It’s time to Teach the Controversy
I like to think that the STR.com team get on very well with the other conservative sites in the “Bloggosphere”, and Lord knows there are few enough of us. As you know, my personal favourites are Save the Soldiers, A Little More to the Right, Michelle Malkin, Scrutator and Focus on the Family. These are all genuine conservative sites, which seek to inspire and educate. Every real Republican should learn from these wise patriots… and then there are the other guys. Consider this clearly bogus post on a blog called Red Flag, Brick Wall.
Look at what he wrote about Shelley’s recent moderate article on the Klu Klux Klan:
For those of you who don’t know what the KKK is (Shelley, Billy Bob Neck, Tristan Shuddery, Sam Johnston), here is a basic description from Wikipedia:
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation such as cross burnings to oppress African Americans and others.
Shelley and the gang actually support these terrorists.
We have never been members of the KKK. We merely wish to remain open-minded about American history. I was not around in the golden age of KKK, so all I am saying is that the liberal media (especially Wikipedia) might have distorted the truth about the Klan.
Just one of the great patriotic designs available from Christian Books And Things, the official online retailer of STR.com
We do not claim that all members of the KKK were saints – but we do claim that liberal media has failed to report all the good that the KKK patriots achieved. All STR.com wants to do is restore some balance to the liberal-dominated narrative about the Klan. It’s not fair to just emphasize the negatives – responsible Republicans ought to be fair and balanced.
Next “Red Flag” opines:
As for the debate on Darwinism, people who say it is wrong have a perfectly valid point of view. There a too many holes on the macroevolution theory to rule it in as the only possibility. For instance, how did the bird evolve from the lizard that Darwinists say it did? A wing mutation would no doubt be usless, and thus a hinderance, making the organism unfit and thus extinct, before the full bird could evolve. It makes much more sense that a higher being designed the DNA that went into all life as we know it. If you look around and learn about some of the plants and creatures out there you’ll find that many of them have very specilized features that allow them to live in exactly the environment that they do. No evolution could ever produce these kind of features because the mututions that would be required before the full organism would evolve would make it less likely to live, and thus extinct.
As for the debate on the big bang theory, I don’t know. We know that Earth is no longer the center of the universe, so how did people even make it past that? Perhaps all Christians need to work harder to make their beliefs fit in with the world around them, i.e., “The big bang? God did that too.”
“Red Flag” seems to be talking sense at last: He’s describing Michael Behe’s theory of irreducable complexity, one of the strongest arguments against neo-darwinism ever invented. No biologist has ever thought of a way to disprove Behe, and that is why he has never been permitted to publish his sensible theories in any major scientific journal.
Forget what anti-Christian scientists think: most sensible Repuiblicans demand that high-schools give the same time to teaching Intelligent Design as the Neo-darwinist view. We call it Teaching the Controversy. You’ve got to give both sides of the argument, otherwise it is not fair.
Like I say to the kids at camp, Republicans are the party that have allways been open to ideas. We are the pro-science party. Most of all we are the party of intellectional responsibility, and that means thinking for ourselves:
Just how wrong can the liberal-media get? Liberal publishers like the Huffington Post often describe the Minutemen as racists, murderers and sometimes worse. But most Americans know that the modern-day Minutemen are patrots who give up their time to defend America from evil Mexicans who want nothing more than to rape our daughters. What could be racist about that. Might the liberal media have misjudged the KKK in a similar way?
A message from the KKK, these guys hardly seem like the “white supremacists” that Red-Flag and his Wikipedian friends describe. Their message appears to be one of brotherly love and Christian unity. All we at STR.com are trying to say is that we should keep an open-mind about these patriots.
Just because the liberal wikipedians say that man evolved from more primitive ape-like beings or that the KKK were a bunch of evil rednecks, does not mean you have to go believing everything the liberal tells you? Liberals were wrong about Darwin, might they also be wrong about the KKK? We at STR.com think it’s just as important for kids to learn about the Darwin debate as it is to teach the Controversy about the KKK.
From what I can see, the KKK are just a harmless, moderate, Pro-America, Pro-Family group of Christians and Conservatives. They are true Republicans and deserve our support. Lets not dwell on the liberals allegations, and just welcome them into the Republican party.
Yours in Christ,
Tristan J. Shuddery
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Easy answer: You?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•re not teaching a controversity, your?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•re only teaching your own believes and tell us that everything else is wrong. Oh, and that everyone not like you will go to hell. (Which I don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t fancy because of an old saying in the German Bundeswehr: “Panzergrenadiere sterben nicht. Sie fahren nur zur H??lle um sich neu zu gruppieren!” =))
And denying that the KKK lynched and shot quite some people is just as one-sided.
Oh, and albeit the chance of the Darwinistic way may be small, but that doesn?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t really mean anything. Chances to get hit by a lightning are rather small, too. And still people get hit by lightning. On the other hand there?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s no real indicator of Evolution to not exist or Intelligent Design to be true. Except if you wish do understand the coincidence that way.
The German Guy
Still waiting for the Unit with some presents.
IMPEACH BUSH!
yeah, just thought i’d up you on my thoughts on the big bang.
as a student of cosmology, i feel the need to get you to properly understand the idea before you criticise it.
The big bang theory states that, put simply, that as everthing is going outwards, it probably has been for some time. However, it is (as far as we can tell) accelerating. This we see no sensible scientific reason for currently.
