Low IQ linked to prejudice...

Book learnin' is bad for business, that's why they're always deriding those "educated elites". Cuz if they get smart they're going to stop hating people that is the basis for so much of their victimization rhetoric. And how all those damn (insert demographic here) are taking away their stuff.



http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html

Zany Catholics Part II

The last post came from an email discussion with my "Conservative" email buddy.  He posed the question if I was "disgusted" by other religiious prohibitions like to those of alcohol and eating pork.  It's his way of trying to prove I'm anti-Christian when he knows my feelings on organized religion in general.  I thought my retort was pretty good.

Hey Crazy...no one said "disgusted".  i said "silly".  Why do you get your panties in a twist and make shit up?

But it's funny you bring up food prohibitions because in the same page that supposedly bans boys kissing, the same book bans eating shellfish and wearing Cotton/Wool blends.  Most of man's prohibitions that are supposedly founded on "God's wishes" are equally dumb.  And please don't confuse Morality with words in a book written by a bunch of guys thousands of years ago.  You can have a since of right and wrong without relying on some dusty old book.  Killing other people is bad and not because it's in the Bible.  If you need a book to tell you that killing and stealing are bad, you probably DO need to be going to church or something at LEAST once a week.  

In Fact, I would say that atheists are generally "better" people because they act out of an innate sense of justice, an awareness of what is right and wrong not because they are simply afraid of some punishment by an unseen "God".   (Get in trouble with daddy).  If you act out of fear of punishment you're not really being "good".  You know, the whole "acting the right way when NO ONE is looking".  For people who live in fear of "God", someone is always looking.  God.  

So, 

-Justice and Morality don't come from a book written by guys who claim it's the word of God (especially when what is "moral and right" in those books is ignored most of the time.  Commandments 2,3,4,5 and 10 seem to be pretty much ignored for example)

-Religion and the various rules created by man in religions name don't have much connection to "God"

-Atheists are better people

-Prohibitions against eating pork and drinking alcohol are just as silly as celibacy for clergy

Those Zany Catholics

Now, we all know the priest celibacy thing is not in the Bible and is a relatively recent doctrine imposed by the Church to protect Church property back in the day, but I guess it shows you CAN be good at doing priest/bishop things (assuming these children are his only "Crime") and not be celibate.  Trust me, I'm not saying that he was right...he knew the rules going in and should lose his job, but it points out the silliness of the celibacy doctrine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45871047/ns/us_news-life/#.TwS5qTWrMww 

Who got hurt by his going forth and multiplying?  He continued to do his job well enough to be a Bishop.  Apparently, celibacy isn't required for the efficent discharge of his duties.  it's clearly not required in Protestant sects, nor in Judiasm, etc.

God Loves Tebow and Bowls are a joke

Look at this line...You can't tell me God doesn't love Tebow. He puts this crap up and still "leads" Denver to the playoffs.


Denver C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT NFL RATING

Tebow 6/22 60 2.7 0 1 20.6

Someone at work was lamenting the loss of "College bowl tradition" because games were on Jan. 2 and not the first. I laughed. When the Rose Bowl stopped being Pac10 v Big10 champ every year tradition died. I was watching the "Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl" or something to that effect and they referred to the "tradition" of that game. I literally laughed out loud to myself. Bowl games have become so ridculous like UCLA not being bowl eligible (6-7 record) and appealing to get into a bowl and losing to a team that also just fired their coach. Stupid. But today all is better, with real bowl games that we've heard of before.

Go Ducks