Comments | ontd_political: Charles Darwin gets 4,000 write-in votes in Athens against Paul Broun

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Charles Darwin gets 4,000 write-in votes in Athens against Paul Broun

Nov 09, 2012 23:26

A follow-up to a post a month back: GA Congressman: evolution is "lies from hell"

By Jim Thompson
updated Friday, November 9, 2012 - 2:00pm

( Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting for the 10th Congressional District seat retained Tuesday by five-year incumbent Republican Rep. Paul Broun. )

election 2012, lulz, aww yiss, republicans. lol, science, creationism, god save us from your followers, republicans, evolution, for great justice, georgia (the state), totally awesome

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the_physicist November 10 2012, 18:28:15 UTC

I always hope that people like him who have so much contempt for science practice what they preach and don't use any of the work created by devil worshippers, like computers, mobile phones, the internet...*insert epic list here*... toothpaste, and deodorant.

You know, just to show us all they actually believe what they are saying.

grace_om November 10 2012, 20:09:01 UTC

Yes, and pretty much any modern medicine. I have an old Doonesbury cartoon where the doctor asks the TB patient if he's a creationist -- so therefore he'll only want the older treatment that no longer works because the bugs have evolved resistance.

the_physicist November 10 2012, 20:45:20 UTC

Ah, I actually didn't mention modern medicine because there really are issues with some people like that believing prayer is better than modern medicine, which would be fine if they didn't have kids or didn't have a huge amount of power over their congregation or the like and they had to suffer because of it...

ragnor144 November 10 2012, 20:30:07 UTC

I would settle for these people just not using antibiotics. Along with the people who think that a pregnancy that threatens a woman's life is "god's will". Then so is that pneumonia.

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layweed November 10 2012, 18:36:16 UTC

This election seems like it's a lot more entertaining than the lizard people election of 2008 was.

mindrtist November 11 2012, 03:20:38 UTC

I'm laughing so hard right now.

Yet, I'm reminded of my friend insisting that Donald Rumsfeld was a lizard.

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the_glow_worm November 10 2012, 18:36:47 UTC

Well, he is the natural selection.

popehippo November 10 2012, 18:57:11 UTC

Pffffffffft. You win.

ragnor144 November 10 2012, 20:30:27 UTC

Well played.

karma_aster November 10 2012, 21:13:05 UTC

I see what you did there.

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alicephilippa November 10 2012, 18:46:34 UTC

This made the papers on this side of the pond. Go Charles Darwin. :D

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liret November 10 2012, 19:57:10 UTC

I do feel sorry for them on a personal level. I've heard people who have broken away from those kinds of mindsets talk about the absolute terror that can come from having doubts, and wondering if they're a sign you're not really saved because your faith isn't good enough - I can see how that pushes a person into proving to themselves and others that they believe no matter what 'traps' the devil and his secular minions try to set. Admitting reality doesn't fit your worldview is a sign of dangerous spiritual weakness, to that kind of thinking.

On the other hand, I think people should be disqualified from public office - and other things, including practicing medicine, which is Brun's other career - if they prove that they'll reject facts and evidence in favor of what they are told to believe. That kind of attitude in someone making laws is terrifying.

kitanabychoice November 10 2012, 21:16:45 UTC

Agreed on all points.