The Wingnuts Really Are Getting More Whacko By The Day

[filkertom]

You are simply not gonna believe this one. Be sure to read the response.

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[cheshyre]

Total nonsequitur, but have you heard about Black Sheep, a forthcoming horror flick?

Check out the movie posters: clean(ish) and nasty

I think it's time to brush off Fenton for the topical humor...

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

What gets me is that by their "logic", Christianity needs to be "discarded into the dustbin of history" too. Have they forgotten about the CRUSADES?? Not to mention all the people who have been burned at the stake in the Christian God's name, the Salem witch trials, etc.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

There's an increasingly common response to that one - especially since the Perpetual War started - that the Crusades were misunderstood. See, they were entirely justified, defensive actions, because Muslim armies penetrated well into Europe three centuries before and three centuries after the Crusades began and ended!

When people start revising their entire history to, well, justify the war in Iraq, you start seeing all sorts of silly shit like that.

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

That first one, are you sure they are serious?

[ionicaq.livejournal.com]

I think it was a bit tongue-in-cheek having looked at the some of the rest of the stuff there.

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

Given the post titled "This week in genocide" and the comment beneath it:

"Winning elections won't be enough. We need to try these sorry fuckers. They need to be made to pay for their crimes against humanity--all of them from Bush to Brown, from Cheney to the lowliest "interrogator" at some secret prison in Poland. We cannot allow any to escape punishment lest they, like Poindexter and Abrams, return to commit new crimes for another authoritarian administration. "

I think this guy is being a leetle bit sarcastic in his post. However, the wingnuts aren't, and that's what's scary.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Sorry I hadn't responded to this one to clear things up. Patriotboy, aka Jesus' General, J. C. Christian, Patriot, has his tongue thrust through his cheek. He's consistently nominated for Koufax Awards for best humorous blog, and he is one of the most consistently devastating voices of satire on the left. Problem is, as Dr. Kennedy demonstrates, he's never gonna run out of material.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I believe it. They've gone completely around the bend. I can't honestly say I'd be surprised if they...called for the extermination of an "impure" race (like arabs, for instance) and internment camps for American dissenters from the Republican agenda. Because, on some extreme blogs, people have already done that. They've suggested dropping nukes in the middle east. Annexing Iraq as part of America (after kicking out the dirty, smelly natives, of course. Or maybe setting up reservations). They've suggested forcing Iraqis to make war reparations to us. What the hell hasn't been suggested yet? Annexing the Sudetenland?

Of course, this particular documentary is made by and for people who loathe "Dawrinism" although they haven't read a word of Darwin. The real villain they should be going after, the one whose ideas Hitler borrowed, was the man behind social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer. Except that conservatives love Herbert Spencer, because he favored absolute capitalism.

This is an old meme among the nutters...

[lizard-sf.livejournal.com]

You got to love that "Before Darwin, human life was VALUED!" Uh-huh. That's why death by public torture was commonplace for many crimes we'd consider trivial today (including, uhm, blasphemy...) and why the anti-evolutionary American South engaged in horrific lynchings in the early 19th century, while the somewhat more secular North did not, at least not to the same extent and degree. A-yup.

Seems to me there's a pretty strong correlation between religious fundementalism and a *disdain* for human life. Once you've decided your morality is absolutely flawless and without question, because it was handed down by Gawd, you can turn off all conscience, all self-criticism, all need to ask "Are we really doing the right thing?"

And, of course, even if they were right (they're not!) that Darwin led to Hitler (he didn't) -- it still wouldn't prove evolution *wrong*, not in the slightest. That's called 'argument from consequences', and it's bogus.

http://www.pontification.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/43-Was-Hitler-Inspired-by-Darwin.html

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Car crashes kill thousands of people a year.

Quick, somebody demonize Henry Ford.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Darwin Died in 1882.

Hitler was born in 1889.

There could be no conspiracy, no meeting of the minds, in fact, no meeting at all. About the closest they could come to each other is 6 feet through rocky soil, though even that was impossible as Darwin is buried in England.

But I'll give them a Godwin Award for their "best attempt to discredit science by tying it to a historic fascist in order to serve their current fascist ideology and goals."

[barbara-the-w.livejournal.com]

Obviously they missed the note that the first people to bring up Hitler in any argument lose the argument....

[gan-chan.livejournal.com]

Hey, apparently they're all going to move to South Carolina (http://www.christianexodus.org/). Me, I say we let them secede this time, and good bloody riddance to the lot.

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

I love this line from Coral Ridge's press release (see the comments linked to in Tom's post):
"he ignores the historical fact that Adolf Hitler was an evolutionist"

And they're apparently ignoring the fact that Torquemada was a Creationist, right?