Friday, June 6, 2008

Standards of “Proof”

A Proof is a Proof

Christian Conservative: This time, you have “the tape”... and we’ve proven that it’s been altered, with opinions and documents solid enough to submit in a court of law.

Well, I hardly think that the paid opinion of two “experts” in a politically-motivated affidavit constitutes “proof” of the allegations being made…

Moreover, I might question the standards of “proof” involved, coming from someone who proudly describes himself as a “Born-Again Christian, redeemed by the shed blood of the risen and eternal Lord Jesus Christ” and who therefore believes that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was His own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat His flesh and telepathically tell Him you accept Him as your master, so He can remove an evil force from your soul that’s present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...