So, Who’s Dumb?

by Little Miss Attila on May 22, 2011

The people who were making fun of Christians, worldwide. Ultimately. Because they confused localized sizzle for global steak.

I got to a point wherein I just couldn’t respond to the jokes from nonbelievers, or from The Woman Who Pretends to Be a Christian, But Makes Fun of Faith. If it came from fellow believers, I was cool and could have a small chuckle, because numerology is absurd. But intent was harder to read from the hipster douchebag community, IYKWIMAITYD.

Yet believers can do it, and those who survived extremist fundamentalism* yet still manage to follow Christ are to be encouraged, since they are trying to make their way through an odd minefield.

* I know that some of you Baptists think you’re fundamentalists, but . . . you are, at most, conservative evangelicals, according to the tenets I learned. Do you think that perhaps you just like the sound of the word fundamentalist? It appears to have a certain cachet outside the West, after all.

On the other hand, it might just be one of those words, about which one Ought Not Argue . . . they all seem to start with F, don’t they?

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ponce May 22, 2011 at 12:42 am

Shorter Althouse: We’re not dumb, you’re the dumb ones!

I don’t think the “rational” god botherers understand that what they believe is just as silly as the what the doom predictors believe(d).

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Darrell May 22, 2011 at 5:27 am

The assholes that have to interject that there is no God on every tread, without being
invited to do so, are the true “botherers.”
I would guess that earns them a place in Hell, instead of simple non-existence–like biological life such as insects–when it all comes to an end for them.
Believing in nothing, like ponce, is so sophisticated and intelligent.
Just like all of his fellow blatherers dropping their turds of wisdom on YouTube.
You all want to be like them, right Kiddies?
I thought not. Smart.

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ponce May 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm

I never said there were no gods, Puerile.

I’m just fascinated by the line people who believe in primitive superstitions draw to demark what is “real” and what is far fetched.

It’s like Donald Trump’s assessment of what is and isn’t tasteful…

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Darrell May 22, 2011 at 12:52 pm

That lower case “g” is so telling.
You’ve said many times that God is a fairy tale.
But you believe in something called gods.
How special. How very special.
Thank goodness there were no burlap sacks around when you were born. And a body of water.
Excuse me for the last bits. Just thinking out loud.
Best get your rest so that you’re fresh for that community college gig of yours.
Aren’t those young people lucky?

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ponce May 22, 2011 at 1:02 pm

puerile,

All I’m saying is that, of all the gods, the Christian god is pretty far down on the credibility scale.

The people who actually, truly believe in him/her are really out there on the superstition scale.

And so it strikes me as so silly for them to be knocking people who believe(d) yesterday was Rapturama.

Darrell May 22, 2011 at 3:19 pm

You are stupid.

Little Miss Attila May 22, 2011 at 1:05 am

Ponce, find a short pier . . .

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Darrell May 22, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Not Piers Morgan, btw.
Too tall.

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Libby May 22, 2011 at 7:29 am

I wonder how many of those people snickering about this believe in global warming end times preached by Gore an his disciples? You know, the ones who say we have less than 10 years to drastically reduce carbon emissions or all is lost.

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Foxfier May 22, 2011 at 7:32 am

*sigh* It’s sad, because there ARE a lot of important numbers in the Bible. Numbers-as-symbols were very important– the closest I can think of in our culture would be colors, but it’s more extensive.

Whole thing is really freaking annoying, really.
Not in the least because the news couldn’t be bothered to accurately report what the folks were saying, and because they don’t bother to accurately report what any of the other doomsday idiots are saying. (Even without research, I could tell the first– since they’d say contradictory things about when the End was supposedly coming, and after someone made a joke it went all over the news.)
At least it wasn’t “big” as long as the Mayan thing. Still so freaking annoying that people are behaving like morons over a dead calendar’s millennium cycle. Really, do you see anyone screaming and waiving their hands in the air because it’s Mesopotamian New Year?!?

*grumble grumble research fail grumble*

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Roxeanne de Luca May 22, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Why not make fun of all men, since Camper is a man and foolishly went down this path? Why not make fun of all octogenarians, since Camper is 89 and obviously nuts? I mean, if you’re going to pick one aspect of this man and make fun of everyone who shares that aspect, whether or not they share his mindset, why pick Christianity? His Rapture-stuff isn’t even very Christian (being contrary to Biblical teachings).

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Foxfier May 22, 2011 at 12:19 pm

But that wouldn’t let them hate on their chosen Other.

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John Hitchcock May 22, 2011 at 2:28 pm

I am absolutely a pre-trib Christian (although I have my concerns about a post-trib possibility and my own lack of strength for a trib situation). And the narcissist in me makes me think LMA was considering my comment elsewhere that I’m an Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian. I know very little about the Catholic belief system except for those things I adamantly oppose (and the few key points that make true Catholics true Christians (there is a difference on both points)) and if it is part of Official Catholic Doctrine that the Rapture doesn’t exist, that saddens me while reinforcing my decision to never, under any circumstances, to become Catholic.

That said, Jesus Himself said He doesn’t know the Day or the Hour. Anyone who claims to know the Day or the Hour is either a fool or an intentional Servant of Satan. Either way, that person serves the goals of Satan, which are rather simply to pull as many people as he can into the outer darkness with him as he already knows his future. To make these numerologists who reject teachings of the Bible as prime examples of Christians as a whole or as prime examples of Mainstream Christianity is to lie, plain and simple. The numerologists who say “here He is” or “there He will be” have been written about in the very Bible they reject to do their thing.

As far as “the end of the world” goes, there is a minimum of 1007 years left before that happens.

(Okay, off my soap-box. Had to get that out, but this is LMA’s house and not a liturgical lesson, so I’m done unless LMA draws me further in (which I sincerely doubt will happen).)

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John Hitchcock May 22, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Okay, I lied. This is the last, unless LMA pulls me in. Regarding “Do you think that perhaps you just like the sound of the word fundamentalist? It appears to have a certain cachet outside the West, after all.” I had covered the root issue a couple years ago on my site.

http://truthbeforedishonor.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/insult-becomes-compliment/

Yeah, that should cover it, I think.

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cathy May 22, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Hi, ponce,

This intrigues me very much:

All I’m saying is that, of all the gods, the Christian god is pretty far down on the credibility scale.

What god(s) do you find more plausible?

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John May 23, 2011 at 4:34 am

Every time someone correctly infers the date of the second coming, it is immediately re-scheduled for a later unpublished date.

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