Peace!

Please read it all. It is sad to see so many such as yourself- lost. You will be resposible for the souls of all those you lead astray…If you think this is a funny joke, well I don’t think God thinks so..God does not want to be mocked. “Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long.” “He mocks proud mockers, but gives grace to the humble.”

Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom

20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares;

21 at the head of the noisy streets [c] she cries out,
in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:

22 “How long will you simple ones [d] love your simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?

23 If you had responded to my rebuke,
I would have poured out my heart to you
and made my thoughts known to you.

24 But since you rejected me when I called
and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,

25 since you ignored all my advice
and would not accept my rebuke,

26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when calamity overtakes you-

27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,

when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;
they will look for me but will not find me.

29 Since they hated knowledge
and did not choose to fear the LORD,

30 since they would not accept my advice
and spurned my rebuke,

31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Proverbs 9:7 “Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.”

Will you insult me mocker?

Proverbs 9:8 “Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.”

Do you hate me or love me?

Proverbs 9:12 “If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.”

Do you want to suffer?

Proverbs 21:24 “The proud and arrogant man-“Mocker” is his name; he behaves with overweening pride.”

Isaiah 29:20 “The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down-”

“Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.”

“Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier;”

“Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?”

Galatians 6:7 “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

Jesus was mocked. Do you not know this? Did your parents not teach you. I feel sorry for you and for all those you lead astray, for you taught them to be mockers as well. Do you have nothing better to do with your time, noone to serve, noone to help, nothing good that you can do?

Repent and turn from your ways, so God, the only God, the One True God, may see you repented, be Merciful to you and turn his wrath from you.

I will pray for you and your followers, In Christ Marty Leedahl

Hey Bobby, just looking at your site, and I wonder to myself why you got so carried away with your whole FSM thing.  I understand your point- religious fundamentalism is getting in the way of a progressive world. The fact that some schools only want to teach Intelligent Design is a bit scary.  But then again, it’s probably difficult for you to try and teach your kids something that is being contradicted at school.  And religion is not a bad thing in and of itself.  A lot of people live good productive lives, and are even directed towards them by religious faith of some sort.  Again, religious fundamentalism in all its guises is a bane, and it makes rational belieivers in God (among whom I count myself) feel defensive about their religions when there is actually no need to be.  Kind of like the one kid in class who misbehaves and spoils it for everyone else. 

This is precisely why I am writing.  If your website offered a concise and clear explanation of why you think ID is an incorrect theory or should not be taught in schools, then maybe you’d actually be reaching people who disagree with you, rather than just those who already think the same things. 

I think interested and well-informed debate between opposing viewpoints is fundamental for progress of our ideas and society, but that’s not what your site is promoting.  Your site simply appears to be a way for you to prove your own popularity to yourself, and make a few bucks with merch and this book while you’re at it.

The fact that you decide to take an extreme approch to this matter is something which is all too familiar of late.  I see America raging with political, moral, religious, and social debates.  People are hugely polarised.  But this isn’t getting anyone anywhere.  People are standing on soapboxes as soon as they find something they disagree with just to shout "I disagree,"  and when asked about their beliefs they respond "I believe the opposite of what that guy said."  People are not informing their ideologies with solid values, and so as soon as the argument is over nothing is resolved, and people are just floating around like helium balloons after a little kid’s birthday party. 

The problem is that while they’re fighting, nobody sees the middle ground, and so the easy solutions get missed.  I don’t think ID and Evolution are incompatible theories. 

Look, it’s easy: all life on this planet evolved from DNA.  DNA is a really really awesome molecule, because look at all the things it has adapted into to populate our planet!  Someone really smart must’ve designed that stuff.

Or you can take it a step back, if you’re going with the ridiculous improbability of DNA forming by coincidence: Wow, a planet showed up with just the right conditions to create this awesome molecule…

or Wow, the universe has laws and constituents which are capable of producing all this life from such basic things…

The point is that nobody, not even the scientists, can explain the reason the universe is this way, or what happened at the moment of its creation.  At that point, all we have is our best guess, our gut feeling, and at that point it really doesn’t matter what you believe. 

The sort of intervention which the FSM is capable of  refers to a very specific sort of belief in God, and pointing out that that particular sort of belief seems silly to you does not bear any relevance to the question of the initial creation of the universe. 

Some people just don’t want to put everything down to "dumb luck" which is what science (for all the understanding it offers) ultimately does.

Whatever your opinion of religious faith, you have a right to express it, I’m just a bit puzzled by the way you chose to express yourself if you did actually want incite some sort of awareness or change about the matters which concern you.  If you were just trying to piss a few people off and have a few people on your side laughing with you, then maybe you should have just pulled more pranks in high-school, or got the jocks together to beat up some freshman.   That’s basically what your website acheives with its current content. 

Of course, if you have no interest in changing people’s minds about these issues, then I guess I don’t have much else to say, except that your logic is horribly flawed at several points, even in terms of serving as analogous to what Christians say about creation.   
Pach

In reference to the Casey Powell hate-mail saga:

Jesus was way cool. Everybody liked Jesus. Everybody wanted to hang out with him and most people still do! Anything He wanted to do, He did. He turned water into wine and if He wanted to he could have turned wheat into marijuana, or sugar into caffine, or vitamin pills into amphetamines. He could’ve even turned you into a pile of spegetti, but he didn’t because He was that cool. He walked on the water and swam on the land. He would tell these stories and people would listen. He was really cool.If you were blind or lame, you just went to Jesus and He would put his hands on you and you would be healed. That’s so cool. He could’ve played guitar better than hendrix. He could’ve told the future. He could’ve baked the most delicious cake in the world. He could’ve scored more goals than gretzky. He could’ve danced better than barishnikov. Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of Jesus was way cool. He told people to eat His body and drink His blood. That’s so cool. He also said that if you didn’t believe in Him and Him only, you’d go to a place where you would get tormented and poked in the tukuss for all eternity. That’s so cool. Jesus was so cool. Some people got jealous of how cool He was, so they killed Him. But then He rose from the dead. He rose from the dead, danced around, then went up to heaven. I mean, that’s so cool. Jesus was way cool. No wonder there are so many Christians. So why are you turning your back on someone as cool as Jesus? Aren’t you affraid of being poked in the tukuss? Why can’t you be more like our president or the Fallwells, Insted of being more like the Al Frankin or the Baldwins? More like Fox news instead of CNN?

Warmest Regards, Brendan Fenno