In David Waters latest Under God column he posits that McCain is with some likelihood not a believer in God. I would only add to that… Duh. Look at his life. Why would he believe in God? I won’t drag you through the entire history. I’m just saying, it seems unlikely given what he has been through. Hell, I’ve been through a whole lot less and I don’t believe in God. I have never been witness to a miracle or even had a credible account of someone experiencing one.
What a trip… Tonight I am resigned to declaring that Obama will win the election by popular vote. I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking on the topic, and I think that McCain is up against too tough an economic disaster to win in the incumbent party. Also, with Sarah Palin acting so folksy and clever while never really getting deep or taking chances, I think her value to the ticket continues to diminish. She was great tonight, but maybe not great enough to push through the morass to victory a month from now.
Anyway… that’s all I really have for now. Just wanted to revisit in writing my thoughts from February prior to the complete economic meltdown we are in now. As I have said before, I am very moderate in my views so I have no particular issue with either party winning the election as long as they do the least amount of damage (the dreaded, obsolete two party system is a topic for another day).
So, my thoughts have turned to Obama’s first 100 days in the White House. What will he do… and will we like it?
OK, I posted the first Henry Rollins clip, and then found this one… even better. It’s excellent.
A new Zogby international poll shows that 69% of Americans support public school teachers presenting the theory of evolution as well as theories that are in opposition. If only there were any that didn’t have God somewhere in them.
The theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in his groundbreaking work “Origin of Species” published in 1859 has been championed by scientists ever since. And like evolution itself, the science of it, the gathering evidence and data is a ceaseless pursuit of scientists all over the world. In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God, and no Bibles are used. They’re not looking for higher powers, extra-terrestrials or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section because they are not dealing with fiction.
As more is known and more is shown, Christian fundamentalists see their fingers being pulled off the steering wheel as their oppressive shackles are being more and more seen as fear-based nonsense. And so these awful people who favor abstinence only sex education as does the President of the United States seek yet again to put God into public school classrooms. First, it was the re-write of the Pledge of Allegiance, the addition of “under God” between “one nation” and “indivisible” which they insist sounds great. Actually, it sounds like a badly punched in edit that throws the rhythm of the piece way off and totally removes the power of the statement.
Well, they’re back with the theory of intelligent design (ID). It’s not much of a theory. It’s more of an over-fancified collection of sentiments basically saying that there are lifeforms and functions in them that are so complex only God Almighty could’ve come up with them, and we can just stop wondering and just start praising him.
Now the foundation of intelligent design relies heavily upon an idea called irreducible complexity. The breathtaking stupidity of irreducible complexity is only outweighed by the complete lack of science involved. It is just intellectually lazy and cannot be tested or challenged. You can’t get God to come down to the lab and prove a fucking thing.
You just have to believe, and science does not operate on faith. Faith is taught in churches. If you can’t prove it in the scientific world, you’ve got no game. These Christian fundamentalist psychotics are so power-mad they will stop at nothing. Willful ignorance, intimidation and suppression of information are their tools. Intelligent design, abstinence only sex-ed! The new Dark Ages are upon us! Hang on folks, this century’s gonna be a rough ride!
Also, you might want to take a look at the VERY powerful story of Henry Rollins speaking to a wounded soldier.
I never was a Black Flag fan, but he is an interesting guy. I don’t necessarily think he’s a genius, but to combat the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh it may take exactly this sort of tough, straight talk.
Freedom is under attack…under attack by hysterical and well-funded Christian psychotics; intellectually undernourished leaders who lie and manipulate information; over-fed, Baby Huey, coward-bitch motherfuckers like Karl Rove and their suck-up coward-weakling apologists like Sean Hannity. To question authority is to be somehow unpatriotic? un-American? and in league with terrorists world-wide? Fuck you!
And the people replied…