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: Thoughts in a Haystack

Knot Making

By John Pieret

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Woo hoo!

John Lynch at a simple prop has some follow-up on Creation Ministries International's "documentary" about Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, The Voyage That Shook The World and the lie of omission the producers perpetrated. He links to CMI's "defense" that has some amusing squirming. (It would be appalling, if we expected any better behavior from creationists.)

John notes a new word of the day: "atheopath":

Clinton R. Dawkins often calls theistic religion a 'virus of the mind', which would make it a kind of disease or pathology, and parents who teach it to their kids are supposedly practising mental child abuse. But the sorts of criteria Dawkins applies makes one wonder whether his own fanatical antitheism itself could be a mental pathology.

But once you start coining words, it seems it is hard to stop. There is also "agnostopath" (presumably a practitioner of "fanatical agnosticism" -- huh?) I wonder if that means that an "osteopath " is a fanatical doctor? And then there is "misotheist" ("hater of god").

But the really strange bit is that they claim that atheists (and, no doubt, agnostopaths) have "no compunction to be truthful at all" but then go on to say:

As we've pointed out before, the Gospels specifically state that Jesus spoke in parables to hide the truth from the masses"

... citing three passages: Matt. 13:10 ff., Mark 4:11?12 and Luke 8:10.

So, basically, they say it's okay to lie to atheists because they have "no compunction to be truthful at all" and then go on to cite Bible passages where, they claim, Jesus had no compunction to be truthful either.

Is it just me or is there a little disconnect here?
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Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).