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| DUMB CHRISTIANS |
| Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| Dumb Christians Voted Wrong
"[CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Andy] Rooney also attributed
voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance.
'I am an atheist,' Rooney said. 'I don't understand religion at
all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I
think it's all nonsense.' He said Christian fundamentalism is a
result of 'a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what
the world has to offer.' Rooney said he also could not understand
how 'men who work with their hands voted for George Bush,' and
again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education. 'The
labor force is conservative,' he said. 'How in the world did that
happen?'"
-- Excerpt from a November 19 Tufts Daily article by Keith Barry
on Rooney's speech at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy a day earlier.
credit: MRC.org
MAYBE SOMEONE SHOULD APPRISE MR. ROONEY THAT SOME OF THE GREATEST MINDS TODAY AND IN HISTORY BELIEVE(D) IN "CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM".
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posted by Jack Mercer @ 12/17/2004 10:38:00 AM   |
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Dismissing something one doesn't understand is the true measure of ignorance! What a quack!
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There is hardly any proof that the major minds of our times believe in religion. THis denigrates all of the scientists who do not--which is most of them. The dismissal you make of atheists is assuming a lot to us, just as Rooney assumes a lot to you. And jack, saying people who lived in the past believed something -- like your so called great minds of the past, is like saying all men are rascists because thier forefathers were. Just doesn't hold up as a real arguement. ROoney's words sound right to me.
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Hi Johnny! We have electricity as we know it today because of an scientist who was a Christian. The Big Bang theory was proposed and developed by a Christian. The father of modern genetics and genome research is a Christian. Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Boyle, Faraday, Mendel, Kelvin either all Christian or believed in God. Darwin himself even said it was impossible to theorize a universe without a designer. Encyclopedia Britanica: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in "Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists."
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Dismissing something one doesn't understand is the true measure of ignorance! What a quack!