As many of you already know, crazy Creationists have created their own museum. Built in Petersburg, Kentucky, it is the Creationists answer to a science museum. (I didnt know science museums needed an answer, but apparently they do.) The museum explains to the religious nuts exactly what they already believe; that the planet was created just a few thousand years ago in a single week give or take an hour. The museum cost $27 million, and has 60,000 square feet of space. One blogger took a tour and had this to report:
There were posters explaining just how coal could be formed in a few weeks as opposed to over millions of years and how rapidly the Biblical flood would cover the earth, drowning all but a handful of living creatures. The flood plays a big part in the museum's attempt to explain away what we see as millions of years of natural processes. There was also an explanation as to why, with only one progenitor family, it wasn't considered incest for Adam and Eve's children to marry each other. Apparently there was less sin back then, and therefore fewer mutations in their DNA. Evidently sin, not two copies of the same recessive trait, gives rise to congenital birth defects.
It all sounds pretty much as you would expect, up until the point where Adam starts hanging out with drag queens. It turns out actor Eric Linden owns a graphic website called Bedroom Acrobat.
Where he has been pictured, smiling alongside a drag queen, in a T-shirt brandishing the site's sexually suggestive logo. The Web site, which has a network of members, allows users to post explicit stories and photos.
He also sells clothing for SFX International, whose initials appear on clothing to spell "SEX" from afar. It promotes "free love,""pleasure" and "thrillz."
Uh oh. You may as well have just made sweet anal love to Jesus. The museum was not pleased.
"We are currently investigating the veracity of these serious claims of his participation in projects that don't align with the biblical standards and moral code upon which the ministry was founded," Answers for Genesis spokesman Mark Looy said in a written statement.
Linden doesnt quite get it. He seems to think he is an actor or something.
"But just because I'm Adam on the screen, that doesn't mean I'm Adam off the screen," he said. "What I do shouldn't have anything to do with who they think Adam is."
"For the Creation Museum, I did what I did as an actor. It doesn't necessarily mean I believe in evolution or believe in creation," Linden said. "I'm hired to get a point across. On the flip side, if I was hired to play a murderer, that doesn't mean I'd go out and kill somebody. It's make-believe."
" 'We are currently investigating the veracity of these serious claims of his participation in projects that don't align with the biblical standards and moral code upon which the ministry was founded,' Answers for Genesis spokesman Mark Looy said in a written statement."
Damn, I thought his name was Mark Loony! Why couldn't Jesus make it so his name was Loony? JESUS!
it's really sad christians are considered stupid for believing something different than you. You're obsession with them really shows you have issues about it, cause if you were so set free by knowledge, wouldn't you just leave them alone and chuckle to yourself about their silliness? Like, what do you have to prove?
ps-from reading your articles, I would consider people who believe in creationism to be way more intelligent than you.
risingstanding said:
it's really sad christians are considered stupid for believing something different than you. You're obsession with them really shows you have issues about it, cause if you were so set free by knowledge, wouldn't you just leave them alone and chuckle to yourself about their silliness? Like, what do you have to prove?
ps-from reading your articles, I would consider people who believe in creationism to be way more intelligent than you.
Essentially, he's doing exactly what you said he should be doing. He's just allowing the rest of us to chuckle about their silliness too.
And personally I think its really sad that non-Christians are thought to go to a place of eternal suffering for thinking differently than you.
The lack of birth control ensures that these people can and will breed at a accelerated rate in this country.
Born followers.
Understand that it's mainly just Catholics that are against birth control.
OMFG that is patently untrue. Evangelical protestants, who compose some 1/4 of America, are overwhelmingly anti-birth control. What have you been reading? The Bullshit Times?
Evangelical creationist christians aren't mocked for having different beliefs, they're mocked for believing something so blatantly ridiculous. Honestly believing that the earth was created in seven days is like honestly believing that Odin and his brothers slew Ymir and made of his hoary bones a world for men, or that all that is, was, and shall be is but a fretful dream in the mind of a butterfly sleeping on Vishnu's open palm.
