Why is it whenever an organization starts talking about "truth", it's a good bet they're going to be spouting the most incredible lies?
To give just a few examples:
- the 9/11 "truth" movement
- Creation Truth Ministries
- the Discovery Institute's "truth about the Dover trial"
So it was no surprise for me to get e-mail from Turkish creationist Harun Yahya called "An invitation to the truth". It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
This message was filled with statements such as "The Chinese people and other nations will also rejoice under the protection of the Turkish-Islamic Union" that seem to be taken directly from some old Stalinist literature.
Or this one: "They should write down little notes that explain the invalidity of evolution". Maybe they should write down little notes explaining that Harun Yahya is a raving imbecile.
Just imagine what an appalling, grotesque, and totalitarian world it will be if morons like this get more power.
> "Why is it whenever an organization starts talking about "truth", it's a good bet they're going to be spouting the most incredible lies?"
ReplyDeleteI agree. Other key words also lead to a similar bet, such as "openminded," "free-thinkers"
Examples:
Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics
Atlanta Freethought Society
One thing that should be pointed out is that whereas the set of non-open-minded atheists/agnostics is nonempty, the corresponding set of, say, creationists is void.
ReplyDeleteMiranda:
ReplyDeleteWhy not back up your claim by providing "lies" advocated by the Atlanta Freethought Society?
Otherwise, you're just a dishonest bore.
Not lies, but examples of a lack of freethinking. After comparing a few of these "free-thinking" sites, they look pretty much all the same to me. Echo-chamber thinking is more like it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I could've included this one, too:
http://my.democrats.org/page/group/DemocratsforTruth
and just to be fair:
"Republicans for Truth"
http://homepage.mac.com/gebryan/blogwavestudio/LH20040823153827/LHA20041028195511/index.html
The very first google results on controversial topics have a disturbing tendency to be lies:
ReplyDeleteTruth about global warming: the first result was the "junk science" site.
Truth about vaccines: the first result was an anti-vaccination site.
On the other hand, searchingTruth about AIDS had a legitimate site as the first result.
I actually agreed with the conclusion here, go figure:
ReplyDeleteravingatheist.com/2004/09/non-partisan-atheists-for-truth/
Reminds me of a favorite quote...
ReplyDelete"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson