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Re: Is the theory of relativity a liberal / atheist plot?
One thing I've heard is that gravity doesn't exist, but that earth sucks.
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12/1/2009, 10:39 pm
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Re: Is the theory of relativity a liberal / atheist plot?
Lol. It's not so much earth that sucks, but what some people do to it.
Hmm... Does that mean people cause the illusion of gravity?
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12/1/2009, 11:12 pm
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I've got it! I've got it! Iv've got it! Gravity is an illusion, but Andrew Schlafly sucks! Thus, the only reason we don't all go floating off into space is that in every generation there are considerable numbers of people who suck.
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12/2/2009, 8:09 pm
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Re: Is the theory of relativity a liberal / atheist plot?
You just might be on to something there!
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12/2/2009, 9:03 pm
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Re: Is the theory of relativity a liberal / atheist plot?
quote: In every generation, there is a Chosen One.
(to the uninitiated: that's from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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12/3/2009, 3:24 am
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Lesigner Girl
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If only we could limit the Schlaflys, Behes, and Comforts of the world to 1 per generation...
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12/3/2009, 10:50 pm
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Here we go again...
Blessed are the conservative in Bible translation
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12/4/2009, 2:56 am
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quote: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Gospel of Luke records that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus showed his boundless mercy by praying for his killers this way: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."
Not so fast, say contributors to the Conservative Bible Project.
The project, an online effort to create a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities, claims Jesus' quote is a disputed addition abetted by liberal biblical scholars, even if it appears in some form in almost every translation of the Bible.
I bet these are the same people who still claim the Testimonium was really written by Josephus.
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12/4/2009, 6:53 pm
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OK my latest irritation is that a fundie thinks I don't know enough to pass a stupid bible quiz.
Why they don't believe in the theory of relativity: they don't understand it.
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12/7/2009, 9:40 am
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As to not accepting relativity because they don't understand it, Morwen, you're probably right. Andrew Schafly seems to have confused relativity with moral relativism. I think this is a bit of idealogy-based fall-out. Once an ideoogy, whether political or religious becomes so all-important, everything must be viewed in terms of the ideology. Nothing can be left as neutral. This clouds objective thinking, because, in fact, facts are neutral. So, we have scientific concepts, such as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Theory of Relativity subjected to te rigor of political correctness.
Parallels to this in the realm of politics can be found in Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union and the activities of the Red Guard in Communist China. Once T. S. Lysenko had proposed his theory that genes could be altered by diet, etc. - a revival of Lamark's discredited theories - the coummunists siezed on the idea that revolutionary changes coud be made in biological terms, and genetics became a "bourgois science," hence not a science at all. Lysenkoism did a great deal of damage to the biological sciences in the Soviet Union until it's application to agriculture resulted in massive crop failures. These, in turn, resulted in Khruschev being overthrown by Brezhnev and company, who, though they were more repressive than he was, were able to, as part of the purge, dump Lysenkoimsm. China's Red Guard, by regarding even the playing of western musical instruments, such as violins, as "revisionist" did considerable damage to China's economy. The pragmatists who took over after Mao effectively dumped communist economic ideology. China is now a land of state capitalism.
What really seems weird is when such ideologies even take on a life of their own, independent of their sources or, it would seem, their source documents. For example, if western literature and influences were "revisionist," how could the Red Guard justify Marxism, since Karl Marx was, after all, a European thinker? Now it appears that, as Kaunisto notes in his post, that even the Bible is suspect as (gasp) "liberal." Thus, Luke's record of Jesus' words on the cross (Lk. 23:34), "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," is nnow suspect, since it doesn't conform to the Conservative Bible Project's ideology.
If any of the Christians who have posted on this forum are lurking, I'd like like to hear from them on what they think of the idea of purging these and other passages from the Bible. Are you going to stand for this, which would seem like a clear violation of the principle of Sola Scriptura? Is it now to be the Bible according to Andrew Schlafly?
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12/7/2009, 2:08 pm
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