The myth that the theory states it was a big explosion, and that there was already space for it to expand into is incorrect. Before the big bang, all matter, all energy, all space and all dimensions were all coiled up tightly into an infintessimally small, dense, hot space.
Now, why this fits in with the Bible – (I’m using an NIV study bible here) Gen 1:2 – “Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
The key words there are that the Earth was formless, and that “darkness was over the surface of the deep”. This indicates to me of a time before the Big Bang – that there was nothing there but the Spirit.
Verse 3 famously says “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (4)God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
This is where the Earth was created, after God says “Let there be light”, ie. the Big Bang. The important thing to remember here is that there have been no days or night – God hadn’t separated the light from the dark at this point.
So that is why i believe that the Big Bang theory fits well with the Bible. It may seem like splitting hairs to some, but that is my Biblical base for the Big Bang theory which i stand by. Now, there are other reasons that the Big Bang supports creationism.
Pair production, the creating of matter and antimatter in equal pairs from energy, usually some form of radiation, is an A Level topic in the UK, 16 year olds learn this. When you create an electron, you end up with a positron as well, and so on. When the meet, they annihilate eachother, that is release the energy that created them, as well as cease to exist (according to the famous equation E=MC^2. This happens all the time on the smallest scales, but most of it cancels itself out.
Anyway, matter and antimatter anihillate when they are created. We can hold them apart with magnetic fields briefly so we can gues what they are, but not for long. But at the time of the Big Bang, there was more matter than antimatter. This means there wa a universe. This has never been reproduced in a lab. Also, the energy and matter that was produced was unevenly distributed, which meant clumps could grow bigger and form stars and planets, then galaxies and clusters of galaxies, etc. This means (to me, people will always choose to believe otherwise if they wish) that the Big Bang was a miracle.
If it’s a bit techical anywhere, email me at mono@newartriot.co.uk and i’ll give you a better explanation
Off topic i know, but what can you do?
ohyeah, but KKK is definatly one topic you should never touch. You’re only going to gain a bad association.
Avoiding the KKK issue for the moment (if this is satire you are really pushing it now btw)… However the question people always ask about the theory of evolution is ‘what good is half an eye/wing?’ and the answer is simply ‘a lot more good than no eye/wing at all!’ Darwinian style evolution takes too long and is far too complex to be comprehensible to most Christians, who prefer to see things in simpler (less plausible) terms. I reconmend reading Richard Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’ (all good bookshops) – especially Shelly and Tristan, although it doesn’t have any pictures so they might find it a bit hard going…
Owen, We at STR are proud to lend our support to any group of patriots. The KKK stand for America and merely want to address our national immigration crisis. Every time people criticize the KKK, all I hear is things that may have happened hundreds of years ago. Just like our President, people can reform. The KKK of today are a harmless group of Christians. The KKK are no more a group of murderers than the Reverend Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
As requested by your legal team. The check will be sent in the mail.
But they have been in the sixties.
And now before you say: “Oh, thats years ago.”
Why do you then blame us Germans?
@ Tristan:
The KKK was still a violent, rascist organisation lynching and shooting everyone they did not want in the USA by 1960. So if people can change, why do still think that all Germans are nazis? Hypocrisy…
And calling the KKK harmless is like calling WWII a minor incident….
The German Guy
Just get rid of the excess weight, the USA are carrying.
IMPEACH BUSH!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
“As requested by your legal team. The check will be sent in the mail.”
Elaborate. And I mean now.
“Elaborate. And I mean now.”
Or…what?
I hope y’all will just ignore Helmet when he starts trying to talk about United States history. The fact is that non-Americans have no right to judge US history since y’all don’t live here. And before everyone starts screaming, just remember the commies taught kids that commies invented almost everything that was really invented by Americans so the moral is if you don’t live in America then you’re probably being lied to.
God is Love!
I hope y?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥all will just ignore Helmet when he starts trying to talk about United States history. The fact is that non-Americans have no right to judge US history since y?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥all don?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t live here. And before everyone starts screaming, just remember the commies taught kids that commies invented almost everything that was really invented by Americans so the moral is if you don?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥t live in America then you?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?ɬ¥re probably being lied to
What commies? I live in Western Germany, the commies were reigning the eastern part after WWII. Bavaria was even part of the USA?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s occupation zone.
Oh, and if we have no right to jugde you, you have no right to judge other countries like Germany, cause y?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•all don?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t live there. And of course no right to invade them… And stop calling me Helmet, that sounds stupid.
PS: Living in America won?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•t save you from being lied to. See all the lies about Iraq and WMD?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s.
God is Love!
Then why do you have so much hate in you?
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH! Save your country!
KKK “patriots”? That’s like calling the National Alliance or Aryan Nations “patriots”! KKK racists are elitist scum & so are you pseudo patriotic Republicrat fascists! Those liberals you rant about didn’t corner the market on hate,intolerance,socialism or social control! I can see how you find the Klan appealing since you both love fascists who love to invade foreign countries to slaughter brown people!
KKK is pure white trash, white ignorants, what can you reason with them? their intellectual level is like the level of a monkey… (sorry monkeys)
Or?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äû?Ǭ?what?
I’ll e-slap you. That’s what.
Lol, thanks man.
“From what I can see, the KKK are just a harmless, moderate, Pro-America, Pro-Family group of Christians and Conservatives. They are true Republicans and deserve our support. Lets not dwell on the liberals allegations, and just welcome them into the Republican party.”
Which is why they murdered my neighbor’s dog so it’s barking wouldn’t draw attention to their cross burning. Harmless indeed.
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