Rebuttals of stuff

I’m sorry that I have not recently had the chance to address you with my fœbrile ramblings, but I’ve been recently struck low by a nasty strain of flu that was released in an evil conspiracy by the pharmaceutical companies caused by a combination of being stuck next to a violently coughing person on the train and overwork, and so have only had the energy to post inanely on RW, and spam Biblical quotations on the two B4Bs. I’m still in a convalescent stage, so if I begin posting random gibberish, then fish bicycle overlord tenderises somnambulist.

Anyway, the easiest target I can find would be the most recent racist and/or genocidal comments on the two Brownback blogs (here is a sickening call for the ‘extermination’ of the French nation by … well, you can guess; while here is a fear piece by our dear friend Mrs T. D. Gaines-Crockett about the fear that people speaking Mexican (her words) will soon come to encamp ‘near your [sic] Chrisitan homes’; if that wasn’t enough, she also objects to the casting of Morgan Freeman as God in the (admittedly fairly rubbish looking) film ‘Evan Almighty’, on the grounds that he is ‘a nasty talking, ghetto-acting, colored’ actor).

Our fellow internet-warrior ‘lanfranc‘ (according to Gaines-Crockett, a ‘terribly foreign’ name) has already succintly outlined several good arguments against the bigotry and prejudice expressed here (of course, these have to be Biblical ones, or they will be naught in the eyes of those right-wingers; but don’t get me wrong, there are enough arguments from science, logic, and culture to condemn racism a hundred times over without the following) -

(look away if you are a Dawkins-ite; the following passages may shock and disturb sensitive viewers)

• Revelations 7:9 – ‘…a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and the Lamb…’ – in other words, Christianity should welcome anyone (also, this would go against any rejections of Spanish or French from their grounds, if they’re following their scripture right)
• Matthew 24:14 – ‘…this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come’ -fairly obvious – to say that any one nation is unique in holiness would be wrong. 
• Galatians 3:28 – ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.’ – Again, fairly unequivocal – no difference or discrimination on any grounds.

The wisdom in using religious arguments against these people when there are perfectly good secular ones may be questioned, but I’m fairly sure that it’s the only way.

Sisyphus, for example, has repeatedly stated the quasi-solipsistic view that, contrary to scientific evidence, things don’t happen because of the interactions between (evil) protons and (angelic) electrons, but because God makes these things happen. Thus, any argument that refers back to stuff like, say, the real world, empirical data, or tried-and-tested theories, can be denied by him as an illusion. He has repeatedly used the Bible as a citation, however – since he believes this to be God’s direct word, that is the only thing he can rely on. Thus, to argue against him, we must beat him and others at their own game (although they fairly seldom quote from the whole Bible, preferring to use the Old Testament, rather than venturing into the New, where, as Skeptic sweepingly summarised, ‘God turned Buddhist’). There is certainly enough material to do this; the Sermon on the Mount alone provides a fairly decent refutation of the main points of the Brownback-backers’ beliefs. Even if you’re not a Christian, this argumentative technique still works; just remember, almost without fail, they are.

Anyhow, after all that, I think that we are in high need of some lulz -

This ‘blog is now one of the ’sinners of the week’, according to this; an honour we share with, among others, the illustrious ilk of Rationalwiki (‘an internet compund comprised of Liberals, atheists, and witches seeking to undermind Christians and Republicans’), Hillary Clinton (a ‘vile, treasonous woman’) and Barack Obama (whose name, with a master-stroke of wit and genius by Gaines-Crockett, sounds a bit like ‘Osama’, so she now calls him ‘Obama bin Laden’. D’yer see? What wit.). Just to cement her point, she also states that she would like our fellow contributor, Linus, ‘drown[ed] … in the blood of the Lamb’.

Anyway, I leave you with her prayer that you should have said before coming here (and if you haven’t, PWND!), which has made me laugh and laugh (more like wheeze and wheeze, but still) (bold parts are ones that I particularly enjoyed) -
‘IN JESUS NAME, I BIND UP EVERY DEMON COMING ACROSS THE COMPUTER LINES, AND I RETURN THEM AND ANY CURSES.IN JESUS NAME, I COVER MYSELF IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I COVER THIS COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET ROAD I TRAVEL IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I TAKE AUTHORITY AND DOMINION OVER ALL WEB SITES, WEB MASTERS, WEB DOMAINS, AND DEMONS OF THE INTERNET SUPER HIGHWAY SO THEY DO NOT CROSS MY PATH. I DISPATCH ANGELS AHEAD OF ME TO PROTECT ME.

IN JESUS NAME, I CUT ALL UNGODLY SILVER CORDS AND LAY LINES.

AS YOUR WAR CLUB AND WEAPONS OF WAR I BREAK DOWN, UNDAM, AND BLOW UP ALL WALLS OF PROTECTION AROUND ALL HOMOSEXUALS, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, WIZARDS, SATANISTS, ATHEISTS, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, SORCERERS, AND THE LIKE, AND I BREAK THE POWER OF ALL CURSES, HEXES, VEXES, SPELLS, CHARMS, FETISHES, PSYCHIC PRAYERS, PSYCHIC THOUGHTS, ALL WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, SATIRE, PARODY, MAGIC, VOODOO, ALL MIND CONTROL, JINXES, POTIONS, BEWITCHMENTS, DEATH, DESTRUCTION, SICKNESS, PAIN, TORMENT, PSYCHIC POWER, PSYCHIC WARFARE, PRAYER CHAINS, INCENSE AND CANDLE BURNING, INCANTATIONS, CHANTING, UNGODLY BLESSINGS AND HOODOO, CRYSTALS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE BEING SENT MY WAY, OR MY FAMILY MEMBER’S WAY, OR ANY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES WAY, AND I RETURN IT, AND THE DEMONS TO THE SENDER, TEN FOLD.

AMEN.’

Wow. Note the fact that, as the prayer is in caps, it should not be thought, whispered, or spoken aloud, but rather SHOUTED).

Also, for a professed Christian, she sure believes that a lot of decidedly non-Christian stuff needs to be warded off, doesn’t she?