Members of a grassroots atheist group say they will tear out pages of the Bible at the Huntington Beach pier Saturday to point out what they say is immorality in the book many Christians base their faith on.
Backyard Skeptics members plan to rip out pages with specific passages of the Bible that they say portray immoral biblical law, organizers say.
You know, I just don't get atheists who do this or knock down religion . . . oh, okay, Christianity . . . in on-line forums like Reddit. It's as if I wanted to sit in a public forum and expose, oh Lord, let's say the Tooth Fairy. If I think it is nonsense, then why the hell (no pun intended) would I waste my time on it except to be a prick?
Take Stephen Hawking, the world's smartest crip. I mean, really smart. Rocket scientist smart. Okay, he doesn't like any religion to stick its nose into science - which is why he, a noted atheist, feels obliged to say that heaven or any sense of an afterlife is a fairy tale. So, speak with authority on something you can't prove - which means the end result is you are a prick. And being crippled doesn't give you a pass. Just makes you a prick who can't walk.
Then there is P.Z. Myers. Another smart giy. And a prick. He has his beef with the doctrine of transubstantialism in the Catholic Church - the belief that the bread and wine become truly the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ at Mass - so he went so far as to have someone steal a consecrated Host from a Mass and then he desecrated it. Which proved . . . he's a prick, and nothing more. Really? Did he expect God to strike him dead if it were truly His Flesh? How juvenile.
But I will give old P.Z. credit because at least he had the cojones to also desecrate a copy of the Koran, albeit he did it in private a only posted a picture of it. Now, if these guys at Backyard Skeptics really want me to pay attention, I want them to tear up a Koran publicly, after CAIR and other local Muslim groups have been notified. I mean, huh, big man, tearing up a Bible ain't nothing unless you also bring out the big guns. Maybe even a Torah, for good measure - make sure the JDL knows first, though, no cheating.
So, why are they doing it?
“We’re not there to burn the Bible or desecrate,” Bruce Gleason, director of Backyard Skeptics, said. “There are plenty verses in the Bible that if you did any of those things today, you’d be thrown in jail immediately.”
Oh, okay . . . to be a prick. Because there are passages in Deuteronomy that calls for the stoning of one's wife if she is found not to be a virgin. Because, you know, those Hasids in Williamsburg, they're all about the stonings - hell, it's a Saturday night special, from what I hear. Now, mind you, even the most orthodox - yeah, those Hasids - do not follow these passages literally and have generations of teachings that interpret such ancient laws, as too has evolved Christian teaching on the Old Testament. See, smart people know this - so either Backyard Skeptics are (a) stupid as hell, or (b) doing this to be . . . a buncha pricks.
So, why is this group only going to be "skeptical" of the basis for Judeo-Christian values? Hey, go big or go home - Koran. the Book of Mormon, Bhagavata, Dianetics - and with that last one, make sure you call the Hollywood center and let them know you're doing it.
Be an equal opportuity hater - at least that's a prick with some shred of integrity.
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