I hear Texas is planning to brand evolutionists too.

and the Rev. Peter Marshall of Peter Marshall Ministries in Massachusetts, who suggests that California wildfires and Hurricane Katrina were divine punishments for tolerance of homosexuality.

Peter Marshall?

Circle gets the square.

Texas hasn't seceded yet? Buggerall.....

I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: and the Rev. Peter Marshall of Peter Marshall Ministries in Massachusetts, who suggests that California wildfires and Hurricane Katrina were divine punishments for tolerance of homosexuality.

Peter Marshall?

Circle gets the square.

It's hard for me to imagine anyone saying that without it being in a Paul Lynde voice, but anyway...

How big a douche do you have to be to name your church after yourself?

More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

ninjakirby: More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

This isn't a new strategy. It's how modern Republicans are seeking election.

ninjakirby: More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

Check this guy out.

ninjakirby: More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

That's the modern GOP in a nutshell. "X doesn't work, and we can prove it."

bighasbeen: ninjakirby: More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

Check this guy out.

Oh I know it happens routinely, I just needed to point it out and question it. Another example can be found right there on the Board:

"In her book, One Nation Under God, Dunbar argues that the country's founding fathers created "an emphatically Christian government" and believed that government should be guided by a "biblical litmus test. [...]She calls public education a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion." The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even "tyrannical," she writes in the book, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children."

So basically they just hired themselves. Disgusting.

ninjakirby: bighasbeen: ninjakirby: More to the point, why the fark is someone who claims public education is a disease evaluating public education?

Check this guy out.

Oh I know it happens routinely, I just needed to point it out and question it. Another example can be found right there on the Board:

"In her book, One Nation Under God, Dunbar argues that the country's founding fathers created "an emphatically Christian government" and believed that government should be guided by a "biblical litmus test. [...]She calls public education a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion." The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even "tyrannical," she writes in the book, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children."

So basically they just hired themselves. Disgusting.

I sent this article to my cousin who lives in Texas as he is one of the most liberal people in the state and only moved there because his wife got a great job. He's got kids so I thought he should know.

This thread makes me want to kill myself.

If these goddamn idiots want a theocracy, they can move to Iran, they like that there. We don't do that shiat here.

*facepalm*

Goddamnit...I bust my ass trying to make us Texans not look like retards by explaining the roots of the secessionist shiat and you farkers do something like this. I swear, it's getting damn close to saying fark rationality and just start beating the shiat out of these morons until they move to Kansas or Utah or something.

Stupid is self-sustaining. The free market of ideas does not always see the most intelligent ideas prevail. If a good majority of the people are stupid, they are usually sold on the dumb ideas that are consistent with their own stupidity, not on ideas that would enlighten them.

For a second there, I thought Ed Board was a person.

kellynoel: This thread makes me want to kill myself.

Don't let us stop you.


RobsterCraw: Stupid is self-sustaining. The free market of ideas does not always see the most intelligent ideas prevail. If a good majority of the people are stupid, they are usually sold on the dumb ideas that are consistent with their own stupidity, not on ideas that would enlighten them.

Humanity is dragged, kicking and screaming, into the future.

I am seriously contemplating writing a Christian book and pretending to be a prominent Christian thinker in order to pull what I believe will be one of the greatest scams of the new century. To me there seems to be a certain ironic justice in fleecing the stupid.

James F. Campbell: I am seriously contemplating writing a Christian book and pretending to be a prominent Christian thinker in order to pull what I believe will be one of the greatest scams of the new century. To me there seems to be a certain ironic justice in fleecing the stupid.

Been done.

ninjakirby: Been done.

I don't get it. Is it the website that's fake-Christian? Leman? The Shack? Which one?

This comes from the Texas Freedom Network -- that's a funny name for a far left extremist group that opposes academic freedom and school vouchers.

SkinnyHead: This comes from the Texas Freedom Network -- that's a funny name for a far left extremist group that opposes academic freedom and school vouchers.

