Fundie in a Nutshell
I wear my ignorance like a badge!
It's our faith they need to see --- not our knowledge.
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For argument's sake, let's suppose your god exists and takes an interest in the comings and goings of Humanity; do you really think he/she/they/it would be at all impressed by your refusal to use the brains they gave you? To waste the time you've been gifted by wallowing in stupidity? I can think of few things more likely to provoke disapproval and punishment than wilful and premeditated ignorance.
You shame your god and yourself.
Okay, I can accept this. This is the kind of guy who probably wouldn't enter into a heated discussion with their Perpetual Fallacy Machine running on full power, simply because thinking is hard. He's like the mascot of fundies, it's almost cute.
"I wear my ignorance like a badge!"
Well, one must go with one's stregnth.
"It's our faith they need to see --- not our knowledge."
Please start again, and, please, use complete sentences.
"It's our faith they need to see --- not our knowledge."
Oh dear. They now even admit their ignorance.
If you were an agnostic, surely this doesn't make you go 'There might be something in Christianity'
"It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. "
Augustine of Hippo, the Literal Interpretation of Genesis - on why ignorance makes a fool of Christians.
I wear my ignorance like a badge!
I don't know which is worse that you're telling the truth, or the fact that you think it's something to be proud of.
It's our faith they need to see
Belive me when I tell you that most non-believers really couldn't give a flying fuck about your faith. Your public displays of "faith" and willful ignorance amount to nothing less than a fundie pissing contest to show who's more pious or righteous, and who's less "worldly" as if ignorance is next to godliness. Don't act as if your game one-upsmanship is for anybody else's benefit but your own, You have to feed that enormous ego somehow.
not our knowledge
Well of course not, you reject anything that so much as resembles knowledge in dismisive puff of arrogance lest you taint your ideological "purity". You wallow in you own ignorance and stupidity like a pig in filth and you can't even see it.
Oh good they brought back the awards.
To AVET: knowledge is a virtue. Faith is a flaw. Knowledge has brought about all the advancements of the modern age. Knowledge has made this world a better place.
So yeah. Go science.
Yay! The awards are back!
I remember Bro Rancid being voted Fundie of the Year. AFAIK, he still wears the badge with pride, a lot like AV1611VET.
Incidentally I was visiting the awesome (in the real sense of the word) York Minster last week. It's not faith that keeps that building up but the invention of the flying buttress and pinnacle. Oh, that and a lot of nineteen-seventies underpinning.
@957367
When people call someone a "poe," it's a reference to Poe's Law.
That law -- especially in internet circles -- basically says that, when it comes to religion and politics, there's no such thing as a satirical position, which someone, somewhere, won't take seriously.
I tried looking for AV1611VET's knowledge. Couldn't find any.
You should wear several of them...
And it is your faith that makes you look like an idiot every time you type out one of your insane screeds.
I really hate this "ignorance is strength" meme that seems to be so popular among the hoi polloi in the United States these days. It's really disheartening for the rest of us.
THIS doesn't sum fundie up in a nutshell. I'll tell you what does though:
"Wait, so you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that it's right to persecute gays, that the world was made in 6 days flat, that a man 2000 years ago came back from the dead? Why the heck to you even CONSIDER believing this stuff?!"
"BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS SO!!!"
@ Jezebel's Evil Sister:
Having been re-reading Redwall and all the other books, I get the feeling they'd be offended by that comparison... and Lord Brocktree himself would be happy to split AV's skull personally.
you are trying to lead by example in order to win converts, right?
"I wear my ignorance like a badge!
It's our faith they need to see --- not our knowledge."
And like your nebulous concept called 'Faith', your God doesn't exist, neither.
Maybe like the yellow Star of David that Jews were forced to wear in WWII Germany & the countries Hitler occupied (along with the others that those demonised by the Nazis had to; the pink triangle for homosexuals, for example), mayhaps fundies should have to wear a badge all the time. Say, a brain in a red circle with a bar across it. Also fundies must wear a dunce's cap all the time, and on all their cloting, a sign on the back saying 'I am an uneducated moron who refuses to accept reality. Please kick me.'
It's only when fundies need to show their utter stupidity in all it's forms that they need to see the intelligence and knowledge of we Atheists.
@ Anon-e-moose
Ooh ooh, I know - how about an internationally recognizable image that signifies the utmost in brainless gullibility = A Fish LIKE IT?
despite how glaringly stupid the statement is, at least he's honest. he doesn't try to use factually superfluous pseudoscience or as homenim attack in order to justify his beliefs. he realizes the only refuge for his faith is the small sliver of a possibility that what is known might be an illusion of some sort. That in another thousand years we'll look back on present day science as we look on bloodletting and flat earth today.
...So, uh...I guess "Ignorance is next to godliness", then?
...."Cleanliness is bliss", I'll stay clean!
I see your "faith"...and I DON'T WANT IT! This is why I'm Wiccan.
...oh, the REAL Jesus don't want it either...
...I'll give you Brownie Points for your honesty, though.
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