RE: What are you willing to do for Bryan Fischer?
May 21, 2014 at 3:20 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2014 at 3:50 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 20, 2014 at 9:45 pm)Zidneya Wrote: [quote='Rev. Rye' pid='673280' dateline='1400601241']
And, just for the record, Bryan Fischer is a spokesman for the American Family Association and is a particularly terrifying mix of far-right-wing and influential. Here's a list of some more colorful views he has publicly expressed:
- He thinks Anders Breivik's analysis of Islam is accurate, but considers him Muslim, because terrorists are, by definition, Muslim.
- He believes the First amendment applies only to Triune Christians.
- He believes Anthony Weiner only ran for mayor of New York so his wife could engage in Jihadist activity.
- He believes women should not serve in the military, run for office, or vote.
- Regardless of this, he is convinced that anyone who criticises Sarah Palin is possessed by Satan.
- He believes gay people perpetrated the Holocaust.
- He insists the clusterfuck over Sandra Fluke makes the left look more misogynistic than the right.
- Because some southern Democrats supported the Jim Crow laws decades ago, therefore all liberals are racist. Therefore, all racists are liberals.
- Is convinced Obama is as racist and paranoid as he is, and is convinced Homeland Security wants to kill him and, to this end, is stockpiling ammunition.
- Thinks Obama is importing Muslims from elsewhere for the express purposes of destroying America.
- Believes that Obama photoshopped himself into the famous Situation Room photo.
- Insists Native Americans are still poor because they still retain ties to their old culture, and, thus genocide against them is/was justified.
- Believes that JC Penney's hiring Ellen DeGeneres as their spokeswoman will lead women into lesbianism, and, therefore, in his mind, anyway, a shitty life.
- Considers anti-gay hate crimes to be justifiable.
- Considers it good to kidnap children from same-sex couples.
- Assumes Global Warming is somehow a religion.
- Refuses to believe HIV causes AIDS.
- Thinks a soldier who saved one of his comrades' lives is unworthy of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
- Thinks that a bear attack at Yellowstone Park is the result of man turning his back on God, and, to avoid this, we should kill EVERY WILD ANIMAL IN EXISTENCE.
- Insists the rise in HPV is due to Bill Clinton.
- Thinks Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" quote is accurate.
- Thinks Hispanics are socialists by nature and, thus, lazy, and vote Democratic.
The source for all this was RationalWiki's page on Bryan Fischer.
And, if that wasn't enough, here's his FSTDT page.
So, there is a reason some people would consider this a dilemma.
This is one of the many reasons why it is not a dilemma for me.
The more nut jobs like this guy there are spouting their bigotry, the more it discredits ALL religion. I want guys like this out there. They are among the best enemies religion has.
Yes, I would help him, no questions asked.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.