My facebook friend Dan Albergotti put up a post saying that 38% of Americans, the percent who believe that earthquakes, hurricanes and suchlike events are Gods vengeance on humans for being filthy, immoral, parasites, are idiots.
God is Always Smiting Somebody
Of course, predictably, some one wrote in and said you shouldn’t say they are idiots, that’s no way to bring them over to our side and it’s not respectful of their religious beliefs.
I’m siding with the guy who called them idiots.
Perhaps I’m a bit hypocritical in that I will say certain things on the internet which I would not say in real life.
When Christian fundamentalists come knocking on my door or try to hand me a pamphlet on a street corner, I do not say “Your ideas are idiotic. You are an idiot.” I politely wave them off and say, I don’t have any time, or just “I’m not interested.” Nonetheless, I am thinking “Your ideas are idiotic. You are, therefore, an idiot.”
However, we are here, on the internet, a semi-anonymous (i don’t know most of you in real life) place where we can exchange ideas. Here we can say what we think. I believe it’s important that we do because the idiots, those who believe that a man named Noah literally built an ark, those who believe that an imaginary creature called God created the world in 6 days, are organized. They have political candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry who may well be elected to the most powerful office in the world. It is critically important for the survival and well being of the human race that we point out that they are idiots. Again and again and again.
It is not to win that 38% over to our side. They have proven that that is impossible.
It is important that the people in the middle, the 38-60% who are not necessarily end-time-crazy-for-Jesus religious but still look at Rick Perry and say ‘He seems like a decent, church going guy,’ are made aware that among intelligent people these folks are considered stupid. Their ideas should not, for one second, be taken seriously.
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i slam the door in their faces or say i have a religion, thank you. i know i should be nicer but i can’t.
Rick Perry may be a churchgoing guy, but he’s not a decent, churchgoing guy. And both he and Michelle Bachmann are, in my opinion, idiots. I agree that their ideas should not be taken seriously, unfortunately there are lots of other idiots out there.