Response To A Child Of God

Casually browsing YouTube, I came across a video of a young girl talking about GodAndJesus. I put the words “God and Jesus” together because throughout the video she says both names as if they were fused together.

The title of the video is “Wise child explains how dumb evolution is.” Of course, she never actually refutes evolution at all. She just talks about GodAndJesus.

The subtitles of the video say that she is smarter than any atheist.  In terms of her knowledge of how the earth was created? Can she actually explain how scientist date fossils? Her only reference is a single book; how many theories has she tested herself? Here is the video:

The only positive moment in the video is when the girl seems to have a bit of doubt in questioning why hell can be all black yet full of fire. As she rightly questions: “wouldn’t the fire create light?” Answering her own question, she says “Basically I think that means it’s really hot, but it’s really dark too.” In fact, throughout this video she constantly says she’s been told, she thinks she knows, or that it’s only a possibility regarding the facts she mentions. Children can seem like they were truly and divinely touched by a superior being; they’ve been told amazing stories by the people they trust.

I’m sure there is more I can say, but I’ve lost focus since Rick Astley just bust out of the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Thanksgiving Day Parade float, and began singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Wow… what a spectacle!

McCain And His Rabid Supporters

In the third and final presidential debate last night, the topic of the rabid supporters at McCain/Palin rallies came up. McCain responded by saying:

Let me just say categorically, I’m proud of the people that come to our rallies. Whenever you get a large rally of ten, fifteen, and twenty thousand people, you’re going to have some fringe people. You know — you know that. And — and I’ve — and we’ve always said that that’s not appropriate.

I want to break this quote down, because there are so many inaccuracies and troubling aspects that I could never address in a general blanket statement absent supporting detail.

McCain claims that statistically with the large number of people that come out, there have to be at least some fringe people, thus insinuating that the rest of the people at his rallies are regular and moderate Republicans. But as I see it, McCain’s rhetoric and his choice for VP have driven moderates and true conservatives away.

As Rosa Brooks at the Los Angeles Times notes, thinking conservatives have been moving away from McCain for months. According to Brooks, this movement was greatly intensified with McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

My feeling is that at this point, the majority of people still showing up to McCain/Palin rallies are the fringe. Even if McCain does have moderate supporters, are they willing to pack up their stuff and head out to these rallies to listen to his recycled speeches?

Obama talked about the McCain supporters at the rallies who’ve yelled out “terrorist” and “kill him.” Considering that most of these rallies are attended large numbers of the fringe, it is no surprise that there were no moderates to tell these extremists to shut up.

Statistically, if the people at a rally were primarily people who don’t yell out horrible things, then how statistically improbable was it for McCain to find the elderly lady who said she didn’t trust Obama because he was an Arab? It is hard to believe that it was just that McCain had the bad gambling-man luck to find such a viewpoint (a needle in a haystack) in what was otherwise a moderate deck. Further proving the extremist point, when McCain finally defended Obama, the MAJORITY of the crowd began booing!

And what does John McCain expect anyway? He created this mess. He’s helped spread the lies and hate. He picked Sara Palin to take the hate and lies a step further. Ms. Palin, unlike Mr. McCain, has never challenged the hateful spew coming from her crowds.

John McCain said, “I’ve — and we’ve always said that that’s not appropriate.” I can see why he initially started to say “I’ve” rather than “we’ve”. While McCain certainly hasn’t ALWAYS said it wasn’t appropriate, though he has begun to now, Palin has NEVER said it was inappropriate. On the contrary, she’s been one of the main hateful voices egging the crowd on.