I got to say it: this lying sack of shit is an embarrassment not just to our government, but to the millions of American citizens who would hear what he said about conception and evolution and would either convulse with laughter or facepalm themselves red. I read Azinger's words and all I can sense is mad desperation, a desperation borne possibly of his awareness that his brand of Christianity is losing traction in the US and is being replaced by reason and secularism and garden-variety common sense ... except obviously in the state of West Virginia, where that misguided bill passed by a wide margin
[He shakes his head and groans] Honestly, it's too early in the day for me to be reaching for the Glenlivet
The people who attack evolution never seem to grasp the fact they have an obligation to prove their own point, and that simply attacking Darwin doesn't do that. They simply assume they win by default if evolution can be discredited. Creationists have been flailing away at poor old Darwin for over a century and half, and have yet to land a punch. Meanwhile, science just keeps reinforcing natural selection. It disgusts me that we're still having this discussion. Religion is about belief. Science is about facts and what is testable.
"West Virginia is currently ranked 47th in the nation when it comes to education."
I don't need magic powers to predict they will soon be 50th.
The future of theses children is dire, not only they will have a subpar uneducation, but they will have troubles to have a valuable diploma and find a good paying job later.
“Any Jew who believes the first five books of the Bible would, by definition, believe that life begins at conception“
I won’t say that no Jewish people believe in the first five books of the Bible, but the first five books of the Bible are not the same as the book the Jewish religion is based on. It was taken from the Talmud, but it has been bastardized by and for Christians. Don’t tell other people what they believe or think, idiot.
Life begins at conception, huh? Does that mean Adam and Eve were never alive, since they were manufactured instead of being conceived? A sperm cell and an egg cell aren't alive? I think you need to go back to school to learn the basics of biology and Christian theology.
Behold. The Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism. The article that lists a whole slew of made up, unfounded lies about evolution being a dying trend dating all the way back to the mid-1800s' and still being told by modern day creation idiots like this clown in Office.
Sometimes, I get the strangest ideas. Like today, today's idea was writing horrifically awful fanfiction on Baby Olivia and seeing how long it takes to circulate among the religious right. You know, some story about how Olivia's mother was stoned to death just hours after her birth for being raped and not screaming loudly enough, and how now Olivia should belong to her mother's rapist, who hasn't been found, so her mother's brother owns her. Later on, Olivia gets sold to a man who beats her and uses her, and then gets pregnant herself, and dies hours after the birth of her child because...you guessed it, she got raped and didn't scream loudly enough.
TLDR: There are some 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 we don't follow Old Testament/Jewish law traditions anymore, and I'm really sick of lawmakers behaving as though Jewish traditional law was the absolute peak of human legal code. It wasn't in a number of ways, and one would think after several thousand years, we'd have learned to do better.
There's passive ignorance, where you just never heard some information, there's negligent ignorance, where you could get the information but you just can't be bothered, and then there's active ignorance, where you work hard to avoid the information, deliberately misrepresent it, and tell lies about the information, its source, and the people who actually know and understand it. Your ignorance is based on fear, and your fear is based on ignorance. You also work hard to spread your disinformation to as many people as you can, since you only feel safe from the information if you're surrounded by folks who are ignorant in the same way that you are.
Mr. Azinger has a black belt in active ignorance, and the chance of any of the information that strikes terror in his heart ever getting into his mind is close to zero.
Civilization drags a stone called religion chained to its ankle.
Look folks, if you have to lie, manipulate and make excuses for your position, then you know damned good and well your position is wrong.
This guy is trying desperately to hide his cognitive dissonance, so he knows he’s lying, he knows he’s wrong. The problem is not that he has cognitive dissonance, the problem is that he needs it to keep his power. That is what this is all about. His greedy entitlement and villainous power hungering overpowers the cognitive dissonance.
My Southern Baptist elementary school in the 80's gave us more accurate information about heterosexual sex. They did it with a dose of shame and a senior citizen yelling at us to never do this until your financially and emotionally ready to be a parent, but what they taught was accurate, if limited in scope.
It's absurd just how mad and utterly detached from reality fundamentalist Christians have gotten in 40 years.
Late to the party today (where does the time go?). Well, I saw a flash of light today so I got a bit scared. I’m too old to raise any more children, so I called my local abortion emporium. As it turned out, it was just a light bulb that burned out, so whew! Dodged a bullet.
Evolution theory isn’t dying, it’s just those musty old brains gasping their last.
Will there also be a video showing how that sperm got from the man into the woman?
I got to say it: this lying sack of shit is an embarrassment not just to our government, but to the millions of American citizens who would hear what he said about conception and evolution and would either convulse with laughter or facepalm themselves red. I read Azinger's words and all I can sense is mad desperation, a desperation borne possibly of his awareness that his brand of Christianity is losing traction in the US and is being replaced by reason and secularism and garden-variety common sense ... except obviously in the state of West Virginia, where that misguided bill passed by a wide margin
[He shakes his head and groans] Honestly, it's too early in the day for me to be reaching for the Glenlivet
The people who attack evolution never seem to grasp the fact they have an obligation to prove their own point, and that simply attacking Darwin doesn't do that. They simply assume they win by default if evolution can be discredited. Creationists have been flailing away at poor old Darwin for over a century and half, and have yet to land a punch. Meanwhile, science just keeps reinforcing natural selection. It disgusts me that we're still having this discussion. Religion is about belief. Science is about facts and what is testable.
