May 5, 2008...6:00 pm
PZ Myers Is Spitting Mad
What the hell is wrong with PZ Myers? The last time we checked in on the excitable New Atheist gadfly, he was having bizarre hallucinations involving Ben Stein, eyeballs, razor blades, and urine.
Now he’s gotten even more worked up about the yearly non-event that is the National Day of Prayer. After complaining, reasonably I think, that the once-ecumenical event has now morphed into a plaything for the Fundies, he lets loose the bonds of reason and sputters:
Fuck the National Day of Prayer. I can scarcely believe my country is officially pandering to such willful stupidity — elevating evangelical kooks to positions of prestige, trumpeting the virtues of sectarian religion, and actually crediting the successes of America to the fact that a subset of deluded, demented fools sit on their asses and beg an invisible man to protect us and help us kill people in foreign countries.
And he’s only getting going. We haven’t even gotten to the part about the spitting:
I feel like just declaring this the official National Day of Derangement and writing it all off, maybe spit in the soup of people who say grace, or flip off any group I catch trying to do a collective exercise in ritual invocation of nonexistent beings… .
No need to set aside a special day, PZ. For you, it’s clear that every day is a Day of Derangement.
4 Comments
May 5, 2008 at 6:25 pm
your entire post has no substance, it’s nothing but concern trolling, in essence.
let’s loose the bonds of reason?
the use of invective hardly equates with the level of reason in the arguments presented.
you haven’t at all made the case he is incorrect, in fact, you appear to agree with him fundamentally.
all you are doing is lamenting his use of colorful metaphor and invective, that only reflect an obvious righteous anger over the way this country has kowtowed to religious idolatry.
i hope this isn’t what you consider to be well reasoned debate on your part.
What the hell is wrong with PZ Myers?
what do you THINK he’s pissed off about?
You’re what’s wrong with much of the media today: You focus on the color instead of the substance of the arguments presented.
May 5, 2008 at 6:39 pm
For every claim that the New Atheists are really not angry, but simply dispassionate observers rationally investigating the beliefs of others, PZ is handy to point to as a source of religion hating vitriol spewing.
He is a very angry ex-Christian, I wonder if some pastor touched him in an inappropriate place or something when he was young. I dumped Christianity too, and I had that awkward period of proclaiming God didn’t exist loudly on the bus and whatever. But I was pretty well over that by the time I was of drinking age. I wonder why he can’t get over it.
The poor guy. He’s also the source of the anti-rational “Courtier’s Reply,” which amounts to “I don’t care what you say, I won’t listen to you since I know you are wrong no matter what you say.” What a piece of work.
>flip off any group I catch trying to do a collective exercise in ritual invocation of nonexistent beings
Hey, wait a second! I thought that the party line that atheism is just a lack of belief, not an actual belief in the nonexistence of God. Funny how things flip back and forth, depending on what’s convenient. There are a bunch of “atheism is just lack of belief” NAs who also call God an imaginary friend or something similar that asserts his non-existence. Odd behavior for “rationalists.”
May 5, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Hi Ichthyic,
You seem really confused, but I am afraid that if I did point anything specific out I’ll be “concern trolling.” It’s unfortunate that criticizing people you partly agree with is off limits in your unique form of rational discourse.
Kind Regards,
SRG
May 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Come on, Itchy, you don’t think the spitting in people’s soup bit is a little much?
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