In what might become a regular feature here at CC HQ, we're going to go back through last week's entire output of the Blogging Tories and select the most absurd, the most ridiculous, the most jaw-droppingly asinine post for the inaugural "A Blogging Tory said WHAT!?!?" award.
Actually, in all honesty, we're going to do no such thing because we already know who's getting the award, and we just wanted to make it sound like there was, you know, work involved. So while there were numerous worthy candidates, really, there is just no earthly way anyone could possibly top this gem from self-proclaimed "Canadian. Christian. Conservative." BT Mark Peters:
The problem is that natural science has set itself up as the only pathway to true knowledge. But natural science certainly does not have the corner on knowledge or truth. In fact, one of the greatest criticisms of naturalism and materialism is that they discount very real supernatural events, even though the supernatural phenomena are tangible and observable.
I have personally witnessed supernatural healing, for example: a man in our church had one leg six inches shorter than the other from birth. He walked with a platform shoe. One night, after praying for him in a church service, a believer laid him on the floor and literally, in real time, pulled his leg out until it was the same length as the other. Six inches of flesh, bone, sinew, fiber, blood and vessel, etc. in less than a second. No pain, no surgical incision. Nothing. The man walked to his truck in his socks with both feet level on the ground and had to buy a whole new set of shoes.
Natural science cannot explain this. It defies natural laws. This is why they call it supernatural. But it did happen, it was tangible, observable and explainable, if you allow the supernatural. Certainly the person who was healed knows the new part of his leg is real; he walks on it every day. Same goes for the lady whose blindness in one eye instantaneously receded after prayer during the same service.
I'm sure some of you might be disappointed in Mark's victory here because you were cheering for local favourite Matthew at "The Politic" but, really, no one else even had a chance. I'm sure you can see that now.
TOTALLY GRATUITOUS AFTERSNARK: It wasn't eligible for this week's award but I don't imagine I'm going to hear any whining if I suggest that last week's award would most likely also have to gone to Mr. Peters for his thoughtful and nuanced proposal about why it was terribly, terribly important to send Christian missionaries to Afghanistan for what he called "large-scale proselytizing."
In fact, I'm sure there won't be much complaining if I simply name this award "The Mark Peters Award for Saying Something Really, Really Stupid." Somehow, it just seems right, doesn't it?
8 comments:
The mind boggles.
You know, a good prestidigitator could really milk this person. He'd better hope none is reading his blog...
I wonder how the Miracle Water® is working out for him...
even though the supernatural phenomena are tangible and observable.
Then that pretty much makes them natural, not supernatural, unless of course they are not tangible and observable.
...Insane. Institutionalise them before we all suffer.
I often wonder how people at that level of delusion function, and what day-to-day operations look like from inside their heads.
Do they fade in and out of a massive, internally-mostly-consistent hallucination on some timescale? Do they go for, I dunno, 10 seconds at a time in the real world, enough to avoid slamming the car into a tree, then 10 seconds in magicland, where road obstacles are shaped like chocolate cupcakes? Or do they multitask, with one part of the brain keeping them alive (and steering the car) while the rest of the brain is on permanent vacation?
Just... wow.
Never in my wildest imaginations had I thought someone could be so completely obsessed with every shred of content produced through another blog roll. Would you even exist if BT didn't have a feed?
Never in my wildest imaginations had I thought someone could be so completely obsessed with every shred of content produced through another blog roll.
It might help if there weren't so much ignorance, bigotry, whining, and stupidity coming off that particular bog roll on a daily basis, huh?
Oh, and I'll throw in "lack of imaginations" while I'm at it, too.
mark:
Like the bank robber Willie Sutton once said when asked why he robbed banks, "Because that's where the money is."
So if you want to make fun of the stupid, well, you go where the stupid is.
Should I explain that again more slowly?
Natural science cannot explain this.
Sure we can. It's called BULLSHIT.
Wouldn't occur to you for a second that maybe you're being CONNED would it. Or perhaps you're PART of the con...
Tell you what.. take Mr. ShortLeg to a doctor that's not part of your right wingnuttery and have his leg measured. Take him to your voodoo witchdoctor for this supposed healing... and then take him to be measured by a third unaligned party...
If the data matches up, then we'll try to come up with an explanation. Until then if you think we're going to take YOUR word that this happened you're out of your damned mind. Especially since you don't even accept the word of the hundreds of thousands of scientists who have performed millions of experiments and observations and written volume upon volume about evolution.
It defies natural laws. This is why they call it supernatural.
No it doesn't. You're offering no more proof than your word that it even occurred anywhere but on the magician's stage or in your little pea brain. That's not hard is it? One IOTA of verifiable proof?
Lemme guess, you're going to say: "I don't have to prove it to you. I know it happened!" or "God won't fit in a science lab so it won't work!"
Why do you take this claim to the James Randi Educational Foundation? They're offering a million bucks to someone who can prove the supernatural exists.
But it did happen, it was tangible, observable and explainable, if you allow the supernatural.
And the girl in the tights really did get sawed in half and put back together. Chris Angel really did walk on water and have a roller coaster go through his chest. David Copperfield really did make the statue of liberty disappear and Haliburton really did spend billions of our tax dollars on the Iraq war legitimately.
Certainly the person who was healed knows the new part of his leg is real...
Buuuuullllshit. I say again... PROVE IT. I can produce enough proof for evolution to fill multiple museums and libraries. How about you?
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