Archive for January, 2011

(This was Tracie’s catch on FB, actually. Too awesome not to share with the rest of you though.)

Jen and I will be doing the January 30th show. We’ll be looking at the distortions, half-truths, and outright lies in a fund raising letter sent by Mike Huckabee. One of our members received it (we know not why) and she brought it to our attention. Please consider this post open to comments on the letter and the show.

Some emailer from “UK Isle of Wight” writes: Subject: GOD Dose exist and the proof is everywere Quite simply and so beautiful, GOD is nothing and nothing is the absolute of everything Kazim: “GOD is nothing” I agree with that part. The rest seems to be pretty much gibberish. Emailer: nothing exist hypothetically lets say the universe has a wall made of rubber if we take all the stuff out we get closer to nothing until were left with particles bouncing around at a colossal rate witch would form heat as energy this “energy” is now in theory in nothing so it has no forces to keep it in or to burn its fuel so it expands massively on a colossal scale until it spreads its energy out evenly then it would contract back in and technically repeat again and again. so if nothing is something can we call it God in the sense of something of a creation or beginning rather then a higher being of consciousness? Kazim: The things you are saying at least superficially resemble sentences constructed in the English language. I imagine they make sense to you in some way. Emailer: v = HD and E=mc2 what don’t you understand ? Kazim: Flamingoes may journey smooshily up besides the curly hedges of knickers! Emailer: to write out the complete origins of the universe would lag the internet out for years in one single email. to be derogative of meaning i.e. talking gibberish is not only showing a complete bias approach to life and its existents but also completely missing my point of God cannot exist as nothing is impossible nothing is Zero witch is unachievable and infant but without zero nothing would exist at all. It was a joke u numpty ! best wishes

If you were reading this blog in the summer of 2008, you will understand why I couldn’t stop giggling when I discovered this.

As always, we air at 4:30-5:30 PM (CST) today (Sunday). You can watch live on ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-atheist-experience My plan is to discuss a few of the willfully ignorant things theists say in response to discovering people are atheist activists, including statements such as “why are you so angry at god?” and “I think you’re just searching for god.” Example: Person X has a loved family member who swears by a particular homeopathic doctor, who is conning them out of their money and resources and “treating” them for a dangerous and potentially fatal illness. The family member will not seek demonstrated effective treatments from a conventional doctor, because the homeopath has convinced them that modern medicine is a hand-puppet of Big Pharma and therefore an untrustworthy conspiracy. Eventually the family member dies. Person X begins a blog and a youtube channel to tell their story to help expose the dangers of homeopathy. They are contacted by others with similar stories, and they form an association to spread information to people about the lack of support for homeopathic claims and hopefully to help others avoid the same suffering they have experienced at the hands of charlatans. They should expect to get letters from believers expressing they are wrong. They should expect to be accused of being cogs in the Big Pharma conspiracy. They should expect to get testimonials from well meaning people with anecdotes about their “successes” with homeopathy and the “good” they are convinced it does. But I’m sure they would never expect some willful idiot will suggest that they are fighting homeopathy because they secretly want desperately to find evidence showing it really works, or that they secretly already believe it does work, and are angry about the fact it works. These particular rebuttals to the anti-homeopathy movement would be ridiculous. It seemed to me time...
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