[Regarding the Cincinnati Zoo's ending a cross-promotion with the Creation Museum]
So, this was a voluntary ticket package which would only be of issue if someone WANTED to go to both? Sounds like discrimination to me. There are zoos that partner with other businesses all the time to go to wax museums, restaruauts and all kinds of things. This only proves the 'spirit of anti-christ' is growing in our nation.
So much for tolerance and freedom of religion. I've never read in the Constitution where it says 'freedom from religion'. Perhaps some of the folks here who say Christianity isn't being discriminated against can explain this to a simple mountain man like me....
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"Perhaps some of the folks here who say Christianity isn't being discriminated against can explain this to a simple mountain man like me...."
The Flintstones is not a historically accurate representation.
Your book was written by superstitious people who did not have modern tools at their disposal to help them understand their surroundings.
Too many three-syllable words, or are we good?
I doubt anyone can ever successfully explain anything to a fundie dumbass, but ...
The uproar wasn't about Christianity, you ass clown. The uproar was about the zoo (a science-based, educational institution) associating itself with a so-called "museum" that promotes the idiotic and proveably false notion that human kids used to play with their pet allosaurs in total peace and harmony 6,000 years ago.
So ... no one is discriminating against Christianity on this one. we're descriminating against lying fucktards pretending to be scientists.
"There are zoos that partner with other businesses all the time to go to wax museums, "
The wax museums never claim their fake stuff is anything other than fake stuff. This only proves you fail at anologies.
Because they no longer felt it was in their interests to promote the Creation Museum. End statement. There's no persecution there. If, in the dead of the night they went and fire bombed it, you'd have some backing, but as it stands, it's just business. Now kindly get over yourself.
Perhaps some of the folks here who say Christianity isn't being discriminated against can explain this to a simple mountain man like me....
1.Christians spout complete and utter horse shit, IE: "the world is 6000 years old" "being gay is a choice" "theirs tons of proof for my god and my god alone"
"So, this was a voluntary ticket package which would only be of issue if someone WANTED to go to both? Sounds like discrimination to me."
I... uhh... but... HOW DOES THAT even slightly count as discrimination??
"So, this was a voluntary ticket package which would only be of issue if someone WANTED to go to both? Sounds like discrimination to me."
Here's an idea. Instead of using big words like "discrimination" without knowing what they mean, try looking them up.
"So much for tolerance and freedom of religion. I've never read in the Constitution where it says 'freedom from religion'."
No, it says freedom of religion, which includes having no religion at all.
"Perhaps some of the folks here who say Christianity isn't being discriminated against can explain this to a simple mountain man like me...."
It would take too long and use too many big words you'd be unfamiliar with to do so.
"So, this was a voluntary ticket package which would only be of issue if someone WANTED to go to both? Sounds like discrimination to me."
Actually, no it isn't. A lot of people are only going to go to one place or the other. Especially since most zoos mention such anti-Creation facts as "Turtles have existed in their present form for over 100 million years."
They're not trying to close down the CM, they're simply ending a temporary promotion. That's like a Christian bookstore ending a one-month sale on The Children's Bible because that month is over--they're not discriminating against the publisher that prints TCB, they're just ending a temporary business deal.
Discrimination fail!
Actually I think it was a good thing and I'm sad they stopped it. Just imagine some idiot at the creation museum trying to explain why meateaters like lions and tigers have to be fenced in to protect us from them, but a T. Rex with 50 times the size and those huge teeth lived right beside humans in peace! Even the average 6 year old wouldn't buy that shit!
How is it discrimination? The zoo had a business arrangement with the Creation Museum, and it chose to cancel this business arrangement. It had nothing to do with tolerance or freedom of religion, unless you're going to claim that the Creation Museum is a religious institution.
If the state forced them to end the promotion for the specific reason that it is a commonly held view among christians, then you MIGHT have a case.
As such, a zoo voluntarily ending partnership or promotion with any organization is not discrimination.
And if you honestly have to scrutinize and twist around any situation to find persecution, chances are it's not there.
I was going to post a rebuttal about how fucking stupid this person was, but then I read his last line:
explain this to a simple mountain man like me....
Appalachia isn't known for it's production of intelligent, rational, thinking people. If this is they way you think, I doubt you'll be able to understand reality.
This person insults mountain men and women.
And, of course, metropolitan zoos generally trade in good science, not fringe theories with pre-set outcomes.
They ended it because people were complaining that, you know, a science and knowledge based institution, a zoo, was having anything to do with creationist quackery.
If a zoo started a cross promotion with a porno shop, I doubt that would last very long either, but I wouldn't call it discrimination.
Being a mountain man has nothing to do with being stupid. Quit giving the rest of us a bad name.
I hate to say it, but if I went to the Cincinnati Zoo and received a ticket to a creationist university, I would probably complain. Zoo's are the last refuge for a lot of animals, they're also important for understanding said animals. The last thing a zoo should be aligned with is that god poofed the animals into existence. The next question any half-intelligent kid is going to ask is why doesn't god just make more of the endangered/extinct animals. I never did get an answer to that question.
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