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Sorry to link to two Gawker stories in a row, but I'm feeling really lazy today, and besides, pointing to other people's hard work is pretty much their m.o. over there, so I don't feel too bad about it. Get me! I'm like a real grown-up blog, linking to things.
This time I'm gonna follow up that stunning revelation down below that the military is violent by pointing out some other big news: religious people are dumb.
Like most religious people, Americans are breathtakingly ignorant. We already knew we were ignorant about science and other factual matters, of course—but it turns out we're equally ignorant about religion! Except for the atheists. A new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that most religious Americans don't know shit about their own religions. Sample fun finding: "A majority of Protestants, for instance, couldn't identify Martin Luther as the driving force behind the Protestant Reformation." via
Pointing out that atheists tend to be more informed than people who believe in comic books set in ancient Egypt isn't exactly surprising. Still, it kind of helps to reinforce my sense of smug superiority when it comes to dismissing broad swaths of culture that I have a disdain for.
American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study, said Alan Cooperman, associate director for research at the Pew Forum.
"These are people who thought a lot about religion," he said. "They're not indifferent. They care about it." via
In other words, the more you think about some bullshit, the more you realize how disgusting it is. Here's another thing I've been thinking a lot about today after having gravy and cheese-based diarrhea all morning: poutine is gross. Cheese curds? That's one letter away from cheese turds, dude. And it has "poo" right in the name. No thanks, every restaurant I go to these days. So I guess that makes me an expert on Canada. Someone do a study on that.
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6 comments:
"breathtakingly ignorant" makes me never want to read again. Poutine is pretty good, though.
What do you mean? The phrase or the fact behind it?
Poutine is poop.
Poutine is great you joyless ninny.
The phrase. There’s really no good time to use breathtaking/breathtakingly, unless you’re talking about what cats do to sleeping babies.
haha, fucking cats. don't trust 'em.
98% of all cats hate poo - teen. look it up.
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