Rant on Theories, Laws & Misconceptions Options

[Supersprynt]

I hesitated creating a thread regarding this but this is really the best medium in which many people can talk openly about something w/o much consequence. Plus I'm big on freedom of speech and so here it goes.

Friday night I go and see Damon Wayans stand up. Second time I saw him, and he was pretty funny the first time. This time he wasn't nearly as funny. Mainly because he started attacking anything that wasn't Christian. Oh boy. So he goes on to say that evolution is the stupidest thing he's ever heard and goes about mocking how its ridiculous something just formed and one day hopped out of the water and another day got legs and another day jumped up into a tree and then finally said "I got to get a job" as a human.

Hilarious. Oh wait, its not. In fact I was flabberghasted and the level of sheer stupidity emanating from this mans mouth. Evolution is the stupidest thing he's heard? Did he think it happened in 6 days? He then continued to say that atheism is on the rise and its basically got to be stopped and how its horrible not to believe in anything.

By now your thinking, where is he going with this? My dilemma which is actually eating at me is how many of you think that evolution isn't real? How many people think that evolution happened overnight; and how many people are under the impression that evolution is just a hypothesis, nothing more than a guess; how many people think atheism is evil? Im genuinely curious.

If I dont get any responses to this I'll chalk it up to I wrote too much, you got tired, fell asleep and drooled on your keyboard. I also want to say that if you do decide to respond, you do it in an intelligent, RESPECTFUL manner. I'm not looking for this to get closed because religion is a very very touchy subject. This is primarily for those who have an open mind, and willing to engage in intelligent conversation.

Thanks.

[NickJames]

For a person to attack a particular belief is wrong in general. What I believe is that on top of freedom of speech, we have many other freedoms, such as freedom of religion, and whatever that may mean to people, thats fine. But in a general sense, whether a God given right or just common sense, we should ALL, including the rich and famous, comedic or not, to respect the thoughts and "beliefs" of everyone else. I personally believe in God, I don't have a complete understanding of it all, but I do believe that religion in and of itself is a man made creation, used to categorize and seperate people. I also believe in evolution, in the sense that things are always evolving, adapting, learning, if anybody can't see that, whether spiritual or not, should take the opportunity to look at the facts. So to believe in God AND evolution (science) is not blasphemous or wrong, just more open minded. So.....with that, I feel that it is cruel and completely unnecessary to attack, mame, ridicule other "beliefs" or lack there of. What it all boils down to is, can't we all get along!?!?!?! And if we can't, then what is the point of being alive, except of course to love our cars lol

This post has been edited by NickJames: Feb 25, 2007 - 10:00 PM