Shut up, you dreary fraud.

/I wanted to post that wonderful cartoon of a Christian on the cross, while muslims, atheists, transgenders and such hung around and rolled dice for his clothes. But even after 20 minutes of looking, I can't find the damn thing.

Anyone got it?

I wonder which laws this guy believes should be based on "scripture."

Thou shalt not kill--OK, I'm fine with that one.
Thou shalt not steal--Ditto.
Thou shalt not covet--Tried that, still do it. Sue me.
Thou shalt not create idolatry--Too late, he did that.
Thou shalt not believe in multiple gods--Is there a test for that? Like an LSAT?
Thou shalt not commit adultery--Why the hell not if you can get away with it?
The Sabbath is a holy day--which is Saturday and Friday for Jews and Muslims.
Honor your father and mother--Should be reciprocal, right?

...whatever.

Meh. I don't live in Texas and I don't have kids. Not my problem.

You guys need to get your sh*t together. Nothing the rest of us can do to help.

Let them secede. Let all of the wacko fundamentalists secede and start their own Christian version of America. They can revert to a Christian version of Taliban-era Afghanistan while the rest of us can get on with modern times unimpeded by their idiocy.

I've got nothing against religion or even Christianity. Just stop trying to legislate your religion.

He argues that separation of church and state is a "myth" and that the nation's laws should be based on Scripture.

And where did he get this tidbit of information from?

Barton also acknowledges having used in his publications and speeches nearly a dozen quotes he has attributed to the nation's Founders even though he can't identify any primary sources showing that they really said them.

Oooohhhh - he's pulling it out of his arse. Got it.
Top work Ed Board or whatever your name is, I salute you.

You know who else wanted their nation's laws based upon scripture?



That's right, the Taliban.

Sun God: For a second there, I thought Ed Board was a person.

Thanks for that.

/still chuckling

/hotlink'd

hillbillypharmacist: Shut up, you dreary fraud.

Please don't quote the troll, It negates the benefit of having him on my ignore list.

WWFPD?

Honestly, I'd thoroughly enjoy it if one of these dudes - or Fred Phelps - came to FARK and posted comments. I do think there'd be a bunch of resulting lawsuits, but the pwnage would be epic.

Sun God: I wonder which laws this guy believes should be based on "scripture."

There's always the Atheists Commandment: Don't Be An Arsehole.

Short. To the point. Applies in just about all situations. I'll bet we could even have it on a statue in front of a courthouse somewhere. I think George Carlin would approve.

shivashakti: Let them secede. Let all of the wacko fundamentalists secede and start their own Christian version of America. They can revert to a Christian version of Taliban-era Afghanistan while the rest of us can get on with modern times unimpeded by their idiocy.

I've got nothing against religion or even Christianity. Just stop trying to legislate your religion.

We really don't want that. Like the Taliban, these wackjobs would get it in their noodle that it was their duty to convert their more moderate, more productive, and better looking neighbor to the north.

No, I believe that if these nutters want to leave we should have a March to the Sea Part Deux... except this time there will be a massive re-education effort of these retards once the war is won a second time.

Abstruse: *facepalm*

Goddamnit...I bust my ass trying to make us Texans not look like retards by explaining the roots of the secessionist shiat and you farkers do something like this. I swear, it's getting damn close to saying fark rationality and just start beating the shiat out of these morons until they move to Kansas or Utah or something.

As a liberal, progressive Kansan who moved to Texas, I have to say you're doing it wrong. (And, apparently, so am I.)

SkinnyHead: This comes from the Texas Freedom Network -- that's a funny name for a far left extremist group that opposes academic freedom and school vouchers.

That theocracy is based on some weird moongod that talks funny. Not their cup of tea.

SkinnyHead: This comes from the Texas Freedom Network -- that's a funny name for a far left extremist group that opposes academic freedom and school vouchers.

