The Buffoon from Banana Land, Strikes Again

This is my attempt to curtail the misinformation, spewed forth by the purveyors of minimalist thinking and stupefying superstition, masquerading as something resembling coherent discourse.


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I left the following comment in an attempt of my own;

As a literary connoisseur of sorts, I am thoroughly nauseated by the way in which this contrivance has been regurgitated upon the reading public. I am likewise disgusted with any unabashed parasite, and company, that would sully such a beautiful work as the "Origin of Species" with what can only be described as an atrocious attempt, resulting in an indigestible goulash of ill-conceived thoughts. Only, for the likes of Ray Comfort, this is by no means the worst. For, not only does this poster child for inanity attach a fifty page diatribe of the typical creationist misconceptions, delusions, and outright lies masquerading as a foreword to Charles Darwin's unassailable work, these repugnant cretins (Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, and their publishers) also removed many important sections from the original work in an attempt to hide the very evidence contradicting their claims.

Ray Comfort attempts, in his typical egregious fashion, to disparage Darwin by portraying him and his theory as racist in nature. When in fact, any light perusal of any of Darwin's letters, his, "Voyage of the Beagle" or even an unbiased reading of 'Origins' would give ample evidence of the opposite, he was in fact an overly kind and unassuming "Victorian Gentleman" and loving father. Please, Google Darwin's interaction with the natives of Tierra Del Fuego for an example of his humanitarian character.

It would seem to me that if you want to read "The Origin of Species" search for ISBN-10: 0451529065 with an Introduction by Julian Huxley. If you are a creationist, why would reading interest you? All you need to do is ask a man that believes in talking snakes about science.

I do not see this as anything other than the "Dumbing Down" of America. An actual premeditated crime against the very foundation of this country and her Founding Fathers, Fascism in the making. For a more thorough understanding of where I think this may be going, please read "Kingdom Coming" - The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg.
This country was founded on the very principles of the Enlightenment by men who where known in their time as Giants of those very principles. That means, in my opinion, that like Capitalism, religion is a caveat to our Democracy. That is, we are a Democracy that has a capitalistic economic support structure, not a Capitalist country. Concurrently, we are a Democracy that allows people to believe what they wish, but not to inflict others with this or that flavor of superstition, not to proselytize others into the same or to dominate public policy with the mythologies of bronze age desert goat herders.

But, this is about science; and the teaching of the principles of honest, logical inquiry, the value of evidence based conclusions, and why an unsubstantiated assertion has absolutely no value in intelligent discourse. Intelligent Design is Creationist crap in a different diaper! Creationism is the garnered insight of illiterate, uneducated, fearfully superstitious bronze age desert goat herders that had no idea where lightening came from or that the inner workings of the human body was identical to that of most mammals. Another point about the book of Genesis that most people seem to forget, and I pledge to never drop, is that literally millions of people have died horrible, public (slow, in front of their own families) torture and death for disavowing that specifically Genesis and generally the Bible was the literal word of god, and as such, should have been deftly accurate about our true genesis. Unfortunately, like the very myths that god(s) generally, Genesis specifically and superstition regularly are created from, its only value is in the telling of the true mental state of our ancestors until the time of Darwin's beautiful thesis was revealed to the Royal Society.

The Letters of Charles Darwin or if you would consider yourself a friend of Charles'. Here is a comment I wrote in February to an online paper in Jacksonville, Florida about one Senator Wise (man! if there were ever a misnomer!?) who introduced legislation supporting the teaching of Creationist drivel in science classes, because "If you're going to teach evolution, then you have to teach the other side so you can have critical thinking." at: Jacksonville News
In this comment; I am replying to the article in general, but the previous comments as well, so this covers my view of everything from the Wedge Document to "It's just a theory", exclaimed the ill-informed:
To which I replied;

Please, evolution is a fact. Creationism is nothing more than a scam brought to us by the same people that came up with the "trinity", virgin birth, talking snakes, and a many millennia old myth from a surviving tribe of bronze age desert goat herders.

By the scientific method, the fact that I am a male reaches its highest acclaim at the point of accepted theory. This, of course, needs to be supported by the facts found in a study of my mammalian anatomy, but must be left open to falsification because of the principles of the scientific process. Anyone can take up the study of my anatomy and test the theory that I am a male, and (let me make a quick check) yep! the theory still stands - but the point is - it will always remain a theory supported by facts and testable by any... by my Fianceé.

