Ray Comfort succeeds Ted Haggard as Most Gay Evangelical

Most of today's big Christian denominations, such as the Catholics, have given up trying to defend the Bible against science. In the past they were forced to abandon biblical claims that the earth is flat, god makes the sun rise, and demons cause disease. As these things were replaced by knowledge of their true nature god shrank further and further into the past, and out of our cosmos. At the start of the 20th century the only place left for god was creation itself, and even that had been unraveled to the point of destruction by Darwin. Today the Churches (the best ones) accept evolution and the big bang theory, they claim that the only thing god ever did was create souls for humans and build an afterlife for them to live in. Reality, the nature of the universe and our origins, they say, are not for them (religious men) to explain, however the scientists say it was done is okay with them. Pope John Paul, who represents the infallible voice of god on earth and his successor Pope Benedict have both proclaimed that evolution "is more than just a theory". It seems that a new era is about to dawn where faith is a purely personal thing (between a man and his institution) and Science reigns supreme. Some people though are unhappy, well like the old saying goes "you can't please them all". This "some people" mostly consists of Christian evangelist Ray Comfort and a bunch of unpatriotic, brain-dead, sheeple.

For those of you who have not heard the name Ray Comfort and of his antics here is a short bio. Ray Comfort is a Christian minister and evangelist. Comfort started Living Waters Publications and The Way of the Master in Bellflower, California and has written a number of books. The key component Comfort uses in his evangelism is the "Moral Law of God" to speak about sin in the lives of his listeners before presenting the gospel of Christ to them. What most people know Ray Comfort for however is his hilarious antics with a banana on You Tube, where he claims that a banana has "pull tabs" and is perfectly shaped for penetration of his mouth, this he claims proves gods existence. He seems to be the natural successor for Ted Haggard's position of "most gay evangelical". Teddy liked penetration by banana too.

Ray Comfort is one of those strange people who despite all evidence to the contrary, refuse to believe, that not everyone shares his beliefs. He contends that atheists actually secretly believe in god and hate him. "Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist," writes Comfort. "It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist." Ray, nobody claims fairies, leprechauns, and unicorns exist, kills in their name, or fleeces their gullible believers out of their hard-earned money in the name of those creatures. I haven't seen any politicians calling afairyists "the most vile, radical liberals in America" or calling for the teaching of Tinkerbell in schools. No-one is trying to get teachers fired for being "liberal aleprochaunists" or awarding child custody based on which parent will provide the proper instruction in dealing with the wee folk. There's no widespread objection to the teaching of evolution on the grounds that it challenges belief in unicorns (not to mention minotaurs, griffins, werewolves, and so forth.) That's right. They must "know" these things are real, or why else would they bother trying to debunk them? Skeptics only deny what everyone else would consider convincing evidence because they can't handle the truth.

 When not claiming that Atheists are really disguised Satanists Ray Comfort attempts to disprove science and evolution through the tired, antiquated and totally debunked route of Paley's wild watch. The basics of this argument says that designed objects have a designer so therefore the universe has a designer. This argument hold as much water as a grain of sand, none at all. Yes it is true Ray that designed objects have a designer, BUT Ray that does not lead to the universe having a designer because you have not shown that the universe is a designed object. Wait, Ray says he can prove bananas at least were designed (he is correct!) because they are such useful fruit, with pull tab opening and all. Watch on You Tube when the Atheist shows him a real, wild banana. About 2 inches long, black inside and mostly seed, barely edible. That's the one your god made Ray, and the one you're eating was designed and bred by human farmers. This kind of non-logic is breathtaking even from a (seemingly) clueless git like Ray Comfort.

Yet despite Ray Comforts apparent mental in-ability, he has published a lot of books, gathered a lot of followers and made a fair bit of money. I don't want to seem as guilty as Ray of not understanding that other people have different beliefs from me. I do understand that other people truly do believe in a god, raised as a Jehovah's Witness I have first hand experience with belief. But there just seems to be something wrong with Ray Comfort. Just like there was something wrong with Ted Haggard, the anti-gay campaigner, and then he turned out to be gay. Perhaps, just maybe, Ray has a plan.

Ray's scheme is network marketing. The reason why he churns out books, shows, visual recordings and all that other stuff like a gatling gun is because the stuff is ineffective. It needs constant reinforcement, and the self-proclaimed street evangelists Ray sells to don't get that it's the oldest sales trick in the book. They get his stuff, advertise it to others, keep the ball rolling. Permanent conversion is not Ray's goal, his aim is holding regular customers. The provocative dumbth is part of the method. He needs angry and ridiculing reactions to keep up the image that he's the paladin valiantly battling the unbelieving horde. Since it says in the Bible that he's going to be hated and all that persecution complex stuff, his ignorant sheeple think that he's the confirmation. 'Read the Man Atheism Hates Most! Why, of course they hate him so much because they know he has Truth!' Ray's got it all figured out. Leave your scruples behind you, ground into the dust of the road. Find some country where there are a lot of gullible superstitionists, and $ELL!