Comments | athelind: In Which Your Obedient Serpent tries not to make an ad hominem attack and fails miserably.

athelind

In Which Your Obedient Serpent tries not to make an ad hominem attack and fails miserably.

Aug 03, 2009 10:32

So, the family that runs that Creationist theme park are a bunch of frauds and liars.

Who'da thunk it?

dinosaurs, raar, fundamentalism, irony, film at 11, science

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tombfyre August 3 2009, 17:53:17 UTC

Wow, that's stranger than fiction right there. Nobody could have seen that coming. ;)

foofers August 3 2009, 18:05:35 UTC

If only there were a text version of the Belly Hillizer!

jirris_midvale August 3 2009, 18:19:27 UTC

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh god, this is rich. This is like christmas to me. Kent Hovind pisses me off to no end. I am happy to see his smug lying ass sitting in jail along side the other frauds and con-men of his ilk.

You just made my day.

cpxbrex August 3 2009, 18:35:04 UTC

I'm not sure it can be ad hominem if it's true. Which it clearly is. They are frauds and liars. Not in the pedestrian sense in which we all are, y'know, telling a little white lie to get out of a social scene we're not digging or whatever - but in the sense of federal indictments, hehe.

athelind August 3 2009, 18:46:57 UTC

Oh, certainly, the evidence indicates that they're less than honest financially, but their dubious approach to taxation has no bearing on the validity of their stance on the biological sciences.

It's an ad hominem attack because my phrasing ("Who'da thunk it?") and ironic tone suggest otherwise. "Who'd be fool enough to fall for what frauds and liars have to say?"

cpxbrex August 3 2009, 18:52:57 UTC

Perhaps it is because of the militancy of my atheism, but I think a big problem with religion in America is the extent to which a certain class of people use religion as a profit-making enterprise, so I think sarcastically pointing out their hypocrisy in this kind of thing is totally in bounds. Hovind and his ilk are about as Christian as I am. I could go on for a long time about how they definitely some of those guys Jesus knew would claim to know him, but do not. Their love of money, their deceptions, their attacks on the poor through regressive political action, their prostituting their faith in the marketplace, these guys are about as Christian as my fat white ass, so pointing out that they're hypocrites and liars is in bounds.

Y'know, for a militant atheist like myself, hehe.

Matthew 21:12 athelind August 3 2009, 19:04:44 UTC

Oh, certainly, people like this need mockin'.

But this has no more bearing on the quality of their paleontology than if Stephen Jay Gould had been guilty of tax fraud.

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araquan August 3 2009, 19:36:57 UTC

I think this is an opportune time to invoke the immortal words of Nelson, one of the greatest wits of our time, who said...

HA-HA!