I feel sad for people who are perfectly content to never contemplate the nature of the universe surrounding them and the existence they experience. There are many people just like this woman, who never bother to learn or even ponder things, because it "doesn't matter" to them.

It's an almost terminal lack of curiosity, and it saddens me - because it makes these people merely cogs in a machine, useful for one purpose alone and absolutely helpless outside that single insectoid specialization. It's mankind as a pack animal wearing blinders.

Ponder. Explore. Test. Learn. It's the one most important trait we as people have.

lionfish: let me be the first to say:

Wow. Just. Wow.

My sentiments exactly except I thought: my..... my oh my....

You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: I am truly AMAZED at the amount of ignorance and stupidity religion some peoples' interpretation of religious ideas causes.

Sorry. Pet peeve.

Bob_Laublaw: You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: The ONLY reason people doubt evolution is because it conflicts with their insane religious beliefs.

I'd also suspect that a fair amount of Americans bristle at the thought that their original ancestors were African.

that doesn't bother anyone, it's the thought that we may have english ancestory...

/I love you english bastards

Crewmannumber6: Holy God!!!!! (see what I did there?)

You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: I am truly AMAZED at the amount of ignorance and stupidity religion causes.

Religion didn't make her a dumbass. Science and faith are not mutually exclusive, Newton and Keppler were not agnostic.

Bingo. Science = how, Faith = why.

Out Of Bounds: Maps. More proof that we need more maps.

Maps just add to the confusion about the Earth being flat. What we need are globes.

Wowzah! What else can you say but , dear god we are all doomed!

I also thought the world rode on the back of a giant turtle

In all fairness, the world can be whatever shape it wants to be through the eyes of God.

Crewmannumber6: Holy God!!!!! (see what I did there?)

You_mean_I'm_gonna_stay_this_color: I am truly AMAZED at the amount of ignorance and stupidity religion causes.

Religion didn't make her a dumb ass. Science and faith are not mutually exclusive, Newton and Kepler were not agnostic.

Neither was Einstein, but they weren't Bible thumping retards either.

I'm sure that this chick is representative of all Christians and not picked to be a punching bag for the other hosts.

Bob_Laublaw 2007-09-19 01:17:20 PM
You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: The ONLY reason people doubt evolution is because it conflicts with their insane religious beliefs.

I'd also suspect that a fair amount of Americans bristle at the thought that their original ancestors were African.

This.

Can someone show me in the bible where it claims the world is flat?
I have never come across that.
She's just an idiot, don't be so quick to blame religion.

And now I say something snarky to not be 86'd from fark.

zomg miss north carolina maps and globes.

SherKhan: It's one thing to be ignorant. These things happen. Hell, I'm ignorant of many things. But it's entirely another thing to be willfully, even pridefully ignorant.

this.

the word you're looking for there is: obtuse

it's also very fun to tell people they are being obtuse. not only do they get pissed for being called out on their a$$hattery but you get the added bonus of watching ignorance in action as they struggle to grasp what the term, "being obtuse" actually means.

Kyosuke: whelmed: That is beyond sad, but probably representative of the efficacy of some of our educational system.How is our educational system supposed to change these ideas when we're happy to let children be brainwashed with religious ideas from birth? These fools have a 6 year head start.

"Jesus loves me this I know, For the Bible tells me so" repeated ad nauseam is a form of brainwashing, whether anyone cares to admit it or not.

This is why whenever I see someone named Mary I automatically assume she has a little lamb somewhere.

unremarkable asterisk: Crewmannumber6: Religion didn't make her a dumbass. Science and faith are not mutually exclusive, Newton and Keppler were not agnostic.

And yet it moves (new window)

I must have missed the part where anybody professed the absence of God. Maybe I'll read it again.

atom666- that was genius!

I just pooped my lunch out of my mouth.

You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color: Religion teaches you to not ask questions

Wrong.

You are again attacking blind faith, rather than religion. I'm in complete agreement that blind faith is idiotic.

"Religion", as a practice, includes theology, which is solely about asking questions. If you aren't capable of discussing theology, you're not really religious. You have blind, ignorant faith, and should shut the hell up about it, since you don't want to bother learning the basics.

slipperyrockdawg
and this is why every home should have a globe and atlases, in addition to a buttload of good books.

\never trust a home without books
\\one Bible & the latest issue of People magazine doesn't count
\\\nor does one small shelf of Clancy novels

MOHWowbagger: "I never really thought about it"?!
"I NEVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT"?!?!?!!??!!?!?!?

What the farking fark??!!

