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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Chiroptera excrement crazy
For those following the American presidential elections here's Mitt Romney talking about his "religion", or as the rest of us know it a Victorian scam invented by a convicted con-man called Joseph Smith, it's very enlightening.
Mormonism has everything a good religion should have, angels, demons, magic, elitism, dubious right wing tendencies and most importantly it's all completely unfalsifiable; the only concrete evidence (angelic golden plates) apparently having been spirited up to heaven before they could be examined by anyone other than Smith himself, always handy that. One of the more odd things that Smith invented was a story about one of the lost tribes of Israel ending up in the USA, this is where American Indians came from according to him. Modern science has debunked this already absurdly unlikely claim through examining the DNA of Jews and American Indians, but I suspect like the psychic in my previous post true Mormons just think that those nasty scientists will do anything to spoil a good story. They also believe that Jesus will re-visit the Earth landing in Jerusalem (where else!) and then rule over the Earth for 1000 years (why 1000, maybe Joseph smith didn't know any bigger numbers?) apparently Jesus will rule the entire planet from the two most obvious global centres, Jerusalem (yawn) and Missouri, er, yes that's right Missouri, by a strange twist of fate that's precisely where Smith lived too, what are the odds?
Don't believe me that such an obviously transparent lot of old cobblers could be believed by any serious person, well, listen to Mitt and believe in America...
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Leave out the religious delusions and it's noticeable that they can function reasonably well once out in the general community.
Takes me back to a tale from the eminent Victorian naturalist Frank Buckland. Apparently his dad having been shown in an Italian cathedral where a martyred saint's blood reappeared each morning bent down, wiped his finger in the liquid, tasted it and declared it to be bat's piss.
Pidge, nice story! bats piss clearly wasn't worthy enough for a Catholic cathedral!
Mind you I've had some pints in certain pubs around here and said something similar..
CB, only some..
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