You can all thank Brian Jones for this one. Honestly, Christian sites like this one make me wonder if they have any clue at all. Seriously, this site is so ridiculous that I believe it hurts their movement more than anything else.
Truth For Youth is the abomination creation of evangelist Tim Todd. He created this movement to solve all of today’s problems like porn, homos, rock music, evolution, etc. Well actually he’s already solved them all! Tim uses a combination of comics, Bibles, and good ole fashion truthiness to rid the world of all its problems! But he needs you to enlist in his Army of God to spread the word.
Here are the tools that you’ll need:
Comics: (see site for complete listing of comics)
Rock Music
School Violence
Evolution
Drugs
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Evolution is a form of racism. Wow… this is easily the most sickening thing I’ve seen in a while.
It would be more acurate to say that white people and black people are equally evolved from a common ancestry, that happens to be black.
I couldn’t count the factual errors and misleading claims in the first 30 seconds of that damn video. My favorite misconception is that Patrick Henry’s statement about the the country being founded on the Gospel of Jesus has some validity in describing the basis of the US constitution. He was an anti-federalist. The anti-federalists were the big losers in writing the constitution. It would be like relying on a quote from G. W. Bush to describe what the Democratic Party stands for. It’s absurd!
After the first round of extremely cheesy music, the narrator points out that the US in #1 in teen pregnancy, violent crime, illiteracy, and drug use. I’d like to point out that the US is also #1 in % of population who absolutely believe in God, #2 in % of population who take the Bible literally (damn you, Portugal), and absolute last in % of population who believe in evolution among the industrialized nations. In the same linked article, the study finds that these facts are correlated. That is, a high level of Christian fundamentalism is correlated with high levels of social problems.
And about racism, I suggest them to watch the documentary “his big white self” about the leader of the far-right south African movement before and after the end of the apartheid. It is interesting to see how their whole rationale for racism was strongly based on the bible.
well fuck me, maybe this is the reason i don’t like rap music, i belive in evolution *rolleyes*
funny thing is, this is stuff that will absolutely convince many people, many americans. i have spent much time among born-again xtians, heard how they discuss and reason. it is absolutely scary. it is absolutely in line with all this junk.
So believing in a scientific theory about the idea of long-term adaptation to environment over time means I hate black people? Wow, I didn’t know that.
Well, good thing there are no black people who believe in evolution, otherwise this whole “evolution is racist against African-Americans” thing just wouldn’t make sense, would it? I mean, that would mean black people were racist against black people, and that’s just illogical.
Check out the new study comparing religious nations with more secular nations.
“It is commonly held that religion makes people more just, compassionate, and moral, but a new study suggests that the data belie that assumption. In fact, at first glance it would seem, religion has the opposite effect.”
http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n03_are_religious_societies_healthier.html
FYI, this page doesn’t render in IE.
truthiness! lol!
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!” — This quotation has not been found anywhere in Henry’s recorded writings or speeches, as has been acknowledged by David Barton.
James Madison, the fourth president, known as “The Father of Our Constitution” made the following statement “We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” — Actually, this statement appears nowhere in the writings or recorded utterances of James Madison and is completely contradictory to his character as a strong proponent of the separation of church and state.
Isn’t it great when right out the door in this video the man who is bringing the “truth” to the youth brings out bold faced lies?
Is it time to bring the deism back into the whole “Christians founded the US” thing again?
Would anyone here find it interesting if I emailed this evangelist Tim Todd to let him know how he is deceiving thousands of children with this crap?
Sidfaiwu is right in that the video is spewing out complete lies. I’d like to see what his response would be if any.
So, anyone interested?
gasmonso
Well, since one of the tenents of being super crazy fundie is that anyone who says things/asks questions that call into question the gospel (as they see it) is working for the devil I don’t see what good it’d do. You’re almost Satan since you run this website, you know. Maybe the response would be humorous, but I bet in a sick to your stomach type of way. But I don’t think it’d further the discussion, other than to maybe fan some flames.
