Letters to the Editor
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My Lord, Adam and Eve are brown!
...and yet if Adam and Eve were to show up today, they'd be scorned and deported by the likes of the Answers in Genesis folks...or called terrorists. My question thus is if Adam and Eve were brown, aren't the AIG followers brown too?
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Dishonoring God
These fundie morons diminish God by squeezing Him into a six day box and a 6000 year framework for the whole history of the world. How sad. If God is omipotent, why is He restricted to such kindergarten rigidity? I believe in God and His creation, but He has eternity, and need not conform to such mindless and insulting cartoons, as if the Flintstones werea documentary. Go to place of great geolocial grandeur and it is screamigly obvious that creation is real, is continuing, and is millions upon millions of years old.
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Creationist museum
Thinking about Ken Ham's "museum" is enough to ask "on which day did God create Ken Ham, and couldn't He have rested on that day too?", to paraphrase Spinal Tap.
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They had that down right.
Whites are god's favorite! (I'm being sarcastic Salon). I'm glad to see so many people feel the same way. I'm mean all of this might have went over in the early 20th century, so it's hard to believe that there is anyone who would spend money on this today.
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Hey Slackie Onassis
Frankenfaithful... love it.
My husband and I were shooting the breeze the other day when one of us (don't remember who) suggested that if Fundamentalists believe life begins at conception, then it suddenly becomes much easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle. Before, you needed a very large needle. Now... you just need a petri dish and a couple of camels... it would make a great Onion headline, don't you think? "Camel passes through eye of needle, rich men celebrate!"
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The Bible as Entertainent
Weird, truly weird. Weird beyond all hope, beyond all reason. Weird in only the way things in America are weird. Theme-park weird. Americans are weird, twisted and dumb and weird. And they have no excuse for being twisted and dumb and weird. None. They're just intentionally dumb and weird.
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fine, I'll renew
I was going to let my 5-year Salon subscription expire today, but then I came across this unexpectedly good, probing, interesting article. Bastards made me renew for 2 years.
Just don't publish any more of Camille's crap.
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Salon, "Your Journey to the Dark Side is Complete"
The dark side of religious cultural relativism and the demeaning of knowledge, that is. That this article was written without a trace of irony is most telling. Especially sentences like "there still isn't consensus on just how the apocalypse will come down or who goes to heaven and when."
Slack used a weak notion of argumentum ad populum, by suggesting that it's relevant that an approximately equal number of Americans believe in 'creationism' as accept evolution. All that statistic proves is how bad our science education has really gotten.
Why not try actually reporting on the know-nothings if you're going to talk about them? Like: ask them some non-softball questions and take down their ridiculous charade of false certitudes and credulity.
"Darwin has nothing on the Book of Genesis." Reason obviously has nothing on Mr. Slack's fantasy life. What a sick joke.
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King James a homosexual
Let's not forget who "god-fathered" the English version of the bible that retains his name; that remains THE version to Fundamentalists (from Wikipedia):
Throughout his life James I had relationships with his male courtiers, beginning with his older relative Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox. The two became extremely close and it was said by an English observer that "from the time he was 14 years old and no more, that is, when the Lord Stuart came into Scotland… even then he began… to clasp some one in the embraces of his great love, above all others" and that James became "in such love with him as in the open sight of the people oftentimes he will clasp him about the neck with his arms and kiss him". Faced with an ultimatum from the Scottish nobility that he choose his Catholicism or James, Stuart chose James and converted to Calvinism. This was stil not enough, however, and Stuart was eventually driven out of Scotland to France, where he died.
A few years after the controversy over his relationship with Lennox faded away, James embarked on an affair with Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset. During the next two years, however, their relationship became troubled as Carr increasingly preferred his wife. In 1615 James fell out with Carr, and forced him to face trial after it was revealed that Carr's new wife had poisoned Sir Thomas Overbury, his best friend who had opposed the marriage. Although his wife was found guilty and Carr had threatened to expose their liason in court, James reprieved both of them and gave them a country estate, though after holding them in the tower for seven years.[106]
The last of James's three close male friends was George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, the son of a Leicestershire knight. They had met in 1614, around the same time that the situation with Carr was deteriorating. The King was blunt and unashamed in his avowal of love for Buckingham, saying "Christ had his John, and I my George". Contemporary commentators, such as the homosexual Théophile de Viau did not mince words in describing the king's relationship. In his poem, Au marquis du Boukinquan, de Viau writes: "Apollo with his songs / debauched young Hyacinthus, / And it is well known that the king of England / fucks the Duke of Buckingham."
Buckingham became good friends with James’s wife Anne, she addressed him in affectionate letters begging him to be "always true" to her husband. James in some letters addressed him as his spouse saying that "I desire only to live in this world for your sake... I had rather live banished in any part of the Earth with you than live a sorrowful widow's life without you... God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear dad and husband".[107] A few years later James died with Buckingham at his side.