Archive for July, 2008

This is the last we’ll speak of Patrick. He tries to go down swinging with this infantile non-apology that he emailed us and, presumably, all of the people who sent him the emails he asked for on the program and yet somehow failed to give him the validation he so desperately craved. I wish to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to all atheists for my actions in the past few days. They were unwise and I have rectified everything with Ray Comfort. The bumper sticker is back for sale. We atheists will for all time, be taken as the evil people that the Christian ministers teach their congregations. That way they can be assured that when their congregations vote, not one of us will ever be elected so much as a dog catcher. And, everyone of you that wrote me, encouraging me to tuck my tail between my legs, and tell them that they are right, and their bumper sticker is the full and complete TRUTH. I have kept my promise to not file the lawsuit. And all of you have opened your hearts to me, and behaved like total cowards. It’s no wonder that the Christians think we all are so evil. All of you should be ashamed that you even think of yourselves as intelligent. And I’m taking my ball and going home! Waah. Christ, what a weasel. Seriously, Pat, you ought to take lessons from some right-wing politicians, or, hell, even Nancy Pelosi, on how to do hypocritical blame-shifting and passive-aggressive lashing out skillfully. This kind of foot-stomping petulance wouldn’t even qualify you to run for dog-catcher. I sent him off with a spanking. Sorry Patrick. But we stopped taking you seriously long ago, and this “apology” pretty much confirms all we need to know about you: that you’re a childish and dishonest narcissist whose ego is way too invested in being the hero of your own movie. If you honestly think that what people were trying to tell you when they criticized you for threatening to sue Ray was that we all think...
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Okay, we’re all familiar with the Yomin situation last month, and the coining of the phrase “pulling a Yomin,” which has entered Internet parlance as a term referring to anyone who has an excessive, histrionic, emotional, and deeply hypocritical and dishonest overreaction to any perceived slight, particularly when that behavior incorporates playing the victim when one’s problems can most truthfully be laid at one’s own doorstep. Lately the term has been used liberally to refer to the actions of Patrick Greene, about which you all have been reading for the last couple of days. Well, today, Patrick has outdone himself and entered what can only be called Trans-Yomin Space, a new dimension, not of sight and sound, but dimness and chaos. Get a load of the latest “here is my revenge for the crime of disagreeing with me and failing to herald me as a champion of atheism” letter he’s sent us. I did some research on the FCC webpage, and called them. I have filed the following complaint with the FCC. Matt Dillahunty, the host of the Atheist Experience program, read my e-mail to him, referring to him as an “asshole”. I was speaking to him via telephone, when his program was live on Sunday July 27th. During the conversation between us, where we were disagreeing on a subject, he referred to me as an “asshole” live on the program. I don’t know if this is acceptable language for the middle of the afternoon, when children could be viewing. You can view this program at this website, the top one, #563 http://www.atheist-experience.com/archive/ I can only laugh at this. This is how far this loser has sunk in his need to validate his sense of victimhood and avenge the horrible crime of being disagreed with. Any time anyone says something that pisses him off, he wants to find a way, however specious and feeble, to sic the law or the courts on them. Stupid comes in many colors. I think Patrick has found...
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No surprise, Ray Comfort offered a jeering post about Patrick’s threat of a lawsuit on his blog. That’s the biggest problem with taking this kind of ill-conceived action, and it’s completely predictable. It gives the opponent completely justified moral high ground from which to criticize you, when before he was just slinging a fairly juvenile insult. So I wrote my own comment there, pointing out that Patrick does not represent all atheists, and that in fact we dedicated a fair bit of show time to criticizing him over the weekend. Ray didn’t let the comment go unedited: I tried to supply a link to the video and audio broadcasts, and he says he doesn’t allow any links from commenters. Meh? I think that’s a silly policy, but I read the rules now and it wasn’t just me. In any case, Ray was kind enough to personally post the comment himself, sans the links. So if nothing else, I know he’s read it. If you want a score count, I estimated that the total number of emails sent concurrently to Patrick and us, as of this morning, is pretty close to 50. I’ve stopped reading them all carefully, so it’s possible that I’ve missed something. However, my back-of-the-envelope calculations show that somewhere around, um, oh, call it 100% of the emailers agree with us. Patrick’s response seems to be that they are all now self-admitted fools, and that since all the atheists in the world have not emailed him, everyone who didn’t explicitly say he’s wrong must secretly be on his side. Face, meet desk. Ow! Hmmm… it looks like Ray just made a special post to highlight my comment, and also claims that Patrick wishes to withdraw his suit based on these emails. I notice that Ray is aggressively avoiding a link back, even cutting out the name of the show. Typical. Now I feel better, because I can’t handle having sympathetic feelings toward Ray for too long.

This one was a corker, so I thought I’d get it up here right away. Above and beyond the whole exchange with Patrick, there’s “Eve,” aka Microbiologychick, who punks Matt with some of the funniest Poe-ing you’re going to hear all week. Oh, by the way. Apparently the latest backwash of Patrick’s foolishness is this: Living Waters has announced, I am informed, that they’re no longer going to be selling the bumper sticker that got Patrick all riled up. Now they’ll be giving it away for free! Bravo, Patrick. You fucktard. Addendum by Russell/Kazim: To hear “Eve” call in, fast forward to about 54:00 in the video.

Patrick Greene called in to the show on Sunday. The episode is now posted on Google and you’re free to listen to Patrick make his case (with interruptions and clarifications from your rather perturbed host). While we’re all aware that public opinion is irrelevant to truth, he’d like to hear from you. If you think he’s done the right thing, let him know. If you think he’s made a huge mistake that makes the rest of us look bad, let him know. If you aren’t sure, let him know. Evidently, he’s just not getting enough email. So, here’s his e-mail address: peewee_91762 Read more