Honestly, could these men know LESS about reproduction in human animals?
Remember in 2012 when they talked about how women's bodies could just "get rid" of that impregnated egg if she was raped?
"A woman's body has a way to shut that whole thing down".
No, you moron, we don't. That's why there have been 64,000 forced births resulting from rape in abortion ban states since 2022.
White women need to start voting like their lives depend on it, because for some of us, it is true.
"West Virginia is currently ranked 47th in the nation when it comes to education."
I don't need magic powers to predict they will soon be 50th.
The future of theses children is dire, not only they will have a subpar uneducation, but they will have troubles to have a valuable diploma and find a good paying job later.
“Any Jew who believes the first five books of the Bible would, by definition, believe that life begins at conception“
I won’t say that no Jewish people believe in the first five books of the Bible, but the first five books of the Bible are not the same as the book the Jewish religion is based on. It was taken from the Talmud, but it has been bastardized by and for Christians. Don’t tell other people what they believe or think, idiot.
Mr Azinger:
Life begins at conception, huh? Does that mean Adam and Eve were never alive, since they were manufactured instead of being conceived? A sperm cell and an egg cell aren't alive? I think you need to go back to school to learn the basics of biology and Christian theology.
Light at the end of the tunnel: Some West Virginians tell a joke about the hillbilly who died smiling.
"What'd he die of?" the man's relatives asked the medical examiner. "He was struck by lightning," the medical examiner declared.
"Then why was he smiling?" the kinfolks wanted to know.
"Well," the ME said, "he thought he was gettin' his picture took."
Behold. The Imminent Demise of Evolution: The Longest Running Falsehood in Creationism. The article that lists a whole slew of made up, unfounded lies about evolution being a dying trend dating all the way back to the mid-1800s' and still being told by modern day creation idiots like this clown in Office.
https://thewordofme.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/the-imminent-demise-of-evolution-the-longest-running-falsehood-in-creationism/
Sometimes, I get the strangest ideas. Like today, today's idea was writing horrifically awful fanfiction on Baby Olivia and seeing how long it takes to circulate among the religious right. You know, some story about how Olivia's mother was stoned to death just hours after her birth for being raped and not screaming loudly enough, and how now Olivia should belong to her mother's rapist, who hasn't been found, so her mother's brother owns her. Later on, Olivia gets sold to a man who beats her and uses her, and then gets pregnant herself, and dies hours after the birth of her child because...you guessed it, she got raped and didn't scream loudly enough.
TLDR: There are some 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 we don't follow Old Testament/Jewish law traditions anymore, and I'm really sick of lawmakers behaving as though Jewish traditional law was the absolute peak of human legal code. It wasn't in a number of ways, and one would think after several thousand years, we'd have learned to do better.
There's passive ignorance, where you just never heard some information, there's negligent ignorance, where you could get the information but you just can't be bothered, and then there's active ignorance, where you work hard to avoid the information, deliberately misrepresent it, and tell lies about the information, its source, and the people who actually know and understand it. Your ignorance is based on fear, and your fear is based on ignorance. You also work hard to spread your disinformation to as many people as you can, since you only feel safe from the information if you're surrounded by folks who are ignorant in the same way that you are.
Mr. Azinger has a black belt in active ignorance, and the chance of any of the information that strikes terror in his heart ever getting into his mind is close to zero.
Civilization drags a stone called religion chained to its ankle.
Look folks, if you have to lie, manipulate and make excuses for your position, then you know damned good and well your position is wrong.
This guy is trying desperately to hide his cognitive dissonance, so he knows he’s lying, he knows he’s wrong. The problem is not that he has cognitive dissonance, the problem is that he needs it to keep his power. That is what this is all about. His greedy entitlement and villainous power hungering overpowers the cognitive dissonance.
My Southern Baptist elementary school in the 80's gave us more accurate information about heterosexual sex. They did it with a dose of shame and a senior citizen yelling at us to never do this until your financially and emotionally ready to be a parent, but what they taught was accurate, if limited in scope.
It's absurd just how mad and utterly detached from reality fundamentalist Christians have gotten in 40 years.
Iowa House just passed a similar bill, same bullshit movie and all.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/02/28/house-passes-bill-requiring-schools-show-fetal-development-videos-to-students/
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A possible future FA article?
"Rev. Martin Luther King was "not a Christian at all," claims old white hate pastor"
https://https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rev-martin-luther-king-was-not-a-christian-at-all-claims-old-white-hate-pastor/ar-BB1j8ocT
Virulently racist, pro-slavery, virulently anti-LGBTQ and a supremely ignorant liar.
Late to the party today (where does the time go?). Well, I saw a flash of light today so I got a bit scared. I’m too old to raise any more children, so I called my local abortion emporium. As it turned out, it was just a light bulb that burned out, so whew! Dodged a bullet.
Evolution theory isn’t dying, it’s just those musty old brains gasping their last.