Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:00:01
A banana - the atheist’s nightmare!
In company to this post, I had to go find this clip from everyone’s favorite child star turned God Squad member - Kirk Cameron. He runs a whole ministry called ”Way of the Master” with this guy named Ray Comfort, and Ray would like to explain to you why the banana is God’s perfect food, and the proof that evolution is a lie.
Wow. Kirk’s website has a slogan; “Seek and save the lost, the way Jesus did.” The arrogance of that statement is simply astounding. It’s pure, unadulterated hubris.
The real shame in all of this stuff is these people prey on the least educated among the faithful...if you know absolutely nothing about science and nature, these arguments can seem like they carry weight. The less education you have, the more likely you are to believe that this is really the way of things - and the more money you are likely to spend on their books, DVDs and t-shirts.
Which is what this is really about in the first place. Fleecing the flock. Taking candy from babies. Separating a fool from his money. Note how not one of these warriors for God gives away the information for free...you know, the way Jesus did.
After the jump, the full episode that contains the banana/evolution/atheism discussion. It’s a half-hour of pure madness. I include it so that you may experience the joy of Mike Seaver and his new best friend lecturing you about bananas and atheism and science. It starts at 1:34 into the video. Madness, I tell you. Utter madness. You will just love the soda can example. Holy shit. This could be used as evidence of insanity in a trial. The madness just gets compounded the longer you watch. If you’ve ever wanted to see intellectually bankrupt and morally questionable hucksters ply their trade, here’s your chance.
Posted by JimK at 08:00 PM on March 30, 2007
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#2 Posted by Christian 
on 03/30 at 11:07 PM -
Holy fock. A banana proves creationism.... Just when I had heard it all…
It makes your sphincter clench if you are the tineiest bit a Christian to hear asshats like this. This is what people think of when they think of Christianity: Mental Midgets who just want to want to tell all of us what to do.
You know Kirk got Julie Mccullough fired from his show cause she was in Playboy. If you ever see the E Hollywood True story, it shows how painful his beliefs became to everyone around him.
#4 Posted by JimK on 03/30 at 11:47 PM -
So how does that jackass explain a fucking orange?
Heh. Brilliant.
#5 Posted by dakrat on 03/31 at 01:30 AM -
“Notice how gracefully it sits over the human hand. Notice the point at the top for ease of entry. It’s just the right shape for the human mouth...and it’s even curved towards the face to make the whole process so much easier.”
So God made bananas to show the world that it’s okay to be gay!
Too bad I’m allergic to non-human bananas.
#6 Posted by cashin on 03/31 at 01:40 AM -
I’m Catholic, normally I just ignore other christians unless they’re other catholics. But this is just so rich that I had to leave a comment calling these guys, perhaps “desperate,” or sort of “half-retarded.” I have no problem with a nice healthy debate, but a fucking banana?
#7 Posted by dakrat on 03/31 at 01:49 AM -
Okay, I had to give up at 9:52. Kirk can prattle on and on about whether or not he believes there is gold in the teeth of the Chinese until the rapture for all I care.
I guarantee you there are no firing cells in Kirk’s empty head. Let it be known that crabs, (with all two or three ganglia in their entire nervous system) think deeper thoughts than Mr. Cameron. He is a man so dense, that he is the key to the Romulan’s warp core technology of an artificial singularity.
#8 Posted by Orpheus 
on 03/31 at 06:03 AM -
I have no problem with a nice healthy debate
The problem with that is that idiotic ideas like the banana one are as intellectual as creationism gets. There’s a lot of people putting a lot of effort into making it sound intellectual (intelligent design and so on) but if you actually look at their arguments, they all boil down to 1) Isn’t it wonderful, 2) Therefore god did it.
It’s impossible to have a healthy debate with any sort of creationist, whether they wear a lab coat and clutch a test tube, or wear a monkey suit and clutch a banana.
#9 Posted by Drumwaster on 03/31 at 02:09 PM -
Note how not one of these warriors for God gives away the information for free...you know, the way Jesus did.
“If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.”—Dave Berry
“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is
hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a
collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other conman.
But it’s lovely work if you can stomach it.”—Robert Heinlein
#10 Posted by Joe R. 
on 04/28 at 03:55 AM -
I know this is an old thread, but there’s a response video at YouTube. Put down your drinks before it reaches the 1:20 mark.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 03/30 at 09:47 PM -
If banana’s are proof of creationism, why did God make them grow on the other side of the world instead of the cradle of civilization?