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Matthews: People Who Believe God As The Creator Are "Troglodytes"
Real Clear Politics ^ | Jan. 26, 2012

Posted on 01/28/2012 7:14:20 AM PST by Babashane

MSNBC's Chris Matthews insults those of faith and those who are skeptical of manmade global warming. Transcript below.

Chris Matthews: In other words, there is no manmade influence on climate change? Is that your belief, Ron Christie? I didn't know that. Are you out there with the full-mooners on this one?

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


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KEYWORDS: creation; globalwarming; video
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To: Babashane

If you haven’t seen this series I suggest you watch it. It’s called “Indescribable” . Louis Giglio shows just how unmeasurably small people like Chris Mathews really are compared to the universe God has created for our enjoyment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKtSKbWZUI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlroUGiihx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCR-mvzCNs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxEThPNtlQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoBCgRC7Uo&feature=related


61 posted on 01/28/2012 9:30:43 AM PST by Walmartian (An update is available for this tagline. Click here to download.)
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To: Babashane

If you haven’t seen this series I suggest you watch it. It’s called “Indescribable” . Louis Giglio shows just how unmeasurably small people like Chris Mathews really are compared to the universe God has created for our enjoyment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKtSKbWZUI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlroUGiihx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCR-mvzCNs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxEThPNtlQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoBCgRC7Uo&feature=related


62 posted on 01/28/2012 9:31:00 AM PST by Walmartian (An update is available for this tagline. Click here to download.)
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To: cripplecreek
"Believing in God is so easy a caveman can do it...(I’m assuming they probably did believe in God in some form or another)"

The humorous yet serious nature of your question, combined with its very subject matter suggests to me you might really enjoy Chesterton's Everlasting Man. The full text is available online here: http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlasting/content.htm

If you're like me, you'll want to buy a copy so you can highlight stuff and add some notes in the margins :-)

63 posted on 01/28/2012 9:38:45 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

I believe that belief in a higher power is a natural state of man.


64 posted on 01/28/2012 9:45:01 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Babashane

Maybe Chris Matthews believes that something came from nothing; symmetry, beauty,and order came from chaos; consciousness,free will, and reason came from matter; life came from non-life; anthropic coincidences from chance; and man from pond scum. That would seem to be what a troglodyte would believe.


65 posted on 01/28/2012 10:05:38 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Westbrook

>> I was an atheist and evolutionist before I was a Christian, and I enjoyed scoffing at Christians for what I regarded as their silly superstition.

As a life-long Christian, the “superstitious” aspects of the New Testament were secondary to Christ’s spoken message. I realized early on that it was a futile exercise to intellectually deconstruct the miracles.

Belief is a funny thing. Even something the honest secularist should admit as being occasionally miraculous.

It’s awesome you turned to Christianity. Regardless of the venue, Christianity is the ultimate gift of liberty.


66 posted on 01/28/2012 11:11:49 AM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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To: cripplecreek

>> Believing in God is so easy a caveman can do it.

LOL - that’s good.


67 posted on 01/28/2012 11:14:13 AM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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To: Babashane

Even in ancient Sumerian writings, the “gods” the people worshipped spoke of the “GOD” they themselves worshipped.


68 posted on 01/28/2012 11:19:23 AM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Babashane

Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy how dumb can you be. It’s not the Christians you’re insulting, it’s Almighty God...once again you make me pray for you. That next tingling up your leg will likely be hell’s hot fire. There will be no place to hide, Chrissy. All will be judged whether you choose to believe it or not. All will be fulfilled and your fate isn’t real pretty right now.

From 1611 KJV Bible, Revelation 20:11-15:

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened: & another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it: and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.


69 posted on 01/28/2012 11:24:56 AM PST by lgjhn23
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To: MHGinTN

nothing is impossible for Christ.


70 posted on 01/28/2012 11:29:00 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: unixfox
I’d be willing to bet that if little Chrissy was being held hostage by the Taliban he’d be praying.

Yeah, to Obama, just like George Carlin prayed to Joe Pesci.

71 posted on 01/28/2012 11:31:15 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Controlling RINOs in Congress is like herding cats; should we be surprised Newt got scratched?)
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To: Right Brother

I usually explain it like this....look at that building did it have an architect? carpenters? plumbers? electricans? Yes is the answer. How do you know that? I can’t see them. Well you just know. So who created the trees, the birds? If everything you see it needed a creator. Right? Aaaah Aaaah.


72 posted on 01/28/2012 12:53:06 PM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Babashane

It’s certainly a good thing for Chrissy that no Black people are literalist creationists. He could have offended someone. [/sarcasm]


73 posted on 01/28/2012 8:10:15 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Carry_Okie
"The deep" could be as easily be the mouth of a cave, and the waters are already there.

"The deep" was already a long-established concept in Sumerian and Babylonian (Chaldaean) lore before the Captivity. The Sumerians called it abzu (=> Gk. abyssoc), and it meant both the "underworld" and also the water table, from which one could draw endless waters by digging a well deep enough to reach the water table (not very deep in Mesopotamia).

74 posted on 01/28/2012 11:31:01 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Erratum: typo 'abussoV is correct spelling.
75 posted on 01/28/2012 11:37:30 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: mjp
Maybe Chris Matthews believes that something came from nothing

That's basically what Big Bang-theorizing cosmologists believe; and quite a few of them are theists. Not many of them are epiphenomenal materialists, as the self-anointed "brights" would have us believe.

76 posted on 01/28/2012 11:49:17 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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