Mitt Romney... The stupid reveals itself!

Mitt Romney's wife Ann had a small mishap the other day when her plane had to make an emergency landing. 

I feel for the guy about his wife being in danger, but then he opened up his mouth and let the stupid roll out!

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were.  When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous....” 

Yes, Mitt. The windows in the plane don't open and for a fucking good reason. If you opened them while flying, you would kill everyone on the plane.

Dr. Andrew Snelling from Answers in Genesis... Fraud?

Dr. Andrew Snelling from Answers in Genesis wrote today trying to answer the common rejection of his vacuous young earth - anti-evoltion claim "How could most scientists be wrong?" 

"When it comes to explaining how the rocks and fossils formed, however, those are events that occurred in the past. They can’t be repeated and observed. Thus, explanations about how rocks and fossils formed in the past are interpretations, not facts."

This is an absurd objection but it opens an interesting door. His assumptions can be tested if they only took a year!  So I challenge him to reproduce rock in less than a year using sediment.

"Sure, we can observe and study today how sediments are deposited in layers. But to say that sediments have always accumulated in the past at the rates we observe today is an assumption."

And his claims are also an assumption. But there is no reason for real geologists to assume that the rates of formation changed at all!

Ya, know what? Fuck it. His claims just are not worth responding to. They are vapid nonsense and I have wasted too many electrons on them already.  

Tony Miano's "strawman" post....

In a few of his newest loads of vacuous shit, Tony Miano from Living Water's "On the Box" (or as I call it "Off the Rocker") offers a reply to a number of what he calls "Strawmen" that compare the christian's relationship with god to the "battered wife syndrome".
First, he tries to dispel the claim that we are "nothing without god".
The only time the phrase "you are nothing" appears in the Bible is in Isaiah 41:24, which reads: "Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you."
This is partly true. He neglects to consider John 15:5:
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."
The message is clear that god is telling the christian that without god, you are worthless and can't do anything.
God is good. The problem isn't with God. The problem is with sinners who refuse to submit to Him and love Him as they should.
This is simply laughable. The god of the bible isn't good, he is an over bearing thug! The problem with the god of the bible is that he is his own worst enemy! The anti-theist sees him for what he is: the worst of all human traits, unworthy of any praise or worship and should be shunned!

Second, Tony invokes the "no true christian fallacy" saying that it is impossible for a christian to leave the religion.

The truth: no born-again follower of Jesus Christ will ever reject Christ and turn their back on Him. To those whom God gives the gift of eternal life, no one will ever snatch them out of the Father's and the Son's hand (John 10:28-30). No one will ever separate the genuine Christian from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39). So the "if you ever think about leaving me" objection is a non-starter.

This is simply bullshit and proven over and over again every day as people wake up and learn the truth that there is no evidence for a god and that Tony's god is a piece of shit myth!

Third Tony dismisses the "You don't deserve me" claim with a simple "And?... So?..."

Well, I agree. We don't deserve your fucked up god Tony! We deserve much better than your evil megalomaniacal, anti-social, psychotic god!

These are not strawmen Tony! These are valid objections to your god and moronic religion!

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"The bridge is out and you are about to die!"

Steve Sanchez and other Christians frequently make the claim that they are trying to warn you about hell the same way a normal person would warn someone else about a bridge being out on the road you are driving.

He claims to be warning you about the impending doom....

But there is a serious problem with his little analogy. When we stop and listen to his evidence about the "bridge being out" we look at the maps and see no bridge, no river, no water. We call the local police and ask when about this bridge and they are confused telling us there is no bridge within 20 miles of where he claims this bridge is! Ariel photos tell the same story, no bridge! Every expert tells the same story that not only is there no bridge out, but there is no bridge at all!

This is a common analogy for Christians claiming to spread the gospel. It's a bullshit analogy that should be ignored and ridiculed when heard.

The only bridge that is out is the one in Steve's head.


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A great comedy show!

The Evolution of Comedy is an awesome show!  I saw it a few nights ago in Sunnyvale, Ca at Rooster T. Feathers  and loved every bit of it!

Please keep an eye out and see it should it come to your area!  Better yet, get to your local comedy club and request these guys!

From their email:

My name is Maurice Northup and I am one of the comedians putting together a comedy show focused on skepticism and rational thinking. This is our website -> http://theevolutionofcomedy.com/

We kicked off our tour in Tucson and it was very well received. We made lots of 
new friends and have taken the show to Sacramento and will be in San Francisco 
as well. I cannot tell you what a joy it is to perform for an erudite audience 
that gets ALL the jokes and doesn't heckle drunk gibberish. Atheists are the 
BEST audiences I have ever had. 

We hope we can count on your support to get the word out to your group and also 
hope you can attend! Please feel free to get back to me with any questions or 
concerns as well as any ideas you might have to get the word out for our 
show(s)!

Thank for your time and consideration.

Question for Genesis literalists

I would love to hear the explanation for this that just isn't patently absurd.

Most "young earth creationists" (YECs) claim that there was no death in the world before the "fall of man" when Adam and Eve sinned. As a direct result of this concept, all creatures, including man were vegetarians.

This causes a number of questions that I have never heard a sufficient answer to.

1. How do you explain that all plants are living things and would be killed the moment they were eaten and digested? 
2. Why would Adam and Eve and all the other animals have to eat at all if there was no death? 
3. What would have happened to them if they didn't eat before the "fall"?
4. A number of creatures can only live from dead or decaying matter. When were they created?
5. When were viruses created? Bacteria? Fungi?
6. Why use would vipers and spiders have for venom? Heat sensing pits? Webs? 

That's just to start, but I am sure we can go on and on should anyone have plausible answers. 

"You were a false convert" and other dumb statements

I am sure many ex-christians have heard this accusation from christians before: "You were not a True-Christian™"  If I had a dollar for every time some christian laid that line on me, I would be very wealthy. What christians don't understand is how insulting it is to say that to a former believer.

Or another of my favorites: "You don't believe in god because you love your sin too much." While not quite as insulting, it is a dumbass question. What do they expect us to say? "Well, I just love raping babies and pillaging towns. And well, my day just isn't complete without a few 'goddamn this and goddamn thats.'"

Or the assumption that the reason we stopped being Christians is that cue someone in the church hurt us or we lost someone.

These claims are moronic and small minded. They deny the absolute truth that people can and do leave the church and the religion because we simply cease to believe the same garbage they still do believe.

Romans 1 says "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse," (Romans 1:20 NKJV). This is pure bullshit. If it was true, then Christianity or some version of it would have spontaneously come into existence all over the world. Clearly this is not the case.

There are plenty of reasons not to believe in your god. If you don't like it, then tough shit. It's not a reason for your insulting baseless claims.

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