Conflated Catholic Confraternity points finger at PZ
July 30th, 2008 • christianity, idiocy
I’ve been mulling over this trite screed all day. I actually held off on posting earlier because I wanted to see what PZ would write. And rip it apart he did. This contrite piece of garbage is full of logical fallacies but they’re well worded, at least.
They’re up in arms trying to get PZ fired for something he did in his down time at home so it’s wholly — well, in this case, physically holey — unrelated to school. Can we all mail bomb write to your contrite brotherhood of buggerers and get you fired for being a gas bag? No and you’re not going to succeed in getting PZ usurped from his post at UM Morris either. The overall buffoonery from this whole ordeal is simply laughable and the lengths at which Bill Donahue and now these deacons and pastors are willing to go just to protect some crackers is amazing. Only if they would put their misplaced time towards something useful, like bringing the troops home or fighting climate change, they might lead happy lives like the rest of us secularists do. They drag out the Bill of Rights and how it offers them religious protection but only when it applies to those non-practitioners who choose to malign it, a point PZ also makes and drives home hard. They do not understand that freedom of speech also protects us non-believers and we’re free to verbally, and written, abuse your religion all we want to. I don’t use this blog as a soapbox against fairy tales any more but I sure as hell do out in public.
Lies and hate speech which incite contempt or violence are not protected under the law. Hence, inscribing Swastikas on Jewish synagogues or publicly burning copies of the Christian Bible or the Muslim Koran, especially by a faculty member of a public university, are just as heinous and just as unconstitutional.
Being wholly ignorant of the law — just how they like it — they trot out the fact that this is a hate-inducing act of slamming a nail through a wafer. You’re right, it certainly was. PZ received a large number of death threats and gigs of hatemail (probably many gigabytes of it). Is this not heinous as well? Or is it OK that fellow God-fearing Catholics were threatening a man with death — and a castration or two — and asking him to desecrate the Qu’ran? Not only is that a faceplam-inducing piece of flaming crap, it’s contradictory. You can defame non-theists all you want but you think there’s some non-existent law that protects you from us doing the same? We’re not lawyers but we’re smarter than you apparently and we know that both sides can start flame wars until the end of time, the non-theist side will just laugh the whole time.
One fails to see the relevance of the desecration of a Catholic sacrament to the science of Biology.
One does fail to see a link that does not exist, no matter how hard you want it to. PZ teaches biology at school, he does whatever he wants to do at home. Just as you do.
A biologist has no business ‘dissing’ any religion, rather, they should be busy teaching the scientific discipline they were hired to teach.
He does and he does it at school. He could be out building a yurt behind his house after work for what it matters but that doesn’t concern this Catholic gathering of buggering windbags. Yurts have nothing to do with biology either but then again, he doesn’t teach yurt building in his genetics classes. The next line of the press release is a real clincher as it says “tolerating” this kind of behavior is “repugnant”. Really? Since when does a secular institution have to not tolerate someone not teaching fairy tales in a science classroom?
This whole ordeal shows how out of touch with reality Bill Donahue and the Catholic Confraternity are.