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Canadian IDiot Denyse O’Loony blames evolution for James von Brunn’s rampage at the Holocaust Museum. Figures. Denyse would blame evolution for a bad hair day.

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And an idiotic anti-evolution video from a new recipient of WND’s wingnut welfare who calls himself “Molotov Mitchell” is to blame. And since I’m such a caring guy, I thought I’d let you share my pain.

I’d do a point-by-point rebuttal of this, but I seriously cannot find one single thing that could be considered a point. And so my only possible response would be to say this to ol’ Vodka Bomb:

Mr. Madison Mitchell, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

(h/t, Ron Britton)

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A plug for three pro-IDiot crockumentaries at Dumbski’s Crib:

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Stupid Design”:

Any questions?

Sidebar: Dr. Tyson is just plain awesome. Not only did he appear on The Colbert Report a record five times, but he got his Master’s degree from U. T. — Austin.

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A: If there’s an ellipsis in the quote, it’s probably mined.

Ideas have consequences: Jesse Kilgore

• I’m not blaming Richard Dawkins for Jesse Kilgore’s suicide, but Richard Dawkins bears sole responsibility for Jesse Kilgore’s suicide.

• Geeze, those evil Darwinists are soooooo sensitive. Just because I called their worldview evil and blame it as the sole cause of all the world’s ills, they go all apeshit and stuff! Like, whatever!

• Dawkins’ The God Delusion: the new Mein Kampf, or the next The Turner Diaries? Discuss.

• Hey, guess what? Now we can blame the next Columbine on Richard Dawkins!

• No, I don’t know what you mean by “Killing in the name of Jesus.” Why do you ask?

(h/t, CC)

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

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Dumbski harumphs over the atheist ad blitz in Britain:

Three questions:

(1) What exactly is the probability that there is no God?

p ≈ 0.999999999 with a confidence interval of ± 0.0000000001. See, unlike you God-botherers, we at least leave a little room for doubt. It’s much healthier that way.

(2) In times past the state was concerned that people believe in God because they saw faith as curbing human wickedness (God holds us accountable for our actions and will see that in the end justice is served — so watch what you do).

Maybe in a theocracy. But certainly not in a democracy. Not one that I’d recognize, anyway.

Wouldn’t it therefore be more honest for the atheists to put up the slogan: “There probably is no God. Now watch your back because no one else is.”

No. For the same reasons that Thomas Jefferson argued against theocracy:

If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D’Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God.

Letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims.

Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Remarks to James Madison, 1788

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

Remarks to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813

The “Theocracy NOW!” crowd ought to take heed of these next two:

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Remarks to Jeremiah Moor, 1800

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Letter to Edward Dowse, April 19, 1803

Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Letter to N. G. Dufief, 1814

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82

This one seems aimed at the IDiots:

It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Notes on Virginia

This last one also seems quite appropriate to the IDiots:

The priests of the different religious sects […] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live.

Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820

I think I’ve made my point on that angle.

Now as for Dumbski’s Hollywood Atheist slogan, well…let’s just say I should’ve invested in straw futures. Were I to come up with a similar slogan for a conservative Christian ad campaign, it would go something like this:

“God is watching you, heathens! Yes, even you in the shower! Stop having fun, or you’ll be sorry!”

and it would be a hell of a lot more “honest” than Dumbski’s rejoinder.

(3) Is it a coincidence that the world’s leading atheist is also a pathological Darwinist?

Is it a coincidence that the world’s leading creationist is clinically diagnosing an outspoken atheist on ideological grounds?

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DaveScot “My IQ is north of 150” Springer seems to be suffering from irony deficiency over at Dembski’s Crib:

Science has left the building once the Nazi card gets played. As far as science is concerned it doesn’t matter if Hitler and Darwin were the same person. The only thing that matters is whether his theories can stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Um, Dave? Did you not see Expelled? That movie was nothing but a 97-minute Darwin = Hitler wankfest!

Oh, wait. What’s that? You have something you wish to add?

It’s a crying shame that people just can’t seem to drop this obsession with Darwin and Nazis.

Yeah, Dave. It’s a crying shame your hero Ben Stein and your coblogger Denyse O’Loony can’t seem to drop this obsession with Darwin and Nazis.

Sidebar: Perhaps more absurd and appalling is that Stein has recently expanded his penchant for lobbing Argumenta ad Hitleram at his foes into the realm of presidential politics. It’s as if swimming in the sewers with amateur ophiologists has turned him into a one-trick pony…

Honestly, Dave. If you want people to take you seriously when you call for a moratorium on Godwin’s Law violations, it’s time you removed the beam from your eye.

• Kick out the cobloggers who freely wield Nazi analogies like Denyse.

• Take a more jaundiced eye toward those among your commentariat with any inclination towards acting like ardent Scientologists, starting with the ever-loathsome For the Kids. After all, if you had a seventeen-year-old daughter, would you want her declared Fair Game™ and subject to the most vile character assassination imaginable for no other reason than the fact that you (her father) pissed off one of your ideological opponents?

If you want to retain what little credibility you have left, you will do these two things, at the bare minimum.

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