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Ricky
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Posted - 05/29/2004 :  20:31:19  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
This was inspiried by a post at a Christian forum that I visit. Please posts the worst things that you have heard come out of a Creationists mouth. I'll start off with two of my all time favorites:

"Whether my beliefs hold up under questioning however, has no bearing on the validity of them."

"Humans do not belong in Kingdom Animalia, God created us seperately from all other animals."

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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Dave W.
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USA
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Posted - 05/29/2004 :  20:56:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Ricky, you might consider submitting these to WinAce's Fundies Say the Darndest Things. I would guesstimate that most creationists are fundamentalists.

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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 05/30/2004 :  15:15:57   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

Ricky, you might consider submitting these to WinAce's Fundies Say the Darndest Things. I would guesstimate that most creationists are fundamentalists.

Actually, I think WinAce could mine some of Verlch's posts right here on SFN for good material.

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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

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Dude
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Posted - 05/30/2004 :  23:28:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
Not exactly a creationist quote.... but definitely a fundie quote.

quote:
I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be
considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
- George H. W. Bush


A really OLD one......

quote:
I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless
war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do and to
extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex,
age nor condition and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous
heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants' heads against
the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.
- Pope Paul III, 1576


quote:
(talking about apartheid South Africa) "I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted
democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority
which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to
demand a protection of their rights.
- Pat Robertson,




I have never seen an oven or gas chamber for the large-scale extermination of those pesky christians, and I'm not sure where we are keeping the concentration camps.... but apparently they exist....

quote:
"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America
is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is
happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the
homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination
and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than
anything suffered by any minority in history.
- Pat Robertson



Apparently opinions can be false, and it's OK to be mean to people who have them.....
quote:
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the
Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of
the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be
nice to them.
- Pat Robertson



Apparently, the US Constitution is for christians only...
quote:
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.
-- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, December 30, 1981




And perhaps one of my favotite all-time quotes from Pat....
quote:
When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. "What do you mean?" the media challenged me. "You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?" My simple answer is, "Yes, they are."
-- Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 218




Mahatma Gahndi as a government minister of health/education/welfare? Sweet! Unless your this dude....
quote:
If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality.... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering.... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.
-- Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 219


Have an atheist infestation?
quote:
It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into [our] institutions [today] are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.
-- Pat Robertson, New York Magazine, August 18, 1986




Did I mention that this dude scares me?
quote:
"Here is another example of the way Robertson would mix church and state, rather than keep them separate. Let's say that a Christian thinks God is directing him or her to blow up an abortion clinic or kill a doctor who performs abortions, and this Christian does in fact commit such a crime. In a September of 1984 edition of The 700 Club, Robertson suggested that special church tribunals could be called upon to discern if a believer had in fact received an authentic word from God which compelled him to break a civil law. According to Robertson, if this church tribunal did determine the believer had in fact received an authentic message from God -- how they could reach this conclusion without issuing God a suboena wasn't made clear -- then, Robertson said, the church tribunal would have the civil authority to provide the believer with immunity from prosecution."
-- Gerard Thomas Straub, speech before the San Fernando Valley Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, September 11, 1995, quoted from Harry Schwartzbart, "Pat Robertson Proposes Immunity From Prosecution For Criminals Who Commit Crimes On Instructions From God"

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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filthy
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Posted - 05/31/2004 :  03:26:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Dude, I haven't visited that site in a long time -- I too, have it saved. Here‘s another:

http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/quotes.htm



quote:
"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93


"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."
--Jay Grimstead, February 1987



"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
--Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989), p. 102




"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
--Jerry Falwell



"The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, home school."
--Jerry Falwell, "Trends in Christian Higher Education," Regent University, 9/22/93



"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers."
--Jerry Falwell



"God Hates Fags!"
--Rev. Fred Phelps



And so forth. I really think that you've got to work at it to be as hateful as these low-lifes are.




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
6891 Posts

Posted - 05/31/2004 :  12:22:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
quote:
And so forth. I really think that you've got to work at it to be as hateful as these low-lifes are.



There are very few things that bother me in this world.... But these hate-preachers are one. They have worked very hard over the last 15-20 years to gain political power as well. The quotes alone should scare anyone with sense, but if you actually read their books and listen to what they have to say... you'll wake up in a cold sweat every night for weeks. These fundie sociopaths want to turn the USA into a twisted christian theocracy, and get rid of anyone who doesn't agree.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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verso
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USA
76 Posts

Posted - 06/12/2004 :  12:06:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send verso a Yahoo! Message Send verso a Private Message
I just stumbled across this site while searching for information on the moon's magnetic field. And of course, being (what some would consider) a "fundamental creationist," I just couldn't resist posting in this topic.

The main thing I want to say is - resist the temptation to lump everyone under the title "fundamental creationist" together. Not all of us are egotistic, clueless snobs who try to force their un-founded beliefs on others.

I know it IS tempting - because the loud, annoying fundamentalist Christians are, by their very nature, going to be the tip of the iceberg. In other words - of the entire fundamentalist community, THEY will be the most visible. That is what MAKES them annoying fundamentalists.

Second - Yes, there are a lot of blathering Christian fools. And I'm sure you could fill volumes with ridiculous quotes. On the other side of the coin, however, if I wanted to take the time to peruse the internet for ridiculous quotes from the other side of the debate - I have no doubt that I could. There are blathering fools on both sides.

