Comments on: This is why Republicans are scary dangerous, and separation of church and state is so important https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/ Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495312 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:31:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495312 Fixed it

]]> By: Navi https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495311 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:58:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495311 (can’t edit in moderation – that should be religious)

]]> By: Navi https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495310 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:58:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495310 (in other words don’t tell me I’m stupid for my religious beliefs if and when I do speak up.)

]]> By: Navi https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495309 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:57:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495309 Mark Pryor, a creationist democrat, is “Chairman of the U. S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance. ” That is QUITE different from a creationist being on a science committee, who refuses to acknowledge science. If the science committee creationist kept their religion out of it, (and yes, many people do), it’d be a different story. But this obviously isn’t the case.

Non batshit crazy creationist Christians would speak up more, though, but not only do we have the creationists telling us we’re not Christian and going to hell, we have Atheists who try to convert us.

]]> By: Congressman Paul Broun’s Lies from the Pit of Hell https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495308 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:14:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495308 […] In terms of initial plausibility, which is more likely: that the vast majority of the world’s scientists (including many Christians among them) who have helped provide insight into and treatments for […]

]]> By: Stephan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495307 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:08:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495307 @dude
“I don’t know any christians that think the earth is a literal 6000 years old. ”

Are you kidding? Are you denying facts?

Have you ever checked some polls in the US? A significant percentage of us citizens believes the world is less than 10.000 years old! The rate is higher and correlates with being a republican. By the way, the crime rates are higher in “repbublican states”. So are the abortions.

Just think a while about that.

]]> By: dude https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495306 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:31:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495306 You just report about a small group of people that have an extreme point of view. I don’t know any christians that think the earth is a literal 6000 years old. Church teaches other things than science and often simply defers to science on such matters, finding ways to understand their teachings around apparent facts. I don’t support religious rules being forced as law and neither does anyone I am close to. I even oppose such things.

People like you are full of hate and venom and do not mind spewing propaganda to increase prejudice and discrimination. This does not represent us any more than Hitler’s work represents jews. Separation of church and state is important because without it prejudice assholes would find a reason to try to kill or institutionally discriminate against a group. Any time someone tries to scapegoat a group of people and inspire fear of them from isolated cases, you should question that person and reject what they teach you.

]]> By: Eric https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495305 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:56:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495305 Greg, no attempt at misdirection form me, I simply stated my views and a fact, The picture is a screen grab from the end of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwIZNECRoU

]]> By: Stephan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495304 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:23:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495304 By the way, because i introduced this topic:

Lady Gaga is so much wiser and deserves much more respect than this stupid german pope.

“Pope says gay people are not fully developed humans”
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pope-says-gay-people-are-not-fully-developed-humans280912

She said: ‘What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter. It doesn’t matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope.

‘It’s not a reflection of all Christians. It is not a reflection of all religious people. It’s a point of view of one person.’

‘And to all the gay people here,’ she added. ‘May you live and love each other until the end of time.

‘I hope you will have the human right to breed as an entirely equal, valuable and special member of society.’

]]> By: Stephan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/10/07/this-is-why-republicans-are-scary-dangerous-and-separation-of-church-and-state-is-so-important/#comment-495303 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:47:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13695#comment-495303 Faith didn’t make America strong. Science did that job.

Actually faith makes no one strong. Faith means accepting a claim/idea without having evidence or a good reason to accept it as true. Faith isn’t a pathway to truth. Faith is the last excuse you can give, for thinking something is true, but probably isn’t. Faith is a “sin” not a virtue. If you believe something on faith, you’ve already lost and given up.

The problem with “the” republicans is, that they don’t value “doubt” and “critical thinking”. They are so damned sure of their opinion, that nothing, literally nothing, is able to question their opinion.
They are poor people, because they are not even able to realize how wrong and stupid they are…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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