Denialism

Cults make you stupid

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by

MarkH
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You don’t have to be stupid to join a cult (although it helps), but once you’re in…

You see, PZ went to see Expelled. With some friends. No one of note really, just THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS ATHEIST!!!111!

And which one got tossed at the door? Take that, Dawkins! We grow good atheists right here in the Midwest!

But really, it’s not just the funniest thing to happen in Minnesota since lutefisk. It shows how cults make you dumb. They discourage independent thought. Followers get their marching orders and, well, march without question. God forbid (irony intended) that you should exercise your own mind and say, “Maybe the Dear Leaders wanted all famous atheists out, not just one.”

I do wonder about the Rent-a-Cops at the theater. Do the theater owners just throw out everyone they’re asked to? What was it about PZ? What if the KKK had rented out the theater for some white supremicist movie? Would they throw Abe Foxman or Jesse Jackson out?

Not that arbitrarily tossing some professor out of a movie based on his religious beliefs (OK, lack of them) is the same as tossing out the head of the Anti-Defamation League or a prominent African-American leader.

Or is it?

Comments

  1. Rev. BigDumbChimp

    Hilarious for sure.

    I do think it was a private screening so I think they had the right to deny entrance to whomever, even though PZ apparently registered correctly. They’re spinning it up that PZ was not invited or was causing a disturbance. All which have been denied by witnesses. It’s typical Cdesign proponentsists tactics. The fact that PZ got tossed and The Devil incarnate didn’t is what kills me.

    Kevin Miller is spinning it up here.

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  2. Ian B Gibson

    You don’t have to be stupid to join a cult (although it helps), but once your in…

    I bet they’re grammar is terrible as well! What a bunch of loosers!

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  3. PalMD

    Wow, tough crowd.

    Thank you for your assistance. Apparently, the gears and cranks of MT don’t include a copyeditor.

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  4. Ian B Gibson

    Sorry if I sounded snarky. I should have added a smiley 😉

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  5. PalMD

    No, the assistince is apreciated. I’m very good at making speling errors and other mistakes gramatic.

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  6. Crudely Wrott

    The events of last night certainly do leave some dangling questions. It seems though that most of the facts are in. (Waiting for confirmation concerning the cop, the propriety, the law, and whether or not being notorious trumps being well known (ala PZ v Dawkins) to come in before final “crime scene reconstruction.”)

    I am of the opinion that, when the dust has settled enough to see the far wall, this whole donnybrook will take on even more hilarious and revealing clarity. Much, one who hope, to the chagrin of Stein, et al.

    One more thing, the faithful will not be moved except to redouble their angst, their victim hood and their utter repudiation of what normally passes for evidence.

    “Ahhh, grasshoppers! Perhaps someday they will begin to learn.”
    I love them but I don’t like them. Some strange shit left over from my Jesus Freak days. Hard to believe I can still embrace such a philosophy now that I have added puppies and small children to my diet. What? You don’t eat cute?

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  7. Microscopes

    Yeah i agreed, for me its big lesson.

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  8. QrazyQat

    PZ and his friends and family members signed up on the Expelled web site under their own names and got email confirmations, just as other attendees did, for this showing. Claiming now that it was a private showing and that the Expelled promoters weren’t allowing people in who’d signed up on the web site and gotten confirmations is bull____. If it was a closed private screening and not open to anyone who signed up, why did they allow in everybody else in his group? Really, the “it was a private screening” claim is an incredibly pathetic one to use since it’s so obviously not true.

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  9. Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD

    We grow good atheists right here in the Midwest!

    PZ is a recent immigrant to the Midwest. His happy childhood was spent in the waters of Puget Sound or thereabouts.

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