Trying, oh Trying, Not to Obsess on Sarah Palin
Published by Lisa Kansas September 15th, 2008 in The Palinator
It’s hard, though. I think it’s because she’s a woman and it just makes my teeth hurt when a woman pops up on the national stage and acts like a power-hungry hypocritical dingbat. Now, that’s reverse sexism–so she’s a female Huckabee! Why don’t I cringe as miserably from his existence? Clearly I need to work on this.
“She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’ “I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”
OOOH, run that by me…again?
“And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”
Sarah Sarah Sarah! Read this!
“Christian urban legends” (CUL) is a term used by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) on their “Science, Scripture & Salvation” radio program for 1999-APR-17. They use it to refer to those urban legends which have a Christian theme. CULs are similar to ordinary urban legends:
1. the stories are unsubstantiated.
2. they do not come from authoritative sources.
3. they describe events that never happened.But they have one unique property: they tend to support some biblical passage or theme.
ICR is concerned that sincere, well-meaning Christians may use CULs to prove the accuracy of certain biblical passages and thus “win people to Christ.” The danger is that when the new Christian finds that the story was false, they might conclude that other information that they had received was also unreliable. This might destroy their new-found faith.
Sarah Sarah Sarah!
How Christian CULs are created:
Some are created by backward reasoning, as follows:
A conservative Christian then creates a fictional story that contains hard evidence that these events happened.
1 NASA scientists write a computer program that finds a time discontinuity.
2 Some remains from Noah’s Ark are found in Mount Ararat in Turkey.
3 Scientists drill a deep hole into the earth and hear people screaming in agony.
4 Fossilized human footprints are found which intersect dinosaur footprints.
3 Scientists drill a deep hole into the earth and hear people screaming in agony.
That is HILARIOUS. I hadn’t heard that one before.
If I was a scientist drilling deep into the earth and heard screams of agony, it would never even cross my mind that it was Hell. I’d just think I’d discovered Pellucidar and, oops!, managed to maim a few of its inhabitants with my drill.
OMG, somebody else who knows what Pellucidar is.
Wasn’t the drilling into Hell one a World News Daily story some years ago? Possibly w/ an escaping demon…horns, batwings, and goatfeet, of course…
I thought I read that story on the old Freakylinks site…man I miss that show! So delightfully goofy!
I couldn’t figure out what the scientists were hearing — had they drilled into kidnap victims? Discovering hell never occurred to me! Apparently I am a fully recovered Xtian at last!