“I am grateful that I have those foreign readers. I glad that you can see that not all of us are backward neolithic xenophobic morons hiding in our caves, quivering at the sound of the thunder and coyotes howling outside, and inventing comforting fictions to explain it all.”

I forgot to mention this last time: If it weren’t for the reversed witch-hunt (just before the sailing of the Mayflower) that cleaned Europe and Great Britain from the idiots who find their solace in torturing poor suckers who fear god but fear pain even more, you would never have this problem with Cheney, HW Bush and their RW-gang.

In other words - I’m sorry we chased them out of our continent so they could screw up your part of the world. (Not as if you were already there and they came over as an afterthought, but the ‘normal people would have shown up anyhow, in a couple of Plague-cycles.)
We should have put millstones around each and every neck of those hideous Founding Fathers and have made them swim to Ireland.

Founding Fathers - I can only begin but wonder where (and how fast) they went wrong. “Look over there! There walks a guy with a bow and arrow! He looks like he doesn’t believe in the same lie we tried out in Europe and got chased out for, lets try it on these suckers. And we know the rest…

Morale? No, absolutely no morale. Just a heap of Macaca avant-la-lettre.

I’m getting myself wound up again…

Tell me Ron, what is it with these people? They conjure up Ten commandments (sort of binding reslotion with their god) and then go and try to break them all over an inconceivable amount of time. It’s like trying to make a tree grow by depriving it of water and sunlight. That’s where you get a sorry, rotten, dried out and damp and dark excuse for a tree.
It’s like trying to stop smoking - every day. You know. lite one in the morning, smoke all day, say your prayers at night and confess to god that you stopped smoking with his help. And start again the next day, waiting for gods love to finally grant you some strenght for seriously giving up.

Of course, the whole religion-thing is just a big cover-up for the greater crimes. That’s where it becomes scary instead of just pathetic.

Later!

Bart

The fundie population here is somewhere in the ballpark of 25%. They use manipulative language and appeals to the superstitions and fears of the other 57% of the religious. The result is a backward society regressing to the “comforts” of the Dark Ages.

I am grateful that I have those foreign readers. I glad that you can see that not all of us are backward neolithic xenophobic morons hiding in our caves, quivering at the sound of the thunder and coyotes howling outside, and inventing comforting fictions to explain it all.

Just read some of the articles on your site, and even as a progressive non-believing and certainly less-caring Dutchman, I still think its pretty funny.

I completely agree on just about anything you state regarding the oblivious religious, but coming from an American (a real one, it seems) just makes me laugh out loud even louder!

I spent a year in an Missourian high-school during the nineties, during the Clinton-era actually, and with me there was one other person in school who was an atheist. She told me herself, hushed, in private, and also asked me to keep this ‘our little secret’. In a school with just 650 attendents, this was not much of a problem. Now I don’t even recall her name; just the incident taking place.

There and then I found out how ridiculous the whole religion thing really was. Sure I knew about fundies in the Netherlands, but some 90% of my friends, relatives and acquintances never took any interest in any church, God or organized religion whatsoever.

My fellow Richmond High Schoolclassmates did, however. One girl managed to start a speech with the following words: “America is one of the greatest an oldest countries in the world, …”. When I waved my hand to the Speech teacher (who voluntarily compared himself to a wombat, time and time again until he looked like one, but that’s beside the point) he took me apart and (hushed again) told me not to cause a stir. Couldn’t have that, now, could we? We couldn’t.

(Nobody tried to stop me, however, when I took on the biggest linebacker in school (only one of the six or seven black people in school) Olon to stop him from hitting a white girl. They would have loved that one…)

And now, via DU, I’ve come across this site. It pleases me to see there are people who try and ridicule the fundies where-ever they go. I’d rather see them tortured and abused by atheists who turn on them after centuries of mistreatment for not believing the elitist-lie. I’ve got some very interesting (and disturbing, I admit) ideas of how to re-enact the Spanish Inquisition for the pupose of bringing war-mongering born-again Christians to heel by all means possible.

Still, a lot of work needs to be done in order to bring back sense to the world and stop the followers from blindly following some basic instinct they’re not allowed to question. Why then, for the love of absence of god, follow in the first place??!!

I have some friends who belive in god, they admit to me, but will never go to church. Seems like sound advice to me! Other friends I have collect comic-books but never go to meetings. And if they did, they still would not differ from those who collect hard-to-read fairy-tales about the very people the USA is trying very hard to destroy. They just come over across more weird.

Have to go now, do shopping. I’ll try and keep in touch. Good luck with keeping the fundies at bay!!!!!

Bart Jump in the Field