Evangelical creationists would laugh in the face of anyone who told them that the world was a jewel trapped in Anansi's web of starry night, spun between the jaws of a crocodile as large as the heavens, so I see no problem with laughing at their silly little myth about a garden, a flood, and a boat full of beasts carried two by two.
Christians get a bad rap (wrap?). They are misrepresented by the "christians" that make it onto tv or into the news. The true Christians I've ever known are some of the most understanding and accepting people I've ever met. And their viewpoints do have the ability to change (regardless of popular dogma), because they realize they are reading an interpretation of selected ancient texts- so they understand that re-interpretation can change from what many others consider to be black and white. I guess those people (maybe the minority of Christians) are why I get mad at reading articles like this that just try to make them sound so stupid to uninformed readers.
It will be a great day when science and spirituality can re-merge (possibly through some breakthrough discovery in metaphysics). I hate to see the twins always at odds. Or maybe Saturn can return and wipe the slate clean.
PatrickY said:
Evangelical creationists would laugh in the face of anyone who told them that the world was a jewel trapped in Anansi's web of starry night, spun between the jaws of a crocodile as large as the heavens.
risingstanding said:
it's really sad christians are considered stupid for believing something different than you. You're obsession with them really shows you have issues about it, cause if you were so set free by knowledge, wouldn't you just leave them alone and chuckle to yourself about their silliness? Like, what do you have to prove?
ps-from reading your articles, I would consider people who believe in creationism to be way more intelligent than you.
Actually, my guess would be that this "obsession" that you talk about would stem from the fact that he and everyone else are continually forced to look at these issues. Its not athiests and agnostics that are trying to force non-religon down everyones' throat.
I mean jeez, its not like we dont have people building silly more or less "anti-science" projects like this or trying to put "God" in everything government produced. Its not like Christians put the 10 commandments in stone in government buildings, bring so called "religous and moral" issues into Congress, or claim that America is a "Christian Nation" and that we were founded on the teaching of Jesus. Thank goodness thats not happening.
The reason that we pay attention and talk about these fools is simply because they wont SHUT UP. They wont allow anyone to do anything that THEY dont deem as appropriate. They try to force themselves and their religon into every aspect of our lives. They wont leave US alone.
As to them being so much brighter... well all I'll say is that we dont wander around calling ourselves "sheep" and "the flock". We dont wander around claiming that a book that was written when supposedly: little baby's traveled in the male's sperm, the world was flat, hickups and colds came from demon's in one's head, disease spread because of non-peity and looking out into the heavens via a telescope was considered a burn-able offense is the only and literal truth.
On the behalf of athiest, agnostics and non-christians everywhere, I beseech you, LEAVE US ALONE.
Oh, and let us laugh at your little irregular moments.
PatrickY said:
Evangelical creationist christians aren't mocked for having different beliefs, they're mocked for believing something so blatantly ridiculous.
That's not even why they're being mocked in this article. They're getting mocked for expecting an actor they hire to adhere to their moral standards. Which is stupid.
risingstanding said:
Christians get a bad rap (wrap?). They are misrepresented by the "christians" that make it onto tv or into the news. The true Christians I've ever known are some of the most understanding and accepting people I've ever met. And their viewpoints do have the ability to change (regardless of popular dogma), because they realize they are reading an interpretation of selected ancient texts- so they understand that re-interpretation can change from what many others consider to be black and white. I guess those people (maybe the minority of Christians) are why I get mad at reading articles like this that just try to make them sound so stupid to uninformed readers.
It will be a great day when science and spirituality can re-merge (possibly through some breakthrough discovery in metaphysics). I hate to see the twins always at odds. Or maybe Saturn can return and wipe the slate clean.
Read the article again. It's not poking fun at reasonable Christians who don't view the bible as a record of literal fact. It's making fun of 'Crazy Creationists'.
Read the article again. It's not poking fun at reasonable Christians who don't view the bible as a record of literal fact. It's making fun of 'Crazy Creationists'.
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JUN 08, 2007 05:35 PM