Jun 21, 2012
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has issued a strong endorsement of “Dispatches From Bitter America,” a new book written by Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes.
CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY OF TODD’S BOOK!!
“It’s especially relevant because Todd lays out in detail the Obama Administration’s war on religious liberty,” Palin said. “Todd sheds light on this and other ‘fundamental transformation’ acts using homespun humor and Twainesque irony.”
Palin joined a list of prominent conservatives who have endorsed the book including Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Pastor Robert Jeffress, and Gretchen Carlson. Thousands of people turned out to hear Starnes speak on his “Dispatches Across Bitter America Book Tour.”
“Todd uses Southern sensibilities mixed with homespun humor to take us along his journey across America,” Hannity said.
“This book is great,” said nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin. “A lot of heavy stuff but on the other hand, you deal with it in a way where you don’t go to the roof and jump off. The book is very compelling, it’s very refreshing and it’s very easy to read. and you do have — a great sense of humor – a good sarcastic wit.”
Fans in line to get their books!
Here are excerpts from Palin’s endorsement:
“Todd Starnes boldly wrote “Dispatches From Bitter America: A Gun Toting, Chicken Eating, Son of a Baptist’s Culture War Stories,” and it couldn’t be more timely. It’s especially relevant because Todd lays out in detail the Obama Administration’s war on religious liberty. In addition to covering the state of the union in general, Todd writes about how the government is turning traditional holidays into politically correct secular celebrations – complete with renaming the White House’s traditional Easter egg hunt to a “Spring Egg” hunt instead.”
Todd speaking at First Baptist Church Jacksonville
“People of faith feel under siege today from the culture, as encroaching attacks on our religious liberties attempt to erode our foundation. Todd sheds light on this and other “fundamental transformation” acts using homespun humor and Twainesque irony.
“So, from the White House Christmas tree celebrating a dictator by displaying a Mao Zedong ornament, to intolerant characters bashing the Boy Scouts and burning bibles, many of us are asking, “What’s next?” You can get answers and encouragement all at once by reading Todd’s new book.”
“Despite President Obama’s claim in San Francisco that working-class Americans “bitterly cling” to guns or religion out of frustration, the truth is we cling to God not because we’re “bitter” but because there’s nothing better. And as for “clinging” to our Second Amendment rights and, in fact, to all of our constitutionally protected liberties…well, you betcha’, we do cling to them proudly.”
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lol. I'm sure god is an immense supporter of tools made for ending life. I have yet to read a single article from starnes that is grounded in logic and reason.
maybe we should fire our rifles in the air while we worship our creator. this world is absurd.
Obama would Like us to think he is better then
the founding fathers as well as
the creator.
Mitchell, just prove to us that this 'creator' exists, OK?
Then have an adult read the Federalist Papers and explain them to you.
Glad I could help!
McKenyan is pure arrogance run amok.
Howard Aubrey Can you prove he doesn't exist?
Rena, burden of proof lies with the person claiming that something exists.
Can you prove Santa Claus doesn't exist? Or the tooth fairy? Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster? I mean we can't prove that they don't exist, right? Yea, that's what I thought.
Gotta love the logic of the knuckle dragging fox news theocrat crowd.
@Nick Wright… I am not the one who made the challenge; therefore it would be up to the challenger to prove he doesn't exist. The person who started this thread has his opinion or belief and it was Howard who challenged it and therefore he should prove a creator doesn’t exist, not the other way around.
And I just love the silliness about all the other things you guys bring up… Personally I can care less if Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy exists, if you can prove they do by all means do it, at the very least it would make parents feel better that they aren’t lying to their kids anymore… and I to be honest, would love to have your mythical flying spaghetti monster over for dinner… I’ll have the parmesan cheese ready, I’m sure he would make a delicious dinner companion… Really though, you lot are no better than the religious zealots who hear something and mimic it like a bunch of monkeys in a zoo. You would think by now you could come up with something better to try to make a point, that one has become stale and lost its bite.
