Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumBen Carson: Religion Is Needed To Test Scientific Theories In Case 'It's Just Propaganda'
Ah, the final authority, a non-practicing medical doctor making more on his speaking tour than actually practicing medicine.
We heathens should be listening to him, amIright?
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/ben-carson-religion-needed-test-scientific?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Rich people becoming Republicans never astounds me, they want to keep all they earn, not a penny to the government that helped them get there.
But when they are supposedly educated in scientific disciplines, it really astounds me that they willingly give up all that sense of the nature of scientific inquiry and return to mythology as their basic method for "validation" of fact. What "validation" method does religion ever offer? Or, maybe, in this guy's case, he's just trying to be a geinius of pulling the wool over everybody's eyes in order to secure a well-paying speaking tour circuit for the next 30 years. He thinks he can get more $$ out of stupid people listening to him speaking for 30 minutes than he can get trying to practice medicine in America today, and he's probably right; lots of stupid people will pay to hear him speak.
Is he an actual practicing medical doctor or just a super crafty con artist who was smart enough to get through medical school and practice medicine for a few years before he found a higher-paying way out?
As someone else pointed out: "Ben Carson is a scam and an opportunist. He spoon-feeds his fans what they want to hear, like any other entertainer." I think Ben just found a better-paying job than being an actual pediatric surgeon, by being a Republican bullshit slinger.
Knowing this is offensive to the 12-13 very devoutly religious people who lurk and browse this thread, and are offended by certain words when applied to people who are believers: the two words "delusional" and "arrogant" both apply to this Carson guy. He is both. He uses religion to win converts, and has the arrogance high enough to deny the value of logical and scientific inquiry, all to make more money for himself, a kind of black Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, but a bit younger and he was gifted with a much better educational opportunity which he threw away in order to sling this bullshit for greater profit.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Oh My Fucking Non-Existent God
Heddi
(18,312 posts)but are you saying shitstain because he's black?
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)that all these politicians who spout this shit are just saying whatever they think it will take to get elected. They don't really believe what they are saying, it is all theater. I am beginning to think that most of them are not even Christian, they are just saying they are. If they were, they could never spout some of the hard-hearted things that they say.
I cannot even take these comments seriously anymore.
Mr.Bill
(24,286 posts)If Ben Carson actually believed half of the stuff he says, his medical license should be revoked. You can't be that anti-science and practice medicine in the real world.
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)KNOW that the right (especially the faithiests) is full of delusional people who will believe ANYTHING, and this is the quickest path to fame and fortune.
You can't fool the left quite so easily with this silly mumbo-jumbo. We on the left are not fool-proof, but it takes more than silly religious bullshit to pull the wool over our eyes.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Yeah... it takes silly pseudo-science most the time. And then it seems never as great a number are taken in as the right.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)the delusions fostered by religion are. But those 12-13 religionistas think that warm, fuzzy sense of "community" makes up for it all.
progressoid
(49,990 posts)I randomly opened it and started reading. He was blathering on about how important faith was to governing the country. I read about a page and a half and quit. Didn't want to lose my lunch.
onager
(9,356 posts)Another clown who took advantage of every "socialistic" opportunity available. And after weaseling his way into the GOP inner circle, now wants to deny those opportunities to everybody else.
Speaking of Slappy Thomas, a/k/a Scalia's Butt-Puppet - if you haven't seen it yet, check out the 2013 documentary Anita, about Anita Hill's case.
Some interviewees expressed outrage about Thomas' famous "hi-tech lynching" line. (Written for him by a GOP flack.) As they correctly point out, this privilege-stuffed creature of the GOP had a lot of nerve comparing himself to victims, usually poor, who were killed just for the color of their skin.
Carson comes out of the same slimy mold. "I got mine, po' folks. Now fuck y'all!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2481202/
trotsky
(49,533 posts)The Republican motto!
edhopper
(33,579 posts)about Gravity. If I want to levitate, I just got to believe.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Yeah.... just don't accidentally pray to Hindu deities, in "Hindu", to do it!
edhopper
(33,579 posts)in "Indian"
JDDavis
(725 posts)Don't know why this qualified there but it still remains, with dozens of comments.
Perhaps we should invite some of those commenters to join us over here.
Edited to add link to LBN thread on this.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1026611