Chatting with Charley

You know who never ceases to amaze me with sheer, mind-boggling, unlimited stupidity? The fundamentalist Christian loonie. How anyone with access to education can honestly be thick enough to believe that the earth is only six thousand years old, and that dinosaurs were around with Adam and Eve (doesn’t matter that Adam and Eve never existed anyway) is just incomprehensible to me. Seriously. How can you be that dumb?

From the enlightened minds at the New Covenant Bible Church (in the USA - where else?) comes this gem: their Chatting with Charley series. I really don’t know to describe this. I first came across it a long time ago on GodTube. If you’ve never been there, please visit: it’s a real “experience”. Make sure you’re strapped into your chair though; you’re likely to fall off when you piss yourself laughing. At first, I thought this video series was created by atheists. When the realisation hit me that it wasn’t created by atheists for the purpose of disrupting the site, but was actually created by a Christian group, well, I just sat there, gobsmacked. It’s so bad, it’s hysterical. Charley must surely be the apologist’s worst nightmare; the biggest embarrassment possible. If I were a Christian, I’d disown Charley, and bloody quick smart, because he makes Mr. Bean look like a Nobel Prize winner by comparison.

How anyone this dumb can be allowed to have access to a spoon to feed himself, and yet manage to not poke his eye out when he misses his mouth, is a mystery. I don’t know which bit of the series is my favourite, perhaps the bit about the woodpecker, but hey, it’s all good, Jerry.

There’s a very good reason why apologists do a lot of hand-waving when they try to argue against evolution: they simply haven’t got anything to back up their argument, so instead they just quote (shout) the Bible at you, in the hope that shouting and appearing righteous makes it… err… right. Pathetic, really, but even that is vastly superior to the absolute drivel that Charley presents.

I really hope the Chatting with Charley series manages to get preserved for tens of millions of years to come. Really. I really do. That way our distant future generations, having finally made it through what will probably become labeled by their historians as the Golden Age Of Human Stupidity (of which as I’m writing this post, we are in the year 2008 doh*) will be sitting there, shaking their heads, wondering how the hell the human race ever managed to make it that far in the first place.

And then the sun will turn nova. Oh well.

View Chatting with Charley

* In honour of Homer Simpson.

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