Because one chooses to believe in something you cannot understand doesn’t mean they are “fox news crowds” or “knuckle draggers”. Your closed mindedness would be more akin to the knuckle draggers who can only think on a single plane of existence, one that also has not been proven but is just a theory as well. Because there “may” have been a “big bang” doesn’t answer how or why it happened and how life began. There are far too many unanswered questions to those theories as well.
Hope you have a good day
You're a knuckle dragger not because you believe in a god. but because you believe the burden of proof lies in DISPROVING his existence. Like this God's existence is some sort of fact that has already been proven.
That's not the way science works, Rena.
Admit it, your "god' and the flying spaghetti monster have an equal amount of chance of actually existing. Neither can be proven or disproven. Sorry, but as a scientist, I don't take anything as fact without some evidence.
To millions and perhaps billions the world over, our very existence is proof that a creator exists because with all its mysteries that science has not been able to show how we came into existence, our own existence is all the proof they need, not to mention everything that surrounds us, that we as mere humans have never been able to create life without “pro-creating”.
As an example, you can have all the ingredients to make a cake sitting on the table, but without someone to put it all together in the proper amounts, it will never become a cake… not even if some earthquake or explosion were to happen, it will not become a cake. The same with humans or any living thing, you can have all the necessary “ingredients” to make a human, a dog, a tree, etc. and even mix it all together, you can never create a the living cells necessary to produce a living being… not even cloning can do that because you need to already have the cells necessary to grow an ear or such.
Now you say that this is not the way science works… ok let’s do this using “scientific method”. In science we start with the scientific method as follows:
A Question: in this case it would be how did life begin, creation or “just happened”/a product of the “big bang”?
Research: Now that we have asked this scientific question we need to research it. We know this is a scientific question as science has been trying to solve the answer for everything since man could reason and first started wanting to know the who, what, where, when, why and how of everything. From how did we get here, how do the stars and planets move, what makes us human, what separates us from other species, is there life out there and so forth. Mankind has been asking these questions about our existence for thousands of years, as we have seen in the many discoveries about life and existence. So people, which include many people of different faiths and many who were our first “scientists” have researched and come up with their own theories and conclusions about our existence.
Construct a Hypothesis: The hypothesis here is that something cannot exist out of nothing. That there has to be a creator, architect, intelligent designer to construct something as complex as a living being or living cell: That all life and the existence of all things could not have happened by “chance”.
Analyze Data and Draw conclusion: By observation of the human species, other life forms such as trees, dogs, birds, etc., and other things in our environment, such as water, air, molecules, atoms, space, planets, the universe, all seem to have a perfect order to which they are made or act. That by conducting experiments such as taking hydrogen and oxygen we cannot make water, by taking oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus, then about 0 .85% of other elements, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine and magnesium along with some other trace elements we cannot “create” or cause to come into existence another human being. Same as if we were to take flour, sugar, butter, eggs, cocoa, baking powder and salt, and left it on the table it would not become a cake until someone with knowledge on how to cook and make the cake to put the right amounts of ingredients together to make it. We observe that if we add too much butter the cake will not come out right. We observe that placing a pile of bricks, wood, nails, cement, glass, fixtures, etc. in a field and leave it for a month, nothing will have happened and no house would have been built. Since science cannot disprove intelligent design it, one can theorize that intelligent design has its mark in everything.
Communicate results amongst the scientific or popular community: Based on the research, science does not disprove the existence of a god. Based on the research, a person may conclude that life could not have happened by some cosmic accident or big bang. Based on research, intelligent design shows itself within the complexities of living cells, the organization of planets and the universe that has been in existence for billions of years, and life on this planet for millions of years. Based on research, we know that a house or building, car, plane or computer did not accidently come into existence but had someone with knowledge about these things to create them. Based on research, no person has been able to create life out of nothing, only when living cells are present, such as cloning. Based on research, although having all the right “ingredients”, things do not become a cake, a house, a tree, a life. Based on the research and conclusions, Christians and other believers convey their belief about a God, Creator, Intelligent Designer or Master Architect.
