Godless III - Completing The Trinity

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:53 am

I found the lens flare and his lack of eye contact very distracting.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:16 am

Heh. Here's another one with Mike Seaver telling atheists what they have to believe...

No Kirk...I don't hate God. I hate you.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:00 pm

Jerloma wrote:Heh. Here's another one with Mike Seaver telling atheists what they have to believe...

No Kirk...I don't hate God. I hate you.

Didn't see that coming? How could someone hate what they think doesn't exist? Just plain dumb, but obviously aimed to rile up the masses.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:35 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Jerloma wrote:Heh. Here's another one with Mike Seaver telling atheists what they have to believe...

No Kirk...I don't hate God. I hate you.

Didn't see that coming? How could someone hate what they think doesn't exist? Just plain dumb, but obviously aimed to rile up the masses.

There's this growing trend among Christian apologists where they all love to say that they used to be an atheist and then they saw the light or discovered the truth or were save by Al Jeezis during the most empty period of their dark, atheistic life. Their audience fucking loves it. "Recovering atheist"...as if it's a fucking disease. I can almost assure you that these people are lying.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:56 pm

Two: They hate the way He has transformed the world.

That's the closest thing to the truth that Sparky managed to come up with. Inadvertently true, that is. There's no question that He transformed the world; in the worst possible way. Because, hey, before Cheezwhiz came along, the world was full of war and suffering and corruption and man's wretched inhumanity to man. Not like today where everyone speaks Unicorn while frolicking hand-in-hand through the sugarplum plantation and drinking deep from the Chardonnay waterfalls.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:08 pm

Cheezwhiz Kraft!

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:02 pm

God that guy's a tool.

Yeah, that Christian story has been so powerful and moving that 2,000 years after Jesus, still less than 1/3 of the world believes in Jesus. Talk about your failed message. I mean, if God really sent his son down to spread a message, because it was THAT important, he's gotta be thinking it's time to just start all over, right? The message just didn't take. Maybe he should have waited a few years until we had TV. Mighta been a bit more efficient way than sending down a carpenter in the middle east during a time when that part of the world wasn't even aware of the existence of nearly half of the land on the planet. Whoops.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:47 pm

If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation,
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:51 am

This one is for Bensell and AB.

Supporters and opponents of the Next Generation Science Standards sparred during hearings in Kentucky last week, as critics took issue with the standards’ teaching of evolution and climate change...
Matt Singleton, a Baptist minister, is one of the opponents who spoke to the board about why the standards should not be adopted, according to The Courier-Journal. “Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship almighty God,” Singleton said. “Instead, this fascist method teaches that our children are the property of the state.”

Another opponent, Dena Stewart-Gore, suggested that the standards will make religious students feel ostracized. “The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, per the The Courier-Journal. “We are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”...

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:02 am

I'm all for them teaching about genocides in the world at large as a way to increase awareness.

Does that make me fascist?

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:22 am

The irony of course is that if evolution via NS were in fact a political/economic process; it would be capitalism.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:12 am

Matt Singleton, a Baptist minister, is one of the opponents who spoke to the board about why the standards should not be adopted, according to The Courier-Journal. “Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship almighty God,” Singleton said. “Instead, this fascist method teaches that our children are the property of the state.”

Another opponent, Dena Stewart-Gore, suggested that the standards will make religious students feel ostracized. “The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, per the The Courier-Journal. “We are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”...

Man, I'd like to punch these idiots in the nuts.

"rich man's elitist religion of evolution"???

And isn't religious school a place to teach alternatives to the rich man's religion?

You just can't argue with sick minds.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:31 am

No, religious school is where they only teach one religion.

Religion is a singular word.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:59 am

Dena Stewart-Gore, suggested that the standards will make religious students feel ostracized. “The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, per the The Courier-Journal. “We are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”

Yeah, that's exactly how Socialism works! It murders people instead of, ohhhhhhhhh, allowing them to live off of taxpayer dollars in the form of social-assistance for their entire lives. What a vapid twunt. By the way, this is that slobby idiot:

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:19 am

Scottie wrote:
Dena Stewart-Gore, suggested that the standards will make religious students feel ostracized. “The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, per the The Courier-Journal. “We are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”
Yeah, that's exactly how Socialism works! It murders people instead of, ohhhhhhhhh, allowing them to live off of taxpayer dollars in the form of social-assistance for their entire lives. What a vapid twunt. By the way, this is that slobby idiot:

Death Panels, Scottie. You forgot the death panels, so she is correct. That picture says it all.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:24 am

We'd have to murder 85% of the country, although it might do wonders for the gene pool. Evolution at finest!

