February 2012 Screwballs

[KingsGambit]

An Alabama legislator supports low teacher pay. Fair enough, I guess. But what earns him a screwball is his attempt to claim that low teacher pay follows biblical principles (without citing a verse, of course):

http://times-journal.com/news/articl...871e3ce6c.html

[Raphael]

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(h/t Mike Flynn)

[Manwë Súlimo]

Apophenia again for still not making sense.

[Benson Shays]

Add America's religious heritage to the things Hector Avalos is wrong about.

Perhaps the most famous denial appears in the eleventh clause of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797), which begins as follows: “As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion …” So, how could President John Adams, who signed it, and the Senate, which ratified it, even accept such language if everyone agreed that we were a Christian nation?

He never defines terms, selectively quotes sources and replaces analysis with rhetorical questions. Pathetic.

[ApologiaPhoenix]

Add America's religious heritage to the things Hector Avalos is wrong about.

I'm curious what's on the opposing list.

[Teluog]

http://www.tektonics.org/tektoonics/.../jan12scr.html

January feature up.

Correction:

Facebook commenter wins:

I once heard a testimony where the Holy Ghost was falling upon the people during worship. The preacher testified how the piano player got so filled with the Spirit that she fell off of the piano bench and the piano kept right on playing! No other explanation could be found except, “Jesus knows how to play a piano!”

That is actually from a prophecy website that I reached because someone on Facebook posted a link to it. So it's not the Facebooker who gets the screwball but the alleged prophet who owns the website.

Actually, you have to be quite the screwball to believe in a website like that.

[Teluog]

Yikes, Cursin' Hurtin' Curt has a blog, this could be deadly: http://curtishealy.wordpress.com/

Haven't seen him post anything whacky on Facebook lately, but I have of course heard of him getting into heated, verbally abusive arguments (with him doing the verbal abuse of course).

[Benson Shays]

I'm curious what's on the opposing list.

It is possible to be too curious.

[Rational Gaze]

When you master the double bass pattern from "Bleed," get back to me.

I don't play drums.

[lilpixieofterror]

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All I can say is... wow...

[lilpixieofterror]

The Pixie really seems to want that 2012 T web Vet Platinum Screwball Award because he's posting things like this:

There have been several explanatons by non-Christians to try to explain the circumstances around Jesus resurrection, starting with the claim that the disciples stolen his body, which was circulating even before some of the gospels were written. Here is an alterative theory.

The idea here is that Jesus came back to life as a purely natural process. Ridiculous! you say. Maybe not. Look at this article about a jelly fish that can come back to life:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ish-swarm.html

But when starvation, physical damage, or other crises arise, "instead of sure death, [Turritopsis] transforms all of its existing cells into a younger state," said study author Maria Pia Miglietta, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University.

The jellyfish turns itself into a bloblike cyst, which then develops into a polyp colony, essentially the first stage in jellyfish life.

If a mere jellyfish can do it, surely a man can too, albeit in very unusual circumstances. Thus, is it possible that, like the jellyfish Jesus came back to life via a natural process?

Never mind the fact that Jesus' heart was punctured (among many other things), Jelly fish have a far simpler body, that likewise, there is no evidence of this happening to a human, doesn’t matter, it supports his doubts so it has to be accepted!

[One Bad Pig]

anti-screwball to a church sign I passed the other day:

the best things in life are not things

[Challenger Grim]

The Pixie really seems to want that 2012 T web Vet Platinum Screwball Award because he's posting things like this:

Never mind the fact that Jesus' heart was punctured (among many other things), Jelly fish have a far simpler body, that likewise, there is no evidence of this happening to a human, doesn’t matter, it supports his doubts so it has to be accepted!

LPoT, I'd just run with it. Ask him if now that he knows it's a natural process, if he'll be converting soon. Maybe send him a list of nearby churches you can recommend.

[Sparko]

LPoT, I'd just run with it. Ask him if now that he knows it's a natural process, if he'll be converting soon. Maybe send him a list of nearby churches you can recommend.

He is actually just trying to mock Mountain Man because MM said that Jesus resurrecting could be an unknown natural process and mentioned how jelly fish can regenerate, purely as an example. So now pixie is mocking MM with that thread as far as I can tell, by taking it completely literally.

[lilpixieofterror]

He is actually just trying to mock Mountain Man because MM said that Jesus resurrecting could be an unknown natural process and mentioned how jelly fish can regenerate, purely as an example. So now pixie is mocking MM with that thread as far as I can tell, by taking it completely literally.

So my suspicion, that The Pixie is a literalist fundy, is true?