Third - I don't mean this post as a concession of my beliefs in any way. I believe in God, Jesus, Creation and a lot of other things that make me a fundamentalist. Does this make me a "low-lifer?" For most, I know it will. But, for those who like to have a good, respectful debate without the extreme levels of scientific chauvinism that plague BOTH sides of the Christian/Atheist and Creationist/Evolutionist debates - bring it on.

peace!
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gm137
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/18/2004 :  06:48:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit gm137's Homepage Send gm137 a Private Message
THANK YOU! This is the sort of attitude that holders of both viewpoints need if we are to progress on these issues.

The name's Bond; Ionic bond.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13477 Posts

Posted - 06/18/2004 :  09:33:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
quote:
Verso:
Third - I don't mean this post as a concession of my beliefs in any way. I believe in God, Jesus, Creation and a lot of other things that make me a fundamentalist. Does this make me a "low-lifer?" For most, I know it will. But, for those who like to have a good, respectful debate without the extreme levels of scientific chauvinism that plague BOTH sides of the Christian/Atheist and Creationist/Evolutionist debates - bring it on.


Verso, you may become my hero even though it is unlikely that we will ever agree on what the evidence says...

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

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PolarBear
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USA
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Posted - 07/12/2004 :  10:15:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send PolarBear a Private Message
You think Pat Robertson is bad? Check out this humane, compassionate tirade:

-It's important to remain conscious of the fact that satan had his origin in heaven, and is thoroughly familiar with the fact of the existence of God, heaven, the angels, hell and etc. Thus despite what you have been previously deceptively taught and despite the deceptive dictionary's meaning of atheism, atheism is properly defined as a denial of the existence of God in the midst of full knowledge that the true God does indeed exist. Atheism knows God exists; it is quite familiar with that fact, but it says "under no circumstance or situation will I admit to God's existence."

-Atheism clearly perceives the fingerprints of God on all of creation, but refuses to admit He is the Creator. Atheism perceives the divine authorship of the TEN COMMANDMENTS, but refuses to admit that God is their Author. Atheism perceives the decorousness and perfection of the TEN COMMANDMENTS, but refuses to admit they are superior to all other laws. Atheism clearly perceives the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, but refuses to admit His divinity. If an atheist could see the wounds in the body of Christ and actually feel them with his hands, he would deny that the wounds are there. Atheism is deliberate effort to never admit the existence of God.

-Atheists and all other nonbelievers in the true God - regardless of their level of "education" and position in society - are therefore the true criminals of the world community and if there is a sane government, it should treat them accordingly.

-www.tencommandments.org, Exposing the Atheist

I would cut and paste some more, but just looking for material is making me shudder. Go check out the site yourself if you want some more insanity.

Not only does god play dice, but they are loaded, can change shape and location, and can borrow energy as long as the universe at large fails to notice.
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Paladin
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USA
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Posted - 07/12/2004 :  14:34:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Paladin a Private Message
The bigotry and stupidity of these morons is so utterly incomprehensible it boggles the mind. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but these guys are in living in the freaking twilight zone.

Paladin
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Ricky
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Posted - 07/12/2004 :  14:36:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
(from the site above)

"The best way to understand the nature of atheism is to understand its author. satan is its author."

No, the best way to understand atheism is to understand that atheist do not believe in any supernatural beings, and that includes the devil.

"This antithesis is the actual principle at the heart of atheism's inability to love such decorous laws as : "honor your father and your mother," "You shall not kill," - Making the careless mistake of thinking that these principles originiated with the 10 Commandemnts and not passed down from previous civilizations.

I especially like the top:

"This site was produced by an EX_ATHEIST"

I don't know, who do you think is worse, Pat or this guy? Because of the number of people that each influence, I would have to say Pat.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9688 Posts

Posted - 07/13/2004 :  14:42:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by verso
I know it IS tempting - because the loud, annoying fundamentalist Christians are, by their very nature, going to be the tip of the iceberg. In other words - of the entire fundamentalist community, THEY will be the most visible. That is what MAKES them annoying fundamentalists.
Since the total volume of the iceberg is so much bigger than the tip, just by steering a ship in the proximity of the tip may damage the ship beyond repair. That's why I like the awesome glare of scientific truth melt away the tip-of-the-iceberg until there's nothing left that is dangerous for the society. Any kind of fundamentalism is, especially Christian and Muslim.

quote:
Does this make me a "low-lifer?" For most, I know it will.
Read the user Verlch's replies, to our attempts at communicating with him, for my definition of a low-lifer.

quote:
But, for those who like to have a good, respectful debate without the extreme levels of scientific chauvinism that plague BOTH sides of the Christian/Atheist and Creationist/Evolutionist debates - bring it on.
I've never understood the expression "scientific chauvinism"... If you care, I'd be delighted if you can show me what you consider scientific chauvinism.

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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 07/21/2004 :  10:52:12   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
I used to call faith based hotlines and ask them questions I knew they couldnt answer, but Oh how they try....an example.


ME- 'So if I dig a hole deep enough will I get to Hell?

THEM- (after talkin with superiors) "Yes, you will."

Other suggested questions

(regarding the age of the earth)So did God put Dinosaur bones in the rocks for people to find or were they alive with adam and eve and then got stuck in the rock?

Or really fun stuff, like-

In the second book of kings why did God send the bears to slaughter the 42 children?

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Ricky
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Posted - 07/24/2004 :  20:18:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
I've been posting at that www.biblelandstudios.com place for a bit, and here is an argument from ignorance:

"Evolution has no explaination for where the matter of the Universe came from"

Now I could understand if someone is saying that evolution does not explain how life was created, as the creation of life and how it changes are somewhat similar and related, but this is just too much....

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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Dude
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Posted - 07/24/2004 :  21:06:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
Nice one Ricky.... gotta love how those guys don't even care to familiarize themselves with what they are arguing against.

Kinda makes you wonder what they are smokin.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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