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Scarlet 'A' for a Day

Interesting letter from a Christian who infiltrated the recent CreoZerg where PZ Meyers and the Secular Student Aliance spent a day touring the amusing Creation Museum.

From his observation

it was obvious that there was a distinctive way that we were being treated because of the shared identification. There were hateful glances, exaggerated perceptions, waxing surveillance by security, and anxious but strong ‘amens’ accompanying a lecture on “The Ultimate Proof of Creation” by Dr. Jason Lisle.

Yep. Welcome to our world. This is the kind of thing atheists experience all the time from "loving Christians".

I wanted to tinker a bit with Microsoft's new Bing so I decided to egosurf and lo-and-behold but one of the various links is a link to a Wikipedia Page (and I didn't create it even).

Cool! I've made it to Wikipedia :-)

I've been slack and haven't gotten around to joining The Blasphemy Challenge, but I like their approach.

So I looked forward to watching this youtube link. The FauxNews anchor just loses it trying to grasp the concept. Its funny to watch him get all offended but unable to really articulate a good attack. He gets so upset that they are "attacking" Christians (don't forget, you've got to remind the flock they are always under attack). Funnee stuff.


Of course, there are some slightly more positive stories about the challenge. ABC News did a piece on it... tho even they just got it wrong.

At one point they have a minister telling us how "dangerous" it is to tempt god like this, but they just miss the point that he actively encourages Christians to tempt other gods all the time by denying that other gods exist. The anchor even tries the old Pascal's Wager, but the Rationalist Response Squad isn't having any of it.

But the story let the Squad have the last word. The Squad says they will let anyone come to the table and compare notes: their faith vs. the Squad's facts and reason and see who comes out better.

South Carolina wanted out, perhaps its about time?

Sometimes when people ask where I'm from, I just dodge the question. I don't like admitting that I spent much of my youth in S.C., especially with groups like Christian Exodus doing all they can to promote the state.

So what'd South Carolina do this time? Lawmakers turned down a request for extra financial help to send more low-income students to public colleges... and in the same breath, approved more public money to send students to the private fundy school, Bob Jones U.

Bob Jones, the school who's student rules would be laughable if they weren't true (I've personally witnessed the slow march of couples after dinner... since after dinner is the only time couples are allowed to walk together and hold hands).

So, once again, thumbs up to South Carolina for again demonstrating that the South is in a race to turn the clock back as fast as possible...