Why must I be plagued by idiots?

[DropLogic]

You forgot "soccer fan".

And French apologist.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You forgot "soccer fan".

And French apologist.

Not sure he'd have lived to post had that been the case.

[AnimatedDirt]

Rofl. We just heard a speaker at work who said in essence that anyone who didn't read the bible was uneducated. He justified this by stating that several books from the bible appear on some noteworthy book companies top 100 books of all time list. Also, all followers of islam(All of them) are inferior to christians, are uneducated, and are planning to kill us all so we should get them before they get us. Isn't irrational fearmongering great? I'm actually hoping there's a massive holy war in our future. If we just sit back and let them massacre a few billion of each other, the average IQ level across the glode is bound to rise dramaticaly.

As a Christian myself, I would disagree with the speaker 100%.  If educated means well-versed in science and philosophy, then I would agree with you that a "holy" war where a few billion are massacred  would raise the average IQ across the globe.  I simply wouldn't hope for such a thing to happen simply to raise the IQ across the globe.

[Sophus]

When it comes to being literate in English literature it helps immensely to have read the bible, but not having done so by no means makes anyone an idiot. Maybe he's an idiot if he hasn't seen the Avatar movie or last years Super Bowl.

[Prometheus]

As a Christian myself, I would disagree with the speaker 100%. If educated means well-versed in science and philosophy, then I would agree with you that a "holy" war where a few billion are massacred would raise the average IQ across the globe. I simply wouldn't hope for such a thing to happen simply to raise the IQ across the globe.

  Yeah, don't take the things I say too seriously. Even if we hypothetically got rid of most or all of the theists, the nontheists have the same flaws as the rest of the world. Everybody just uses some "ism" or another to justify what they would think or do anyway.

When it comes to being literate in English literature it helps immensely to have read the bible, but not having done so by no means makes anyone an idiot. Maybe he's an idiot if he hasn't seen the Avatar movie or last years Super Bowl.

I agree. His word was "uneducated" not idiot. Same meaning but it allows him to play it off like it wasn't meant as an insult rofl. I'm a lot happier about this situation now. I've been speaking with the residents where I work and not a single one of them agrees with the guy. Most of them are actually very intelligent. Its sucks how 1 percent of a group can make the other 99 percent look like dangerous bigots. I wonder what the rest of world thinks of America? The extremists have been making more noise than the rest of us combined for decades.

[SomewhereInND]

To original posters:  We are all a bunch of monkeys arent we?  Humanity is the best evidence of that.

[fazFwQo83]

To original posters:  We are all a bunch of monkeys arent we?  Humanity is the best evidence of that.

This is probably the most truthful post I've seen in a long time!    

[Newtonyd]

My roommate is a young earth creationist, so it's pretty tough to deal with some of the things he says. Me and him have debates once in a while, and I think I'm starting to make some headway... but it's pretty hard to convince somebody who doesn't believe in dating methods and... science in general. He's pretty bile-less as far as they go, mostly because he's too laid back to care much.

Here's some of the things he's said:

1. It's better to litter a moderate amount since it's stupid to gather all garbage in one smelly dump. :hmm:
3. That I'm not really an atheist because I referenced the devil a couple times in jokes.  :raised:

He doesn't seem to have the personality type to be into this sort of thing, so I figure it's some sort of family indoctrination thing. His entire family is Christian, probably fundamentalist.