{"id":38429,"date":"2012-09-21T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=38429"},"modified":"2014-12-30T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:55:31","slug":"south-african-chris-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/09\/south-african-chris-shepherd.html","title":{"rendered":"South African Chris Shepherd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>argues about the American elections, talks about the badassest miracles, and persuades me that his brother is cuter than mine (though not cuter than the mega super cuteness of The Cuteness)\u00a0all from a Catholic perspective. <a href=\"http:\/\/saidtheboytothewolf.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Check thou him out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I was highly amused by <a href=\"http:\/\/saidtheboytothewolf.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/02\/the-christian-dark-ages\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris\u2019 find <\/a>of this Totally Scientific Chart Thingie That, Like, Totally Shows that Internet Atheists Understand, Like, Science and Stuff and Christians, Like, Totally Don\u2019t and Tried to, Like, Stop it and Stuff During the Dark Ages Like it Says on the History Channel or Whatever:<\/p>\n<p>That sound you just heard, like small hydraulic pumps activating? <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.dappledthings.org\/easter10\/feature01.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That\u2019s the sound of Mike Flynn salivating over Fresh Meat.<\/a>\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Really, Internet Atheist.\u00a0 Don\u2019t go there.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/m-francis.livejournal.com\/101929.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In a battle of wits with Flynn on this subject, you are not just unarmed, you are buck naked with only a rubber duck on your head for protection against the beating you will receive for saying stuff this simultaneously ignorant and arrogant.<\/a>\u00a0 Reason number one for using rather than merely worshipping the intellect, Gentle Internet Atheist?: you will not come out looking like Dogberry:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82dYxF3sA8o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/armariummagnus.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/gods-philosophers-how-medieval-world.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atheist historian of science Tim O\u2019Neil dubs the poster THE STUPIDEST THING ON THE INTERNET EVER and has a wonderful time taking it to pieces.<\/a> See Internet Atheist? It is possible to use the intellect instead of worshipping it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>argues about the American elections, talks about the badassest miracles, and persuades me that his brother is cuter than mine (though not cuter than the mega super cuteness of The Cuteness)\u00a0all from a Catholic perspective. Check thou him out! 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