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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 12:58 PM May 2016

Well, you must be doing something right if you're pissing off Ken Ham and Ray Comfort.

Ken Ham Blasts Reason Rally 'World Largest Atheist Party' for Worshiping Man in Anti-God Religion
http://www.christianpost.com/news/ken-ham-blasts-reason-rally-world-largest-atheist-party-worshiping-man-164172/

...Ham accused atheists of working hard "against Christianity cause they're putting their hands over eyes and ears and shouting, 'I refuse to see and hear truth!' Their blind faith religion of natural processes is their way of explaining life without God — an anti-God religion."

The rally, which will also include other famous speakers such as Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, promises to be a celebration of "secular, atheist, agnostic, humanist, freethinking, and nonreligious identities."

The website states: "Reason Rally 2016 is first and foremost a celebration — we'll have awesome speakers, bands, entertainment, and political leaders — all there to celebrate and support the secular community."

...

New Zealand-born evangelist and creationist Ray Comfort announced earlier in May that he will be directly engaging with people attending the rally by handing out $25,000 worth of Subway gift cards, alongside a copy of his book, Why Pigs Will Fly Before America Has an Atheist President.


I hope Ray is bringing lots of bananas too!
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Well, you must be doing something right if you're pissing off Ken Ham and Ray Comfort. (Original Post) trotsky May 2016 OP
Subway gift cards???? AlbertCat May 2016 #1
wonder if flying pigs are as tasty as sacred cows? rurallib May 2016 #5
Well, a Subway gift card and a cop y of Ray's book, mr blur May 2016 #2
It's a shame BillyBobBrilliant May 2016 #3
I don't call it "worshipping man" and atheism is not a religion RussBLib May 2016 #4
How much is the gift card for? mountain grammy May 2016 #6
Ham seems to think Promethean May 2016 #7
"think"? Ham doesn't think, he believes. mr blur May 2016 #8
*brings out my Planck-scale violin* sakabatou May 2016 #9
 

mr blur

(7,753 posts)
2. Well, a Subway gift card and a cop y of Ray's book,
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:23 PM
May 2016

would definitely convince me to abandon all reason and believe in Gawd.

The bleatings of a thinking-impaired arsehole and the chance to eat fast food while reading them would make a believer out of any freethinking god- hater.

RussBLib

(9,020 posts)
4. I don't call it "worshipping man" and atheism is not a religion
Wed May 18, 2016, 05:50 PM
May 2016

you dim-witted doofus (meant for the Ham)

It's much more of a celebration of science and the freedom of mind and conscience.

I'm going to the rally, but I won't be prowling the halls of Congress. I figure this opportunity probably won't come around for another year or two at least, so what the hell. At the moment I'm set for the Crystal Gateway Marriott. Anyone else around the table planning on going?

Promethean

(468 posts)
7. Ham seems to think
Fri May 20, 2016, 02:45 AM
May 2016

that turning our criticism of him and his followers back around might get him some ground. He doesn't realize that for that specific criticism to stick the target needs a long history of actually doing what hes saying.

 

mr blur

(7,753 posts)
8. "think"? Ham doesn't think, he believes.
Fri May 20, 2016, 05:54 AM
May 2016

No sane person would confuse the two. Ken, on the other hand...

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