Scientist are still trying to solve the mysteries the statues on Easter Island, the many Stonehenge sites throughout Europe, the Great Pyramids, and the drawings that can only be seen from space. Many scientists say it had to be aliens, which have never been seen nor have we proof of their existence, but they say had to have existed because humans did not have the knowledge or the tools to make. Or perhaps they too just happened by accident or big bang…
Scientific theories can only be “disproven”. The theory that mankind was created as put in a scientific study, the questioning our existence and research thereof, and theory that some have concluded about our existence, where it’s close to 49/51 split on whether or not we were created or not, proving creation did not happen lay with the person challenging the existence of a creator… and their proof… our very existence.
I will not admit that God does not exist when I see intelligent design in everything around me, however I would like to say that I believe that your mythical flying spaghetti monster holds as much weight as being real as you being a “scientist”, but that’s my opinion.
Have a wonderful life
Wow, you seriously just tried to rationalize creationism as science.
Ok, so you have scientifically proven that the existence of god can't be disproven. But can it be proven? Prove it and you win a nobel prize. The fact that we exist does not prove that there was a creator. It neither proves nor disproves it. Results are inconclusive from a scientific standpoint.
Let's pretend you are right and our mere existence proves there is a god or a creator. Then can you prove its not a Flying Spaghetti Monster? I mean, you can't disprove it, right?
I've heard the whole "existence is proof of god" argument in philosophy class when I was in college. Look, you are entitled to your opinion, and that's all that is, your opinion. For you, god has to be disproven otherwise he/she/it exists. But most scientists don't operate that way. Your logic is backwards, no offense.
Science doesn't have all the answers, and that's the thing. It won't in our lifetimes. But it tells us way more facts about our world then any religion has. We are learning more and more all the time. That's not to say religion doesn't have its positives as far as morals and values go, but there's still no proof of a god. And Genesis is certainly not a place to look for evidence of the origin of this planet.
Rena OConnor, If you don't know what causes earthquakes, plagues and tsunamis, then MY god must have done it. Woops, it's 2012, not 1512! This is a god of the gaps argument and it fails. The answer to your question is we don't know yet. Also, yes, if you make an assertion about the material world we live in, such as there is a god, then you have to offer evidence for your proposition. As Nick states, you have the burden of proof.
Rena, that makes about as much sense as charging someone with a crime and then telling them they need to prove their innocence….
@ Nick: Again, I do not have to prove he does exist, but as I said, to billions the worldwide he does as their evidence a Creator exists is by our very existence. You cannot challenge a person to prove their theory (which they have concluded according to scientific method) that one doesn’t exist and offer no other viable explanation as to how life began nor offer any proof that life can be recreated in a lab using all the elements necessary to recreate a human from just the elements provided. Perhaps they have tried but what did they come up with? Cloning doesn’t count because it uses cells that already exist. We, as humans, cannot create a living cell to form a human, animal, tree etc.
My reasoning tells me that things as complex as DNA of any living things couldn’t have “just popped into existence”. My reasoning requires me to ask how those amoebae that crawled out of the oceans were able to split into the many different species we have living today and others that are now extinct did this without some kind of code. What gave it its code to split? What determined that one would become a human, another a lion, another an ape and so forth. What determined that one tree will be an oak, a cypress, a pine etc.?
We learned early in life as kids that everything, such as buildings, houses, computers, cars, did not just come into existence, even if we go back thousands of years, in archeological digs we conclude that the pottery we find didn’t make itself, the underground dwellings didn’t just form but had a “creator”, so why is it so hard to phantom the idea that as complex as living things are they didn’t have a creator? Thus the “theory” of intelligent design, a creator who designed the human body and all living things, that brought about the heavens and the earth, that caused the rotation of the planets, who was the Master Planner of all things?
You yourself as a scientist even said that “science doesn’t have all the answers”, and yet you staunchly deny the possibility that all things were created. And that’s just it, science doesn’t have all the answers, but Christians and others base their theory in a creator because their reasoning tells them that things do not just happen and be so “organized” to work as it does. As I mentioned it really does not matter what you call this creator, whether he be called a God, a Master Architect, father of all existence, their belief is their right and thus far has not been disproven by any scientific experiment, and as I shown was put in the form of a scientific method to base their theory on.
