Funny Searches

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5 responses to “Funny Searches”

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   defectivebit

   July 20, 2012

   Today’s search terms so far:
   daniel helminiak: interpreting the bible, the sin of sodom (christian)
   dispensationalism the sum of
   sye ten bruggencate is an idiot
   how dumb would you have to be to be christian?
   exodus 21
   why christians are stupid
   christianity and stupidity
   atheism is true

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   MII

   July 21, 2012

   Those search phrases kind of make me nervous. Even as a theist, if I wanted to know the faults of Atheism, I wouldn’t search for “Atheists are stupid”, or “How stupid to have to be in order to be an Atheist?”. I would probably reach into my PERSONAL library and grab any one of my books by Carl Sagan, B.F. Skinner, Daniel Dennet, Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, William James, Bart Ehrman, Richard Dawkins, Ayn Rand, Sigmund Freud, Richard Leaky, Stephen Jay Gould, Emile Durkheim, etc, etc, etc. I would hope I would refrain from such absurd searches in the hopes of finding something credible. Anyways, yeah… those search phrases are still making me cringe.

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   Paul

   July 22, 2012

   At least some of those searches were probably prompted by the recent studies (in some books and journal articles) that ostensibly “show” that religious people, Christians included, are, as an average, located toward the low-end of normal on the IQ spectrum.

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   MII

   July 23, 2012

   Paul, I’m not sure that I would agree with that (maybe, I’m not going to completely disagree). Though, I would have to say, I doubt that such journal articles or research findings would prompt such search phrases as “CHRISTIANS are STUPID”. I would tend to think that such research articles would prompt phrases as, “religious people and low IQ” or “research on the religious and ignorance.” Such phrases as “Christian” and “stupid” tend to lean towards a specific emotional bias. For example, such phrases as, “IFBs are Jerks” vs “IFBs and the psychological nature of fundamentalism” are radically different as one presumes a judgment call. So, there is a possibility that in some of the cases, you may be right. However, given the nature of the terms chosen to be searched, I doubt it.

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5. 

   Ben W.

   July 23, 2012

   Anyone who searches for Rosa Rubicondior on purpose probably has a brain tumor.

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