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Permalink Reply by J.P.M. on June 4, 2011 at 4:19pm

Venting is why we come here!
I hear you, man.
I am an evolutionary biologist working in Kansas.
I don't even socialize Hardly at all because I can't stomach religiously-retarded rednecks
And their holier-than-thou attitude.
Oh yeah, you are the chosen ones, right.
I am beyond debating with them.
You can't argue with blind belief.
Once they drink that cool-aid, there is nothing you can do with them.
And your point about a second language is well taken.
Having a second language is like having a different way to think and express yourself.
(I'm fluent in Spanish, BTW)
But your room-mate's response illustrates how intellectually stultifying the effects of religion can be.
It's a convenient excuse to justify ignorance and not doing anything about things that need to be changed in the world. That's why I really can't have religious friends. Because I really can't respect their voluntary abdication of intellect.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on June 4, 2011 at 4:35pm

It could have been worse.  Your friend could have stated "if English was good enough for Jesus then it is good enough for me."

Permalink Reply by Meddlesome on June 5, 2011 at 3:47am

Its not as rare as you think !

 

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/if_english_was_good...

 

M.

 

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on June 5, 2011 at 10:05am

I think I got it from a congresswoman.  Can't remember the source.

Permalink Reply by todwith1d on June 4, 2011 at 4:47pm

Is "Bob" real ?  If so, he is a complete and total idiot.  Ask him if the fact that the early gospels were not in english means that they were not meant for him to understand and follow.

 

TD   

Permalink Reply by Mr. Carter on June 5, 2011 at 12:59pm

Oh he's all too real. His explanation for anything he can't understand is Gawd did it, and he just needs to have faith. On more than one occasion, he'll say "Gawd doesn't want me to know that, and when I die, all things will be revealed."

Permalink Reply by todwith1d on June 5, 2011 at 1:36pm

that is a nice little cocoon he's built.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on June 5, 2011 at 11:12pm

Yeah, it's always impressive to see this sort of layering of nonsense and non-answers.  I wouldn't be so against this sort of intellectual isolation, if these people didn't then turn around and inflict the results of their delusion upon the rest of society.

Permalink Reply by D.O.S on June 11, 2011 at 10:17am

Unfortunately, far too many people just don't want to think. They want answers, shitty as they may be, handed to them.

Permalink Reply by Alice on June 4, 2011 at 10:46pm

it would be funny if it wasn't so abhorrent.

Permalink Reply by Craigart14 on June 5, 2011 at 9:22am

There are people who think like Bob who are actively trying to bring about armageddon.  Fanatics in Israel want to rebuild the Temple, which would inevitably bring about a war with the Arabs and/or Muslims.  There's a hitch, though.  No one who has had any contact with the dead can enter the Temple, and nobody is quite sure exactly where its walls were.  Given that contact with the dead could mean something as innocuous as walking over a grave--and there are a lot of unmarked graves in Israel--no one can be sure he or she has never had "contact."  So they have to be "purified" with water mixed with the ashes of a sacrificed red heifer "without blemish."  Luckily, those are pretty rare.  Enter Yankee ingenuity.  Some American Christians are trying to breed the perfect red heifer.  Also, the heifer has to reach three years of age without any blemishes appearing.  The last candidate sprouted some white hairs in her tail at age two, which might have saved the world.  Also, the rabbi who sacrifices the heifer must be pure (no contact with the dead), so one group is trying to build a school on a raised platform where pregnant Jewish women can give birth.  Their male offspring would be trained as rabbis who would be pure--no contact with the dead, get it?  Once one of these boys is old enough to have his bar mitzvah (age 12), he can become a rabbi and slaughter the magic red cow.  Then soldiers can be purified and the Temple Mount recaptured.  War will ensue, the Temple will be rebuilt, armageddon will occur, and evangelical Christians will be raptured while the Jews, led by their twelve-year-old rabbis, will suffer through the Tribulation.

 

They are lunatics playing with fire in our house.

 

Craig

Permalink Reply by Jill Henderson on June 22, 2011 at 5:16pm

Stop the world I want to get off!

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