January 18 2007
Fundies Say the Darnedest Things
posted by Ana Samways at 8:56 am
Here are top five nominees for Post of the Year (2006), according to FSTDT.com — an archive of quotes from religious fundamentalists (fundies) found on the web. Enjoy.
1. “I appreciate your recommendation, and it is intriguing, but as a pro-lifer, I cannot support an organization that is opposed to the death penalty.” (Jonah, Theology Web )
2. “But tell me this do all straight people who have unprotected sex get AIDS? No they don’t. Do all homosexuals who have unprotected sex get AIDS? Yes they do. You failed proving anything. Try again.” (K’, Myspace.com)
3. “What megalomaniacs we are to think God should only answer Human prayers! We cannot say at this point in time, if a person dies of TB that prayer did not work, for maybe in their own primitive way the TB germs were also praying. We just don’t know these things yet.” (Dr. Larry Dossey, ProofGodExists.org)
4. “COMPUTERS SMARTER THAN ATHEISTS. Even though computers aren’t capable of rational thought and know nothing about morals, yet they have more sense than the most learned atheist. Case and point: The other day while working on a PC, I began deleting unwanted files. There was an html file that showed all of the TEN COMMANDMENTS. Since it was a duplicate file, I decided to delete it also. When I clicked “delete”, the usual message came on the screen that said, “Are you sure you want to send the ‘TEN COMMANDMETS’ to the Recycle bin?” The question struck me very deeply because of how it was worded and for a moment I hesitated to delete the file. After clicking “yes”, a message box came up on the screen that said an illegal act had been performed by a program. Now what atheist or heathen has sense enough to think as correctly as that unthinking computer. Atheists do not think it’s an illegal act to try to destroy the TEN COMMANDMENTS.” (Robert T Lee, The 10 Commandments)
5. “No, everyone is born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray from Jesus and worship satan instead. Atheists have the greatest “cover” of all, they insist they believe in no god yet most polls done and the latest research indicates that they are actually a different sect of Muslims.” (Trinidad and Tobago, CARM)
See full list of nominees here.