I would like to add that every bible thumping theologian, self proclaimmed zoological expert, and anatomically ill-informed Sunday school teacher has taken a crack at evolutionary concepts since well before Charles Darwin was even born. Remember, the breeding of wolves into domestic dog breeds has been going on for many, many millennia (some findings suggest 6 to 10 thousand years). The theory has stood the test. The theory of evolution by natural selection has taken a hammering from every theologically bent psuedo-scientist for 150 years, yet Sen. Wise(?) wants to teach it along side a marketing concept that cannot make it through a serious debate without great embarrassment, again please!

Oh! And don't get me started on Liberty University... if the Taliban were a christian sect... barf; anyway it is easy to see where I am going. Charles Darwin discovered the "by natural selection" thereby showing that evolution was actually taking place in the wild. Also, that creationist canard of "evolution equals chance", ah! Bull! Better Theo-bull!!!

Think gradual steps, evolution by natural selection is a gradual build up of tested genetic information which makes EVERY living thing a transitional form. You are a transitional form, your father is a transitional form between you and your grandfather, it's that simple. Darwin can be forgiven for not seeing the forest for the trees. He was a very humble man with a Victorian mindset, which is why it took him 20 years to submit his findings.

Some of you need to consider from where you get your information, I would no more ask a preacher about science or knowledge, than a car salesman about honesty in the work place. Creationist cannot stand up to scientific rigor so they inflame public ignorance to push book sales and seek inclusion in school curriculum to again push book sales. This can be compared to some guy using propaganda on his neighbors children, to get said children to convince their father to change their school so our guy can put his kids in the better school for the better education. Or, in a famialar vernacular, try me punchin' the kid because I don't have the backbone to take on dad. If creationist have a problem with science education let them have a debate with science educators. Should Creationism/ ID be taught in schools? No! It should not even be mentioned aloud in polite conversation, in mixed company. It is an insult to education and critical thinking - period.

Senator Wise should be ousted, impeached or at least handed his hat. Besides, education is about the kids and their future. Without a decent education, especially in science, the future of our youth will be of nothing to be proud.

Our forefathers, Thomas Jefferson in particular, installed the Wall of Separation - the First Amendment - because he knew what religion could do to great empires. If one has any doubt, read the letters from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. The puritans of Mayflower fame did not found this country, they had neither the backbone nor the brains - but they could burn innocent women for being witches. The dumbing down of America via intervention from the religious in education can only do to the US what the religious right did to the Republican party.

With this, I will in summary state that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron otherwise known as the Banana Bunch are a small peace of a bigger picture that has been around since the first "medicine man" and they know what they are and so did our Founding Fathers.

A Historical Similarity

I have picked up on a correlation (similarities if you will allow) between the Republican mentality with regards to this political environment and religion in the darkest of ages, pre-Renaissance. I think the similarity is striking and disturbing, in that the motivation and victims are very similar. The least educated among us are being used against themselves in an attempt to further the agendas of the rich and powerful. Like John Stuart Mill said, "Religion is Politics"- more to the point they need each other to watch the other's back. The lies, absurdities, appeals to the emotions of people who already feel alienated, and utter tautology of the rhetoric coming from those they wish to trust, want to trust - actually need to trust to protect their world view. In the current political arena, the total lack of "common sense" (if I may assume we can all agree as to what I am referring), cannot be that dissimilar to the conversations of Constantine after his conversion, when he realized the political advantage of rebuilding Rome with the myths of the outlying pagans. Isn't the bread of the conspiracy theorist, conformation bias, and a total disregard for the obvious?

There are some who would argue,

"The lies, absurdities, appeals to the emotions of people who already feel alienated.........." Well, I'm sure as hell glad the Democrats would NEVER resort to such things!!

To which I will reply:

My aim was not to disparage one party over another, but to highlight the common DNA shared by religious and political motivations. The difference in the parties, in this case, is that Republicans and the religious right are connected at the hip and most religious groups are anti-democratic as well as anti-Democrat. This is not to say Democrats do not try to pull the religious right more to left, they do, of course. But it will never happen, the historical evidence is overwhelming to the contrary, so much so, that the words right and left are (and should be changed, honestly) interchangeable with religious and liberal, respectively. An extreme example is the Nazi party of early 20th century Germany, as well as evidence of the current political misdirection fostered by the tea baggers and supported by repugnant, Republican rhetoric. The main reason, in this country, to hide Hitler's connection with the Catholic Church, Nazism as a right wing political system, Fascism as a right wing economic system lies in its similarity to the current Republican party and its ties to the religious right. The Nazi party got its start by appealing to the emotional disparity of the poor, uneducated, illiterate, extremely religious German-born labor class by first singling out gays, then illegal immigrants (gypsies). Sound familiar? In fact many Republican Dynasties, most notably the Bush's, supported the Third Reich economically - the actual meaning of "Daddy War Bucks" lest we forget.

