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Atheists expelled from Creation "Museum"
Examiner.com ^ | Aug 9th, 2009 | Michael Rosch

Posted on 08/09/2009 6:29:20 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814

...according to Myers and at least one of my other sources that attended, aside from joking to each other about the ridiculous nonsense in the “museum”, no one misbehaved. But that didn’t seem to stop “museum” officials from harassing individuals and eventually kicking a few people out of the “museum” for imaginary infractions.

Essentially, it seems the “museum” feels that merely disagreeing with its “science” and mocking it to one’s friends is grounds for having visitors removed from the property. This is absurd. Could you imagine if the American Museum of Natural History ejected visitors for being creationists? Or if the Museum of Modern Art ejected visitors for critiquing the art or mocking Jackson Pollack’s work quietly with their friends? It would never happen. That’s because REAL museums are tools for education and don’t try to control how its visitors think.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creationism; cretinism; dailydoseofbs; evolution; humor; keepowt; museum; pseudoscience
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To: Jacquerie

So Jacquerie, are you and I going to each give $20 to FR now?


121 posted on 08/09/2009 3:09:22 PM PDT by Tax Government
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To: Jacquerie

Why can’t you let Creationists alone in their article of faith as you wish to be left alone in belief of the Trinity?


122 posted on 08/09/2009 3:15:57 PM PDT by Jacquerie (That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
If you have to lie about what I posted, then you don't have a case.

Please point out the lie.

How is that remotely relevant with what God wrote about the subject?

You think technology would be necessary to achieve the goal, which is false. The people who wrote the OT obviously believed in supernatural power.

Let me know when the Pope controlled your life, or had any effect over the government in the country you live in.

Luckily the Pope has little secular power -- anymore. Your claim that "Christians never had power in the government." is absurd and ignores over a thousand years of history.

Christians never had "secular power" in America.

Really? Read up on the Puritans. Or are you talking about the United States, which was founded so that nobody could establish a theocracy. Of course, your statement is incorrect, since Christians have always made up the vast majority of our government.

And global warming is a belief system that man has the power to control the weather.

Technologically it may be possible one day. It'll also be stupid. These people have never heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

123 posted on 08/09/2009 4:56:45 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Jacquerie
There is no doubt the Papacy tried to establish supremacy over the Carolingians, Franks and other barbarian kingdoms.

They did need the muscle in their power struggle with the Byzantines and to protect the territory from Muslim invasion. They of course turned to the ones who managed to beat back the Muslims.

But I wouldn't call the Franks barbaric in general. The Franks were already mostly Christian by the time Charles Martel started the Carolingian dynasty, they just didn't submit to the Pope's authority until later (the Pope started crowning Frankish emperors with his grandson Charlemagne, and then it was a trick). Not that being Christian suddenly makes a population non-barbaric. Charlemagne killing any Saxon who wouldn't convert to Christianity was pretty barbaric.

124 posted on 08/09/2009 5:18:16 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: DannyTN
Gotta keep the Museum safe for the Flanderses

"Even Dollywood is too far out for me. Too many people appreciating it ironically."

125 posted on 08/09/2009 5:20:24 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (War is fought by human beings. - Carl von Clausewitz in On War)
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To: LaineyDee

Great analogy...why bother except to joke about it..


126 posted on 08/09/2009 5:33:28 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: silverleaf
I cannot imagine even the Smithsonian would tolerate an organized scene by 240 Creationists whose goal was to disrupt the visit of others by openly (loudly) mocking the evolution displays.

Well, believe it or not, it happens. Very frequently and regularly actually. In several Natural History museums creationists have organized daily tours of Natural history museums in an effort to distort and lie to their creationist ilk. They mock the exhibits and laugh at reality.

And they don't get kicked out. BUT - I'm quite sure Myers' merry band of atheists cuased quite a ruckus.
127 posted on 08/09/2009 7:39:10 PM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
There is something unique and special about Jesus Christ that makes those who hate Him erupt in bizarre rages and go to ridiculous lengths to try to disprove His existence.

I find 99% of atheists don't "hate" Jesus Christ at all. They jsut don't care a whit about him. The Islamofascists are the ones with the hate. BIG difference.
128 posted on 08/09/2009 7:41:08 PM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
For example, part of the book of Revelation gives details about a future time when a world dictator will force everyone on earth to receive a mark in order to buy or sell...

Blah blah blah. Please ignore my previous post to you, I didn't realize you were completely insane.
129 posted on 08/09/2009 7:42:23 PM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: ZGuy
Here's what really happened (from the AIG website blog)

That would be a first for them. (Explaining something the way it "really happened" that is.)
130 posted on 08/09/2009 7:44:56 PM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: Jacquerie
Christianity does not force its beliefs on others.

Pls tell me you forgot your sarcasm tag!
131 posted on 08/09/2009 7:48:47 PM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: GL of Sector 2814
At the National Museum of Art in DC I stood before a display of modern art and laughed out loud. Then I told my friend, loud enough for everyone to hear that we could turn out 20 of these “paintings” a day and get rich. It was one of those paint splatter numbers.