And as you said we are still learning more and more about the universe we live in, but at no point has there been anything to say that this “God” does not exist, we do not know where He is. The heaven that is spoke of in the Bible may not even exist in our universe. Multiple universes have been discussed by scientist as well as many different planes of existence. These are just theories as well and may prove life exists in a different dimension than our own. If so could not one of these dimensions be “heaven” and perhaps be where a creator exists? We cannot answer this because we are still infants in the field of science.
@Tim, your argument doesn’t compare to this discussion as we know what causes earthquakes, plagues and tsunamis, (try something other than things we already know to be fact) but according to scientist we don’t know how life began, and still question theories about the big bang and so forth. Correct we are not in the Dark Ages anymore, and still scientist cannot answer even how the “big bang” happened as you have to have matter for a big bang to happen. If there was nothing how can something explode? The problem is your closed mindedness about the proof believers offer… our existence and the existence of everything. To them it just didn’t come into existence by chance, that everything fell into place on its own and was able to form all the billions of things around us, and the order of the universe.
When a theory has been accepted by billions, then it is up to someone else to prove this theory inaccurate. Although thousands have come about to say that a creator doesn’t exist, none have been able to disprove the theory by any scientific means. Just as those who are still trying to figure out the statues on Easter Island, the paintings seen from space, the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other unexplained phenomenon. They surmise that it had to be some alien form who visited us millions of years ago. We have never seen any “proof” alien life exist, but yet they are still looking for it… such as SETI and other groups. Could we not also conclude that perhaps God is an Alien? Would he not be considered alien to humans as he is not of this earth? Just as someone from another country is alien to this country, so to God could technically be considered an alien and thus also be responsible for our existence.
And again, Mitchell was the one who made the original statement about a creator, he, I’m sure, bases his belief on the theory that God exists because everything that exists could not have just happened by accident and had to have had some intelligence behind its existence. As stated in the former post, cakes do not just appear because you have all the ingredients, houses do not just pop up if you have all the supplies and computers do not just work because all the materials are there. All had to but constructed with all the proper measurements or they would not work, or come out the same. This is what believers base their theory on, life did not just come into existence just because all the right materials or elements were present, it had to have a creator. A theory that Christians and ilk believe in and now is the burden of proof he doesn’t exist lay in the hands of the non-believers and why I asked Howard to prove he doesn’t exist because of his challenge to Mitchell.
@ Howard: How so? As a former law student, we still have to prove our client innocent though the burden of proof falls on the prosecutor. When we cross examine witnesses we are still doing so to prove our client innocent. If we do not put up a defense, we, more than likely, will lose.
Not to mention, again, this thread started as Mitchell posted his opinion based on his belief that God exists. Most people believe in God because they reasoned that everything had to be created and could not have just popped up out of nothing. As per scientific method a theory was formed as to how life began, this is what many deduce as being created and not some accident from some cosmic explosion. Now that that theory has been conveyed to billions around the world, it now must either be accepted (which has by billions of people and about half the scientific community) or disproved by those who can offer a viable explanation to the contrary, which was you who challenged Mitchell in the first place.
You can't just pull a theory out of thin air and then say you must disprove it, otherwise its true. That's not how logic works. That's not how science works.
Physical evidence. Not just 'well we can't explain how this happened so it must be a god'. Hence why belief in a god is called faith in god, not science in god.
In ancient times, before all the advances in modern day science, people who had very little understanding of the world used to do the same thing. It's raining, so that means its the rain god. I mean Genesis even explains rainbows as "god's covenant" with Noah after the supposed 40 day flood. In this day and age, we can explain exactly how rainbows occur. Physical evidence.
In time, more answers will be revealed. But as Tim stated, your argument is god of the gaps. Science works to fill these gaps. What science doesn't answer(yet) you just call it god. Thankfully, the vast majority of the scientific community do not share your reasoning and wish to find more answers. This is why the scientific community do not accept "intelligent design" as legitimate science and fights(usually with great success) to keep that nonsense out of public school curriculum. It's junk science.
