I found this hate-comment left in response to the fsm protest in london post:
Not a religious message, but just a comment on how truly, astoundingly, sadly pathetic you are. If you’ve got a problem with creationism, then why not attack it in a vaguely sensible way, with intellectual criticism? All you’re doing is offending people, and providing money for a guy who can’t be bothered getting off his arse to get a job, so comes up with this instead. Just pathetic.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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Reductio ad absurdum
You understand that, you understand why.
RAmen
S-C… the reason many of us are here is because we worry about the future of education.
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The cause for our worry is the Christians who spout intelligent design as viable science.
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They accuse us of heresy, damn us to an eternity of torture, insult our creed, past-times and some peoples sexual preferences (also in several cases, confusing us with bundles of sticks used for firewood; go figure).
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You say they deserve respect for their faith… I say they deserve what they get for their complete lack of manners, spelling, or common decency.
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Also, unlike them, we have the courage and will to make our own decisions, rather than following the religion instilled in us from birth.
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Finally,
“…like uncomfortable adolescents who make fun of their parents in an attempt to be cool”
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Please, don’t ever call us emo’s.
@Scientific-Christianspouter
“….Christians who choose to believe Intelligent Design have a lot more courage than you…”
* Where I grew up we call desperation courage. What we call courage is ….well more like facing reality and dealing with it.
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“….so you ridicule their difficult-to-hold faith because it threatens your own (easy to believe) scientific views…”
We ridicule people who consider intelligent design as science. Really that just shows ignorance about…….well everything in the real world. May your imaginary friends comfort you.
Yet another christian who seems to be very confused about the difference between beliefs and facts.
We shall pray for you. (See we have beliefs too!)
RAmen
edit nikkiees post “we DON’T call desperation courage”
I used to think this was another act of religous despration like Intelligent Design, but now i have been converded, on internationl talk likea pirate day i noticed it was slightly cooler that the day before! Hail FSM!
You are right. I live in constant fear that if I stop believing in gravity I will drift ever upwards until I pop.
Stop threatening my science, man.
An ideal God, of course, would keep me grounded with a Noodly Appendage. Smells nice too….Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!..
I stoppped believing in gravity years ago. It was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.
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ba dum bah!
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OEJ
^I tried very hard not to laugh. I failed.
On the subject of courage being believing in something with overwhelming evidence against it, I really don’t get why anyone could possibly call that worthy of respect. There isn’t really anything as solid to go on with Intelligent Design, or indeed any religion, as there is with the theory of evoloution. I Certainly wouldn’t critisize anyone who makes an opinion supporting this evidence let alone saying that they we are secretly uncomfortable with your own religious beliefs.
P.S Being born into a society in which Christianity in the main belief. Now then Christianity is hard not to believe in.
“….Christians who choose to believe Intelligent Design have a lot more courage than you…â€
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I don’t know what planet you are living on but Belief in something without supporting evidence does not equil courage, no matter what the Church tells you.
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Faith is not courage it is cowardice, not facing what is the truth it complete and utter Cowardice. Courage is facing the truth no matter how hard and nasty it gets.
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Putting you big fat melon head into the sand and screaming the world is a Just place the world is a just place, will not make the world a just place. The only thing that will make the world a just place is if you morons got off your arses and made it so.
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Join us, I am not going to lie to you and say that being an atheist is easy but facing up to the truth and still being able to act in a moral way is enough reward. 60 years of trying to make the world a better place and not just hoping some magical being in the sky will put everything to right at the end of days is better then a billian years in heaven!
That’s bad, OEJ, just terrible.(loud groan) still, christians do put a lot of effort into believing what they do. Either that or none at all, depends on how you look at it.
“If you’ve got a problem with creationism, then why not attack it in a vaguely sensible way, with intellectual criticism?”
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because theres already plenty of people doing that. =p
“Grow up and learn to be tolerant!”
I’m sorry. I can’t tolerate this.
You have to understand… I love this country. People who lead it have done bad things, but the general concept is so beautiful, and so many good things and people have come from the hard-won liberties and freedoms with which my beloved Constitution has endowed us. Now, I know that at times the Constitution has required a different interpretation than originally conveyed, because we are enlightened to the point of considering women, Native Americans, and dark-skinned humans as people… something that was missing from the founding fathers’ philosophy. But it has always been clear about the separation of church and state… and there are extremely good reasons.
Both my children and I have been taught that no one knows exactly how the spark of life on earth began, but we do know it evolved from that original form to create the world we know today. And that in a nutshell is the theory of evolution.
I will never, ever support any theological viewpoint being taught in science class. It goes against the Constitution. And thus, I remain intolerant of the Christian push to subjugate science to their agenda.
It’s un-American, and I cannot, and will not ever, tolerate it.
Using Satire is actually a tried and tested way of making people take notice of you view point. It has been used by some of the greatist philosophers and if it is good enough for Socrates (the earliest great Atheist philosopher) then it is good enough for me.
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Socrates died for his beliefs he had every chance to either run or repent but he choice to stand by his principle, what makes him even greater was the fact he and people who believed in him where not arrogant enough to claim he died for other peoples sins!
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Great man!
And actually, Jonathan Swift was one of teh greatest satirists ever, and he made up whole worlds to prove his points (Read the whole of Gulliver’s Tarvels to see what I mean). Rob is just doing what Swift did before him, and I really admire him for that.
RAmen
lunchlady,
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Absolutely right! It’s only a matter of time before he’s sensibly suggesting that we eat our Irish children. More power to him!
“it’s not that I can’t be bothered to get a job, so much as work sucks.” Bobby Henderson
Not mine! C’mon back in and read with the little children!
I have an interview next week
Being vaguely sensible doesn’t get you noticed. And it’s not half as fun as being loud and obnoxious. :D
Religion is a weapon of war. and like many weapons of war, it makes big money!
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big money big money!
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probably one of the rare times i’m illogical and irrational, you know, maybe christians can better understand me. lalala.
yeah…
cuz i’d much rather give my money to some crazy imagrant that wont get off his lazy ass and do something for a country he shouldn’t be a part of in the first place!! gahd…much rather have my money go to a good cause.
RAmen.