Bob the Angry Flower retells the story of the bald prophet, Elisha. Man, if I had the power to summon angry she-bears, I wouldn’t be siccing them on the children who made fun of my looks — I can think of much better targets for my wrath.
It’s an odd choice for Bob, though. I’d think he’d be much more concerned about Jesus and that fig tree.
This will be handy around here: The Hovind Scale. It’s a metric for calculating the craziness of a creationist’s comment from 0 (scientific and honest) to 100 (dishonest insanity). There’s even an online calculator to simplify it for you!
I did a quick spot check on a few of our local loony commenters, and found that 16s were pretty common, and a few of the egregious old trolls who’ve been banned got up into the 40s. Unfortunately, the scale is flawed by one subjective measure: you have to interpret whether the kook is knowingly lying or not. I tend to view most of them as stupid but sincere, which means they aren’t going to hit the highest scores.
A couple of college students in Toronto (what is it with those ferocious godless heathens coming out of that city?) took offense at the patent absurdity of the “Bible and Bible Studies” section of a large bookstore at Yonge and Eglinton, and decided to help organize the shelves by filing their contents more appropriately. They quietly moved the contents to other places in the bookstore, like Fiction, Humour, Sexuality, Erotica, Cuisine, Parenting, Mental Disorder, Parapsychology and the Occult. Then they sent me a photo of the end result.
That’s Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation sitting all alone there.
I can’t really condone this kind of behavior — think of the poor clerks who have to look everywhere to find and restore the bibles to their little ghetto — but it is funny. It’s also godless Canada, so maybe nobody noticed for a few weeks or months. Maybe nobody cared.
Here’s the other side of the story.
The book-shuffler also explains his side.
Now you’re all in trouble. I have been personally blessed by God via email.
Hi PZ,
Just wanted to thank you for the link to My Blog, Stuff God Hates. As such I will bless you and your family and make your descendants
the rulers of many lands.Also, I rather enjoy your blog as well.
– God
“Rulers of many lands” … I hope my kids don’t get stuck with Asia.
I’m grading genetics exams today. I hope the English department doesn’t inherit too many cadavers.
…but God has a blog in which he lists the stuff he hates. He’s definitely a bit petty and vindictive, so be careful commenting over there — he might just pick on you.
Is your lunch hour safely over? If not, wait a while before watching another interview with Ben Stein. I can’t believe what an idiot this man is; it’s not just that he’s ignorant, but that he has these bizarrely inappropriate notions about biology. He complains about “Darwinism” because it doesn’t explain why are there laws of gravity and thermodynamics, or where physics and gravity come from (Bonus lunacy! He claims Darwin said gravity was intelligently designed!). He keeps making these insane assertions in interview after interview, too; does he ever think, or notice that gravity is not a product of biological processes? Did someone tell him gravity was produced by sucking or something?
We all know, after all, that gravity is actually produced by the 4th dimension, which is not what you think it is. Just ask a smart rabbit, who even shares some other sentiments with Stein.
(Whatever you do, don’t send that comic to Ben Stein — he might think it’s a serious hypothesis.)
For they are like caged animals, ready to erupt.
We’re in big trouble now. A think tank is gearing up to take on all those uppity atheists, and they have a cunning plan that cannot fail, which will strip us of one of the most important tools in our arsenal. They have found Russell’s Teapot, and are planning to put it into space.
We are logically doomed.
