The part of the Bible that talks about bearing false witness is essentially referring to lying on the witness stand in a trial. (Biblical scholars, can you back me up on this one?) There is no Commandment against plain old everyday lying in general.

1. The “The Stupid, it Burns” graphic appears to be a number 2. Is this pareidolia, or is there a whole series of matching number graphics?

2. What polls? I can’t stand when people say things like: “various polls indicate” without telling me what polls, or better yet, linking to them. Now you’ve told me that half of America is monumentally stupid, which may be true, but I need to see the evidence. It’s one thing to believe in Christianity, or to vote a certain way, but quite another to actually believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

Phil, are you losing your touch?

To update Dr. Johnson, “Televangelism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

On my DVDs, Arnie was a Cyberdyne Systems model T-101 in that film and Terminator 2. The T-1000 was the mimetic polyalloy terminator in T-2. For some strange reason, in the latest film and in the TV series, the Arnie-style terminators (i.e. those with no special schticks like the T-1000 or the T-X from the third film) were described as T-888s.

Okay – thanks for clearing that up for us.

Attention, money, followers who put you on a pedestal like some idiot hero….that’s what’s all about. If it weren’t religion, it would be UFOs or space alien abductions or crop circles or homeopathic medicine or…pick an idiocy. Religion just happens to be a profitable market in this country.

And they cannot be disgraced or taken down, because they’ll just spin their downfall into yet another opportunity to rise and fleece the marching morons. Witness Ted Haggard, Peter Popoff, or any in an endless devolutionary line of amoral amoeboids leaching blood off the masses.

Good point. Sociopaths milk the uninformed as much as they can. Is it any wonder there are so many of the latter who have little in the way of resources? It appalls me when I think of how much money is given to these wankers. I just wish we had some way to hold them accountable for their actions/lies/deceit.

As far as arguing with these fecal ejects, I expect a troll, with evidence links attached, might be all we really need to put out there. Trolls have infinite patience,,,(Hey. Trolls can also be good. Not all of them eat children.)

Gary 7

I knew a LOT of these people, and, to a man, they were (privately), utterly without any sort of religious faith at all. But they were very good at entertaining the sheep; they could generate massive “love offerings.”

In that one, the Terminator – T-1000 to be precise – played by Arnie Schwarzenegger was the bad guy out to kill Sarah and prevent her having her kid and Kyle was sent back by John Connor to save his Mum from retroactive assassination!

On my DVDs, Arnie was a Cyberdyne Systems model T-101 in that film and Terminator 2. The T-1000 was the mimetic polyalloy terminator in T-2. For some strange reason, in the latest film and in the TV series, the Arnie-style terminators (i.e. those with no special schticks like the T-1000 or the T-X from the third film) were described as T-888s.

So perhaps you should re-think that “The Stupid, it burns!” graphic?

I don’t have any specific podcasts in mind, but he has a category filter for his podcasts I’m sure they’re all winners.

Thanks.

I guess I had a brain fart when I posted. I meant to say ‘True Christians’.

Excellent deconstruction of the situation we find ourselves in :-\

@ChuckP #16

Ray Comfort doesn’t considers Catholics to be ‘False Christians’, and lumps the Pope into the same group as atheists, agnostics, and everyone else who doesn’t believe the exact same things he believes.

Fixed that for you.

I didn’t remember the quote exactly so I looked it up. I didn’t post Kyle Reese because I thought it would be too obscure (nobody would know who it was). So I just use “The Terminator” meaning a quote from the movie.

In that one, the Terminator – T-1000 to be precise – played by Arnie Schwarzenegger was the bad guy out to kill Sarah and prevent her having her kid and Kyle was sent back by John Connor to save his Mum from retroactive assassination!

The T-1000 was the liquid metal one from Terminator 2, the Schwarzenegger type is the T-101, I believe.

Edit: I was wrong, he was a T-800 model 101.

That was CafeenMan’s point, wasn’t it? That Phil Plait’s description of Ray Comfort (actually, “the forces of ignorance” in general) sounds quite like Kyle Reese’s description of the Terminator.

Sure. No dispute from me there.

I was just pointing out that CafeenMan was saying “the Terminator said it” when it was really Kyle Reese (played by Michael Biehn) he was quoting that’s all.

One of my favourite movies that I grew up with so .. just thought I’d chip in with that.

Or “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only wastes your time and annoys the pig.”

O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist to play the evil Terminator but Cameron did not think that “such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer”.

[Comic Book Guy voice on] Worst character misjudgement ever! [/Comic Book Guy voice off.]

Has Ray Comfort slipped on his banana peel yet?

I don’t know what’s sillier the fact that this nutjob thought banana’s disprove evolution in the first place or the fact that he still thinks people are laughing *with* him not *at* him and keeps defedning the indefensible. Also dunno whether its more comical or tragic that a … tosspot … like Comfort can exist in this day & age & get even such a small and foolish following.

Mr. Comfort sounds like The Terminator:

“They never rest, they never tire, and they never go away. ”

and Mr. Terminator:

“Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

Actually, I think that was Kyle Reese, John Connor’s father & teenage Sarah Connor’s rescuer who said those lines in the first Terminator movie.

In that one, the Terminator – T-1000 to be precise – played by Arnie Schwarzenegger was the bad guy out to kill Sarah and prevent her having her kid and Kyle was sent back by John Connor to save his Mum from retroactive assassination!

Great quote & movie choice but!

Of course, I could be wrong ..

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See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator

BTW. Apparently O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist to play the evil Terminator but Cameron did not think that “such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer”. Hah!

PS. Terminators are actually entirely real – there’s one on every planet and moon! The terminator is the line between darkness and light itseparates the illuminated and shadowed parts of each planet aka day and night. We see and pass across a terminator with every sunrise and sunset!