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RE: Creationists are better than inconsistent Christians
April 19, 2016 at 4:30 pm
I find the mental gymnastics it takes to be a creationist much more annoying than inconsistency.
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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RE: Creationists are better than inconsistent Christians
April 20, 2016 at 1:25 am
Haha, indeed!
You have to deny all of reality, not just some of it. Must be fucking exhausting.
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RE: Creationists are better than inconsistent Christians
April 22, 2016 at 10:39 am
The stars are not little lamps fixed to a dome, for one thing.
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.'