Anyway we were told to shut up or leave the museum... It is not good museum manners, I guess, to mock that which the museum people think is a worthy exhibit and that which patrons go to see at the museum.

Life is not the Internet or the communist professor's classroom.

132 posted on 08/09/2009 9:10:20 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: DannyTN

The atheist baiters are back. They think they are smarter and superior to everyone else and they enjoy mocking God. You see, everyone else about God is wrong and they, a teeny minority of the human race, are right. ;)


133 posted on 08/09/2009 9:14:44 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: whattajoke
They jsut don't care a whit about him

If they didn't care, they wouldn't go to the extremes that they do to try to disprove His existence. If you don't care about something, you don't give it the attention that atheists give to God.

There is nobody on any obsessive campaign to prove the the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

134 posted on 08/10/2009 12:26:36 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: whattajoke
Oh wow, you're so cool.

You're just so cool and awesome. I feel so put in my place now.

Just so you know, there are approximately 2500 prophecies in Scripture, 2000 of which have been fulfilled since they were written. And the rest are in the process of being fulfilled in our time.

But, hey, you're that much of a Bible expert that you can call me insane, right?

LOL. I'm sure everyone's impressed.

135 posted on 08/10/2009 12:35:03 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
The entire leadership of the Democrat Party are hardcore evolutionists who are okay with most leftist religions but are at war with biblical conservative Christianity.

The snake in the grass leftists on Free Republic jump at any chance they can to attack the religious views and faith that all liberals attack.

The Free Republic liberals and the Obama cult all attack biblical conservative Christianity which most closely matches the faith of the founding population of this civilization and has been mostly closely reflected in its laws for almost four hundred years.

136 posted on 08/10/2009 12:45:42 AM PDT by Old Landmarks (No fear of man, none!)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Please point out the lie.

I posted what God said:

He sits enthroned abbove the circle of the earth...

Your response was:

A circle and a sphere are two different things. But you bring out only one of many OT instances that show the ancient belief of a flat earth. They add up pretty well.

You took the Scripture that I posted, you took what God said, and twisted it and added your own junk to fit your worldview. You lied.

You think technology would be necessary to achieve the goal, which is false. The people who wrote the OT obviously believed in supernatural power.

God deals in reality. God has told us there would be a world government and a world dictator, and he told us this quite a few centuries ago. The fact is, we now have the technology to give an identifying number to every human being on the face of the earth. This isn't difficult, unless you are willing to twist yourself into contortions trying to deny it. We also are hearing and reading, in our time, about global currencies and global government which is what God said would happen. The prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled, and all the twisting of Scripture and denial of the facts will not make it go away.

Luckily the Pope has little secular power -- anymore. Your claim that "Christians never had power in the government." is absurd and ignores over a thousand years of history.

If you have to go back centuries to find material, then you really don't have much of a case. The entire world has rejected God, including America, and we now have your wonderful secular leadership that you love so much. How's that working out by the way? You like Barack Obama's God-rejecting, secular presidency?

Really? Read up on the Puritans. Or are you talking about the United States, which was founded so that nobody could establish a theocracy. Of course, your statement is incorrect, since Christians have always made up the vast majority of our government.

That's just laughable. Christians have always made up the vast majority of the government? Christians legalized abortion? Christians legalized slavery? Christians have sold our secret nuclear technology to our enemies? Christians sat by and did nothing while Americans were murdered by terrorists? Christians are the ones who have bowed to Saudi kings and have set women and children on fire at some obscure religious compound? And what effect have the Puritans ever had on your life? What are you talking about?

Technologically it may be possible one day.

I'll believe that when I see it.

137 posted on 08/10/2009 1:02:15 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: Old Landmarks
You got it exactly right.

That's the best summary of what happens on this forum with the God-haters that I've seen. It's funny- I could see a thousand threads praising atheism on Free Republic and never feel the need to respond but for some reason, those who hate and reject God simply can't stop themselves from ripping Christians to shreds.

It's simply an amazing thing to behold.

138 posted on 08/10/2009 1:07:20 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
If you don't care about something, you don't give it the attention that atheists give to God. There is nobody on any obsessive campaign to prove the the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.

99% of atheists aren't conducting an obsessive campaign to prove that God doesn't exist. Now, there are those on a campaign (obsessive or otherwise) to prove that the paranormal doesn't exist; Penn & Teller with their wonderful show Bullsh!t comes to mind, as well as others such as the Committee For Inquiry (www.csicop.org) and Skeptic Magazine (www.skeptic.com).

They certainly "care" about things such as God, astrology, UFOs, Bigfoot, etc., in the sense they're concerned about the effects that belief in such utter (from their point of view) nonsense has upon society.

139 posted on 08/10/2009 1:42:17 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814 (One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- R A Heinlein)
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To: Old Landmarks
The snake in the grass leftists on Free Republic jump at any chance they can to attack the religious views and faith that all liberals attack.

Are you asserting that mocking something as absurd as the Creation Museum makes one a "snake in the grass leftist"?

140 posted on 08/10/2009 1:57:00 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814 (One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- R A Heinlein)
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