Earlier this year, a third grader wrote to her state representatives asking them to make the Wooly Mammoth South Carolina’s official state fossil.
After a couple of holdups, it looked like there were no objections and the bill would go through… but the version of the bill that looks like it’ll be signed into law contains a ridiculous amendment:
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 9, Chapter 1, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
“Section 1-1-712A. The Columbian Mammoth, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field, is designated as the official State Fossil of South Carolina and must be officially referred to as the ‘Columbian Mammoth’, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field.”
That untrue, unscientific, twice-mentioned Creationist addition is the work of Sen. Kevin Bryant (a Republican, of course) who derailed the bill from the outset by trying to stick a full Bible passage in it. While that amendment was thrown out, this one somehow was accepted.
It's like a retarded potpourri.
Funny how bible references to Earth being flat disappeared from the book then that belief was made false..
ReplyDeleteThat’s just ridiculous! I’m glad you keep fighting, Gryphen, and I’m not even an Atheist.
ReplyDeleteI'd trust a soldier suffering from PTSD with a rifle in his hands long before I'd trust a Christian waving a bible over his head.
ReplyDeleteGod. The stupid. It is beyond hurting; they are officially insane. If I were that girl, I'd be writing another letter saying, "thanks but no thanks" for their idiotic bill. It is not even grammatically correct.
ReplyDeleteWill certainly be an early lesson in republicanism. At around age 8 she's already showing signs of being too smart for them anyway.
DeleteWhat is amazing is that this book is from many many ancient traditions and stories. It has been edited, rewritten, passages deleted and changed, and yet the fundamentalists consider every word as coming directly from God. They don't even consider that the basic message is one of peace and love, and that if there is a God, he also created science to deal with our diseases, to help us take care of the planet, and to help man understand a bit about the Universe. It isn't hard...they are just nuts.
ReplyDeleteSure, easy as pie. Take words created in Aramaic and Hebrew, wait around for the Greek translation, the Latin, the French, a few others, scramble the semantics across the spectrum and they end up with an English translation that most of these non scholars claim to read.
DeleteI've talked with people who actually think the bible was originally written in English, every word dictated personally by their version of god.
Children.....please keep asking the uncomfortable questions.....
ReplyDeleteJust another example of why I feel my home state is an embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteOh, and so everyone knows, I just sent a request to Gov. Haley requesting she veto the bill if it contains ANYthing like religious sentiment. Not that it will do any good.
DeleteThis man and the people like him are trying to make their rules fit reality. Sorry but reality does not follow any rules of any kind except for physics. Gravity relativity, etc, those are reality. Crap that comes from a many times altered text written to subjugate other human beings by a ruling elite, is NOT reality.
ReplyDeleteIf you all notice, Sarah Palin preaches politics and patriotism just like guys like this tell the bible tale. Toss any BS out there and say because the book says so. Palin takes pieces of history and creates her own version to fit her talking points.
ReplyDeleteThese damned religious maniacs had their turn at running the show: we refer to that time as The Dark Ages and it was among the most miserable times in human history.
ReplyDeleteThe separation of church and state means nothing to these asshats
ReplyDeleteWhere are the "Constitutional Conservatives" screaming about this travesty against the First Amendment?
ReplyDeleteThey mock the Taliban. But they want to be our Taliban.
You do realize as you pontificate against ignorance that they are referring to Colombian mammoths. The woolly mammoth and the Colombian mammoth are two entirely seperate species. http://www.mammothsite.com/mammoth_info.html
ReplyDeleteAnon 642 - your arguments about the bible also apply to the Constitution. Like the bible, the document isn't necessarily bad - it is just subject to interpretation by men who can use it as they desire. It is a subjective mirror.
It is fascinating to me the way this kind of vomit is always justified as being about "fairness". About "other points of view getting equal time". Because we all know how committed to "fairness" and "equal time" right wingers are. Only an indoctrinated cult zombie could equate the mere recognition of the basic, undeniable fact that fossils of Mammoths exist, as being somehow "unfair to christians".
ReplyDeleteWell fine, let's play it their way. In defense of the fairness and equal time requirements that are clearly so very, very important to republicans, I say we change the slogan on our money to say: "In God We Trust... Unless You Don't Believe In That Sort Of Thing, Then Nevermind, It's All Good."
Nothing like carving your idiocy in stone. South Carolina. Just a little more stupid than North Carolina and we can prove it!
ReplyDeleteHe has the preppy blank look of a brainwashed evangelical nitwit.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies to the ultra smart third grade, her family, teachers and friends, r whose brilliant idea was twisted into a fable by a future fossil of of the caboose driver of the creationists clown train.
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