Hoo boy! (Scratching South Carolina off “places to visit” list)

So… when was Darwinism “clearly discredited” anyway? I must have missed it.

Preaching Christianity will soon be outlawed as “hate speech”

No, preaching hate speech is preaching hate speech.

Hating gays and hating sodomites (who are quite often straight men and women) and hating blacks and hating Jews and hating Muslims is hate.

Maybe they’ll get there right in time for hurricane season. 

You can tell us Brock...you moved there to go to Bob Jones U. didn’t you? 

I find it odd that these people are trying to constantly ‘take back’ something that was never theirs in the first place.  They are as free to do as they please just as everyone else but yet they always have some sort of persecution complex.

...yet they always have some sort of persecution complex.

Well, you get fed to lions, and that sort of mentality pops up.

They can do a commercial for the “Exodus” like the old Legend of Zelda, with the dude yelling out the names of the bad guys.  Anyone remember it?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Jesus?  Jeeesuss?
Infidels! Heathens!  Atheists!  Sodomites!

Or something like that.

And the submit word is “support”

-=e=-, you might think about putting Missouri on your watch list.

The other day I had a brief discussion about the Presidential election with my Aunt. She started in on Clinton’s immorality, gays in the military (don’t ask don’t tell), and One Nation Under God being on our currency. I think I got through when I told her that it was Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury who was responsible getting the motto on our currency, but I got through on very little else. I am sure that my Aunt and Uncle’s sole criteria in November will be that Bush is talking the talk. There are all to many others who share their view.

The Missouri legislature (Republican majority) recently voted to ammend the constitution to prohibit gay marriage. (It is already aginst the law here.) The proposed ammendment now goes before the people. The Secretary of State (R) tried to get the issue onto the November ballot rather than on the ballot for the August primary. The lower court agreed with a November vote, but, fortunately, the State Supreme Court said no, do it in August.

In another thread I mentioned that there is a bill, still in committee, that would require schools to teach intelligent design.

I’m waiting for some one to start talking our downward spiral of of moral decay, so that can observe that it started shortly after Eisenhower changed the pledge.

Oh god.. that is funny… but scary too!

Require schools to teach intelligent design?  Hell, I’d be satisfied if schools were required to have intelligent design.  Classrooms used to have windows you could open or close.  Now school buildings look more like prisons, with high, narrow windows that won’t open.  (sorry, irrelevant pet peeve.  Couldn’t resist.  But it does seem to fit the mentality of the Christian right though.)

Anyway, Christian facism and the Taliban both get their juice from the same bitter fruit.  Given an opportunity, they’ll exert total control.  Except the Taliban want a relatively primitive Muslim society with no modern conveniences ("We are as modern as Allah ever intended us to be” - actual quote) and the Christian facists want a fantasy-cartoon of a past they imagine once existed.  Neither one wants a world in which people are free to be fundamentally different from their fundamentalism.

Ronald Reagan died, by the way.  Bush said of him, “He has left a world he helped save.”

Keyword: “book”

“Children still may not pray in our schools”

Huh?  Actually, it would be unconstitutional to disallow students from praying in schools.  In reality, students can pray in school all they want - it’s simply that the school itself (provided it is a state-funded, public school) cannot promote the practice of praying, or any other religious practice.  But saying “children may not pray in school” is like saying that the schools force Jewish kids to eat ham-and-cheese sandwiches.  A Jewish kid can certainly get (or bring) a kosher meal, because the school would not be promoting any particular religion, but merely allowing a child to conform to his or her chosen religion (or more likely, his or her parents’ chosen religion).

“The 10 Commandments remain banned from public display”

No, they are merely not allowed to be displayed on government-owned land, in compliance with the establishment clause.  If an individual wants to put up a giant tablet of the ten commandments (or a golden calf, for that matter) in their front yard, they’re welcome to do so.

My best friend and I have talked about this for a while, but we think it’s a great idea for all of the fundies to go and form their own nation.  The only thing is, I don’t think they should try to overtake one of the United States to do it.  Go get an island somewhere.  Get the hell out of the country, if we’re so godless and you hate it so much.  (Yes, I’m ironically throwing their typical sentiments back at them.)

Oh, and just out of curiosity, Les (or anyone else who would know) - with the new post system, I’m not entirely sure how to do such things as blockquotes.  Help?

Oh, I just got it. They will all leave Missouri.

JoePGuy, the old tags still work.

quote and /quote both enclosed by square brackets.

