Don't forget about the blessing of 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings. I guess car crashes are God's blessing as well... all tragedies are blessings by that logic.

No, no, you are doing it wrong. If it was just that alone, it could be simply labeled as "ignorance is bliss" or "I believe I know, therefore you must be wrong". Cult of ignorance. Which is somehow a predominantly American thing.

But the role these guys (and girls) play is that of a "leader of the skeptics". "Listen, I read through all "their" books/papers/articles and I am (believe me), much smarter than them. And if such a intelligent and absolute skeptic as me ("follow me!") goes out into the world, outsmarts all these guys and comes back to tell you YOU WERE RIGHT all along and believes YOU more than "them".........well, use me as an indicator. When I say "A", it's "A". And you know why? I betcha "they" say it's "B"! It's a plot to control you and make you look stupid! They want to force "B" on you! I am way smarter than they are, I know these things!".

Glenn Beck is the love child of Bill O'Reilly and Alex Jones; it can't get "better" than this.

I think you may be right. I'm dismayed by this, because in my country I also now see the rise of these media demagogues...and we were usually spared the worst of this kind of thing.

I think people sometimes forget that reason, empiricism and academics...these are not immovable pillars The human world has proven many times its capacity for both
a) existing in times where open exchange of reason has been banned
b) degrading by cultural and technological regression

so if one continues the crusade of anti-intellectualism, if the political demagoguery of attacking rationality and empiricism continues...then it is certainly more than possible that the roof comes caving in, and we lose the advances we have built with these values.

We should fight to preserve and use open research, not attack it on the radio we wouldn't even have without it.

Terrible gimmick post.

come on, you could have made it about 48 paragraphs longer. Then you would be approaching Beck levels of double talk and idiocy.

fyp

you're defending his statement so whether you're a fan or not is irrelevent.

I also find this unlikely but not worth arguing.

Oddly enough your feelings towards him mirror how nearly everyone feels about you.

That's really more a reflection of your lack of reading comprehension then anything else since that's not why the thread was started. You'd think with all of your years and multiple degrees you would learn to read better. The thread has nothing to do with him encouraging people to be ready to help others. You would think based on the subject of this forum and the exact quote he posted it would be obvious what the thread is about. But I don't think anyone expects much from you in this respect.

I'll take that as a compliment considering the source.

...and so is everyone on Fox News. Did you really need to start a thread about this?

Oh wow , look at you! Mr. I've started so many interesting topics and I have contributed to this forum so much.

1. You did not read why I started this thread.
2. How about before you start complaining you better start contributing to this forum and maybe later I will actually bother to listen to you out. (you're like these funny kids in the micro stakes forum who posted 10 times and they want to teach others what to post and what not to , how to do it ,etc.. please kid...

maybe if I was doing my show I would pull out the black board and spell it out for you. we're looking for people for a program on GBTV and a staffer suggested this site. does anyone know how to get a hold of a poster named Rizeagainst? he's got a particular edge that we are looking for.

This very much made up for the first one.

He pulled a suicide by mod.

I agree that he made a dumb statement..........

He did not qualify which god he was talking about........ I will though....

He may not know it, but it's the god of this world, called the devil in the bible that is responsible for all the destruction going on now days.

He gets those who do not understand this to blame the true God, and make the true God look as if He likes killing people.........

Oh well, like most people on this forum, he does not know the true God, or he would never say anything of the sort.........

Are you claiming that the Devil is responsible for all natural disasters?

Framed huh? likely story, God.