Comments on: I’ve Never Enjoyed Barney the Dinosaur Until Now http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/ by Hemant Mehta Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Spurs Fan http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246810 Spurs Fan Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:53:07 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246810 <blockquote>Oh, how I’m glad I’m not in Texas with a couple kids that need schooling</blockquote> Unfortunately, I do live in Texas and happen to have a couple of kids. This battle has been going on for quite some time and it looks like us rationalists may be on the losing end of it. Just know that there are many great Texans who are fighting the good fight. And please don't let us secede!

Oh, how I’m glad I’m not in Texas with a couple kids that need schooling

Unfortunately, I do live in Texas and happen to have a couple of kids. This battle has been going on for quite some time and it looks like us rationalists may be on the losing end of it. Just know that there are many great Texans who are fighting the good fight. And please don’t let us secede!

]]> By: Wendee Holtcamp http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246804 Wendee Holtcamp Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:30:54 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246804 Oh one more thing - I think the most insidious thing that Christians do is when they so blatantly lie in the name of religion. The reality is they believe this is a holy war they are fighting, and a just cause, and so I guess they must justify their actions acting all innocent like this "isn't about religion." But lying and hypocrisy is antithetical to all that Jesus represents. Oh one more thing – I think the most insidious thing that Christians do is when they so blatantly lie in the name of religion. The reality is they believe this is a holy war they are fighting, and a just cause, and so I guess they must justify their actions acting all innocent like this “isn’t about religion.” But lying and hypocrisy is antithetical to all that Jesus represents.

]]> By: Wendee Holtcamp http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246801 Wendee Holtcamp Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:25:39 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246801 Wow cool that you linked to my testimony! I think I read your book?!!! Did you write a book? I also blogged a fuller account of what happened, with photos, at Daily Kos. Check it out and rec it in the Tip Jar (1st) comment if you can so we can get more awareness of this important issue! :) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/21/11102/072/467/664645 Wow cool that you linked to my testimony! I think I read your book?!!! Did you write a book? I also blogged a fuller account of what happened, with photos, at Daily Kos. Check it out and rec it in the Tip Jar (1st) comment if you can so we can get more awareness of this important issue! :)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/21/11102/072/467/664645

]]> By: redroach http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246781 redroach Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:17:31 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246781 I would not fret about it, too much. As a teacher here in TX and someone who is active in the ongoing TEKS revisions, the nuts are out in force, but reason will prevail. As for calling him a liar, she should have kicked him in the nuts. I would not fret about it, too much. As a teacher here in TX and someone who is active in the ongoing TEKS revisions, the nuts are out in force, but reason will prevail.
As for calling him a liar, she should have kicked him in the nuts.

]]> By: Richard Wade http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246758 Richard Wade Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:31:47 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246758 Imagine a Holy Texas Empire of the future, a sovereign country living in their very young universe. None of their attempts at science work well because what they observe doesn't match what they are supposed to believe. The genes they see make no sense in life forms that are supposed to have been instantly created only 6,000 years ago. The steady decay of radioisotopes confounds the few remaining Texas scientists who try to maintain their government-mandated faith in the face of what they can see with their own eyes. The number of annual layers in glaciers is a state secret. Even the speed of light is a constant source of confusion and official interference. Their biology doesn't work, their geology doesn't work, their physics doesn't work, they just can't make things work. Texans who cannot suppress their own intelligence emigrate to other countries to escape death sentences for heresy. For a while the Holy Texas Empire's Fidocrats are able to buy or steal science-based things from "heathen" countries, but they steadily fall behind the rest of the world. They become a quaint, sad, one-day stopover for tourists on their way to some place interesting. Imagine a Holy Texas Empire of the future, a sovereign country living in their very young universe. None of their attempts at science work well because what they observe doesn’t match what they are supposed to believe. The genes they see make no sense in life forms that are supposed to have been instantly created only 6,000 years ago. The steady decay of radioisotopes confounds the few remaining Texas scientists who try to maintain their government-mandated faith in the face of what they can see with their own eyes. The number of annual layers in glaciers is a state secret. Even the speed of light is a constant source of confusion and official interference. Their biology doesn’t work, their geology doesn’t work, their physics doesn’t work, they just can’t make things work. Texans who cannot suppress their own intelligence emigrate to other countries to escape death sentences for heresy. For a while the Holy Texas Empire’s Fidocrats are able to buy or steal science-based things from “heathen” countries, but they steadily fall behind the rest of the world. They become a quaint, sad, one-day stopover for tourists on their way to some place interesting.

]]> By: Colm http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246742 Colm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:50:53 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246742 I'm warning you: if you say "Jehovah" once more.. It would be a hilarious comedy if it weren't so tragic. I’m warning you: if you say “Jehovah” once more..

It would be a hilarious comedy if it weren’t so tragic.

]]> By: Hope for Texas? « Math on the Street http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246741 Hope for Texas? « Math on the Street Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:36:08 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246741 [...] for Texas? Via the Friendly Atheist: It seems that, despite having creationists on the state board of education, there is a chance for [...] [...] for Texas? Via the Friendly Atheist: It seems that, despite having creationists on the state board of education, there is a chance for [...]

]]> By: Chad B http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246735 Chad B Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:23:57 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246735 Its really hilarious how that guy says that he "believes in amazing things" one of which being of course the story of jesus. Does he thing that evolution is not an amazing story? Insert foot in mouth. Its really hilarious how that guy says that he “believes in amazing things” one of which being of course the story of jesus. Does he thing that evolution is not an amazing story? Insert foot in mouth.

]]> By: martymankins http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246729 martymankins Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:25:46 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246729 Thanks to people like Wendee for standing up to this nonsense. Creationism smacks of such lunacy. I mean, they defend it like they have to, not really believing that anything could be older than 6,000 years. It's seems so limitless. Then to claim that it's not religious.... please. Pack it up, people. Thanks to people like Wendee for standing up to this nonsense. Creationism smacks of such lunacy. I mean, they defend it like they have to, not really believing that anything could be older than 6,000 years. It’s seems so limitless. Then to claim that it’s not religious…. please. Pack it up, people.

]]> By: Alice http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2008/11/21/ive-never-enjoyed-barney-the-dinosaur-until-now/#comment-246725 Alice Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:10:49 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/?p=5914#comment-246725 I'm amused that Holtcamp was about to call lying Christians "Satan"-- that's where she was going with the whole "Father of Lies" thing-- but saying the "L" word was the worse part to the Chairperson. I’m amused that Holtcamp was about to call lying Christians “Satan”– that’s where she was going with the whole “Father of Lies” thing– but saying the “L” word was the worse part to the Chairperson.

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