I posted this on Facebook today and thought I would share it here.
You may not have seen the Bill Nye debate with Ken Ham, but it was the beginning of people misusing the word Debate. The Nye Ham debate itself was not bad, and they both had moments. And I am pretty sure Ken Ham built that park with the Ark and cartoon Giraffes in the commercial saying Grandpa couldn't fit in the Ark.
After that Debate, Christians actually came up with an Atheist slaying argument, called "Presup". So an Atheist knows about Noah, maybe Giant Bones, Dinosaur Timeline, but they don't know Creation of the Universe, or how Time Works (A or B theory), and several other things. But these Christian's come in and say:
"Do you have Morals?"
They say "Yes"
Then they proceed to prove that without Religion, and thereby God, those Morals wouldn't exist. An Atheist can't just Evidence Morals without Gods, most of them don't even know the name of any non-Mainstream Archaeological finds (Mainstream being Lucy, etc). Christians come with Syrio-Palestine, and there is the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scroll, all the way to Adam and Eve.
And the Atheist has no answer for this other than to say that their Morals are collective decisions, which leaves them open to questions about many many things. The Christian can then go in Circles about anything, always coming back to the Historical fact that Morals have always been part of Religious Codes, and Religion is natural and not some later creation.
So the Atheists stopped Debating. And that has then become part of this larger thing we see with Trump now, Black Lives Matter and Police, and Riots and Antifa. No one wants to talk about anything anymore, because they don't want to have to think too hard.
I just want to point out for everyone, you have likely never heard this, but News Anchors and Congressional Staffers, and former Candidates are calling themselves "The Political Class" and "The Pundit Class". Literally assuming you believe your Reps and Senators are better than you, and the "Political Class" is above you, with them, just below them.
Twitter existing and these people's Constituents and Viewers being called "Followers" reinforces this. They used to check their phones on air for Tweets, they are obsessed. Twitter and Facebook drive the news now with Regional Trends. That is what the Interns are watching.
Then they have the FBI, who is like a Redheaded Stepchild. The FBI is not Respected like the Military, not as Mythical as the CIA, and they have a lot of Bad Acts in their past. The FBI has had to apologize for a lot of things, and they really feel underappreciated. And so now Comey, a Left Winger, seeing that Police were struggling after Ferguson created a Coalition of Law Enforcement. And no one protests Fire Fighters so he brought them in to be hated, thinking he could somehow make the FBI into RockStars.
For the past few years the 3 Major Networks literally go to former FBI, CIA and Military the most, and ask them "What do you think about Politics?". They have these people on Payroll for School Shootings and Bombers, but bring them on more than anyone else to talk about Politics. And this is all coming to a head right now with Riots in the Streets, and thin Blue line flags. And the FBI started talking to CDC and HHS and is now trying to make everyone hate Doctors, again in an attempt to make FBI Agents RockStars.
And they call the Congress people, and AGs, and Governors "The Lawmakers" and they (the "Political Class") say it to each other as if we all hear "Lawmaker" and tremble or cheer.
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