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:12 am

This guy is aggravated at women for the way they dress in church. Because, boobs. It's like the only people that get to enjoy church anymore are the gays and eunuchs!

The last thing we need is to walk into church—a place where we have come to worship God freely and love Him with all of our hearts—and to have our attention diverted by the way some women are dressed. And not to mention if you happen to look at a women dressed that way and you’re with your wife, how does that make her feel? You know she’s thinking, “So, I guess that’s attractive to you, and I’m not?”

I know exactly what a lot of you are going to say. I can hear it now: “Well, that’s your problem. If you can’t divert your eyes from a woman like that, then you have a big-time problem with your heart, and you don’t really love your wife or God.”

My retort to that would be: Any man who says he isn’t at least slightly affected by a scantily dressed woman—as described by Jennifer in her article—is either a eunuch, gay or someone who isn’t telling the truth.

The problem isn’t that we don’t love our wives. I certainly do, and I know most men love their wives and wouldn’t do anything in the world to hurt their feelings or self-esteem. And as Christians, we love God with all of our heart (at least I hope we do).

No, the problem is found in the fact that we are only human, and we’re going to be tempted to at least look. Again, men, don’t tell me that you don’t.

And when we do look, we could find ourselves guilty of lust in our heart. Matthew 5:27-28 says, “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

You never know what it could lead to. You look at the above-mentioned women and that image won’t leave your mind. You go home and get on the Internet, and then who knows what can happen? Even mature Christian men can get sidetracked by lustful desires. James 1:14-15 says, “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”

At a recent meeting of my men’s group at my home, we talked about this and how much of a problem it is and how much we struggle with it—and I’m talking about a group of guys who love Jesus and want to serve Him with all their heart. But we were all transparent, and we all want to be held accountable for our actions and what’s in our hearts. If I’ve got a problem, then I want someone to tell me about it so I can go to God in prayer and fix it.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:35 pm

Man, Satan really tempted Jesus with the wrong stuff, huh? Shoulda started with the Boobs and we'd be in the middle of a glorious Satanic wasteland now!

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:31 am

The NGC is putting out a reality show on these Appalachian snake-handling preachers.

It comes from a new testament quote where Jesus informs his followers of their superpowers that they inherit just by virtue of believing in him...

Mark 16:17-18: And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Yet, for some reason, you just don't see many churches with cyanide-drinking preachers. Now, that would make a fucking reality show.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:04 pm

Jerloma wrote:

Look at the fucking hand on that guy on the right! Holy shit.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:34 pm

And the National Geographic Channel can, evidently, sink lower. I'm sure the founders of NG would be thrilled by what passes for current on-topic subject matter; Muscle Car Mansion, Biker Chicks and Mouth-Breathing Duck Hunters.

Will the purveyors of "reality" underbelly television ever run out of niches from which they can rack sediment? What else is left? American Burger Flippers. Who Wants To Be A Wal*Mart Greeter. Call Center Badasses. Purchasing and Inventory Star. Real Grocery Clerks Of Wyoming. Hardcore Janitor. Deadliest Travel Agent. Gas Pump Master.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:33 pm

Scottie wrote:And the National Geographic Channel can, evidently, sink lower. I'm sure the founders of NG would be thrilled by what passes for current on-topic subject matter; Muscle Car Mansion, Biker Chicks and Mouth-Breathing Duck Hunters.

Will the purveyors of "reality" underbelly television ever run out of niches from which they can rack sediment? What else is left? American Burger Flippers. Who Wants To Be A Wal*Mart Greeter. Call Center Badasses. Purchasing and Inventory Star. Real Grocery Clerks Of Wyoming. Hardcore Janitor. Deadliest Travel Agent. Gas Pump Master.

All these channels, NGC, Discovery, TLC, History Channel...they've all gone to shit. Don't blame them though...they're just practicing capitalism. There's a dangerous movement of anti-intellectualism going on in this country over the past 15-20 years. It's this idea that it's not cool to be the smart kid in class. So while the mating rituals of the cuttlefish may be fascinating as hell, it's just not going to sell like Honey Fucking Boo-Boo. Thankfully, there are still corners of the internet that don't have such a disdain for knowledge even though the majority of the internet might actually be what's responsible for it in the first place.

