Yell at a Republican

Easter message from Pharyngula

PZ Myers concludes his anti-Christian, anti-Easter screed thus:

This holiday has a longer tradition than the Christian church, and is associated with the return of Spring. So celebrate life. Go for a walk. Plant a tree. Read a good book. Have a conversation with someone. Write a poem, paint a picture.

The lesson you should learn is that torture doesn’t dissipate with a deity’s whim. Write your representative. March for peace. Write an angry blog entry. Yell at a Republican.

Peace, love, and brotherhood from the modern Left. Myers’ message: “Find someone whose politics you disagree with and yell at them. And in so doing, you will be celebrating life. (He left out ‘Abort a fetus.’) Celebrate hatred. Partisan venom is poetry. Yell at a Republican. Plant more anger.”

Myers quotes the Nicene Creed and pompously insists he knows more about Christianity than his Christian commenters. Too bad he hasn’t read Proverbs 11:29, or absorbed its wisdom if he has.

“Yell at a Republican.”

Comments

  1. PZ Myers wrote:

    You’d be a good one to yell at, sure. Republicans should be feeling a great welling of shame and self-loathing right now, though, so maybe that is a bit cruel. You’re all beating yourselves up already, right?

    I insisted that I know more about Christianity than Christian commenters? I really missed that part. Although I will say that Christians who deny the Nicene creed are an, ummm, interesting bunch.

    I know Proverbs 11:29. I don’t think placidity is the answer to the craphole your party has tossed us down right now.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 4:41 pm

  2. Tman wrote:

    PZ Myers demonstrating yet again that just because you are smart enough to be an associate proffesor at a University doesn’t mean you can’t be a complete jerk at the same time.

    So PZ did you have fun stomping on the pre-school kids easter egg hunt yesterday? Is your voice sore from yelling at all of those republicans?

    As Jay Pinkerton says- “The central rallying cry of the new atheistic philosophy: “We Honestly Don’t Have The First ******* Clue What’s Out There. But Come On — You’re So Not Even Close.”

    Yeah, what a great rallying cry you’ve got there PZ. And people wonder why the democrats slip fruther into irrelevance. Look no further than Mr. Myers folks.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 5:14 pm

  3. commissar wrote:

    Spewing venom at everyone you disagree with isn’t the answer. It might draw a lot of blog readers, but it isn’t the solution to anything.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 6:12 pm

  4. rbj wrote:

    Not only is spewing venom not the answer, it actually hurts with regards to the evolution/intelligent design teaching debate. Rather than trying to calm religious folks with the idea that teaching evolution is not some insidious plot to dereligionize their kids, PZ’s screed will only confirm to devout religious believers that science is hostile to religion.
    PZ, your spewing is as bigoted as anything Pat Robertson has said. I’m always concerned when people can’t make arguments for something, and have to rely on tearing down others.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 6:25 pm

  5. PZ Myers wrote:

    And your post here isn’t “spewing venom”? It’s particularly cute how you put words in quotes that I didn’t write.

    I guess Republicans don’t yell. They just calmly lie.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 7:45 pm

  6. John the Marine wrote:

    “I guess Republicans don’t yell. They just calmly lie.”

    Well, PZ here is something you did say in quotes. I’d rather listen to civil lier than a screeming moonbat. The civil lier is more quiet and therefore easier to ignore.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 7:57 pm

  7. commissar wrote:

    The shaded verbatim quote and my take on it (following ‘Myers message’) are obvious.

    My post is neither venomous nor untruthful.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 8:00 pm

  8. Pixy Misa wrote:

    Republicans should be feeling a great welling of shame and self-loathing right now

    Why is that, exactly?

    You’re all beating yourselves up already, right?

    I’m not a Republican, but an Australian Centrist, so I can answer that from the viewpoint of a disinterested party: No. What Republicans are doing is arguing about policy.

    And your post here isn’t “spewing venom”?

    No, it isn’t.

    It’s particularly cute how you put words in quotes that I didn’t write.

    The post makes clear that this was not a quote, but a paraphrase.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 8:26 pm

  9. j.d. wrote:

    Don’t blame PZ. He just can’t help but be himself.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 8:27 pm

  10. PZ Myers wrote:

    Great! Then you can quit complaining, because neither is my post venomous nor untruthful.

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 8:59 pm

  11. M. Murcek wrote:

    The atheist crys “I need validation, dammit!” Who’s listening? By their own lights, nobody at all.

    Tautology or Chinese handcuffs?

    Posted 17 Apr 2006 at 9:49 pm

  12. Pixy Misa wrote:

    PZ, your post is an incitement to venom-spewing. That was rather the point.

    Posted 18 Apr 2006 at 1:03 am

  13. rbj wrote:

    To quote PZ:
    “Easter is a vile little holiday wrapped up in a façade of pretty dresses and chocolate eggs and happy children playing games on the lawn, but at its putrescent core lies 20 centuries of exploitation and dishonesty.”
    ‘Vile little holiday’ ‘putrescent core’ ‘exploitantion and dishonesty’ are venom spewing.
    And no, I don’t celebrate Easter either. But I also don’t feel the need to belittle those who do, or their beliefs.

    Posted 18 Apr 2006 at 7:02 am

  14. RC wrote:

    I’ve been waiting for PZ to do a little punctuated equilibrium into something a little more civil.

    Posted 18 Apr 2006 at 3:17 pm

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