Posted on 12/03/2010 11:39:51 AM PST by mainestategop
Edited on 12/14/2010 10:49:41 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
On youtube I was repudiating a video by Rachel Maddow where she calls Americans stupid because there still resides in this once free land a small but growing majority of people who embrace Judeo Christian values and do not believe environmentalist propaganda. Well, I got into sort of a debate with one of the liberal God haters there. He claimed that religion was BS and that America was not supposed to be Christian that the founders were atheists. (funny, 10 years ago they called them bible thumping rich white folks now they are socialists and god hating hippies.)
Well After repudiating all of his points and throwing in some scripture, I was rewarded with a nice liberal diaglogue as follows:[NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS EDITED FOR CONTENT WITH SPELLING AND GRAMMAR ERRORS INCLUDED]
YOUR **** RELIGION IS B****T AND YOUR GOD IS *%*&*% MAKE BELIEVE! I have exactly ZERO FEAR of what exists only in your rasist narrow simpleton mind. Your god is NOT AN OBJECTIVE REALITY and yet you keep pushing him on us. You are nothing but a bunch of stupid retarded bigots and hypicrites, PLEASE **$# OFF AND DIE. I am sick you your STUPID JEEEEEEESUS *%*&%* hijacking the legacy of the founding fathers to promote your controlling agenda. $&*^* YOUR STUPID &$&$* OF A GOD [long screed of swearing and curing and liberal slogans] ON YOUR IDIOT BI-BULL, IT BELONGETH IN DA TOILET! Are you so STUPID that you think quoting from theidiot BI-BULL will do anythimng besides make me LAUGH HYSTERICoLLY. The bi-BULL is a [more screaming and gibberish] that is good for nothing except wiping %&*^#. It is fiulled with STUPID, RIDICULOS errors and silly moronic fairy tales. It is the product of hateful rasist people. Its god is exclusive, racist, genocidal c*** of a monster whop loves only those who willingly ignore rational thought and become his sheeple. HE DOESN'T EXIST!
As you can see ladies and gentlemen, the liberals are still made that the Adults now control one half of one of the branches of government.
Proverbs 23:9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace
Proverbs 26:1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
proverbs26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
Proverbs 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
Nah, he's a college professor of comparative religion.
So true, DJ MacWoW!
Jeepers, but even Plato had a flood myth — the Myth of Atlantis, in the dialogue Critias.... There are indications from all over the globe that disparate ancient peoples maintained cultural memories of a time when the world was very, very wet....
Notwithstanding, the ignoramus quoted by Mainestategop evidently believes that three millennia (at least) of human experience WRT the problems of God–man–world relations is to be chucked out because the people who have reported such things were totally self-deluded. Evidently it was only when this victim of Tourette's Syndrome was born that mankind proved himself "smart enuf" to shake off all illusions of the divine. Perhaps this moron is deluded enough himself to believe that evolution means people who are living now are "smarter" and less credulous than people who lived in earlier periods of human history.
How such an allegation can be proved is beyond me. Seems to me there were world-class geniuses at work long before the birth of Christ — and these very people set the very foundations of modern science as we know it (e.g., Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, et al.), and even anticipated some of science's greatest modern achievements (e.g., Democritus/father of atomic theory; Heraclitus/earliest imaginator of what would become the first and second laws of thermodynamics).
And it was the historical role of the Catholic Church to preserve this great legacy from the ancients, especially in the monasteries and later in the universities — themselves originally created as institutions of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the accumulation, preservation, and transmission of secular knowledge....
Plus how does our resident moron explain a Chartres Cathedral? Mozart's Mass in C Minor? Michelangelo's David? Leonardo's Sistine Chapel? Are these the works of self-deluded madmen?
Just take Chartres Cathedral for an example. Its construction involved three generations of highly skilled craftsman, who labored to construct the most beautiful instantiation of a House of God of which they were capable. Go look at the stonework, the woodwork, its amazing Rose Window. The beauty and truth of God was the model they were working. Moreoever, its construction involved the discovery and first application of the flying buttress, an extraordinarily important architectural achievement.
Or how about the contributions to modern science of so many religious people, lay or in orders? Even the perennially skeptical Wikipedia gives credit where it's due:
Many great scientists throughout history have also been Roman Catholic clerics (or can it be said that many Roman Catholic clerics were also scientists), including many of the most prominent scientists in history. These include such illustrious names as Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel [Augustinian monk and father of genetic theory], Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius [they named a crater on the Moon after this astronomer], Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, William of Ockham, and many others. Hundreds of others have made important contributions to science from the Middle Ages through the present day.The list omits the Jesuit priest and physicist Georges LeMaître, who discovered the Singularity at the origin of our Universe....Indeed, one has to wonder why science developed in a largely Catholic milieu....
Were these people who subscribed to the "BI-BULL" self-deluded morons, inspired by/chasing illusions? If they were, then the glorious advancements in the natural sciences that these men were responsible for must be illusions, too.
Is our Tourettes sufferer willing to conclude that the achievements of these great thinkers are garbage because they believed in God?
Is our Tourettes sufferer capable of reason at all?
Science is supposed to set great store by evidence. To me, the above remarks constitute evidence.
FWIW.
Boy, he’s going to have a tough time when it comes time for him to bend the knee to Christ.
Proverbs 1;6: “Fear of The Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. And a Fool feareth instruction.’’
Wonder how he feels about Islam?
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