By the way, I don't mean to come across as pompous here...I'm certainly not above mindless entertainment in small doses.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:33 pm

Shirley wrote: Look at the fucking hand on that guy on the right! Holy shit.

I'm going to have nightmares for sure.

I am waiting for them to start reality show "crossovers." You know, like the kids from Breaking Amish against the Sister Wives and these Snake Handling mutants - would make for a great episode of Wipeout.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:52 pm

Jerloma wrote:By the way, I don't mean to come across as pompous here...I'm certainly not above mindless entertainment in small doses.

That's it, right there. One should not have to issue any sort of apologia for being disappointed (or worse) in what passes as televised entertainment. It wasn't so long ago that shows like "Booger Eating Halfwits" were reflexively mocked for being the lowest of lowbrow fare.

A while back, volunteering at a charity golf tourney, the girl with whom I was paired babbled incessantly about her favorite programs. I told her I had no idea what she was talking about as I hadn't seen any of them. None. Nor will. The Charlie Sheen Big Bang canned laughter sitcom thing? Not interested, don't know, don't care. No, I've never seen Jersey Douchebags. No, I have never even heard of most of these things. No, I don't recognize a single auto-tuned celebretard karaoke dancer on your iPod. She thought I was nuts. How can you not know who Gaggy Lala is, right? Worse than nuts, she thought this was incredibly arrogant of me. "Stuck up". As in "that's so stuck up". You're like . . . that's soooo stuck up.

I swear that I could hear her spelling "you're" as "your" even though she was talking.

There are two possibilities out there. Either producers have completely stalled and this generation of crap is really the best they can muster. Or (or!) there are boardrooms full of entertainment executives somewhere pacing obsessively and pulling their hair out demanding "Dumber! Dimmer! Dammit! There MUST be a way to make this stuff even more idiotic! There HAS TO BE!!!"

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:07 pm

A big piece of the puzzle is the production cost of these reality shows is very low. Even compared to the cuttlefish mating ritual documentary.

I will admit, I loved watching Ozzy Osborne and Anna Nichole when this shit started. But enough for me, thanks.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:30 pm

howard wrote:A big piece of the puzzle is the production cost of these reality shows is very low. Even compared to the cuttlefish mating ritual documentary.

I will admit, I loved watching Ozzy Osborne and Anna Nichole when this shit started. But enough for me, thanks.

Bolded for emphasis of fact.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:55 pm

What natural explanation could there possibly be?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:39 pm

Jerloma wrote:
Scottie wrote:And the National Geographic Channel can, evidently, sink lower. I'm sure the founders of NG would be thrilled by what passes for current on-topic subject matter; Muscle Car Mansion, Biker Chicks and Mouth-Breathing Duck Hunters.

Will the purveyors of "reality" underbelly television ever run out of niches from which they can rack sediment? What else is left? American Burger Flippers. Who Wants To Be A Wal*Mart Greeter. Call Center Badasses. Purchasing and Inventory Star. Real Grocery Clerks Of Wyoming. Hardcore Janitor. Deadliest Travel Agent. Gas Pump Master.
All these channels, NGC, Discovery, TLC, History Channel...they've all gone to shit. Don't blame them though...they're just practicing capitalism. There's a dangerous movement of anti-intellectualism going on in this country over the past 15-20 years. It's this idea that it's not cool to be the smart kid in class. So while the mating rituals of the cuttlefish may be fascinating as hell, it's just not going to sell like Honey Fucking Boo-Boo. Thankfully, there are still corners of the internet that don't have such a disdain for knowledge even though the majority of the internet might actually be what's responsible for it in the first place.

By the way, I don't mean to come across as pompous here...I'm certainly not above mindless entertainment in small doses.

And, to take it a step further, then you find out that these "reality" shows are often staged and aren't even really "real". I watched a show on Discovery the other day about a hunt for a super-sized shark they called, Megalodon". Some of the things on the show seemed really far-fetched, so I looked it up on the internet and turns out it was a "mockumentary", but that factoid was never made clear to the audience. Discovery was also promoting a different show on every commercial break called "Amish Mafia" that also sounded far-fetched, so I looked up some data on it. Turns out, they admit that many scenes are either "recreated", and/or "based on legends". But, I'm sure many folks will take it as gospel truth.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:46 pm

Yeah, a lot of people were bullshit about that Megalodon thing. It probably didn't take you too long to figure out that if a 35 foot prehistoric shark attacked a boat, we may have already heard about it, right?

