Creationist Senators block fossil bill

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Well math has a tendency to always work when you're just making stuff up.

2+2 = 905. It works.

Your last point seems to miss the issue so drastically that I think it'd be futile of any of us to say anything in response. But needless to say, you need to look up either how the implications of beliefs affect those who don't hold those beliefs, or parody.

you don't get it, If I was an "Atheist" why waste the precious little time that I have on the earth protesting nonsense?

Protesting against stupidity and something that one objects to is a cornerstone of liberal democracies, no?

A secular state entails the neutrality of the he public sphere towards religion. If one faith can do it, then it should either be fair game to all non/faith groups or it should be outlawed. Using the public sphere as a domain to gain influence for your specific faith is something that has proven time and time again to cause division and inequality. The only safe way to ensure religious freedom is through a neutral public sphere.

Now, employing what you've just learned, are you able to reassess and combat your supposed 'confusion'?

[Rampant.A.I.]

If you really don't understand what a parody is, how are you so good at turning yourself into one?

I'm just going off of what they claim

from their website.

Q: Is this a joke?
A: It’s not a joke. Elements of our religion are often described as satire and there are many members who do not literally believe our scripture, but this isn’t unusual in religion – it’s only more obvious in the case of our particular religion. A lot of Christians, for example, don’t believe the Bible is literally true – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t True Christians.

If you say Pastafarians must believe in a literal Flying Spaghetti Monster to be True Believers, then you can make a similar argument for Christians. There is a lot of outlandish stuff in the Bible that rational Christians choose to ignore. We do the same with our scripture. This is intentional.

maybe it's a joke maybe not, but they are defiantly trying to be recognized as a legit religious institution.

Did your parents have any children that lived?

[Huggy Bear]

you don't get it, If I was an "Atheist" why waste the precious little time that I have on the earth protesting nonsense?

Protesting against stupidity and something that one objects to is a cornerstone of liberal democracies, no?

A secular state entails the neutrality of the he public sphere towards religion. If one faith can do it, then it should either be fair game to all non/faith groups or it should be outlawed. Using the public sphere as a domain to gain influence for your specific faith is something that has proven time and time again to cause division and inequality. The only safe way to ensure religious freedom is through a neutral public sphere.

Now, employing what you've just learned, are you able to reassess and combat your supposed 'confusion'?

you still don't get it, It's not an issue that I care about as a christian. As an "atheist", Christmas nativity scene would be the least of my worries..I'd be too busy trying to find the nearest orgy.

[Rampant.A.I.]

Protesting against stupidity and something that one objects to is a cornerstone of liberal democracies, no?

A secular state entails the neutrality of the he public sphere towards religion. If one faith can do it, then it should either be fair game to all non/faith groups or it should be outlawed. Using the public sphere as a domain to gain influence for your specific faith is something that has proven time and time again to cause division and inequality. The only safe way to ensure religious freedom is through a neutral public sphere.

Now, employing what you've just learned, are you able to reassess and combat your supposed 'confusion'?

you still don't get it, It's not an issue that I care about as a christian. As an "atheist", Christmas nativity scene would be the least of my worries..I'd be too busy trying to find the nearest orgy.

...Did your parents have any children that lived?

[Michael Schubert]

Two Christian SC Senators Block Third Grader’s State Fossil Proposal Because Jesus

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/two-ch...lock-third

Earlier this year eight-year-old Olivia McConnell wrote her state representatives to suggest that since South Carolina doesn’t currently have a state fossil, it should be given one! Olivia decided that she needed a legitimate reason to suggest this besides liking fossils, so she came up with three:

1. One of the first discoveries of a vertebrae fossil in North America was on an S.C. plantation when slaves dug up wooly mammoth teeth from a swamp in 1725.

2. All but seven states have an official state fossil.

3. “Fossils tell us about our past.”

She sent the letter to Representative Robert Ridgeway(D) and Sen. Kevin Johnson(D), asking them to sponsor a bill officially making the woolly mammoth the official state fossil.

Ridgeway and Johnson both filed bills- H.4482 and S.854-to make the mammoth the official state fossil. The bill would amend the 1976 code on state emblems to include the Columbian Mammoth as the state’s first official fossil.

The bill passed the House with overwhelming support but encountered some difficulties when Senator Mike Fair(R-Turd) objected to the bill for “religious reasons.”

Fair, who has compared the President to Osama Bin Laden, helped to block funding for a rape crisis center, called climate change a hoax, and blocked evolution from the state’s science standards, saying “I don’t have a problem with teaching theories. I don’t think it should be taught as fact,” stood up for Biblical representation in the state fossil–after all, what’s science without Jesus?

Bryant proposed an amendment to the bill to include a passage from Genesis explaining the Biblical creation of life–because why not?

“I think it’s a good idea to designate the mammoth as the state fossil, I don’t have a problem with that. I just felt like it’d be a good thing to acknowledge the creator of the fossils,” Bryant told the Daily Beast.

Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell blocked the proposed amendment because it introduced a new subject. He has since amended the amendment to describe the Columbian Mammoth as “created on the Sixth Day with the beasts of the field.”

In response to the Lt. Governor’s ruling Senator Mike Fair placed an objection to the bill, which has been put on hold until they can take what was a simple thing that would benefit children across South Carolina and make one little girl very happy–and figure out how to please the Creationists.

They can't even let a little girl get a State Fossil without being obnoxious, religious twats. PRAISE JAYSUS!

This is the most alarming part:

Fair, who has compared the President to Osama Bin Laden, helped to block funding for a rape crisis center, called climate change a hoax, and blocked evolution from the state’s science standards, saying “I don’t have a problem with teaching theories. I don’t think it should be taught as fact,” stood up for Biblical representation in the state fossil–after all, what’s science without Jesus?

Bryant proposed an amendment to the bill to include a passage from Genesis explaining the Biblical creation of life–because why not?

Bible humpers!

[Crossless2.0]

you still don't get it, It's not an issue that I care about as a christian. As an "atheist", Christmas nativity scene would be the least of my worries..I'd be too busy trying to find the nearest orgy.

Doing my small part to prevent Christians from wiping their asses with the Bill of Rights is higher on my list of things to do than finding the nearest orgy. To each his own, troll.

[Esquilax]

you still don't get it, It's not an issue that I care about as a christian. As an "atheist", Christmas nativity scene would be the least of my worries..I'd be too busy trying to find the nearest orgy.

Okay, we get it: you're a selfish person barely held in check by your god. You don't need to keep repeating it.

Some of us actually care about things and want to shape the future toward something we find beneficial, though. Don't presume we're all as base as you are.

[Huggy Bear]

you still don't get it, It's not an issue that I care about as a christian. As an "atheist", Christmas nativity scene would be the least of my worries..I'd be too busy trying to find the nearest orgy.

...Did your parents have any children that lived?

um, no?

[Esquilax]

...Did your parents have any children that lived?

um, no?

What in the fuck?

[Crossless2.0]

...Did your parents have any children that lived?

um, no?