Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Dispatches In Gods Name and a proper response
Dispatches In Gods Name and a proper response
Just watched this and I think Ive got a little sick in my mouth.
As Christianity becomes smaller and more marginalised in the UK a certain core of it becomes more and more extreme to in an attempt to preserve itself. We have to hope that the mainstream, reasonable UK Christians will fight strongly against this ridiculous shit and kick up a fuss. And if they dont then shame on them. Seriously, weve creationism in UK schools, homophobes and pro-life lobbyists manipulating Judges and bills and all the while they are hiding the fact they think the world is "about 4000" years old. That and Jerry Springer the Opera haters Christian voice were in the show, holding meetings where they ask God to push back the floods of evil (aka Islam). And their leader saying that "Allah is Satan."
This is the-shit-we-laugh-at-America-for on our doorstep.
Half the time I think the proper response is to carefully and politely deconstruct their arguments and promote reality, but Im starting to think that we need to talk to them on their level. For example when a Creationist disproved evolution by demonstrating that you never find new life when you open a jar of peanut butter, I wrote a response about statistics and the Urey Miller experiment
But maybe I should have done this:
Half the time I think the proper response is to carefully and politely deconstruct their arguments and promote reality, but Im starting to think that we need to talk to them on their level. For example when a Creationist disproved evolution by demonstrating that you never find new life when you open a jar of peanut butter, I wrote a response about statistics and the Urey Miller experiment
But maybe I should have done this:
I wonder, if this was the only kind of response Creationists could get would they be doing better or worse?
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