Agreed. It was at that point in the video that I had to hit "pause" so that I could smack my forehead several times without distraction.

What's even more amazing to me is that Whoopi actually seemed to be approaching the territory of an intelligent thought for a minute there.

TheCharmerUnderMe: Please explain. Theology is just man's way to explain things he can't understand by humanizing the unknown.

That's like me saying "Science is just man's way to explain things by itemizing the Divine."

While it may be technically accurate, it doesn't have any actual weight as an argument, nor is it in any way useful.

So wait... the world ISN'T flat?!? If it's round why don't we all just fall off?

/farking idiots

Drakkenmaw: Ponder. Explore. Test. Learn. It's the one most important trait we as people have.

I dunno. Sometimes I think that if I were a little more focused I might have made something of myself. Instead, I spend my time beign distracted by every... ooh, look a shiny!

jaredgood1: Faith = why.

Really? Then why don't some religious people tell me why. Who should I ask - a Buddhist, a Hindu, a moderate Muslim, Osama bin Laden, Pat Robertson, a moderate Christian, some hippy chick stroking a crystal?

SherKhan: Eve chose well.

Agreed, and thankfully Satan was there to lead her to the proper choice in that fable. The entire xian view of the old testament is upside down. Satan is the good guy, the god character is the evil one, and somehow humans persevere.

Crewmannumber6:

I must have missed the part where anybody professed the absence of God. Maybe I'll read it again.

You haven't been on Fark very long, then.

Well, I know for sure that the moon is made of Cheese and is round.

That is why Cheese gets so expensive. If you look in the sky, the moon gets smaller then bigger then smaller as the month passes by. More cheese, less cheese, more cheese, less cheese. A cheese cycle.

If more people made cheese instead of harvesting it from the moon, we wouldn't have to worry about the moon getting smaller and larger again.

If this were text-only, I would so say she did not pass the Turing Test.

It takes a certain, special someone to say the STUPIDEST thing ever said on The View.

S-M-R-T

I would think that in the last six-thousand years, since God made us and the Universe, that everybody that has been to school would at least know that the Earth is round, or a sphere for the really advanced.

/doom doom doom

slipperyrockdawg: I had a Map Interpretation class a few years ago at a community college back in Ohio. Girl asked what the latitude lines were made out of. How they didn't sink, why you couldn't see them when you were flying.
Dead. Farking. Serious.

I died a little inside. This is on par with that.

No, no, no ... never happened .. that's just not true.

/scared it is true

Yyyyeeah...all of the people in here claiming the US education
system is to blame are incorrect. You are taught from the first
finger-painting exercise kindergarten that the world is a big
sphere. They also teach us:

"THE BIG YELLOW ONE'S THE SUN!! THE BIG YELLOW ONE'S THE SUN!! "

You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color:

She doesn't believe in evolution. As if it's even something to believe in. That's a direct result of religious teaching

The important question is "How many evolutions must the world make to go around once?"

AgeOfReason: Agreed, and thankfully Satan was there to lead her to the proper choice in that fable. The entire xian view of the old testament is upside down. Satan is the good guy, the god character is the evil one, and somehow humans persevere.

You're being trite, but the Eden tale comes almost directly word-for-word from Babylonian myth. Which explains why, in the Bible version, God is talking in the royal "we"; "We shall create man in our image" and all that; in the Babylonian version, there was more than the one God.

And in that version, it was the "good guy" who took the form of a snake and snuck into the garden to free man from his enslavement.


Now, for the twist; remember the Jews? Remember how they were captured and enslaved by the Babylonians? They had exposure to the myth, and every reason to pick their enemy's enemy as their friend, or God.

I'm more worried about my family

What a lame cop-out. How could anybody successfully go through the entire US public education system and believe the world is flat?

improvius 2007-09-19 01:24:15 PM
Oh, and that thunder we're all hearing right now? That's the collective sound of every educated black person in the country banging their heads on desks and tables.

That.

I have never met a single person of faith or agnostic who believes the world is flat. This chick is just a dumbass.

/would skull fark the shiat out of EH

daytona: You can't blame that on religion. Morons.

Yes, we can. Not all religions are to blame, mind you, but there are certain sects that pride themselves on their anti-science stance.

I don't know if it's flat or not. If only I had a map... such as.

Maybe it' a ring! Then it would be flat and round and we could all just get along!!!11111111111!!

I know a lot of the "earth is about 4000 years old" crowd here in teh midwest.

You can really scare (read: piss off) a rural fundamentalist christian by telling him/her that jesus was(is) jewish.