So besides your ad hominem, what is the point you're making about this specific argument?

Dear Separation of Church and State deniers:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

And yes, the rules apply to Texas as well.

Dear Texas,

Please secede from the union, so you can be bombed to shiat and have your population shifted to reeducation camps after the unsuing civil war.

Let the eagle soar (new window)

/yeah I know he's not from Texas
//might as well be

Anyone have a Texas version of this?

Barton also acknowledges having used in his publications and speeches nearly a dozen quotes he has attributed to the nation's Founders even though he can't identify any primary sources showing that they really said them.

B-B-Bevets?

From the full article:


Barton, former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, is a self-styled "historian" without any formal training in the field. He argues that separation of church and state is a "myth" and that the nation's laws should be based on Scripture. He says, for example, that the Bible forbids taxes on income and capital gains.

Capital gains? Er, interesting.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=119 (i.e. affiliated with Mr. Barton, not with Mr. Barton's political enemies)

The Capital Gains Tax, which is a tax on profits, actually penalizes a person for success the more profit you make the more you have to pay (i.e., the more profit a person makes the higher tax rate they pay on that profit/windfall from an investment). However, In the Bible, the more profit you make the more you are rewarded. Both the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and the parable of the minas (Luke 19:12-27) conflict with the notion of a tax on capital gains. "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." In other words, the Bible implies that those who do well (invest) with what they have will be given more.



That's, er, quite some stretching.

Ed Finnerty: Anyone have a Texas version of this?


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It's late.

Cornwell: Dear Texas,

Please secede from the union, so you can be bombed to shiat and have your population shifted to reeducation camps after the unsuing civil war.

Please, please. We're Americans, not savages. They'll be shifted to the camps before we bomb the shiat out of the "stragglers". Then after a bit of mild heh waterboarding we'll let Mexico have them.

Yeah, that's right. Except Austin: let's annex that shiat, for the perpetual win.

Gangway Fathead: Ed Finnerty: Anyone have a Texas version of this?

I LOL'd.
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It's late.

Cornwell: Dear Texas,

Please secede from the union, so you can be bombed to shiat and have your population shifted to reeducation camps after the unsuing civil war.

I too was trying to think of something stupider than the article. Although we couldn't do it, you came close.

Korovyov: That's, er, quite some stretching.

He actually argues that the Bible thinks a progressive tax is morally wrong?

Wow. Not really interested in a functional society now, are we?

Korovyov: From the full article:


Barton, former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, is a self-styled "historian" without any formal training in the field. He argues that separation of church and state is a "myth" and that the nation's laws should be based on Scripture. He says, for example, that the Bible forbids taxes on income and capital gains.

Capital gains? Er, interesting.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=119 (i.e. affiliated with Mr. Barton, not with Mr. Barton's political enemies)

The Capital Gains Tax, which is a tax on profits, actually penalizes a person for success the more profit you make the more you have to pay (i.e., the more profit a person makes the higher tax rate they pay on that profit/windfall from an investment). However, In the Bible, the more profit you make the more you are rewarded. Both the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) and the parable of the minas (Luke 19:12-27) conflict with the notion of a tax on capital gains. "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." In other words, the Bible implies that those who do well (invest) with what they have will be given more.



That's, er, quite some stretching.

That's beyond stretching. That's Wii Fit.

Ed Finnerty: Anyone have a Texas version of this?

does this one work?



/q&d

Abstruse: Goddamnit...I bust my ass trying to make us Texans not look like retards by explaining the roots of the secessionist shiat and you farkers do something like this. I swear, it's getting damn close to saying fark rationality and just start beating the shiat out of these morons until they move to Kansas or Utah or something.

Seriously. This isn't even about policy anymore. All they're interested in is shoving their "Christianity" (I use that word loosely) in non-evangelical-Christians' faces for the purposes of grandstanding and spite.

It's time to get these petty, ignorant motherfarkers out of government.

The bible has many interesting laws.