Pony says: “The Republican Party”

Rim shot! Woo!

Shel says: “Really? … just so Dwight Howard has to consider why God hates him. … Dwight Howard has been the most obnoxious about it.”

That’s a great angle, too. And I do appreciate it. But I started thinking how funny it would be if the obnoxious “God loves us better than you!” jerk actually turned out (in his head) to be right.

I mean, if the Magic loses, the other team can say “Guess God didn’t like you better” but he can always retort something about a fall for the prideful and that it was a lesson and yadda yadda yadda.

But if he wins, then in his mind God clearly loves the Magic better. And he can go on and on about it. And every other team and player that believes would be filled with doubts about why God picked him instead of them and…

OK, it’s all silly. But that was the thought that went through my head when I read this. Haha.

On the Obama religiosity question, I think he is stuck in the same quandary as many mainline Protestant ministers — to wit, he is likely an agnostic and atheist or maybe a deist but he knows his job depends in part on the appearance of piety. If you really nailed him down, he would probably admit that he at least questions the existence of an interventionist god but that religious life probably provides him with some measure of connection or inspiration.

That’s just a thumbnail guess.

But of course let’s not lose sight of what is really important in the grand scheme of things — That Mountain Humanist made the home page of Friendly Atheist. Again — moment of history.

Heat have sucked since i was in junior high

The Heat won the champhionship only 3 years ago.

Joel, and for anyone else interested in the relationship between religious belief and IQ, I found this link especially helpful:

I imagine most people on this site don’t believe in innate intelligence. They probably believe intelligence is more significantly affected by cultural and environmental agents. So your data (which is based on objective measures of intelligence) won’t resonate with them.

But IMO, yes, I think the connection is reasonable and highly likely.

Now, if we could only get him to do that about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell…

“The Republican Party”

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/iq_relig.htm

Any thoughts?

It just galls me to think that some of these so-called journalists get access to the President of the United States, and then they use it to ask stupefyingly inane questions like this.

I guess it’s sort of like (or maybe “exactly like”) the paparazzi. They have three seconds to ask some random celeb a question (and get an answer) for a sound bite for their website or TV show.

In that situation, what *should* they ask? Obama, in two seconds, what are the biggest obstacles to meeting your October deadline for the start of Health Care reform?

I want to see Howard say, “See! I TOLD YOU SO! God likes us better.”

Then the Lakers and the rest of the league will have to admit that God likes them second best. Or worse. Haha. :p

Really, though, it doesn’t matter if political leaders are Christian as long as they govern like atheists. Scientific decision making, no holier-than-thou BS morality, no divine inspiration.