From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Why Creationists Are
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 18 Nov 92  09:40:02

Who: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
ID: J3Z9TB13w165w@kalki33
And schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
 
Note to Kalki: I have two book by the Bhaktivedanta Institute.
One titled "Think on These Things," and the other is a vegetarian
cook book. While I enjoyed both books, I found both of them to
be filled with lies, bold assertions, half-truths, and agendas:
even the cook book!
 
RA.S> "Do you get a commission for referrals? Are you paid by
RA.S> the Bhaktivedanta Institute to sell their brand of
RA.S> creationism on the Net?
 
K> "We get, as our payment, the pleasure of seeing self-proclaimed
K> 'rational thinkers' turn into the slavering, boot-licking,
K> do-anything-to-be-right cowards they really are. While they
K> snidely boast that they are far above our level of intelligence,
K> and that they are not going to bother reading any book that
K> conflicts with their delusion that they evolved from chickens,
K> they nevertheless post at least 50 times a day their denials
K> that they are going to pay any attention to us!"
 
When I was out spreading the Word of No God, my co-Evangelical
Atheist buddy pointed out one reason Creationists attack scientists,
biologists, astronomers, physicists, and other well-educated folks.
 
You see, the Creationists is just an average Joe (or Sally) who
believe that intelligent people "look down on" the ignorant in
derision and loathing. Creationists hear and read scientists
talking, and the Creationists doesn't understand, so they fear
their own ignorance. Then when a scientists make a complex subject,
such as evolutionary theory, simple for the ignorant to understand,
the ignorant are insulted because they feel they are being "taked
down to." It is therefore a lose-lose situation for the scientist.
 
The ignorant (in this case the Creationists) view the educated
and well-informed with part awe and part hate, because the ignorant
cannot compete on an equal level. The ignorant come to see that
they have no beneficial input in a rational, informative discussion,
and they resent that--- their target, therefore, is the educated
and not their own ignorance.
 
It is oh so much more easier to attempt to drag down the educated
instead of pulling oneself up out of ignorance. Case in point is
The Tedster, who is "one of the few people on the planet who
truly understands the origins issue. [paraphrase]" The ignorant
would rather believe in magic instead of putting forth the hard
work and effort to learn something.
 
K> "Ahhhh, it feels sooooo good! Keep it coming, you impotent
K> rascals! Come on home to Papa, little demons! Sincerely,
K> Kalki "see you on the battlefield" Dasa
 
As a "P.S.," I count -myself- as ONE OF THE IGNORANT. That's
why I'm reading this newsgroup. I view Colby, Salem, and Meritt
with awe (smile, guys!) because they appear much better educated
than I, yet that is not cause for me to dispise them: that is
cause for me to learn something so I -can- understand them.
 
K>   -------------------------------------------------------
K>  |  Don't forget to chant:   Hare Krishna Hare Krishna   |
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K>  |                           Hare Rama Hare Rama         |
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      |    Creationist's chant:   Is Not! Is Not! Ain't So!   |
      |                           Liar! Liar! Read the book!  |
      |                           Is Not! Is Not! Is Not,     |
      |                           Ain't So! Too Improbable!   |
      |                                                       |
      |   Satan's propagandaline, 666 south damnation alley,  |
      |               hell.university.underworld              |
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