Yes, I am a month behind on this, but if you haven’t seen Beware the Believers yet, now is your second chance. I’m not sure exactly what side of the Evolution – ID battle the creators of this video support, but don’t miss it. (PZ apparently thinks they are coming down on the side of the good guys – link also has a brief sequel and full credits)
This is why mankind created the Internets
A local columnist recently set his intellectual insights on the problem of atheism sweeping this country. An excerpt from his hate column is below. My response to the editor is after fold.
ON THE ECONOMY : A solemn and sad situation
The first danger is the unbeliever himself. He is left with no god but himself, no wisdom but his own (except the wisdom of men ) and no hope of a life beyond this one. Worst of all, he is in danger of facing an eternity devoid of the God he denied. In short, he wanted it that way, and that is the way he got it. A solemn and sad situation.
The second danger is that the atheist may be able to persuade others (I knew of one situation like this where an older man concentrated on young people ) that his unbelief is really true. This might consign those he persuaded to the same fate that is in store for him.
The third danger lies in what kind of person the atheist may become when he becomes his own god. If he does not recognize God, he may not recognize any of the restraints that a belief in God generates. Thus, without restraint, he may become a pedophile, a murderer, a thief, or any other kind of a deviant you can think of. Or he might just become one who lives inward, with no concern for the people or things around him. There are tragic examples of such people.
Check out the rest of the first four episodes at mrdeity.com.
Hat Tip to Ed Brayton.
edit – switched to the 2nd video. I liked it more.
There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture ….
The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
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Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.
Given this new data I am sure we will see Christian leaders apologizing for their previous vilification of homosexuals. It is, afterall, a chemical process they had no control over.
Quick, somebody alert the world’s Sunday School teachers! BTW, I love the picture of the Terminator listening to an iPod. I mean, wtf? And here’s the link to the original video, which was actually a slam against Bill-o. If they had actually bothered to read the YouTube posting they would have found out the little girl is an actress, and the video is an ad for a band.
Jews on First has a follow-up on the on the New Jersey teacher who got caught on tape proselytizing in class and then lied about it. The student is being harassed by the town while the teacher has gotten no punishment, although the superintendent did call him a “wonderful teacher”. Apparently no action has been taken by the school district at all. The student is quoted as having told the superintendent, “I thought when I gave this information to you, it would be handled by an adult, I guess I was wrong.” For a refresher here is what the teacher got caught on tape teaching his History class:
[Jesus] did everything in his power to make sure that you could go to heaven, so much so that he took your sin on his own body, suffered your pains for you and he’s saying, “Please accept me, believe me.”
If you reject that, you belong in hell. The outcome is your prerogative. But the way I see it, God himself sent his only son to die for David Paszkiewicz on that cross … And if you reject that, then it really is to hell with you.
He also specifically singled out a Muslim student and told her she would be going to Hell. I’m thinking the LeClairs are about to win a lot of money in a lawsuit. I hate to see something like that done to a school, but sometimes an example needs to be made. This foolishness cannot be tolerated in our public schools.
God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to better serve your needs, (S)He asks that you take a few moments to answer the following questions:
Did you hear that Wal-Mart decided it was in their bottom line’s best interest to go back to saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays? Personally, I couldn’t care less what they say to me on the way out of the door. If Wal-Mart is where you get your spiritual fulfillment you might want to rethink some things. But I did notice some interesting signs in their decorations department.
Their big advertising slogan is “Be Bright!”. Sounds pretty innocuous, right? That is, unless you know who The Brights are.
This is what their website says under the heading “What is a bright?”:
As I understand it, it’s very similar to the Gay Pride movement only for Atheists and Agnostics (and much less effective). Some of its members are James Randi, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
I think someone in the War is being a little subversive. (BTW, be sure to read the first article I linked to. It’s a Christian woman’s opinion on the whole “War” and I found it refreshingly sensible.)
