Brunswick County, NC Edition »

Dazed and confused at the Brunswick County school board meeting in Brunswick County, NC:

“It’s really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism,” county school board member Jimmy Hobbs said at Tuesday’s meeting. “The law says we can’t have Bibles in schools, but we can have evolution, of the atheists.”

The topic came up after county resident Joel Fanti told the board he thought it was unfair for evolution to be taught as fact, saying it should be taught as a theory because there’s no tangible proof it’s true.

“I wasn’t here 2 million years ago,” Fanti said. “If evolution is so slow, why don’t we see anything evolving now?”

The board allowed Fanti to speak longer than he was allowed, and at the end of his speech he volunteered to teach creationism and received applause from the audience.

When he walked away, school board Chairwoman Shirley Babson took the podium and said another state had tried to teach evolution and creationism together and failed, and that the school system must teach by the law.

“Evolution is taught because that’s what the General Assembly tells us to teach,” Babson said, adding that she doesn’t agree with it, but that students must learn it to graduate.

Now, I’m 100% sure that Joel thinks he’s a nice guy. He runs some sort of nonprofit ministry and it looks like he and his wife have adopted two children and live as pleasantly fruity Christians:

I have been and continue to be a blessed man. God has given me a family that I am thankful for. I have been married nearly 13 years. I have been back in North Carolina since 1997. My focus is living the life that is pleasing to God so that it leads others to Him.

There are a lot of earnest Joels out there who will continuously organize and whine. The Joels are half of why I support the teaching of the creation myth in place of evolution provided the school board approves.

The consequences of teaching creation as science encompass the other half of my support. It’s fun to organize and it’s fun to fight. But, the darkness that follows the expulsion of scientific inquiry is not fun. And, if the residents of these school districts are not brave enough to confront the lies of the Joels, they deserve to suffer under the patriarchy and the emotional and psychological brutality of organized religion.

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Tony Zirkle Edition »

Though it is not yet Sunday, this is just too good to wait. Tony Zirkle is a Republican running for Congress. Tony Zirkle fixates on religion, pornography, and Jewish people. Tony Zirkle gives a speech to about 60 neo-Nazis and white supremacists on Hitler’s birthday, April 20th:

Tony Zirkle defends himself on his campaign message board:

Socialists deserve to hear the Gospel and some of them might need it more than the average person. I took it as an opportunity to hand out an entire box of books on the life of Christ. Additionally, WWII may never have happened had we not neglected pornography and prostitution in the Jewish community. Hitler would not have had his most powerful argument when he claimed that Jews cartelled [sic] 97% of all international prostitution. Let’s not repeat history.

Tony Zirkle is long winded:

Jewish porn paints German porn as being into bondage and S&M which is just sick. If we’d stop defaming Germans for what happened generations ago, maybe they’d have better self-esteem.

I don’t think 99% of Jews are ashamed of Jews in porn space when the victims are very often white, Christian women with Christian crosses hanging around their necks. Where do you think the “Money Shot” comes from? Intentional degradation of white women right in the face.

If Jews weren’t wasting their brilliant intelligence in porn and frivolous entertainment, we’d have 200 miles per gallon vehicles and many other technological developments. Jews, as the most intelligent race in my experience (I’ve dated more Jewesses than any other category), are wasting their God-given gifts and not blessing the world as they should. Polio was appreciated. I’m not sure about Freud’s psychology, Marx’s communism or Einstein’s nuclear bomb assistance.

Jews brag about getting porn started in this nation. Now any punk with a camera can get into it. See the Jewish Quarterly article I quoted. Jewish men were the bulk of the original porn stars in the early decades. The argument was that Jewish men, with super self-confidence with the really delusional idea that they are the “chosen ones” even if they commit porn-adultery, could perform on camera. Male porn stars are now more likely to be black. We have exchanged the slave economic auction block for the porn mule one and, if you believe that one should not fear the one who can harm the body but should fear the one who can throw both body and soul into Gehenna, then the latter state of black men may be worse if that’s even possible.

[Tony Zirkle continues rambling for 300+ more words.]

I added emphasis to the “Jewesses” line because I find the “It’s okay because I have friends/fucked girls who are ______” defense funny. For more hilarity, check out Tony Zirkle’s campaign site and always keep an eye out for the great porn dragon and stay away from divorce aids.

(Really, check it out. This dude is fucking nuts.)

