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Some of the barriers to reasonable debate and argument are showcased in this darkmatter 2525 video. It is a touch on the long side, but necessarily so because the double standards are so darn numerous.
At least we can be happy, the Evil Atheists usually have better hair.
Faced with debating the scientifically ignorant, one needs only to resort to the facts of the situation to settle an argument, especially with Creationists who seem to have their own special versions of Cosmology and Physics that do not exist outside the realm of their imaginations.
As per wikipedia: The second law of thermodynamics is an expression of the tendency that over time, differences in temperature, pressure, and chemical potential equilibrate in an isolated physical system. From the state of thermodynamic equilibrium, the law deduced the principle of the increase of entropy and explains the phenomenon of irreversibility in nature. The second law declares the impossibility of machines that generate usable energy from the abundant internal energy of nature by processes called perpetual motion of the second kind.
How people think that they can make a coherent argument based on this law (or misrepresentation of said law) is beyond me; but, as the video below clearly shows for others, it is a mere walk in the delusional park.
Holy gangbusters of a double bill Batman! The world ending and international Draw Mohammad day all rolled into one? It will be an extravaganza of ridicule against the forces of delusion and, as usual, another victory for the rational.
It has been a hectic pre-report card week and therefore I am behind in my postings, as I still have to schedule in the upcoming weeks batch of posts( meh! :( ). Today’s post though is an exercise in empathy and understanding as perhaps the persecuted majority might get a view of how silly some of their arguments about genetics actually are.
Yes, it actually sounds that silly coming from the other direction as well.
The Roman Catholic Church is a corrupt institution that continues to support the rape and molestation of children on top of preaching bat-shite crazy baffle-gab to the deluded. Such malignant evil has no place in the 21st century.
I wonder if they have any religious prognosticators in Japan telling the people that abortionists, feminists, homosexuals and secular society was the reason for their natural disaster?
Apparently 9/11 was the result of god’s anger if you listen to certain prominent members of the US religious community.
Yes, with sure faced certainty these two ratbags are commenting solemnly on the will of god and what the ‘rampant secularization’ has caused in the USA. I’m betting such religious mendacity would not see the light of day in Japan, as belief in the supernatural is squarely in the private realm in the island nation. The earthquakes and tsunami in Japan are being dealt with in a rational cogent manner, no supernatural boogy-man involved or necessary.
Many religious Americans can simply not look in the mirror. The deranged reflection looking back is not a palatable imagine. This Sunday Disservice was started by Mystro with the third video that is going to be posted. The back story was missing and I decided to see which interview Dr.Winell was referring to during her presentation. As it turns out, Dr. Winell was interviewed on CNN about the Colorado shootings by Rick Sanchez. The interview provides back story and generally meanders along. But all of sudden, the conversation gets very interesting at the 5:00 minute mark when Dr.Winell mentions the secret suffering of people trapped in fundamentalist christian sects.
Rich Sanchez seems to go apoplectic as he begins feverishly defending christianity.
“but you’re not saying we can blame the faith for this…right??”…. @6:20 he begins arguing for incredulity as religion, particularly his religion could not possibly be responsible for such an atrocity.
The good doctor deflects his question pointing to multifaceted nature of situations such as these, and certainly religion was not the prime pathological factor, but one of many in the case.
Watching the hoops Dr.Winell has to jump through not to say the obvious that religious belief and faith in this case was the cause of shooting is impressive. The implicit taboos about criticizing delusional behaviour are clearly in the foreground during this clip. It gets even better though as Sanchez, true to his word had Dr.Winell back again, ostensibly with a Pastor this instance (to provide “balance” I imagine) to further discuss the case.
Hilarity ensues:
At 0:40 Sanchez reads a list of what life is sometime like in fundamentalist christian lives, and promptly dismisses it as raving of a mad man. Journalism is about bringing news to people and helping them learn more about their world, would it not be good journalism to see if Mathew Murray had a point? Of course not, how could we even think that the doctrine of christianity is delusional and evil…and to look into it on a news show(?), beyond the pale.
@1:40 – Sanchez relates the obvious and then proceeds to cut off Dr.Winell with questions about which christians are the nutjobs, and which are not. It is obvious he has dismissed the idea that most religious belief is toxic in nature and plays a minor riff on the “No True Scottsman fallacy” with regards to christianity in general.
@6:35 – Sanchez intones – “You’re not religion and christianity are you?” – What an incredibly dense question, no kidding she is against religion and christianity as a subset thereof, that should be obvious. What the good doctor has to contend with would be the results of saying yes she was against religion and christianity in a country that is embracing the delusional tenets of christianity with increasing fervour year after year. The social consequences would be dire for the good doctor if she were to make such a (factually correct) assertion.
This was, in Sanchez’s words an ‘amazing conversation’. Oh indeed it was amazing; an amazingly frightening portrait of a country that will not critically examine that factors that cause so much harm to its’ people.
And of course the video of Dr.Winell speaking after the interview beginning to describe what RTS is and the effect it has on people.
Perhaps, as the doctor states, if we can label RTS we can get more help for the people trapped in fundamental religious though prisons, so they to can breathe the free air of rationality.
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