 Don't let anyone fool you, the symbiotic relationship between Conservatism and religion is more maternal than cooperative. Most people should ask themselves, "What is it, that Conservatives are trying to conserve?" The answers are very enlightening; tradition, family values, patriarchal hierarchy, the Race(?)[its apparent appeal in the South], the economy(?). Of course, tradition sounds good until one realizes it will be at the expense of progressive ideas such as civil and equal rights for all beings. Again, who could possibly be against 'family values' - but who gets to determine those values, or what constitutes a family? Allow me to jump to the idea that Republicans are concerned with the economy, because the contra position to patriarchy and race are much to obvious - but the person who feels that the Republican talking points about taxes have any validity at all, has no knowledge of US economic history at all. Let it be sufficient, to say, a better analogy would have Republicans taking from the populous but Democrats giving back to the general population, much of what they take in taxes.

National Debt by President is a graph that clearly shows Republican disregard for the working class.

All of this is a rebuttal of what I see as an equivocation of the Republican party's use of religion to suppress the populous with their own superstitions, emotions, longings, and prejudices into a voluntary slavery with the Democrats attempt to pull the extreme right just a little more left. But as far as the lies go, I will refer anyone to Politifacts.com for the score card on that game. And, to my knowledge, there lies a grand gulf between statistical favoritism and "Death Panels" if that is the gist of your disagreement.

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This is a comment I wrote in response to the above video but more directly to another commenter's misunderstanding of our system of government. It does work for the likes of the Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Keyes, Agar and Rep. Michelle Bachmann(R)MN. This is the time for a few Edward R. Murrows, I hope to be counted as one.
You obviously have no idea about the political spectrum, of economic concepts like socialism, fascism, communism or capitalism, or the social sciences. So please, do us all a favor and sit quietly, long enough to learn. The Republican party is the closest thing to fascism (a right wing nationalist movement) this country has endured, but mainly by the shared ideology of a government supported and protected industrial complex. As a side note, the National Socialist Party (Nazism) was: a) more Fascist than Socialist and b) born of Glenn Beck style fear mongering, as well as, hatred of diverse social groups, through the bigotry of exclusionary organizations (i.e. religious or patriotic). This is, in fact, the actual danger in the U.S., at present. And, as it usually does, coming from the back side of the Magicians hand, will catch this country unaware. Ask any German if they seen it coming.
As for Socialism, systems like education, highways, Medicaid and Medicare are perfectly in line with a Democratic Republic, remember the Roman roads of our model system. It is what a community does, the very reason for civilization is to pool our resources for the greater good. Consequently, the greedy among us have, and always will, complain at the top of their lungs, even though, they reap the greatest benefit. Where would our business and industry be without the educational or highway systems of this great country. Our social systems are what make this country as great as it is.
Communism as contrasted with capitalism as best as it can be explained are polar opposites in the private property ownership category in addition to the economic systems above. So it is obvious that it would take sizable upheaval of our political and economic system to bring that much change, no one man or party could do it. Not only that, but the rich and powerful would be the last to want that type of system. Communism will come from a workers rebellion for economic equality, the last thing the current power mongers would want. As for the Czar scare the Beckerheads are pushing at present, that comes from an Imperial Russia, not a Communist Russia.
Greedy men used to making millions of dollars individually, billions annually, collectively are adept at getting their way by paying professionals to stir emotions of people that already feel left out. Don't let them use your emotions against you, think for yourself, or think of your family. To "get our country back" is to take it back from big financial institutions, not that individual who constitutes only one estate of three that make up this countries government. And to weaken those institutions we need to stop feeding them, which is what the public option will do. This is in no uncertain terms, why, the insurance industry is pushing so hard for President Obama's "Waterloo". And why Beck, Rush, Savage et al. are being fed the scripts to parrot, that they are in turn, spewing across the air waves at us. Money!
One more point I would like to make, if a societal cataclysm is to overcome this country in the form of an ideological overthrow or political coup, it will come wrapped in our flag and carrying the Bible. Spouting patriotic slogans and inspirational sound bites.

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