Atheists are miserable people.

That fountain of insane Christian dribble, Pat Robertson, once again came up with a beaut. In the yearly bitch about the “war on Christmas”, Robertson said to his sheep (just as smart) that atheists are miserable because, I guess, they don’t believe in the big daddy in the sky. These terrible people want to suck all the fun out of Christmas and make the Christians just as miserable as themselves. You got it Pat! If you can stomach listening to good ole Pat the link is here.

Anyway, this bullshit about the war on Christmas has as its’ perennial cheerleader, none other than Bill O’Reilly, who recent claimed that Christianity is not a religion but a philosophy. See it here. Does he agree that Atheism is not a religion?

I know Bill O is a very high intellectual so he knows of what he speaks. However I would suggest that he get in touch with Jesus and make sure he’s got it right. Or maybe he should at least contact Benedict XVI and let him know. For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has always proclaimed themselves as the one true religion, or at least that’s what the nuns told me when I went to Catholic elementary school. Maybe I didn’t hear it correctly.

Back to Pat Robertson. Think about all the Christians you know who are so jolly all the time while wondering if God will judge them good or bad and thus determining if they will have an eternity of singing to God every day (yuck!) or roasting like a Boston Market chicken for just as long. That thought alone would make anyone miserable.

Pat may also have caused some issues with his dumb sheep, er - believers, when he said recently that young creationists don’t have it right about the age of the world. He even put in a good word about carbon dating. My God, is Pat leaning towards the dark side?

Pat said - “Look, I know that people will probably try to lynch me when I say this, but Bishop [James] Ussher wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't. You go back in time, you've got radiocarbon dating. You got all these things and you've got the carcasses of dinosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas.

They're out there. So, there was a time when these giant reptiles were on the Earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So, don't try and cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That's not the Bible.”

Pat’s always good for a laugh or two. Too bad his followers sop it up without questioning. I guess they can’t question Pat else they wouldn’t be his followers. Think about it.

Reality bites!

It’s rather amusing to see the Republicans falling all over themselves trying to come to grips with the reality of the drubbing they took in the recent election. Their pundits were proclaiming that Romney would win big right up to the last minute (think of Karl Rove) and when Romney didn’t win they tried to put the blame on the media, the liberals, the common folk (victims), and everyone else except themselves.

A recent example of how the GOP doesn’t see reality like real people do is in a recent interview on Fox News of Thomas Ricks, a journalist and writer of many books on the military including “Fiasco: The Military Adventure in Iraq.” The Fox interviewer was stunned when Ricks took Fox News to task for blowing up the “controversy” over the Benghazi incident that killed four Americans. How dare Ricks slam Fox News! See it here.

Others see the same thing I do and that is if you only watch Fox News and listen to the likes of Rush and Glenn and other wing nuts, you will loose touch with reality. One person, Stephen Carter Escondido, wrote his opinion in the San Diego North County Times recently and said,

“Their delusions are probably best characterized by Romney pollster Neil Newhouse’s declaration that, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

In the election aftermath, Republicans continue to deny reality. They blame a hurricane for their humiliating defeat. They say that the “uninformed” elected Obama. They fail to acknowledge that Mitt Romney was a terrible candidate with an extremist running mate. They won’t admit that the GOP’s message is one that promises an authoritarian state run by and for a religious plutocracy, a state in which the middle class no long exists.”

One could say that it doesn’t matter that the GOP can’t deal with reality but as long as some of them are in power in our government, we have to be concerned. You only have to look at Senator John McCain to see how folks that live in la-la land can impact us. Think about it.