So, I found this cool thing on overpopulation. http://ingles.homeunix.net/rants/density.html

I’m not a real “population bomb” advocate. I think the earth will support far more people then most realize, at a far higher standard then most people realize. At the same time, its common sense there is a optimal ratio of person/stuff and with too many people, everybody gets a smaller piece of the pie and quality of life goes down.

Overpopulation is something my dad is very passionate about so, and he’s mentioned the “Texas Theory” many times, so I thought he would be interested in the article. I sent him the link, looking forward to hearing his logical attack on it, because other then being Bible toting fundy, ol’ dad’s actually a pretty sharp cookie…but unfortunately, his Fundysense started tingling and the only response I got back was BS. He managed to miss the whole point of the article: it takes more land for you to have a good life then the square footage of your house.

This is because this modern life requires a lot of ancillary support. To get through your day, you don’t just need your share of space to live, you also need share of the power plant, the steel mill, the lumber mill, the glass factory, the plastic factory, the sugar mill, the oil refinery, the coal mine, the hospital, the airport, the farms, the meat processing plant, the landfill, etc. But Dad, and the other Fundies don’t see that, not because they are stupid. Statistically, most are of average intelligence. Because they have no imagination.

You would think that Fundies would just be oozing imagination. I mean, they think the universe was sneezed into existence out of the nostrils of an old dude with crazy hair, his son who is mysteriously as old and eternal as he is, and a nebulous, genderless “Spirit”. I mean that’s straight Tolkien. You’d think people who believe that would be the most creative, zany, imaginative people on earth. Instead, what I find is that fundies are the dullest, most unimaginative people on earth, and the more fundamental they are, the worse it is.

Take my own experience with Pentecostals. To an rational naturalist, a health problem is brimming with mystery and intrigue. Your neck hurts? Why it could be a tumor, a sprained muscle, a sore lymph node, a bruise, whiplash! Let’s imagine what it could be. Let’s think about how if it was one thing we could test our theory one way, and something else, then another! To the radical pentacostal however its very simple. Neck hurts? Demons. Tired? Demons. Lonely? Demons. Angry? Demons. Cancer? Demons. Fat? Demons. Bitchy? Demons. Depressed? Demons. Horny? Demons.With really crazy fundamentalists, its even worse. Agree I and my friends are absolutely right about absolutely everything, or alternately, die.

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January 1, 2010

Categories: atheism, Christianity, Politics, Uncategorized . Tags:atheism, Christians, fundementalism, imagination, overpopulation . Author: rageomatic

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