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Sean Hannity and John Kasich - Liars for Jesus

I made the mistake of turning to Fox News while Sean Hannity was getting his knickers in a twist about President Obama's "not a Christian nation" comment in Turkey. I should have seen this coming but it always amazes me. It had all the fallacies you normally expect, with one little twist this time. Hannity started by referencing Easter as part of his diatribe then pulled out the standard founding father deist quotes that they somehow think equals bible believing Christianity. Then Kasich slipped up. He screwed up the narrative by mentioning Jefferson's rewriting of the bible. I wonder how many fundagelicals squirmed uncomfortably in their chairs with those words. He doubled his error by mentioning that Jefferson "took some things out". And what was one of these things he removed? You got it. The EASTER STORY!

The upshot? We know at least John Kasich is knowing lying about the beliefs and intents of the founding fathers. I'm pretty sure Hannity knows he's lying too. But he does it to ruffle the feathers of the Christian base. Once again we see there are no depths of dishonesty the faithful will not sink too to promote their little history rewrite.

Edit: Jason Seahorn, former NFL footballer, just referenced the "In God We Trust" on our money as proof not of a generically monotheistic nation but of an explicitly Christian nation. The arrogance of the majority can be truly stunning.

Maddening incoherent babble

Watch this video of Don McLeroy stumble and fumble with exasperation as he tries to save his "strengths and weaknesses" resolution. It is a maddening descent into blathering inanity.



This is a textbook example of creationist talking points. It's all there. Problems with the fossil record? check. Using Darwin quotes out of context? Yup. Repeating the word scientific approximately 32 times? OK even I thought this was a little weird. At one point he says something about how "all of these phyla immediately appear". Apparently 10 million years counts as "immediately all of a sudden". This is not a problem in the fossil record at all and it's unfortunate that it is described as the "Cambrian Explosion" because it gives the layman the wrong impression. By the way he gets the word itself wrong. At one point he says "the phylas are still with us today". Phyla is the plural of phylum. Of course he then proceeds to reference a Time magazine cover. Sheesh.

He then goes on to appropriate Stephen Gould who isn't with us anymore to correct this tool. If you want a clear cut example of the language and dishonestly of the Discovery Institute crowd, this 6 minutes is as good as any.