A visit to the Creation Museum

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

I'm sure you've all heard about the Creation Museum. Well here are a few photos and comments from someone on another board a frequent that actually went on a tour of this place of Christian nuttiness. Ignore all the silly comments by other posters in the thread by the way.

[rudi]

Laugh? Cry? I can't decide.

[SOTS]

Started by this man. Ken Ham... whose beard is just beyond what a beard should look like.

[rudi]

Started by this man. Ken Ham... whose beard is just beyond what a beard should look like.

Sorry, sorry; nothing to add but LOL.

Nice one SOTS.
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[Zod]

'Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?'

Bill Hicks.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

Really fascinating read.  The one that really makes me angry is the assertion that those who don't believe in God have no basis for morality, and then attempts to show genocide and racism as examples of what happens when you turn away from God.  Yet both incidents shown (racism in the US and the Holocaust) were justified at the time using religious dogma.  The Nazis frequently stated that their mission was to preserve christian ideals and a christian way of life, and deeply distrusted atheism.  And in the US, creationism was often cited as a justification of racism.

[Artemis]

The morality argument always annoys me because not only is it incredibly insulting, it also demonstrates that the holder of that view hasn't even read their own Good Book. The bible is the last place anyone is getting their morality from unless they cherry pick the good bits which undermines the whole thing. No-one gets their morality from scripture - I mean, has anyone actually read the thing? It's insane!

Plenty of good pictures in that comments thread. I love how they just blatantly make stuff up:

[Famous Mortimer]

Defence given by a Christian when I asked them the exact same thing: "Seeing as no Vicar would expect anyone to believe in that sort of thing any more, I don't have to pay attention to everything in the Bible".

[jutl]

The Nazis frequently stated that their mission was to preserve christian ideals and a christian way of life, and deeply distrusted atheism.  And in the US, creationism was often cited as a justification of racism.

'Son of Sam' serial killer David Berkowitz claimed his neighbour's dog had ordered him to shoot canoodling couples in their cars...

[George Oscar Bluth II]

I read the God Delusion recently, and was literally astonished by the passages in the Bible that Dawkins quoted. I'd never bothered to learn anything about the thing, so things like Lot letting that crowd "know" his daughers, so long as they don't rape his male houseguest came as a bit of a shock. As Dawkins says, it's a bronze age document with bronze age morals, and should be disregarded as an authority on anything.

[Jemble Fred]

I just found this (http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=98&contentid=4440) an astonishing read. Even as a true non-believer, I find it all a bit depressing. I'd never really considered the creation of the Bible to be quite so cynical.

Having said that, it is on a site called 'conspiracy planet', for fuck's sake. Eurgh. Still, interesting words.

[duckorange]

You mean to tell me that Popeye is God?

[Artemis]

It wouldn't be so bad if anyone could actually present a reasonable argument for that poster (the popeye one) but you can already tell that it would descend into the abstract in seconds...

"God said 'I am that I am'"
"How do you know?"
"Because he said it in the bible"
"But the bible was written by humans"
"Yes, divinely inspired by God"
"So actually, God didn't say it, someone else says that God said it"
"No, God said it by his Holy Spirit, through the bible"
"Through somebody else, meaning it's heresay"
"We take the bible as the literal word of God, penned through divine inspiration"
"Why?"
"Because the bible tells us we should"

Uh oh.

[Pinball]

Fuck religion. Metaphorically, of course, 'cos I wouldn't even let it rim me. It ain't good enough.