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What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:17 pm
Ray comfort. I think hes a lieing cheat trying to con guillable people out of their money.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:20 pm
I think he's a dumbass or a very good actor.
Don't have too much sympathy for his victims because you have to actively be a dumbass to fall for his lies.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:21 pm
My opinion?
Wish I could quote him on this: "Oh, an ergonomic dildo!"
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:23 pm
He is either very clever or very stupid. There's not much room for middle ground.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:35 pm
I don't think it's a con. So I have to go with the idea of stupid or just very zealous. According to his wiki page he became a minister in his 20s. Seems like a lot of work to con people. Stupid people exist and other stupid people like to nod half-wittedly at their ideas. I think eventually even Ray Comfort admitted that the whole banana video was dumb though.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:52 pm
He's perpetuating lies, and I think he knows it. The money he makes off his bullshit keeps him from becoming an honest man. What a waste.
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm
My opinion of Cumfart can be summarised in this way (other than the autocorrected version of his name). One of his trademark sermons is the
parachute analogy. Basically, the idea is you're on an aeroplane that's about to crash. Forget wealth, treasure and possessions; the most valuable item you could hope to have is a parachute. And the parachute is God etc etc.
One commentor on the Atheist Experience blog when he trotted out this tired old nag on the show put it beautifully:
Quote:it’s more like he is telling you he will cut the engines, and won’t give you the parachute if you don’t agree to kiss his feet forever. He’s creating the problem and then offering you the solution. Then you look around and realize, he can’t cut the engines, and there was never a ‘chute anyways.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What is your opinion of banana man
August 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm
His mother should have drowned him at birth.
Is that too harsh?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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