I had snoo snoo! Happy new year!

The War On Solstice

Happy Holidays, Bill O'Reilly!

It's that time of year, the first snow fall, the thrill of black Friday, yuletide carols being sung by a choir and jackasses ranting about the "war on Xmas."

When I was a kid, and a Catholic, my family said, "Happy Holidays" all the time. It simply meant, "If I don't see you, happy Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Year." It referred to the holiday season.

But the O'Reillyites have to have something to bitch about. Those poor oppressed Xtians. They make it sound like "happy holidays" is a brand new slogan created a year ago by the liberals as part of the assault on Xmas. I've actually heard it said the liberals are trying to take away their right to say, "Merry Xmas."

And the store protests, almighty Atheismo, help me! The stores don't give two fucks about anyone’s religious holiday. Target management is not thinking, "Screw those Xtians. I'm not saying Xmas. I'm EVIL, ha ha ha ha!!" Nor are they thinking, "Ooh. Don't want to offend any Muslims by not including their holidays." Their thinking, "Happy holidays. It's warm and cheery in here. Come and spend your money." They're not being PC in order to spare people's feelings. If anything, they're taking advantage of the PC movement in order to be inclusive of everyone's money!

If the Xtians really want to protest an attack on their precious holiday, they should protest the stores who target Xmas specifically by saying, "Merry Xmas." Because when stores do that, they have one thing in mind. And it ain't the birth of X. It's, get your Xtian money in here. That's it. So the Xtians should be furious at the stores who DO say, "Merry Xmas," violating the sanctity of the holiday for commercial purposes. Shit the war on Xmas has been going on for centuries.

From now on when someone complains about the war on Xmas, I respond with, "Screw you. Xtians have been perpetrating a war on Solstice for two thousand years! Xmas is a stolen pagan holiday!"

Religious Freedom To Be Morons

I haven't blogged in a while and I know you're all sad about that. Sorry.

But sometimes all it takes to get me off my non-blogging butt is for several people to be assholes openly, in public.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate assholes. Everyone has the right to be an asshole. They should just keep it to themselves and not push their assholy agenda on the rest of us. Assholes want special rights and protections. And they want their assholyry taught in our schools. They want to teach our children that it's ok, that it's "natural" to be assholes. They want the right to marry each other.

Well it's a slippery slope people. Wake up. If we allow assholes to have their way, they'll force their asshole lifestyle right into our living rooms. Pretty soon our children will marry assholes and we'll all become assholes. And then what's to stop people from becoming total dickheads and douche bags, even mother fuckers?

So by now you may be saying, "D, you're not political. Why all this ass-un-holy fury? What inspired this anti-A-hole rant?"

Well, this:

http://bsalert.com/news/1990/Bill_Nye_Bood_In_Texas_For_Saying_The_Moon_Reflects_The_Sun.html

Evolve!

Celebrate Life!

My Conservapeida Contribution

CONSERVAPEDIA¹ is a website started by a bunch of paranoid Christians who want to turn America into a theocracy. The site is meant to look and behave like Wikipedia and is touted by its proponents as being a conservative answer to the left leaning Wiki. It is full of lies, slander and meaningless rants against anything liberal, libertarian or basically American, all not so cleverly crafted to appear as scholarly writing. Conservapedia does not allow users to contribute or edit articles, despite having a link labeled User Contributions.

Conservapedia has a variety of effects on individuals and society at large which will be subsequently elaborated on.²

These same paranoid Christians who created this site also want to rewrite their own holy book, which is just as well since most of them don't follow most of its dictates anyway. The want to make the bible more conservative because apparently the bible, which instructs us to kill those who work on the Sabbath, kill gays, kill those who worship other gods, sell our daughters into slavery (sexual and the other kind), cut off our foreskins, kill disobedient children, subjugate women and to commit many other heinous acts, is too liberal.³ They want to translate it with a conservative bias because modern translations have a liberal bias and translating the bible with a bias is wrong. Uh…yep, pretty much.

Conservapedia is conservative in every sense of the word. In its attempt to look legit it includes articles on math and science but in so doing it does two things, it 1] includes ridicule of the subject where it can, claiming its purpose is to undermine Christianity and 2] gives very little actual information on the subject. For example, the Conservapedia science page talks about how early scientists were creationist Christians while modern American scientists are “…more atheistic as a group.” Also the Wikipedia article on math is really long while the Conservapedia math page is short, which is good because math is boring.

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Notes

¹I wish I were making this up!

²This is one of Conservapedia’s favorite bits of fear mongering. They frequently include this claim in articles about things they oppose, homosexuality, atheism, etc. and then fail to elaborate on the effects they mention.

³I wish I were making this up!

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Sources:

Conservapedia

http://conservapedia.com/Conservapedia

The Conservative Bible Project

http://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project

Conservapedia: Science

http://conservapedia.com/Science

Wikipedia: Mathematics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math

Conservapedia: Mathematics

http://conservapedia.com/Math

Cameron and Comfort WOTM bullshit

They're at it again. Kirk Cameron and "other guy" Ray Comfort (the man so fond of the banana) are pushing their religious opposition to science, complete with all the typical crap creationist tend to include in their EVILution tirades.

This time the attack takes the form of a book give away on university campuses. Check it out.
http://tahoecommunitychurch.org/wordpress/?tag=darwins-origin-of-species-150th-anniversary

Yep, they're giving away Origin of Species. As far as I know the text is intact, unaltered. But they've included a 50 PAGE intro by Ray Comfort. It contains all the same crap creationists have pumped out and which has all been debunked and discredited time and time again. These guys know these arguments are fallacious, flawed, disproved, wrong and yet they keep recycling them. This is called lying.

Notice that the video promoting this project starts out with a collection of lies:
"Our kids can no longer pray in public. " Flat out lie.

"They can no longer freely open a bible in school." Lie.

"The ten commandments are no longer allowed to be displayed in public places." Lie. They are not allowed on government land. But in public, not so.

"And the Gideons are not even allowed to give away bibles in schools." Partial truth. In ONE school district in Missouri, the courts ruled the Gideons couldn't distribute to students, and this only applies to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Lie of omission.

"...in the top 50 universities in our country, in the fields of psychology and biology, 61% of the professors describe themselves as atheists or agnostics." True. But what he leaves out of the statement is that when professors from all disciplines were polled the number dropped to about 23%.
http://religion.ssrc.org/reforum/Gross_Simmons.pdf

Hmm...I could have sworn I'd head Kirk and Ray preach about the sin of lying.