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Edward Gordon Edition »

On second thought, this isn’t very funny. It’s actually quite frightening:

The family was gone, and we were just waiting on the funeral home to come and pick it up. When you’re alone with a corpse in a room, you suddenly realize how the corpse resembles all the other objects in the room. In other words, the corpse is just like the furniture. It has become human furniture.

Then it struck me: this is what atheists think we all are. The corpse is just a material object and nothing more. According to atheism, we are all just like the corpse: we are just material objects.

Once you believe that about human beings, you can do anything to them. Though we treat the corpse with respect for the sake of the family, we really don’t have to for any other reason. It’s just a show. You can’t respect a corpse anymore than you can a chair. A corpse is an object.

Ultimately, though atheists know they don’t dare admit it, this is the inevitable consideration atheism gives to all humanity. This is where the atheistic influence is dragging us all. If I’m wrong, all I ask is that you show me.

Edward Gordon is a Christian fundamentalist who operates Christian Cross Talk, a blog “dedicated to encouraging Christians in their faith and fighting the spiriutal [sic] war against the influence of atheism in our society.”

As we all well know, Christians have been fighting “spiritual wars” since Christianity had the backing of a state treasury. Without fail, the ultimate purpose of these wars was to extend the power of a state by claiming another state’s resources. Religion was used to grease the gears of the war machine. You were promised that, if you died in war, you would bypass those 1000 agonizing years in purgatory and go straight to heaven. This bears complete resemblance to the Islamic promise of 80,000 servants and 72 wives.

I mention this because Mr. Gordon believes:

As for the National Christian Church, we still believe that is something we need, but we don’t believe it is something that should be linked to a secular government. Better, we must advocate for a unification of denominations among all churches in the body of Christ.

A centralized Christian behemoth could fund a great war against, well, everything. Unfortunately, Mr. Gordon, who probably fantasizes about being emperor, believes he is able to and can successfully think like an atheist. But, when you read through his posts you find that Mr. Gordon is channeling his own sociopathic thoughts onto a minority about which he understands nothing. We psychology people refer to this as projection.

Take, for instance, the post Promises in the Dark. Mr. Gordon begins with this illogical proposition:

Atheists deny that consciousness is anything more than an illusion produced by the mind, and it cannot control the brain. Therefore, they must believe we have no free will over the physical circumstances that push us around. Without free will there can be no love.

What follows is a bizarre caricature of a psychopath. The psychopath is an atheist. In Mr. Gordon’s mind, the two are interchangeable. This is a great example of a condition that seems to be prevalent in religious circles: the unintegrated ego. Like a child, Mr. Gordon still views the world in terms of “all good” and “all bad.” All Christians are, ultimately, all good and should unify in their goodness under God. All atheists are, ultimately, all bad and are unified in their badness under Satan.

To minimize the cognitive dissonance created by the knowledge that he is capable of great harm, Mr. Gordon projects his own evil onto the minority upon which it is currently most popular to project (Jewish people, Black people, and gay people could say a thing or two about projection). This way, if anything goes wrong, he can blame the atheists. And, if he should accept some blame, he can say that the wrong committed by the atheists is malicious and large relative to the well-intentioned and minimal wrong committed by him.

This is an example of closed-loop processing. Mr. Gordon is always right and, if he’s wrong, he’s never as wrong as those damned atheists. I assume he ends his posts with a “prove me wrong” type statement or question in order to receive comments at which he can shake his head and believe that they don’t meet his standards of proof.

If, unlike Mr. Gordon, you are legitimately seeking an explanation regarding the differences between a theist and an atheist, this is the only answer you’ll ever need:

“normal” theist: “What a lovely day. Praise God for it!”
“normal” atheist: “What a lovely day.”

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The “I believe in miracles since you came along, you sexy thing” Edition »

From the “I feel so very sorry for her children” file, a Christian lady goes nuts in a coffee shop:

From the “Jesus appeared to me in my food” file, a woman and a little girl find Jesus inside of a potato:

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It was her 10-year-old granddaughter who made her give the potato a second look. “My granddaughter said Granny did you see that in the middle? I said what?

And taking a closer look she saw the cross with Jesus in the middle. “It’s remarkable. Even when I cut the good part off the cross ended up being shaped like a tomb from long ago.”

From “Tom Cruise is a Scientologist” file, Tom Cruise on being a Scientologist:

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