saw a pretty funny post on Facebook

[RussBLib]

"funny" in the absurd, tasteless, and parody sense. This post is no more absurd and tasteless than good Christians (like Pat Robertson and others) who insist that natural disasters are sent from God for punishment for America condoning homosexuality or fornication (one of my faves) or teaching the sexes in the same classroom or whatever the person particularly dislikes.

Actually I saw the post on the Ultimate Atheism Facebook page via "Nandita Pai", whoever that is. It's taken from the Creation Science Study blog on Wordpress, and there is a wealth of good stuff here.

Here's a couple of snips:

Greetings True Christians!

Did you know that God has made an Air Asia plane flying into Singapore disappear with 162 passengers on board as a punishment for their sinful behavior? That’s right boys and girls, much like the Malaysian Air disappearance and crash, God has made a plane filled with mostly Inonesian passengers disappear. Why are planes carrying Indonesians disappearing more than any other types of plane? The answer is simple! The Indonesian people are a heathen people! They failed to keep Christ in Christmas, and now Christ chose to not keep their airplane in the air!

God is striking down planes from this region of the world because these people are unwilling to embrace the Truth of Christ! If they would just embrace Jesus, then God would stop taking their planes! These people are ungodly heathens who are either Muslims, Buddhists, or Hindus. They worship in the jungle and reject Jesus! They are all going to burn in HELL unless they repent!

Unlike True Christian nations like America that never have planes disappear, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia have tons of planes disappear. WHy did this plane go down? The answer is simple. God is punishing the nation and the airline. The disappearance of this plane is a warning from God. If the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore do not repent, Jesus Christ and God the Father will continue to take airplanes from you.

Repent Malaysia! Repent Indonesia! Repent Singapore! Stop allowing prostitutes to run around on corners in your midst! Get rid of those heathen Hindus and Muslims! Reject Satan and embrace Jesus! Your ungodly sinful tolerance of homosexuality will get you nowhere. God will keep punishing you until you repent!

I'll bet the Muslims wouldn't like that very much. They seem to have a very different sense of why god punishes people. It's all so fucking arbitrary, and just as valid as any other opinion on what motivates the perpetually angry sky god.

[JDDavis]

1. That Creation science study page is a hoot!

They declare Darwin a "fraud", (for whatever reason, unstated) and they want to take back the science classroom for Jesus.

Did you know that Mike Sutton establishes Charles Darwin as an intellectual fraud who stole his ideas from other people and was working for the Devil? That’s cool stuff. However, Sutton needs to go farther with his analysis! He proves that the evil Satanic Darwin was a liar and a fraud. This is true. What Sutton fails to do is declare the truth. The truth is that Darwin was working for the devil and this theft of intellectual property is yet one more proof that Darwin was ungodly and evil.

We challenge Mike Sutton to take the next step and declare Christ as King now that he has shown that, once again, the Darwinian “emperor” has no clothes. It is time to take back the science classrooms for Jesus. It is time to take back the classroom for Christ!

How they have established this real truth about Darwin or why science is the work of the devil is never explained, just declared as truth. Well alrighty, then!

Remember to vote for God’s Candidate Rick Santorum in 2016!

[JDDavis]

2. Further digging yields this about the Darwin accusation

Did Charles Darwin 'borrow' the theory of natural selection?
Charles Darwin may have drawn on the work of a Scottish fruit farmer, according to analysis by a criminology expert.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10859281/Did-Charles-Darwin-borrow-the-theory-of-natural-selection.html

“Without Patrick Matthew, On the Origin of Species would never have been written. Matthew, not Darwin, should be celebrated as the discover of the unifying theory of biology and the solver of the origin of species.”
However not all experts agree. James Moore, of the Open University, who has written three biographies on Darwin, said thousands of people were coming to the same understanding at around the same time, but only Darwin took it forward.
“Patrick Matthew has always struck me as a non-issue,” he said.
“Many people understood the issue of natural selection but it was only Darwin who applied it to everything on the planet, as an entire vision of life. That was his legacy.

More at the link. Somehow this accusation of possible plagiarism is grounds for voting for Rick Santorum and getting science out of the classroom now?

[Delmette]

3. You may have to excuse my faulty memory

But I thought I heard on the early morning news that 40%+ of the passengers were from one Christian church.

[RussBLib]

4. could be

reality rarely impedes the religiously insane.