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- From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Why Creationists Are
- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 09:40:02
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- Who: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- ID: J3Z9TB13w165w@kalki33
- And schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
-
- Note to Kalki: I have two book by the Bhaktivedanta Institute.
- One titled "Think on These Things," and the other is a vegetarian
- cook book. While I enjoyed both books, I found both of them to
- be filled with lies, bold assertions, half-truths, and agendas:
- even the cook book!
-
- RA.S> "Do you get a commission for referrals? Are you paid by
- RA.S> the Bhaktivedanta Institute to sell their brand of
- RA.S> creationism on the Net?
-
- K> "We get, as our payment, the pleasure of seeing self-proclaimed
- K> 'rational thinkers' turn into the slavering, boot-licking,
- K> do-anything-to-be-right cowards they really are. While they
- K> snidely boast that they are far above our level of intelligence,
- K> and that they are not going to bother reading any book that
- K> conflicts with their delusion that they evolved from chickens,
- K> they nevertheless post at least 50 times a day their denials
- K> that they are going to pay any attention to us!"
-
- When I was out spreading the Word of No God, my co-Evangelical
- Atheist buddy pointed out one reason Creationists attack scientists,
- biologists, astronomers, physicists, and other well-educated folks.
-
- You see, the Creationists is just an average Joe (or Sally) who
- believe that intelligent people "look down on" the ignorant in
- derision and loathing. Creationists hear and read scientists
- talking, and the Creationists doesn't understand, so they fear
- their own ignorance. Then when a scientists make a complex subject,
- such as evolutionary theory, simple for the ignorant to understand,
- the ignorant are insulted because they feel they are being "taked
- down to." It is therefore a lose-lose situation for the scientist.
-
- The ignorant (in this case the Creationists) view the educated
- and well-informed with part awe and part hate, because the ignorant
- cannot compete on an equal level. The ignorant come to see that
- they have no beneficial input in a rational, informative discussion,
- and they resent that--- their target, therefore, is the educated
- and not their own ignorance.
-
- It is oh so much more easier to attempt to drag down the educated
- instead of pulling oneself up out of ignorance. Case in point is
- The Tedster, who is "one of the few people on the planet who
- truly understands the origins issue. [paraphrase]" The ignorant
- would rather believe in magic instead of putting forth the hard
- work and effort to learn something.
-
- K> "Ahhhh, it feels sooooo good! Keep it coming, you impotent
- K> rascals! Come on home to Papa, little demons! Sincerely,
- K> Kalki "see you on the battlefield" Dasa
-
- As a "P.S.," I count -myself- as ONE OF THE IGNORANT. That's
- why I'm reading this newsgroup. I view Colby, Salem, and Meritt
- with awe (smile, guys!) because they appear much better educated
- than I, yet that is not cause for me to dispise them: that is
- cause for me to learn something so I -can- understand them.
-
- K> -------------------------------------------------------
- K> | Don't forget to chant: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna |
- K> | Krishna Krishna Hare Hare |
- K> | Hare Rama Hare Rama |
- K> | Rama Rama Hare Hare |
- K> | |
- K> | Kalki's Infoline BBS Aiken, South Carolina, USA |
- K> | (kalki33!kalki@lakes.trenton.sc.us) |
- K> -------------------------------------------------------
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- | Creationist's chant: Is Not! Is Not! Ain't So! |
- | Liar! Liar! Read the book! |
- | Is Not! Is Not! Is Not, |
- | Ain't So! Too Improbable! |
- | |
- | Satan's propagandaline, 666 south damnation alley, |
- | hell.university.underworld |
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