Tuesday, November 20, 2012

People used to believe lots of nutty things.

Erickson thinks we're all being too hard on Marco Rubio:
Marco Rubio is getting beaten up by the press for not decisively and convincingly saying he thinks the world is billions of years old. It has become the new litmus test in the media. Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty. 
It is nutty.

For thousands of years, people believed animal sacrifices would end droughts. But if a US Senator on the Commerce and Science Committee said we should slaughter some goats for rain, I'm pretty sure we would, in fact, deem that "nutty."

Christian homeschool kids, often taught that the world is not as old as some believe and who routinely kick the rear ends of the ivy prep kids in academics, are considered stupid.
Truth be told, I think the world is billions of years old, but I have no doubt God created it. 
If they're taught that, and accept that teaching, those Christian home schooled kids aren't necessarily "stupid" -- they're just ignorant. And faith of any kind requires doubt, otherwise it's just blind fanaticism.

What a mess.

This is what happens when your party is inextricably linked with a fundamentalist religion.



11 comments:

M. said...

I'd like the back-up for his home-schooled kids beating the asses of prep school kids probable utter bullshit.

Anonymous said...

The Idiot Fischer said: "Christian homeschool kids...routinely kick the rear ends of the ivy prep kids in academics." Evidence please.

Oh, that's right, your type disdains evidence. You use Geroge W. Bush's gut for everything requiring thought.

Bob Hopeless said...

Yeah, that "kicking the butt of the ivy prep kids" stuff is pretty dubious.

Not so sure about the consensus on the nuttiness of goat sacrifice, though. Remember Rick Perry praying for rain just a year or two ago.

Adrian Browne said...

The stories in the Bible are STORIES.

Batocchio said...

Some home-schooled kids are very bright, but not the fundies.

Mr. Wonderful said...

Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty.

Yes, if by "now" you mean, "since around the 18th century."

It's hard to know whether this statement is yet another example of the solons of the right sounding like a Monty Python sketch, or just one more case of their intellectual dishonesty.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

if a US Senator on the Commerce and Science Committee said we should slaughter some goats for rain,

I kind of expect that to happen in the next session.

kabiddle said...

"routinely kick the rear ends of the ivy prep kids in academics"

That's the education agenda? Us or them. Good start.

Comrade Rutherford said...

"Believing what was believed to be literally true for a few thousand years is now nutty."

You won't believe the true things for thousands of years that is also considered 'nutty':

The earth supposedly is not the center of the solar system and the universe doesn't revolve around Erickson. Can you believe that some people don't believe this is true?

The stars are only a couple miles up in the sky. Some liberal crackpots claim that stars are millions of miles away! Can you believe that nonsense? Obviously the stars are just overhead, barely out of reach of the tallest person.

The Earth is obviously flat. Again the liberal lie machine has claimed that the earth is round, like a doughnut. Obviously this is far from true.

These are just three things that have to still be true simply because people have believed them to be true for thousands of years.

Erickson's mind is made up, it doesn't matter what the facts are.

DataSnake said...

There are homeschool kids who are taught that Jesus rode dinosaurs and the Earth is 6,000 years old, and there are homeschool kids who kick the asses of ivy prep kids in academics, but these are not the same homeschool kids.

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