteracy, and materialism…come to think of it though, so does your bible! I think next time you should be a little more educated in the truth before you start promoting it.
Thank FSM that some of us remember history class. Our founding fathers were in fact Diests, just like all of the other bright, intelligent, open-minded people of the time all over the world. Look at the Declaration of Independence, it’s full of Diest ideals. Get over yourself, our founding fathers promoted slavery, illiteracy, and materialism…come to think of it though, so does your bible! I think next time you should be a little more educated in the truth before you start promoting it.
I can prove we’re all descended from apes. Seriously. No, I really can.
Okay, so let’s look at this here - there are organelles in all of your cells called “mitochondria”, which are actually not human at all, but instead a seperate organism, a symbiote of all animal life that metabolizes our carbohydrates for us in return for a home in our cytoplasm.
They reproduce when our cells split, and we pass on our mitochondrias’ “children” to our own children. Since mitochondria are asexual reproducers, they make little clones of themselves with the exact same DNA.
Except for one thing. Unlike animal DNA, mitochondria do not have nuclei to protect their DNA from mutation. Ambient radiation and random/common mutagens that our DNA is shielded against will cause steady, predictable genetic varience in mitochondrial DNA. How do we know the exact rate of mutation? We’ve studied mitochondrial DNA in human, chimpanzee, lab rat, turtle, and pigeon populations over successive generations, giving us a solid basis for comparison. Since obviously these populations are varied in diet and environment, we have a better understanding of what stimulus causes what kind of mutation.
Now if you took a mitochondrial sample from your own skin, and one from your mother, the two should be nigh identicle - perhaps a single mutation if you live in a modern metropolis, and that would even be rare. Your child will share his or her mother’s mitochondrial DNA as well.
Certain mutations in mitochondrial DNA are known as “markers”. The aboriginies of Australia have been isolated for so long that anyone who has aboriginal descent in their maternal line will have a mutation at a certain point in their DNA that is unique to their ancestry.
Modern science has been able to prove our lineage to apes. Through these markers we have created a timeline - from modern humans to proto-hominids (who have fossilized mitochondrial DNA deep within their bones) and then down to ancient apes.
You see, ancient apes are not chimpanzees - chimpanzees have been evolving away from those ancient apes as long as we have. But we split with the chimpanzees much more recently than, say, gorillas or orangutans. We know when this split happened because we have the same amount of time (according to the mitochondrial algorithm) between modern humans and ancient apes, as well as between modern chimpanzees and ancient apes.
So you see, I can prove it. I have proved it.
Your turn.
I really don’t appreciate the namecalling. I’m not calling Christians snide things even if my personal experience has caused me to think that. Don’t label me, an educator and truth seeker, as an elitest. That’s just not nice.
HEY!
Great(Great? ad nauseum) grandma WAS a monkey you dumb twit … and yes it HAS been proven.
Evolution is a matter of easily and well-documented PROVEN facts taken from real evidence
Well, what was I thinking, proven facts just don’t count for diddly when it comes to you “Pounders” and you heretical beliefs.
Personally, I’ll stick with the “Pirate Spaghetti Theory” as it at least has some useful humor attached to it.
“Live Short and Defecate”
Doc
you say we cant prove the FSM, but we can see spaghetti. can you see god?
It always makes me laugh when people whip out the big words when they want to sound like they’re teaching a lesson. Quite humorous, indubitably.
One point: Christianity was not the religion of the founding fathers. Get your facts straight.
The Reverend speaks! I guess I knew all that on some level, but you expressed it so elegantly, yet succinctly. It almost brought a tear to my eye. Thank you.
I asume he was takeing about evalution. But thats wrong lets look at the evidence. I have a book “proveing” humans evloved from monkeys. 1 To monkeys. You have a book “proveing” Jesus. 1 to Jesus. Whe have fossils proveing monkey evolved into humans. 2 to monkeys. Whe have genetics proveing monkeys are closely related. 3 To monkeys. I would post more but the simpsons is almost on. Any way i hope you enjoy hell with its sour beer!
1: f***ing fundies fail to fathom the founding fathers’ faithless free thought (this is a neat way of saying that the founding fathers were not all that theistic, the founding fathers set up the separation of church and state, which is all Pastafarians are really after, and that I like alliterations)
2: I’d like to point out that all of the “blood thirsty” crusades were carried out by Christians and that the general Christian populace never objected.
3: there is a Christian and a crackpot section for the hate mail. They just happen to be the same section. I suggest that you look up “Synonym” on Wikipedia.
4: you seem to think that if christianity is wrong, then nothing is right. What if christianity is wrong and the ancient Egyptian mythos is correct? Then not only did you deny yourself a bunch of fun and delude yourself into thinking that you knew what beauty was in life, you pretty much not going to have much of an afterlife.
5: the philosophy of FSM is more like, stop hating people with a different belief as you, because your belief probably is just as silly as theirs. Also, if you can’t provide any evidence of something, it ain’t science.
6: I think we have all at least considered one or more other religion/ lack thereof. How many other religions can claim that? Anyway, after this consideration (probably a lot more of it than any christian ever gave christianity) we decided to keep our intelligence intact.
It’s true. THEY WERE DEISTS, YOU FUCKING MORON. THEY WANTED NO RELIGION IN THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY KNEW RELIGION IS FUCKED UP.
RAmen