We have to start one, and only one, of the following quarterbacks this week: Marc Bulger, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo, or Charlie Frye. We only care about scoring; yardage, interceptions, and all the other stats kept on QB performance don't count. What do you think, Loyal Readers? Who's going to get the rock in the end zone the most?
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ReplyDeleteIt looks like the same old set of creationist fallacies and religious indoctrination. The presentation is very slick and there are high production values to the videos. But there's nothing new to the content.
ReplyDeleteI've been ministered to with the theological protection racket found in this website (be a good Christian and enjoy eternal salvation; or be a sinner and be condemned to hell) before and it has failed to persuade.
I've also heard the claim that it takes more faith and belief to be an atheist or to accept evolution than it does to be a devout Christian, and that just doesn't make the remotest bit of sense.
In particular I thought the guilt-laden and accusatory "Are You A Good Person?" test, based on a non-literal interpretation of the Decalogue was amusing. Even if I've never broken any of the Ten Commandments the test still calls a sinner. According to the standards set forth in that test, I'm a murderer (and worse yet, an idolator and blasphemer). I am quite certain that I've never murdered anyone. Only by interpreting the word "murder" so broadly as to defy common sense can the accusation stick. It is one thing to hate, it is another to act on that hate. If "hatred for another" is truly the act prohibited by the Fifth Commandment, then the Bibledoes not mean what it says. Why didn't Jehovah say "Thou shalt not hate" if that's really what He meant?
I don't doubt the good intentions of the well-groomed men who appear on the website, including the very handsome Kirk Cameron. But it's very telling that the jeans-clad ministers in the introductory speech refer explicitly to the advisability of bypassing logic, reason. "Are you going to believe what you can see with your own eyes, or what I tell you?"
Cameron's not handsome, he's just cute. In a really youthful, gay kind of way.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the rest of your observations.
We should probably give a hat tip to "Drawn Together," because that's how we heard about this.