*shudders* Brock, I’m gonna have nightmares now. Creeeeeeepy.

I just remembered a 1939 story “If this goes on” by R. Heinlein, in which the United States becomes a theocracy under the leadership of one Nehemiah Scudder.  Going to have to dig that out and give it another read.  This sounds eerily similar but it’s been awhile since I read it.  (also shuddering)

Thanks muchly, VernR!

I already covered this on my journal, yeah it makes me laugh and at the same time I’m curiously creeped out.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ninja_setsuna/14421.html#cutid1

The link if you’d like to read my scathing thoughts.

The resettlement of Christians is really the only practical, final solution to this nation’s Christian Question.

When encountering a Christian i, too, often encourage them to “just go move your ass South.” But, something more Southern in mind, like French Guyana might be better suited than a US state or territory.  The legalities of this program can get a bit messy, as we learned in the past (dead congressmen and all), so operating outside the confines of US law would be desireable.

Although past resettlement efforts have been sepectacular failures.  Yes, i can confirm that Jonestown was a CIA lab trying to establish and perfect mass-mind control techniques on the cheap.  So, a more structured program led by more *calm* souls might just do the trick.

Tammy Faye Baker is reportedly at the top of the list for what we coding:  Tammy Town.

.rob adams

As a long time South Carolina resident, I object to the ChristianExodus coming to South Carolina.  We already have enought bigots and idiots, we don’t need any more.

Hey, as long as Bush is at it, why don’t we just send ‘em all to the moon?

Hell, Bush can go too!  Send Ashcroft and Condoleeza Rice there as long as we’re at it.

On the face of it, I think resettlement is a great idea, especially since I’m sure the warring factions between sects would eventually cannibalize each other.  But think of the great blossoming of Ponzi Schemes of every conceivable stripe the rest of of would get to witness at a safe distance!  If this had happened 5 years ago, the rest of the nation could have calmly observed the hothouse flowering of the energy scandals without bearing the brunt of the outcome, and we’d all be having a good natured laff.
But, Silly Rabbit, you can’t displace a population to suit your ideology....  Unless you’re willing to PAY....
So Brock, what’s your price?  Won’t this be fun to watch?

BTW, Les, the last 3 words on the security check were ‘French Get Out’.

I won’t move for anything less than a million, maryh. I’ll just stay here and bring their property values down.(I can do that as a Caucasian, right?)

This is, by the way, the first time I’ve ever been able to say to someone else “If you don’t like this country, you can leave” and it feels just as weird as I feared it would.

And deadscot, I moved here for the fun, sun and employmentate-un. Two out of three ain’t bad, though.

You have all proven that you are completely insecure and foolish.  Good job.  You made me laugh.  Ha ha.  I’m really too tired to go into details but if you would like to know anything about the stupidity involved in the theory of Evolution then go to http://www.DrDino.com.  And if you think that’s too one sided then go to http://www.ChristianForums.com and head to the debate section for Creation Vs. Evolution(There’s a nice good mix of athiest, agnostics, Christians, crossbreads...).  If anyone would like to visit me there to chat and what not then hit me up at

Anyways.  I am a Christian(One who believes the Bible is completely the only inspired word of God) I don’t hate gays, or democrats, or Muslims.  I know that there are a few bad representations of what the Bible says about these things.  I do not feel it condones homosexuality, but that doesn’t mean I hate them.  If you really wan’t to know what the bible says and what we really believe than go read a bible(Any Translation) yourself and don’t talk about what “we believe” and we won’t talk about what “you believe”.  Thank you for your time.

Hey Chicken,

If you had spent any time reading more of this site you would have found that most of us atheists have read all of your precious little tome and that is a major part of the reason we let go of that old superstition. It’s a book full of crap and very little wisdom, and that just rehashed bullshit from older gods or just plain common sense. Grow up man! Use your noodle!

You’d also find plenty about evolution, creationism, and that idiotic DrDino site right here. Just use the search box.

Why should we visit your place if you’ve spent no time here?

Why should we visit your place if you’ve spent no time here?

There you go, encouraging him

Now he is a gonna haff ta be learned to act all polite like and actuallee reade

(Hey I can feed the trolls too)

Mr. Chicken may have been one of the more clever comment spammers. His website URL linked to a music site of some sort so I’ve removed it from his comment.

Beyond that he’s just another in a long line of broken records.

I work for TVU!!!  Thank you for checking that out.  I am a VJ for the station.