January 2012 Screwballs PLUS Platinum Reports

[jpholding]

Starting this now as I may not be online tomorrow.

[Sparko]

[Chaotic Void]

[Raphael]

[fm93]

To a new year, and also to wash down all that popcorn--

[Catholicity]

Fine: Magellan004, Epoetker, Amos, JohnMartin, Jorge, and Trout. Also one to the Couple Anthony C for filing for a divorce on His Wife Rosa C after nearly 80 years of Marriage after he found out about a love affair she had in the 1940's.......yeah thats worth a platinum. http://zeenews.india.com/entertainme...air_103049.htm

[Chrawnus]

Here's a particularly screwy one to welcome the new year:

Right, they don't need to exhaustively understand religion in order to attack it. Why would we waste our time researching the finer points of fairy tales? It's enough to know they're fairy tales

You might think we're ignorant, but we're only ignorant with respect to the details of certain fairy tales, ask us what you like about biology, chemistry, calculus, or any other legitimate subject worth studying (because we're likely an expert in one or more of those areas). Sure ... I heard that god ordered the Jews to slaughter women and children of opposing tribes (in brutal fashion), but I can't cite chapter and verse, and I don't even know the context... but I don't have to understand these points to understand that this is a book, written over the course of a very long period of time, by very ancient and very primitive tribes. There may be bits of history, but its mostly mythic legends (and even the little that may elude to actual historical events, is likely embellished to the point that it barely resembles the historical event(s) it purports to describe).

The bottom line is ... religion is baloney (and therefore, anytime anyone donates money to a religious organization, anytime we defer to religion for any reason at all ... we're suckers, and religion peddlers are nothing more than snake oil salesmen). This is all we "should" need to know to motivate us to kick our religion habit.

Note especially the part I bolded.

[Requiem]

"Look, there's an idiot writing a post on my computer!"

Nope! It's just Your Master

NOPE

Your Master

It's just Your Master

NOPE

Your Master

It's just Your Master

[moreta]

[fm93]

Screwball to 2011 for flying by way too fast.

[MWM958]

sub

[Challenger Grim]

Sanity award to cracked.com for "5 'modern' medical procedures (are thousands of years old)".

And this line.

Despite what you've seen in Monty Python movies or at Renaissance Faires, people in olden days were a lot smarter than we give them credit for. They didn't exactly figure out how to make gold from horse poop (or however alchemy was supposed to work), but they did figure out a few things about our insides and how to make them better.

Too bad Aug isn't still around. #4 is... vaccines! (must have been the time traveling CDC)

[jpholding]

http://www.tektoonics.com/test/parody/dec11scr.htm

December feature up. I'll be back shortly with the 2011 Automatic Platinums.

[jpholding]

Here are the Automatic Platinums.

Tassman wins TWeb Veteran. No one else seems to have earned it as much.


This wins Atheist Email:

How can you dare to preach to us atheists when even many christians disagree with you? For example you misleadingly make out that beleving Jesus did not exist is something only atheists believe whilst keeping very quite about the fact that even some christians doubt Jesus ever existed. For example this article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14417362) interviews a church priest who points out that Jesus is as likley to have existed as dionysus! Maybe if you have evidence that jesus existed you should share it with the guy. Or take your claim that Christianity wasnt ripped off from mithraism. Well Rob Bell (who I understand has a much bigger following than you do) recons that these similarities between Jesus and Mithras do exist (http://youtu.be/7KvJc2VUFHY about 1:50 in) I guess your going to say that vicars of large churches arent true christians whilst you are (despite the fact that your youtube videos only get a few hundred hits suggesting that everyone bar 300 people recognise you for the joke that you are).

You will always get fundamentalists like yourself who deny evolution, believe jesus existed and that mithraism didnt exist however until you can convice other christians can you please not try on people like me.

This wins Skeptical Website:

http://ladyatheist.blogspot.com/2011...nst-bible.html

Harold Camping wins the Famous Christian category

Special book award:


http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Potter-H...tt_at_ep_dpt_1

This wins Christian website:

http://www.scatteredchristians.org/

Special award for Ed Dingess.

Special award also for Gulnare Free Will Baptist (the church that banned interracial couples).

Now I'll post some of the polls -- maybe half.

[rogue06]

Harold Camping wins the Famous Christian category

I think he has earned a life-time achievement award.