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I need to rant. I knew when I moved here that I was moving into Fundie territory. I knew I was moving into the heart of that little branch of Christianity that makes the rest look bad. Yet, despite all their hate mongering, bigotry and narrow mindedness I was never prepared for what I encountered on Saturday. After that I think I'm beginning to understand how these people can be so stupid. No, I don't mean ignorant or unenlightened, I mean Stupid. I can now understand why these people are so easily threatened by scientific discovery and the slightest challenges to their faith. Their faith and their mentalities are both so weak that rather than trying to understand what they don't understand, they instead limit their god and cram him into a smaller mold. When I was growing up and still christian I understood the nature of God to be defined by infinity - omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent. Thus, I have no problem reconciling what appears to be a contradiction between Genesis and the Big Bang Theory and the theory of Natural Selection. I have studied all three and I am amazed by how easily they are reconciled. Of course, that mere fact is not enough to keep me Christian. My departure from that faith came with the realization that I simply don't believe in the divinity of Christ and never have. There were many other factors that caused me to question my faith, but they were not the cause of my rejection. Recently I have been somewhat preoccupied with the foolishness of the Intelligent Design movement. It has occurred to me that these people are making the mistake of trying to shoe-horn their god into science. That they are inherently claiming that God can be measured by Science. An infinite, omniscient being, however, can not be so easily measured and categorized. I found this idea humorous because it demonstrated how little these people understand science. I had no idea just how limited these people are though - so limited that their view of their god is inherently limited. On Saturday I was at "Christmas in Comfort" and I saw a booth title "Three Things God Can't Do." I wasn't going to get into it but curiosity caused me to find it on the web. I don't think I have ever been so appalled. Here are the three things God "can't" do; 1. God can't force you to love him. 2. God can't lie. ( http://www.godslinks.com/3things.html) OK, this is bad enough. These people can't tell the difference between "can't" and "won't". To make these declarations no matter how strained is to deny the omnipotence of God. Of course an omnipotent being can do these things, it is the fact that he chooses not to do so that make him so interesting or "Good." Even in their explanation of #1, they contradict themselves by making "can't" and "won't" synonyms. But it's #2 that really annoys me - in their tiny little brains they resolve the simple paradox they create. But it's #3 that really torques me off. 3. God can't LEARN. This is back to the old question "Can God make an object so big he can't move it." It's a basic paradox but to resolve it with this declaration is obscene. It's no wonder these people continually give all their money away to television evangelists. Tags: rants
Current Mood:  nauseated
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:16 PM - I have always hated Whole Foods but I could never really articulate why until tonight. Yes, the food always tastes funny to me but that's not precise enough. Tonight I figured it out. Whole Foods is to organic/vegetarian/vegan as the Democratic Party is to Liberalism. They are both just fronts. See, if you go to the Wedge, for example, you need to be a little careful. You can get great meat and produce, no problem. If you get the garlic pasta salad from deli you need to be prepared for two things - 1) A whole LOT of garlic (you better LOVE garlic) and 2) to stay away from anyone who doesn't love garlic for about 24 hours. It's goooood. It's real. On the other hand if you get their "Ghirardelli chocolate brownie you better look twice. It might say "vegan" on it, in which case you better run scream. It tastes like shit. In fact, I might prefer to try shit before I ever bite into one of those again. But, someone wanted to try making them with vegan ingredients. Fine. Whatever. Whole Foods on the other hand is full of fake food. You can't trust anything in that store. It's all fake. I don't mean Hostess Twinkie kind of fake or "processed food product" kind of fake, those are honest fakes. No. Whole Foods is deceptive. They know goddamn well that vegan food sucks so everything they stock is an attempt to make vegan food palatable which it isn't. Everything in that store is based on beans, Soy and Tofu. Goddamnit if you want to eat that shit then eat it but quit pretending it's meat. "Tofurkey" is NOT turkey. Hell, Tofu is not food. Soy is SOY. It is not the incredible mutable food. Trying to turn soy into meat or any of the other crap they do with it is an attempt at alchemy that would require a philosopher's stone to work. It doesn't. I understand that, for some people Soy Milk/cheese is a godsend and I appreciate it for that purpose but quit trying to trick me into buying it! And beans. Beans are to the plant kingdom what spiders are to the animal kingdom. They are the unholy work of some demonic force. I would rather starve than have to live on beans and, believe me, you would rather I starve than to be in the same room with me after eating beans. Tags: rants
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