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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #561 on: November 15, 2013, 12:21:18 AM »
At first I gave him the benefit of the doubt - maybe he was talking about Bible Camp (like summer camp, but Christian).  Then I read the rest of the article.  Especially that line about dancing around in their Heathen Zones.   :banghead
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #562 on: November 15, 2013, 01:15:02 AM »
I couldn't believe it at first, but here's a video of him saying those things.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/rafael-cruz-sexual-abuse_n_4269503.html
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #563 on: November 15, 2013, 01:31:00 AM »
Well, obviously he's basing it off his instincts, which is what he'd be doing if he was an atheist.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #564 on: November 15, 2013, 08:05:13 AM »
http://www.newslo.com/ted-cruzs-father-suggests-placing-atheists-in-camps/
At least we know where Ted gets his sensibilities from.

Edit: So, it turns out there are buttons at the bottom of the page that I missed (Show Facts/Hide Facts) that show that part of that was satire. Basically, he's on record saying that atheism leads to perversion and hopelessness, but the more extreme parts about camps and face shooting are parody.

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He claimed that the belief systems are two of the main ills facing our society, that they lead to sexual perversion, sexual abuse, and the complete loss of hope, and that people following these two views should be rounded up and placed in special ‘camps’ to keep them separated from the rest of America.
Lets see:
  • sexual perversion - who cares? No one's forcing him into the kinky stuff.
  • sexual abuse - any evidence of that? While the Catholic abuse scandals are far from normal, they are documented...
  • complete loss of hope - as opposed to believing you're part of a plan that doesn't make sense, appears terrible on the surface, and involves no less than two thirds of the population being tortured for eternity? Huh.
  • rounded up and placed in special ‘camps’ - I don't like to Godwin, but really? When has that ever worked out well?
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“If there is no God, then we are ruled by our instincts,” he said. “Of course, this leads us, when there are no moral absolutes, leads us to sexual immorality, leads us to sexual abuse, leads us to perversion and, of course, no hope. No hope!”
I always love when religious people imply (or even blatantly admit sometimes!) that they would be doing terrible things if they didn't believe there was a god. Wow!

Edit: This last part turned out to be parody.

Quote from: this dumb asshole
“While they’re in their Heathen Zones, they’re free to dance naked around the fire, brand the mark of the Devil on their flesh or whatever else they want to do,” he added. “Of course, if they step one foot outside the electrified fence we shoot them between the eyes. Two or three times, just to be sure.”
Shoot the atheists for Jesus. Because he was into that shit.



At first I gave him the benefit of the doubt - maybe he was talking about Bible Camp (like summer camp, but Christian).  Then I read the rest of the article.  Especially that line about dancing around in their Heathen Zones.   :banghead
Or the part about shooting people in the face. Literally. Two or three times "just to be sure".
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #565 on: November 15, 2013, 08:14:12 AM »
Also, I don't know where Ted's dad gets off saying that a lack of a belief in God leads to sexual abuse. It's not like the Bible has ever had a good track record on dealing with the issue, or anything:

Deuteronomy 22:23 - 28:

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23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #566 on: November 15, 2013, 04:04:10 PM »
... and he's made a living saying Castro would and did do the same to him.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #567 on: November 16, 2013, 12:20:00 AM »
Posting here since it is indeed "WTF" but in a slightly different sense than usual.

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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #570 on: November 18, 2013, 06:21:57 PM »
Huh, well this seems like Placebo Effect meets What-is-this-Google-you-speak-of.

" ... As much as I hate to admit it, there is a modicum of science here. It’s just that, in Dr. Burzysnki’s hands, unfortunately it’s incredibly sloppy science ... "

from ---> http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/12/12/what-dr-stanislaw-burzynski-doesnt-want/

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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #572 on: November 19, 2013, 05:56:03 AM »
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #573 on: December 01, 2013, 06:48:10 AM »
The Hybrid Hypothesis A new theory of human origins
TLDR:

"The tentative scenario that I picture is that human beings came into being via hybridization between a pig, whose best modern representative is Sus scrofa, and an ape, best represented today by the pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus."

"The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one..."

Seriously WTF?  :puke
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #574 on: December 01, 2013, 01:47:36 PM »
Already been academically debunked and subject of ridicule in the scientific community.

The species are not close enough to interbreed successfully*-my grade ten biology class knew that.



*Unless you far enough back that there weren't "apes" and "pigs" just generic mammals with a few mutations. In which case you may as well say turkeys are a product of a T rex interbreeding with a velociraptor.  :rolleyes
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Re: WTF News stories
« Reply #578 on: December 07, 2013, 05:01:14 PM »
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ted-cruz-praise-nelson-mandela-criticized-article-1.1539686

He attracts crazy people, this is not a surprise.

Yeah but some of his supporters are clamoring for a recall vote due to the mandela post.

You gotta admit that's just damn funny.

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« Reply #579 on: December 07, 2013, 05:04:02 PM »
Already been academically debunked and subject of ridicule in the scientific community.

The species are not close enough to interbreed successfully*-my grade ten biology class knew that.



*Unless you far enough back that there weren't "apes" and "pigs" just generic mammals with a few mutations. In which case you may as well say turkeys are a product of a T rex interbreeding with a velociraptor.  :rolleyes
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