I don’t believe you fight these people by telling them they’re wrong; they’re beyond reason and frankly if they don’t want to listen they don’t deserve your words. You fight them by telling your children the truth and getting them to use their minds, and by keeping the fundamentalist schpeel out of classrooms, that sort of thing.
Well, everyone just assumes that they want no part in a discussion on their apparent flaws. I think if the email is written properly and not in an offensive manner, I think we could get somewhere.
gasmonso
Sounds like a good idea to me. I say we email this guy and let him know how we feel about using actual lies to teach kids about “truth”. This doesn’t even require claiming the Bible to be false or my favorite tactic of quoting a line from the bible that contrdicts the line that was just used as justification. Just let him know that the stats aren’t in his favor here and that he’s using some quotes from politicians that aren’t real quotes.
indeed, nice idea.
funy thing, the bible and livberty for all in the same sentence…
I was sort of expecting a face of a smug looking man and a large crowd chanting “Goldstein Goldstein” with the word Super-plus-ungood……
I say give it a try, gasmonso. It certainly can’t hurt.
CARTOONS ARE A FORM OF RACISM!!!
dont you know they evolved from burning crosses in black peoples yard?? well atleast mine makes more sense than his lol TimTod=ReTard
wow, those cartoons are great, they’re better then the last garfield comics I read :)
really, there are some serious shortcircuits in the brain of whoever thought them up.
I know this is probably the wrong to be saying this but i’ll do it anyway, because this shit seriously pisses me off.
“because SOME (actaully, less then 1% and most of them are dead) evolutionists say white’s evolved from black’s, Evolution must be wrong”
“because Carbon dating shows different results then tree ring counting, it must be wrong”
FYI, the ammount of carbon 14 stored every year fluctuates, so for the last 20 years, we’ve used compensated C14 dating which is reevalutead according to tree ring counting.
and of course every single person who visits a rock concert is a satanic cultist……..
Also, on the marijuana leads to cocaine thing, as a dutchmen (yup legal marijuana) I can point out that our percentage of people using marijuana (that is occasionally) is relatively high (no pun intended) the percentage of people who use cocaine is one of the lowest in the civilised world.
also, porno…”Things arent going to good” LEARN TO SPELL. And those bible quotes don’t even lead to anything. I can quote like that to…
next point:
Safe sex…
condoms are porous, well that’s true..If you live in the 1930′s. Animal skin ones are indeed riddled with hole. Besides, if you multiply the succes rate of a condom with that of the pill, you get a 1 in 11000 women get pregant. Or sex twice a day for 15 years :)
the one thing I do agree with is that school violence is bad.
http://www.trinitychurch.org/hdlifegroups/fusion.html
boy, they sure like to… errr… fuse a lot.
on another note, somewhere on that page it was said that 60% of the ‘net is pornography. ofcourse that is incorrect. anyone know of a reliable source of that sort of data? something i could send to that maniac? thx…
“really, there are some serious shortcircuits in the brain of whoever thought them up.”
No wonder here… lots of new-born christians were drug abusers…
If I only have to give one reference: GWB and alcool
— [boris]
http://www.trinitychurch.org/hdlifegroups/fusion.html
boy, they sure like to… errr… fuse a lot.
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Heh, I love it when christians try to “be cool” to “appeal to the youngins”. It usually just comes across as sad and pathetic. This is a great example. fusionchill? What the hell kind of nonsense is that?
— [boris]
on another note, somewhere on that page it was said that 60% of the ‘net is pornography. ofcourse that is incorrect. anyone know of a reliable source of that sort of data? something i could send to that maniac? thx…
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Man, I know this is a false figure. I have a hard time finding good porn, it can’t be nearly that high or I would be stumbling across it constantly.
well, if you look to the newsgroups etc you’d probably find a lot more.
BUT IT’s ALL EVIL :P
http://www.truthforyouth.com/NEW%20Comics/bnb/pages/BNB_1.htm
“Thank you lord for protecting me”
Guess your classmates much have been a bunch of sinners. Maybe even sodomites, *gasp*!
Well, at least they’re anti-Fred Phelps guys, that’s a step in the right direction.
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