Reply #119: Oh, Come On [View All]

There's a lot of "Crazy Relativism" going on here. It's like CRAZY to say that creationism is true, but then the same accusor will turn around and say something like "but I believe in God or an eternal 'energy,' or some equally nonsensical, constructed idea that they have no basis in "fact" for.

And then someone will ultimately say, "you can't make fun of that person because 'so many people believe in God,' which doesn't make the argument better -- just more fallacious -- "argumentum ad populum" to be exact. Just because a lot of people believe it -- DOESN'T mean it's true.

Hyperreligiosity is a mental disorder. Meaning that some people will starve themselves "because God told them to," and they'll get sent up to a mental hospital. At the same time, Rapture Pearl sends half her income to Pat "Shiny Diamond" Robertson, who builds a fascist theme park with some of it, and pays dictators off with the rest -- and she's "got core American values."

It's time we started talking about this realistically. Everybody's crazy -- from women who shave their legs to people who spend 50 large on a luxury car, to those who give a shit about what's happening on some dumb reality sitcom. There are a lot more people living in a fantasy world than just the Christian Fundies. Everything that's happened since the birth of the industrial revolution is simply distracting bullshit. Sure, there have been some technological advances -- but in another wormhole, that maybe could have happened without all the bullshit.

Point: believing in God is just plain A-1 fucking nuts, but so are about a million other things we do.