June 2012 Screwballs

[Cerebrum123]

He has decided to draw crappy cartoons on the internet to use his time up instead of trying to get real accreditation so his views might actually have value?

I think that they are pretty good, and my family has so far too. I mean they aren't exactly the best quality animations I have ever seen( I still think that they are good though ), but they are very helpful, funny, and explain things so that I can understand them.

[jpholding]

I think that they are pretty good, and my family has so far too. I mean they aren't exactly the best quality animations I have ever seen( I still think that they are good though ), but they are very helpful, funny, and explain things so that I can understand them.

They're probably the best that can be done with the materials I have at hand -- thanks.

My littke bro sends:

First of all, I nominate the expensive and seemingly impractical Banana Bunker.

http://bananabunker.com/

That sounds like something Roy Discomfort could have brought up.

Next, I nominate Sister Margaret A. Farley for her book, Just Love. I also nominate this blogger for supporting her.

My Take: Vatican is unjust to condemn nun's 'Just Love'

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...uns-just-love/

Electro-shocking Special Need Students?!

http://theliteracysite.greatergood.c...hockTherapyJRC

Family claims to see image of Jesus in moldy shower

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...cal&id=8682378

More "images" of Jesus and the Virgin Mary:

http://greenleegazette.blogspot.com/...wer-again.html

[KingsGambit]

CNN article about preachers-turned-atheists. Apparently one of the final straws for the man profiled here was the failure of prayer. Perhaps somebody should have read Tekton's article "Does Prayer Get You Anything"?

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...open-atheists/

[Rayado]

On that note, screwball for huckster self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Prince for this:

Pray up your immune system!

[Manwë Súlimo]

On that note, screwball for huckster self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Prince for this:

Pray up your immune system!

Oh, I know that guy from TV. Typical Christian preacher on local Christian stations (AKA, horrible, terrible, should never have been handed a Bible).

[Rayado]

Oh, I know that guy from TV. Typical Christian preacher on local Christian stations (AKA, horrible, terrible, should never have been handed a Bible).

I have a friend right now who is suffering through chemotherapy due to a resurgence of cancer (he's a young guy, with the best little family ever), and comparing him to Price, guess which one of them shows Christlikeness? Prince's dreck deserves contempt.

[Cerebrum123]

I have a friend right now who is suffering through chemotherapy due to a resurgence of cancer (he's a young guy, with the best little family ever), and comparing him to Price, guess which one of them shows Christlikeness? Prince's dreck deserves contempt.

I'll for your friend. I know what it's like to deal with chronic illness.

[Mountain Man]

Screwball nomination to the woman in the following story:

My wife called a local church which advertises a Deaf ministry to inquire about getting a sign language interpreter so my Deaf son could attend their summer Vacation Bible School. The woman instead suggested that we attend a healing service so they could pray for him, to which my wife indignantly responded, "You obviously don't know anything about Deaf culture or you'd know why I find that comment extremely offensive." (For those who don't know, suggesting that a culturally Deaf individual needs healing would be like telling a black person that he needs to be "cured" of his skin color, and since the church supposedly has a Deaf ministry, the woman's ignorance on this point is inexcusable.) The woman more or less blew my wife off and insinuated that it's a salvational issue, that if a Christian is sick or disabled then it's because they're not exercising sufficient faith and really aren't fully saved -- her justification for this belief is that the same Greek word translated as "saved" is also translated as "healed" in other contexts, as if a word means every possible connotation in every context, which is obviously not how language works.

After my wife hung up the phone, she emailed the woman and reiterated just how offensive her comment was because we have adopted the cultural view of deafness and don't see our son as needing any kind of healing. The woman wrote back in full holier-than-though passive-aggressive mode and said, among other things, "I'm sorry that you are not ready to receive healing and that my offer of prayer offended you."

That's the kind of smugness you could slap.

[OfficialPro]

screwball to the guy that said, "Atheists know there's nobody to forgive us so we have to live with what we did."

I guess that OTHER HUMAN BEINGS don't count?

[Manwë Súlimo]

That's funny, I thought Christians still believed they had to live with consequences.

[KingsGambit]

Another example of the media mentioning that an arrestee was a "devout Christian" when it is completely irrelevant to the story at hand. This is becoming a serious pet peeve.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1...s-walmart.html

[Teluog]

The Facebook lady again:

Get alone with God- you never know what He might tell you!

[jpholding]

Today's dose of Symphering:

I haven't been doing this very long, but I'm dealing with lots of atheists too, some of them who come at me with anger in the beginning. And when I'm respectful and understanding to them, alot of them turn into friends.

In other words, when he doesn't challenge them and gives in to their bad behavior.

Holding may be worn out from the debate and the attacks, but if you're going to represent the faith, turning cold and hard and condescending is just not ok. If he's truly too beaten down to deal maturely, he should take a break until he's up to it again imo

I'm "worn out" or "beaten down" huh. He don't know me vewy well -- DO HE???

Symph needs to take his own advice.


And, LA is still playing that broken record:

After losing his job with the state, Holding found that being a computer apologist was better than getting a proper full-time job. He set up a tax-free "ministry" with donations to supplement what his wife earns, freeing him to "unleash my warrior".

Megalo-narcissists don't like being told what to do. Holding wasn't going to force himself to answer to profs, advisors, etc again.

He will disparage an opponent's credentials, but claims he doesn't need any because---he's an "INFORMATION BROKER".

Sigh. LA, I know you're obsessively watching, so I remind you:

1) I did not "lose" my job with the state. I voluntarily gave it up so that I would not displace someone else.
2) I had another full time job in between the two (state and ministry).
3) I had set up the ministry long before that -- in fact, 3 years before I quit the state.
4) Being an info broker IS a credential, you moron.

[lilpixieofterror]

Jimmy the Philosopher shows us why he is so smart:

If God existed before the universe existed, then how can God have created time? Doesn't the fact that God existed "before" his creation and that the universe existed "after" God, imply that time existed with God? Doesn't a universe that did not exist "before" but now exists "after" imply the existence of time previous to the creation of the universe? And what about space? If God created space, where was he before he created it? Seems to me that the more logical argument is that spacetime always existed.

[ApologiaPhoenix]

First screwball. This case was brought forward.

Second screwball. The guy won it.

http://failblog.org/2012/06/13/epic-...ailblog.ORG%29

And an anti-screwball to this:

http://failblog.org/2012/06/13/epic-...ailblog.ORG%29