If you don't recall, Kirk Cameron played Mike Sever on 'Growing Pains' in the 80's. These days, he is marauding as a fundamentalist Christian nutjob who tries to evangelize us heathen folk by starring in such movies as "Left Behind" "Left Behind II" and "Left Behind III." (The latter two aren't the real names)
If somehow you have escaped awareness of what the "Left Behind" series is, it's essentially a fundamentalist interpretation of the Rapture and the return of the Anti-Christ...which revels in the massacre of non-believers and places the head of the UN as the Anti-Christ. (By the way, given that these are some of the best-selling books of our time...it's terrifying to realize that increasing numbers of Americans have embraced the series as an accurate assessment of how things will generally turn out.) I'd also like to note that this is just the next logical step in the line of brilliant scholarship that produced works such as this (as some of you may remember):
Two things to note: First, the exclamation point. "Gorbachev!"Second, the author is from Greenville, South Carolina.
In addition, I would like to point out that there is now a Left Behind videogame.
More importantly, I'd like to point out that the premise of the game has been the focus of some controversy. Why?
Because one of the major premises of the game appears to be this: Non-christians must either be converted or killed.Jesus would be proud.
Anyhow...the real purpose of the post was simply to mock Kirk Cameron...which got out of hand as I started down the "Left Behind" pathway...Here's reason 1:
This is a line of argumentation that is perfectly acceptable to large portions of the (voting) population. That is TERRIFYING. And funny.
The second reason is that Kirk Cameron recently went on Nightline to debate the existence of God. Slate wrote up a nice little article about it here....and here's a great little excerpt:
If Nightline wanted to host an enlightening discussion about religion, it would have invited some intelligent believers to mount a defense of faith and to talk about why faith and proof of it are mutually exclusive. Instead, the show served up Cameron goofing on Charles Darwin, apparently the preferred target of dimwitted theists. At one point, Cameron, mocking the theory of evolution, held up a photo-illustration of a duck with the head of crocodile. Seeing this, [the opposing party], stunned, could not help but mutter, "Oh. My. God."
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In the spirit of retrospective (I think I might have the Gorbachaev book buried somewhere), I offer:
CAKE
I'm so full of cake
If I ate any more cake
I'd have to vomit first
I could eat a cake a day
Sometimes two three cakes
In a single day
I LOVE CAKE
I can't be any clearer than that
I LOVE CAKE
I could eat every cake in New York City
I can't even go into bakeries anymore
Because I'll eat all the cake
I'll say "Where's the cake?
I love cake
Get me some cake!"
And they'll say
"We know how much you love cake
And we know that you very rarely
Have the money to buy our cake
So you can't come in here because
You can't afford the cake
But you love cake
So get out of here
You can not have any cake
You don't have the money
To buy any of our cake!"
I'll punch some ass for some cake
Gimme all your cake
I WANT CAKE
I WANT YOUR CAKE
GIMME SOME CAKE
I LOVE CAKE
Haha, apparently KK started his insanity while he was still on Growing Pains. He did shit like refusing to act in scenes in which he was alone with a girl in his bedroom, and he went to the network and told the honchos that the producers of GP were pornographers.
I don't know where I got all that info. I remember seeing it in some doc I watched like a decade ago.
Also, you should check out some recent photos of him. His forehead is at least, AT LEAST, 9 inches high.
Three very insightful messages. Memories of Cake, large foreheads, and some third party who apparently searches blogs for references to Jesus and the Rapture and then posts. Awesome.
This is not a comment on Kirk Cameron but your post on Marie Antoniette. I don’t think there is anything surprising about severing the head and putting it on the pike...history is replete with such gory examples. You just have to turn the pages or jog your memory. The Tudor kings, Hitler, Idi Amin, Aurangazeb (who imprisoned his own father). There is also a book titled ‘Horrible Histories: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens’ by Terry Deary talking about grotty kings and gruesome queens. Also don’t forget to include the modern day politicians, demagogues, religious fundamentalists in your list. I’ll refrain from naming them.
There is, though, another French woman with the same name who deserves to be honored, admired, and acknowledged for her immense contribution to science and humanity. Yes, you guessed it right Marie Curie. Born Marya Salomee Sklodowska she changed her name to Marie when she came to live in Paris and was the first woman to teach at Sorbonne. Here is a little snippet about her which speaks volumes
During the First World War Marie determined she could best serve by outfitting some cars with x-ray machines which could be taken to the battlefield hospitals. Bullets and shrapnel could be located with x-rays to help the doctors treat the wounded soldiers. Marie trained 150 women to become x-ray technicians.
Madame Curie made two trips to America to receive a gram of radium each time, first from President Warren Harding and eight years later from President Herbert Hoover.
In 1923 the French government gave her a pension of 40,000 francs a year in recognition of her lifetime work in France.
She became ill and died from all her years of exposure to radium. Today doctors identify the disease as leukemia.
…….the remarkable people without a crown. The unsung heroes who silently work behind the scenes.
Anjali
i happened to have watched that thing online awhile ago, it is a fiasco. it's like they got the dumbest members of both sides of the argument that they could find. it was really funny though, because the atheist were stumping the churchies with things like "if everything has a maker, who made god" and various other poorly developed arguments. even the atheists didn't have their facts straight about evolution. i guess nightline didn't want to appear biased and had to have an even playing field?
sarah
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