Caught this little gem from the Sensuous Curmudgeon, one of the blogs I read quite religiously (pun intended), "Creation alone!", by an Aaron Swartzentruber. It's hilarious! Here is his opening:
"Athiests or evolutionists who flat out reject God and Creation is one thing, God have mercy on them and open their blind eyes, but what is worse yet is that there are now many “professing Christians” who are trying to mingle evolution with creation."
Aside from misspelling 'Atheist', I started immediately wondering about his justification for assuming anyone who agree with evolution is an atheist or all atheists agree with evolution, but the rest of the opening made me realize his real target are the multitude of Christians who understand and support real science and real science education.
This guy is setting himself up as the one who gets to decide who is a 'real' Christian and who is not. Doesn't he know little kennie ham keeps trying for that job himself. Maybe we will get a pseudo-Christian cage match! I guess the over 13,900 signatures of Christian Clergy supporting the science of evolution and the teaching of such science to our child just burns his ass!
The rest of his letter is a mix of Bible quotes with him interspersing his own take on what it all means. Did you ever heard the phrase "There are liars, damned liars, and statisticians"? What it means is that when you take a set of data, you can often twist it to mean whatever you want it to mean. Religion is like that as well. Let's jumble a bunch of Biblical reference, ignore the ones we don't like and force them into a narrow viewpoint that we demand everyone follow. So how many religions are there that do that and conflict with each other over and over again? How about all of them! Even those who use the same starting point, like the Bible.
His final paragraph starts with this line:
This guy is setting himself up as the one who gets to decide who is a 'real' Christian and who is not. Doesn't he know little kennie ham keeps trying for that job himself. Maybe we will get a pseudo-Christian cage match! I guess the over 13,900 signatures of Christian Clergy supporting the science of evolution and the teaching of such science to our child just burns his ass!
The rest of his letter is a mix of Bible quotes with him interspersing his own take on what it all means. Did you ever heard the phrase "There are liars, damned liars, and statisticians"? What it means is that when you take a set of data, you can often twist it to mean whatever you want it to mean. Religion is like that as well. Let's jumble a bunch of Biblical reference, ignore the ones we don't like and force them into a narrow viewpoint that we demand everyone follow. So how many religions are there that do that and conflict with each other over and over again? How about all of them! Even those who use the same starting point, like the Bible.
His final paragraph starts with this line:
"If you are one of those who are mingling evolution with creation, you are doing the Devil’s work and I would be doing you, and God, a disservice to tell you otherwise"
Obviously he doesn't see anyone who doesn't agree with his incredibly narrow viewpoint to be an actual Christian (have to mention again the over 13,900 Christian clergy who disagree with Aaron). Of course if you look at the claims of the Bible of what Jesus taught, Aaron here wouldn't be a real Christian either. But he's managed to convince himself that he's doing us all a favor by telling us this.
No, he's not doing me any favors because I don't share his narrow views and I will never share his narrow views! Apparently the majority of the world doesn't share it either! But do you think he would listen to anything resembling an opposing view! Yea, neither do I!
No, he's not doing me any favors because I don't share his narrow views and I will never share his narrow views! Apparently the majority of the world doesn't share it either! But do you think he would listen to anything resembling an opposing view! Yea, neither do I!
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I bet the writer of that mess would say that every member of the clergy project is NOT a "true stain". Yes, a variation on the old, very tired "No true Scotsman" trope.
ReplyDeleteBut, of course I'm just an old. broken down cynical/sarcastic guy.
The comment should read the writer would say members of the clergy project re not "true xtians" Not rue stain. Not sure how that got posted, maybe spell check?
ReplyDeleteDon't you just love spellcheck. It's not so bad on the computer where it just highlights words it thinks are misspelled, but the damn phone auto-corrects, even when you don't want it too. As to the topic, maybe every religious organization should have to have a unique name and no denomination at all. After all, there are hundreds of Christian denominations all claiming that the other ones aren't 'real Christians'.
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