An short ode to (followed by a dissection of) Tom Estes’ shining dumbassery

I have to admit, I’ve changed my mind thoroughly for the past few weeks. At first, I merely viewed him as yet another crank amidst the countless others floating around the blogosphere. When he attacked a certain sorta-well-known atheist blogger and called her “maniacally insane” merely for her expressing how she felt awkward and nervous, as any just-out-of-her-teenage-years young woman would, about him wanting to meet with her in person at CreoZerg, he effectively showed what a pompous, dishonest and intellectually sparse dunce he was. From then on, I regarded him as hopelessly boring, and his blog was much like a train wreck of intellectual failure.

However, he’s since redeemed himself (well, as far as redemption goes …). Over time, he has proven himself to be, in no particular order: exasperating, amusing, outrageous, disheartening, and always entertaining, whether it be positively or not. Something about him and his writings seems to attract me like a magnet would attract a nail; perhaps it’s because the amalgamation of ridiculousness in his cumulative blog posts forms such a supermass of stupidity that it attracts any and all snark and irony his way, much like a black hole attracts light (which is another appropriate metaphor, by the way).

I hate to admit it, but I’m hooked to Pastor Tom Estes and his fundie Christian blog, “HardTruth”.

Don’t worry, though, I’m not about to break into limerick over him or anything. I just felt like writing a long intro for the main content of this post, which is just yet another dissection of the abhorrent, blind nonsense found on T.Estes’ blog. Recently, he’s begun a daily (or so I think) feature wherein he posts up some of the day’s “top stories”, with his commentary directly in the links. It’s both amusing and cringe-inducingly bad, the sort of crap he writes. So, I thought I’d examine some of these, just for the fun of it. (Yes, I am that bored.)

Atheists Continue to Harass Christians For Wanting to Pray

Anti-Prayer Flyer

All that this flyer does, is encourage people to join the SAIU^[1] and to actually fight against problems and issues in our world, instead of doing nothing at all but droning out useless words to a nonexistent deity. It promotes action over uselessness. But, of course, only Persecuted Christians^TM can actually see such a message (which, in itself, is completely uncritical of religion, prayer, and etc.) as being offensive in any way, as the mere suggestion that there may be other courses of actions to take in order to rid the world of its problems is a grievous attack on their faith. Or so such silly accusations as T.Estes’ lead us to believe.

Not to mention that, as part of the group’s actual mission, they state clearly, thus:

Christians certainly have every right to express their faith through prayer, and our group supports their freedom to do this. However, in an affirmation of science and reason, we posted flyers about the event to encourage those who prefer action over prayer to join SAIU.

Ie. “Pray all you want, we don’t care. Only, we choose to actually do something about it instead of trying to pray it away”.

Offensive, isn’t it?

• Gays attack marriage..........again.

First, and most egregious of all: you don’t use more than three dots in an ellipses! Ever! (Seriously, it’s just bad form and makes typographers cringe and cry.) Pedantry aside, second point: once again, a gay marriage opponent who repeats the tired exhausted tripe about gay marriage being an “attack” on heterosexual marriage. (Note that the article in question merely suggests that gay marriage may become legal in Washington, DC. Because, much as how the fusion of atoms creates devastating nuclear energy, the union of two of the same gender unleashes waves of lethal gay-ray radiation that destabilize and dissolve the precious bonds holding heterosexual couples, and by extension, society, together. Or something.)

PBS Presents; Another Film That Promotes Darwin Worship

The two-hour drama itself is merely a dramatization of the moral dilemma Darwin fought with just prior to his publication of his On the Origin of Species and the creation of the Theory of Evolution: publish it and risk losing his beloved religious wife, or hold it back and see th world stay locked in religious misinformation and general ignorance. But, of course, we atheists are Satan’s children and Darwin was/is the AntiChrist himself to people like T.Estes, so of course, any film that revolves around him and his work serves only as atheistic worship porn.

• Atheists obsessed with silly cloth that some believe to have a picture of Jesus on it.
• Did I mention that atheists are obsessed with this silly cloth?

Except that … First, we couldn’t possibly be less interested in the Shroud of Turin if we tried. It’s you fundy Christians who are all up in arms about it being yet another of Jesus’ miracles. Do stop projecting, Tommy. It’s not becoming of you. And second, we’re only mentioning it these days because it’s been shown (for the umpteenth time) to be a demonstrable fake.

• Extremely hateful atheist thinks telling people not to steal or kill is wrong.

Wow, this is stupid even by Tom’s standards. This ridiculous comment links to a post by the Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, wherein the latter explains why the Ten Commandments are so irrelevent and silly in these modern times. Nowhere does Hemant say anything remotely approaching that telling people not to steal or kill is wrong. Truly, Tom, you are a lying dipshit for claiming such a thing. It’s one thing to be stupid, as it’s become expected of you, but to actually put false words in another man’s mouth, especially when the man-in-question is endlessly more honorable, decent and honest than you have proven yourself to be, is just despicable.

• Huffington Humus is thrilled that Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter is about to have her second child.

Truly, is that the best you can do? I’m not just talking about your silly outrage over a lesbian adopting a child (OMG TEH HORROR!!!), but especially, your lack of imagination and cleverness when coming up with nicknames for your “Evil Sites”. The Huffington “Humus”? God, that’s just sad.

Good thing we’ve reached the end of his idiotic “Top Stories” lists for the past two days, because this is about as much as I can stomach at the moment. Peace, y’all.

^[1] Anyone knows what the “IU” bit stands for? I can’t find an answer anywhere. Just curious.