Delusions of faith . . .

DANGEROUS MINDS has a fascinating report on some Christian wackos. Apparently, they believe that Pokemon is demonic, as is Minecraft and Guitar Hero. Below is another example of delusional "thinking".

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A couple of years ago an amateur documentary producer known as ThunderfOOt decided it was time take the garbage spewed by biblical creationists and "intelligent design" peddlers and pick apart the cherry picking they present as "science". The result was a five hour documentary done in 32 parts.

The producer never marketed it, never offered it on DVD and made no money from it. He did, however, put it on YouTube.

It's an amazing piece of work which tears the creationists' myths and they're so-called "science" to shreds. And not in a polite way. He calls them what they are. He also accuses them of wasting the time of scientists and others who, in order to ensure scientific pursuit remains scientific, find themselves having to sweep the path clear of religious mysticism.

I will be presenting ThunderfOOt's documentary over the next few weeks. I will try to give you a daily installment of two parts per day through to its end. That would be a manageable 10 minutes per day. In any case, you can always go to YouTube to find the whole series, or you can go here and watch the whole 5 hours. (I would suggest, beer, popcorn and a big screen connection if you're going to do the whole thing at once.)





Oh yes, something I should mention. There is a tendency, when one of us reality-based types exposes the BS the creationists and ID freaks peddle as "science", for the comments section to fill with over-the-top religious nuts defending their superstitious nonsense. When they don't evoke a rebuttal they turn into right-proper nasty bastards to which I think their declared Lord and Saviour might object. Go right ahead. It just adds to the exposure.

Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy"

LANGUAGE LOG has a report by Mark Liberman, "Whatever lifts your luggage…" which outlines how an American bible-thumper, George Rekers, got caught with "Lucien", whom he met though a web site called rentboy.com. The Miami New Times article, by Penn  Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp, states

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. "I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him."

Then again, there could be other reasons:

The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)" and explains he is "sensual," "wild," and "up for anything" — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay. 

Tsk, tsk.

And that was just their version of Halloween

Mira Mesa is one of those places in San Diego that got sort of, out of control. Back in the World War II era the US Navy used to use it as an auxiliary landing field known as Hourglass Field. They also used the surrounding area as a bombing range while the US Army used it as a test area. Around the 1950s it became the residential area supporting the Naval Air Station at Miramar, home of the USN Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) until 1996. In the 1960s, due to it's perfect location between two major highways and its proximity to downtown San Diego, Mira Mesa experienced an uncontrolled housing boom and became an example of unplanned urban sprawl along the highway leading into downtown. It was so poorly planned that it was deficient of the municipal and county infrastructure needed to support its thousands of new residents. In 1971 it was responsible for launching the political career of at least one Republican politician when he ran on a campaign of "No more Mira Mesas!"

I've been to Mira Mesa. (You don't need to know why.)

So has TBogg. I think we'd agree that the lack of schools in Mira Mesa back in the 1960/70s might have had something to do with this:

They expected to see the kind of stuff normally associated with a haunted house: skeletons, ghosts, chain saw-wielding zombies, that kind of thing.

Instead, some teenagers said the images inside the building on Carroll Road in Mira Mesa gave them the shock of their lives: a video of aborted fetuses, an image of a bloody Jesus on a cross, a scene in which an actor portrays a suicidal man clutching a shotgun as the devil urges him to kill himself.

“Then they had (the teenagers) pray and wash their sins,” said Ananda Brisco of Scripps Ranch, whose 14-year-old son went into the building with three of his friends expecting to enjoy a typical Halloween scare.

“We were shocked. . . . I had other people's children with me, and I subjected them to this without their parents' permission. We just thought this was going to be a regular haunted house.”

The haunted house – admission was free and a sign outside advertised “Blood Rain” – turned out to be a production of The Potter's House, an international church that has made news over the years for its graphic, religious-themed Halloween events around the country.

The pastor of the church's San Diego branch, Joe Rice, said the production was meant to “present the gospel of Jesus Christ in a venue other than a church service.” The haunted house was intended as a commentary on the evils of abortion, pornography and school violence, Rice said.

He noted that the free tickets – which were handed out at movie theaters, stores and other public places – warned of graphic content, as did signs in front. Nobody younger than 13 was allowed in.

“Some people will say it's false advertising,” Rice said. “I don't think so because to me it is a haunted house. Freddy Krueger isn't going to walk in with an ax. But that's fairy tale. This is more real. This is a real haunted house to me.”

Still, Brisco and others complained that the true nature of the production wasn't made clear in advance.

“I did not expect that,” said Eunice Apon, 17, a senior at Scripps Ranch High School, adding that she probably wouldn't have gone in had she known what was inside.

“There's one point where this guy looking at porn goes to hell, and I don't believe people who look at porn should go to hell.”

One helluva Halloween. On the other hand, just down the road from Rice's Halloween religious gore-fest, the lions at the San Diego Zoo were demonstrating how they deal with pumpkin-headed, bible-thumping, radicals.

And, since the Halloween version of Bishop T.D. Jakes' ministry is, well, a little different, I wouldn't even want to guess what their Fire House involves. (Pass the CO2 extinguisher, thanks.)

Max does the Christian Zombie Brigade

Max Blumenthal goes sleuthing again and finds himself at the Value Voters Summit, an event organized by James Dobson's, Focus On The Family and Dobson's Washington D.C. lobby shop, the Family Research Council.

You really need to watch the video on this one. It would be great entertainment if it wasn't for the fact that the pure wingnutty bile spewing out of the mouths of this lot is what they really believe.

Executions for blasphemers and gays. Public schools closed in favour of religious education.

What makes this lot any different from their constructed Islamofascist threat?

Absolutely nothing.