On 07/01/2012 09:59 AM, Warp wrote:

> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/04/how_to_frustrate_an_evangelica.php

I couldn't bring myself to actually watch the video - the still shot was 
enough to convince me that it would probably be horrifying.

How many of you guys read all 2000+ comments? The first few hundred are 
just people congratulating the guy for making Mr Bible look like the 
idiot he is - although, as somebody pointed out, Mr Bible doesn't seem 
to notice he's being beaten, and the regular listeners probably thing Mr 
Bible actually won. This seems to be the thing with these bible people, 
see - you beat them, and then they celebrate for having "won" the 
argument. (WTF?) Maybe it's a belief thing.

But further down, people start writing utterly crazy stuff. I find 
myself literally uttering the phrase "can't tell if trolling or just 
stupid?" For example, one guy wrote some long [and poorly formatted] 
post to the effect of

   "Hahaha! I can't believe you stupid fools thing that the delusion of 
evolution is true. No thinking person could possibly take such nonsense 
seriously. You people need to lose your dogmatic religion and go learn 
some science!"

I honestly can't decide whether this person is just writing obviously 
inflammatory comments to try to start an argument, or whether they're 
actually stupid enough to genuinely believe what they're saying.

Another commenter wrote something that amounts to "I don't understand 
why you non-believers are so aggressive towards honest Christians like 
myself who honestly just want to help you". To which somebody replied 
that nobody gets beaten to death for wearing a Holy Cross, but saying 
that you don't believe in Jesus is likely to result in your untimely 
demise in certain places in America. (!!)




All of that aside, here's an interesting observation: There's no 
evidence that God exists. There's no evidence that Adam or Eve existed. 
In fact, a lot of people regard the entire Bible as something that 
should be in the "fiction" section. But think about this for a moment: 
the Bible *itself* most definitely *does* exist. It's a real book, and 
it has existed for a very long time.

That's kind of interesting.

The contents of the Bible may or may not be real, but the book itself is 
quite real. Interestingly, according to Wikipedia (which is inerrant), 
it seems that at least a few of the things in the Bible might actually 
be true. In particular, there might actually have been a real person 
actually called Jesus, who at least /claimed/ to be a messenger of God.

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