That's be a bigger story than the 2nd coming of Al Jeezis.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:17 pm

Jerloma wrote:What natural explanation could there possibly be?

Slow news day?

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:03 pm

Go Iceland!

Icelanders are outraged that Franklin Graham is holding a festival in Reykjavík next month, but they’re literally not taking it sitting down.

In a social media-fueled protest against the avowed anti-gay-marriage evangelist, Iceland residents are reserving hundreds of tickets to Graham’s upcoming sermons with the intention of leaving the seats empty.

The protest was reported Thursday on Visir.is, an Icelandic-language news site. The report was confirmed to International Business Times by Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir, a deputy and features editor for Iceland Review magazine.

Post by **Sabo** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:41 pm

Religious family flees US because of "government interference in religion", gets lost at sea, is rescued by a fishing boat, and is brought home after help with a U.S. embassy.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 2:00 am

Sabo wrote:Religious family flees US because of "government interference in religion", gets lost at sea, is rescued by a fishing boat, and is brought home after help with a U.S. embassy.

I hope they get billed for the cost of their rescue.

eta: didn't see Sabo's post...

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:59 pm

(Reuters) - A Tennessee judge has ordered a baby's first name changed from "Messiah" to Martin, saying that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ, a ruling the boy's mother promises to appeal, a Tennessee television station has reported.

The parents of Messiah DeShawn Martin went before Tennessee Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew because they could not agree on the 7-month-old's last name.

Ballew instead last week ordered the baby's name changed to Martin DeShawn McCullough, the Tennessee television station WBIR reported.

"The word 'messiah' is a title, and it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ," Ballew told WBIR...(more)

Link

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 6:24 am

Sabo wrote:Religious family flees US because of "government interference in religion", gets lost at sea, is rescued by a fishing boat, and is brought home after help with a U.S. embassy.

Obviously, he is a merciful God as they survived, although man, if Megalodon was still around, this would have been the best Shark Week tie-in ever.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:37 am

sancarlos wrote:
(Reuters) - A Tennessee judge has ordered a baby's first name changed from "Messiah" to Martin, saying that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ, a ruling the boy's mother promises to appeal, a Tennessee television station has reported . . . (more)
Link

In keeping with the comments on that page, there's how many people named Mohammad or Jesus? At any rate, that judge should be fired on the spot.

"Messiah" is no stupider than the mopron names celebretards and wannabe celebretards give their kids. If you want to call your kid "Imperial Wizard" or "Jack Meoff", that's your call. The state can piss up a rope.

Aside from it being completely indefensible, any judge that claims in a court of law that "the only true messiah is Jesus Christ" shouldn't merely be out of a job but should be compelled to undergo immediate and thorough psychiatric evaluation.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:24 pm

Jerloma must be in this group.

A team led by Miron Zuckerman of the University of Rochester found “a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity” in 53 out of 63 studies

The studies used in Zuckerman's paper included a life-long analysis of the beliefs of a group of 1,500 gifted children - those with IQs over 135 - in a study which began in 1921 and continues today.

Even at 75 to 91 years of age, the children from Lewis Terman’s study scored lower for religiosity than the general population - contrary to the widely held belief that people turn to God as they age. The researchers noted that data was lacking about religious attitudes in old age and say, “Additional research is needed to resolve this issue.”

As early as 1958, Michael Argyle concluded, “Although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs, and rather less likely to have pro-religious attitudes.”

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:18 am

sancarlos wrote:
(Reuters) - A Tennessee judge has ordered a baby's first name changed from "Messiah" to Martin, saying that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ, a ruling the boy's mother promises to appeal, a Tennessee television station has reported.

The parents of Messiah DeShawn Martin went before Tennessee Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew because they could not agree on the 7-month-old's last name.

Ballew instead last week ordered the baby's name changed to Martin DeShawn McCullough, the Tennessee television station WBIR reported.

"The word 'messiah' is a title, and it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ," Ballew told WBIR...(more)
Link

Wow that is fucking bullshit. That judge should be disbarred immediately. Can you imagine this even went to court?

Johnny Hotcakes · Post by **Johnny Hotcakes** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:24 am

Scottie wrote: I swear that I could hear her spelling "you're" as "your" even though she was talking.

That is a great line.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:54 am

Fundamentalist, Evangelical preacher writes a book and uses a picture he found on Google images to represent a "proper" family. Hilarity ensues...