Submitted by Dino D’Annibale from LewRockwell.com:
Environmental Hysteria Exemplified: Watch Penn and Teller manage to convince hundreds of leftists to sign a petition to ban water.
If you believe in God, or at least entertain the idea of one as the major religions profess it, you must admit he/she (it/they) (insert your favorite pronoun here) is one hell of a prankster. Joey Skaggs has nothing on “The Almighty” when it comes to preying on man’s foibles to illustrate with humor our tendency to foster a belief in the absurd. There are fundamentalist Christians who believe that the earth is 12,000 years old, give or take a thousand years. This they have deduced by adding up the ages of everyone in the bible. When asked about Dinosaurs, the bones and fossils that have been found, and how they fit that information into their view of the world, they respond, “God put those fossils here to test our faith.” The idea of God playing pranks on us to test our faith is beyond funny, it is disturbing. I have had conversations with people who believe that the bible is the word of God. I ask if they have a bible, and they say, “Yes.” I say, “What does the title say?” They say, “The Holy Bible.” I say “Yes, what else does it say?” They respond, “King James Version.” “Yep” I say, “And I prefer Mark Twain’s version.”
In a world with a long history of religious extremism that leaves in its wake a path of destruction and suffering, the ENORMITY (look up the word) of which defies belief, one might be moved to ask why? (more…)
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