Thursday, February 18, 2010

A call for imprecatory prayer…

that God may kick the shins of this embarrassing, lunatic, apostate, God's-Glory-Robbing tool-of Satan disgrace to all Baptists everywhere: Wiley Drake.

This repulsive creature, who should be defrocked, is calling on his church to pray for the death of the President. According to John Avalon of the Daily Beast:
Pastor Wiley Drake kicked off this Presidents’ Day Weekend with an email blast to his supporters saying “Imprecatory Prayer is now our DUTY” and announcing a daily teleconference call to advance the cause. Drake has been an enthusiastic advocate of imprecatory prayer since he announced that God answered his call with the murder of Kansas abortion clinic doctor George Tiller in church last May. “George Tiller was far greater in his atrocities than Adolf Hitler,” Drake said at the time, “so I am happy. I am glad that he is dead.” This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.
Sadly, Drake is not a complete fringe figure. He served as a second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention in ‘06 and ‘07. In ‘08, he received 47,000 votes as the vice-presidential nominee of the American Independent Party, alongside conservative activist Alan Keyes, Obama’s GOP opponent when he was elected to the Senate in 2004.
Yikes.

There is only one weapon to bring to bear against God: to rob him of his glory (i.e., curse him). Athiests can’t do it—they are impotent. Richard Dawkins has not robbed God of any glory. Only Christians can rob God of glory. Wiley Drake, in this event you have won gold.

Demonstrating that he is completely ignorant of the Baptist tradition of favoring separation of church and state, he has also prayed for God's wrath on Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. It appears that God is not listening. The prayers of a self-righteous ignoramus avail little. I hope the IRS nails his posterior.

Here he is--for those with a strong stomach



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HT: Ed Brayton

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The time has come

I sent this letter to the Discovery Institute:

Gentlemen,

Please pass this along to the relevant person: I respectfully request to have my name removed from the DI's "Dissent from Darwinism."

Since signing that document, I have come to support the position commonly called "theistic evolution". As such, it no longer makes sense to have my name on the list of dissenters.

Regards,

David P. Heddle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Christopher Newport University, and
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility


For reasons I can't easily explain it has taken me a while to take this step. Also, I don't intend this as a "bash the DI" post. When I signed the document, I knew exactly what I was signing. There was no misrepresentation or deceit on the part of the DI. My position has changed. That's all.

UPDATE: I received a courteous reply from the DI that my name would be removed the next time the list is updated.

Monday, February 15, 2010

New Comment System (And question for blogspot experts)

The haloscan system which I used for years is dead. I am trying its replacement "echo" on a 30 day trial basis. Expect hiccups.

By the way, if I decide not to pay the $12 for echo how do I simply use blogspot comments? Anyone know? In hunting about my settings I see no obvious way to turn them on (actually, according to the settings they are on--that is, the "show" radio button is selected.)--will just removing the javascript that powers the haloscan (now echo) comments cause the blogspot comment link to appear? Or will I need to go get a new template?