Christofascist idiot watch update!

Well, there's another missing white baby alert going on now, so hopefully I can tear you all away from it to give you a new Christofascist Idiot Watch Update.

First up, it's 'Jesus Camp', a film about the rising evangelical youth movement. It's a camp where young, malleable minds are brainwashed into intolerance, unquestioning faith, and a willingness to die for Jesus. Hey, go right ahead, I won't stop you, just go off in the corner somewhere. As the camp's creator, Pastor Becky Fisher says,

"I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are in Palestine, Pakistan and all those different places," Fisher said. "Because, excuse me, we have the truth."

Uh, excuse me, pastor, but those suicide bombers 'have the truth', too, don't they? Maybe you should all get together someday. So does that mean suicide bombers will be showing up at Planned Parenthood or the local gay bar soon? Scary stuff.

Next up, the Pope sets off another clash of civilizations, as the religions duke it out about as one fictional belief system upsets another! You probably know by now about Pope Nazinger's speech in which he referred to an ancient Catholic emporer who put the smackdown on Islam. But, the speech it was taken from was basically about how reason is such a problem nowadays, that it is wrong of us to want empirical evidence before believing something. Oh, the horror.

Anyways, I give you the incomparable Sam Harris' take on the Pope's latest nonsensical blathering: 'God's Rottweiler Barks':

"The pope suggests that reason should be broadened to include the empirically unverifiable. And is there any question these new “vast horizons” will include the plump dogmas of the Catholic Church? Here, the pope gets the spirit of science exactly wrong. Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable). And it does mean to exclude the gratuitously stupid."

Have a look. Enjoy.