I have personally heard this claim from several Christian Fundamentalists. It usually doesn't survive examination. They were raised to the church, had a normal adolescent rebellion and denied everything to do with the authority structure they knew. Then as they matured they experienced the guided hallucination (revelation, dream, epiphany, psychotic…
There was a recent online tempest about an article posted by Roger Ebert outlining, nay promoting, the Creationist way of thinking. For a few days, many were arguing about whether his site was hacked, or had he lost his rational mind? I voted for "hacked". Turns out, he was attempting…
I am not one to encourage a lawsuit, and am no expert in the law. But if you read the details about this suit, you might want to give to the cause. In brief, a Creationist posted a long monologue rehashing many long-disproved arguments claiming to be original and irrefutable…
Here's SNL's recent skit concerning John McCain's wave of dishonest campaign ads:
McCain said to not care crowd walked out after Gov. Palin’s speech “Hey, she can see Russia from her porch!” (Faux News, September 19, 2008). At a speech today in New Mexico, GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin announced that the “Palin-McCain ticket” will prevail in the November election. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKQDyL5gzc&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/palin-steals-mccain-rally_n_127480.html[/youtube]…