Rena OConnor, If you are truly interested on how something can come from nothing, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
Rena OConnor, a vague and untestable hypothesis such as a god can never be proved or disproved, and this is simply because we CAN"T test it. Just as you can't prove or disprove the existence of the giant benevolent teapot that invisibly, intangibly and inaudibly exists of the far side of the sun, and whose works go unseen.
Rena OConnor, You write: "When a theory [God] has been accepted by billions, then it is up to someone else to prove this theory inaccurate." Firstly, the existence of god is NOT a scientific theory since it has none of the hallmarks of one, that being a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the NATURAL WORLD, based on a body of FACTS that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Moreover, If you were right, which you are not, I could make the same claim for Allah and then say if you can't disprove me, then I'm right. Finally, Anyone making an assertion about the natural world has a BURDEN OF PROOF regardless of how many people believe it, just as the Romans had a burden of proof for their gods when Christianity was unheard of and everyone believed to Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus. Consensus does not equal truth. Tell me where I'm wrong!
Rena OConnor, We can put this to bed in a hurry. All Christian apologists, who argue the case for the divinity of Christ, say that they DO have the burden of proof. Google it.
Rena. you seem absolutely incapable of differentiating between "facts" and "beliefs". Just because you believe in something doesn't make it true.
We are a nation under God, not Obama!
We are a nation under God, not Obama!
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Many of us don't believe in this 'god', and Obama was elected as our leader. He is likely to be re-elected in a few months.
In any event, I can prove Obama exists while you can't prove your 'god' does…
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Many of us don't believe in this 'god', and Obama was elected as our leader. He is likely to be re-elected in a few months.
In any event, I can prove Obama exists while you can't prove your 'god' does…
Howard Aubrey dont think its a slam-dunk this time.. its a pretty close race at the moment
GOD BLESS OBAMA!!!
OBAMA BLESS THE USA!!!!
Only God can look down on America, all others
look up.
Well, that explains why christian men are always walking their erect penises into the butts of little boys! They're looking up instead of where they're going!
Christians are not the only ones going around molesting kids… don't know why you think it necessary to bring that into the discussion.. but having a small mind one can only think of a few things to debate..
Rena, there is no denying that the catholic church has been running the largest child rape conspiracy in world history…they've spent billions to protect offenders and cover up their involvement.
Please remove your head from wherever you've chosen to hide it…
What? Like as in "up in the sky"? Michelle? As in the "Three tiered universe" in the Bible?!?!
SO,…God is"up" there then, huh? What–in the stratosphere?!?
Ridiculous!
Only God can look down on America, all others
look up.
One problem Howard has is that,we have rights
and we can believe in God,or not believe. Obama
is not a leader, he is a loser! Americans can vote
him out, but they cannot vote God out!
Michelle, "God" was NEVER "in".
Wow lol, that is quite an endorsement. Congrats to you Todd for writing a book that even someone like Palin who has a 4th grade reading level can understand!
But it's okay to deny LGBTs rights shared by other Americans, and to obstruct access to legal abortion because they disagree with those aspects of our country? Hypocracy, plain and simple.
WHy doesn't Palin just expose her breasts already and give every Conservative male out there a reason to admit the whole reason that they support this imbecile in the first place?
You think there are actually conservative men who aren't repressed, latent homosexuals?
So now, all you Conservative simpletons ought to take a bit of a lesson here; pay attention now, because I"m about to educate you.
Simply put, THERE IS NO "WAR ON RELIGION". If anything, there is a religious war on the SECULAR foundations of both this country and the Constitution.
The so-called "Religious War" is a carefully-planned, extremely cynical attempt to get you to pony up another $11.99 (or whatever they're asking for the latest garbage being peddled by these manipulating profiteers) so that you'll BUY THE PRODUCT THAT CLAIMS TO "EXPOSE" whatever they're alleging!
YOU'RE BEING PLAYED! — and we Liberals are laaaaaaughing!
Dance, now, Conservative fools; ONE two three, ONE two three….