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“Sun up, sun down. Tide in, tide out.” Don’t know enough about science to understand why sunsets and tides occur? No time to ask or research? Don’t really care to know? You’d rather learn about the world from bloviating monkeys on a fake cable news network?
My father, who was born 32 years before O’Reilly, had some odd beliefs about nature (for example, for much of his life he refused to accept that the sun was a star), but even with that, he knew full well that the moon was primarily responsible for the tides. O’Reilly is eight years older than me, and I learned about the moon’s effect on tides even before I set foot in a classroom, but it was covered in school by the time I was in third grade. If there wasn’t some kind of educational hole that took place between my father’s time and mine, where did he go to school? He claimes to be Roman Catholic, so I’m assuming he went to a Catholic school (as did my father and I), so that can’t be it.
I guess the only answer is that he lives in his own private little world where he makes his own private little reality.
I just hope that Silverman was being sarcastic when he referred to Thór as living on Mount Olympus. Everybody knows he hangs out in Ásgarð.
So who’s attacking his religious beliefs? Saying that nobody can explain the tides is like saying that nobody can explain electricity or magnetism and using that as proof of a deity. What’s under attack here is not O’Reilly’s beliefs but his (ill)logic and his (lack of) reasoning.
Actually, I 100% can attack you for your beliefs (verbally, of course). Especially if they are really stupid, and even more especially if you use your own ignorance as proof to defend them.
Blair is so right couldnt have said it better. If some americans were not so ignorant and did not watch this guy he would be on comedy central not a news channel.
Animals must believe because they have few reasoning powers. You’re in good company there. But those who have mastered reason know that freedom of religion implies freedom FROM religion. Time for you to hide in the shadows where you belong, away from the light.
“No matter what his beliefs we can[t] attack another person for their religious faith.”
Really? What if their faith calls for them to ritually disembowel a virgin every month so that the tides will go in & go out, with “never a miscommunication”?
We HAVE & CAN & SHOULD challenge all forms of superstition, while also understanding that people aren’t perfect – and some … many … maybe even most … have a psychological need for a god figure.
“We’re both atheists, you & I. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.”
The root of his argument is the clockwork universe… only a god could build such a clock. It was always week, even in the 16th Century when the great Bloviator was in school. In the 18th century, long after Billo left school, Issac Newton established that something called gravity exits. Newton, a minister and the author of an advance mathematic system called Calculus, failed to text the Great Loofah. So blame Newton!
Actually, I agree, we can attack his beliefs. Especially if his beliefs are outdated by 500 years. He is a fucking retard, he is an idiot who cannot reason for himself. He has to attach himself to different ideas, and pretend that he is the one who makes these ideas. Bill O’ Reilly impersonates everything that is wrong with America, as is Fox News. This idiot probably cannot even writes in the perfect grammar and vocabulary that I speak in. This man has only gone so far because of his money and his height. No one respects him except for trailer trash that is uninformed. I hope he dies a horrible death for misleading so many gullible people.
@E.A. Blair
My dad actually attended the same school Catholic high school Bill O did in New York. I’d also like to point out my dad knows how the tides work and why the sun magically rises and sets. I can’t necessarily attribute him learning these things to his catholic school though…
“No matter what his beliefs we can attack another person for their religious faith. It’s just wrong. We all have a right to our beliefs.”
I agree… until the idiot in question takes to the nation’s airwaves and begins to spread his idiocy, lowering the standards for intelligence and reason in public discourse. At that point, it’s open season.
I agree… until the person being attacked starts a television show in which he attacks and derides guests for their beliefs… corroding the quality of political discussion and debate in this country. At that point, rally the troops and chard.
I agree… until the person promoting this drivel goes to work for a wealth, power-hungry man intent on re-shaping the political landscape to benefit his interests. At that point, we should take notes from the other side and begin publishing maps with cross-hairs on them.
john5 – I was just speculating as to whether there was a gap in between my Dad’s time and mine (he and I attended the same grade school – 40 years apart), which would have been the time Billo was in school, wherein they stopped teaching that stuff. High school is a little late for explaining tides, anyway.
For example, in my Catholic grade school, not only was evolution not taught, it was a forbidden subject. It was strict creationism or a smack on the back of the head.
It’s more likely one of two things – like my father about the sun, this may just be something Billo has chosen to exclude from his worldview, or, more likely, it’s just a talking point he uses so much that he can’t think of anything else.
I dig Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s awesome. And while I believe in the existence of a supreme, omniscient intelligence, I have to laugh at Bill O’Reilly. Especially as he repeats that nonsensical statement over and over…as if it’s some grand theological mantra. “Never a miscommunication.” Correct, Bill…until you open your mouth.
I will always attack the beliefs of a person who has such a large control over so many people, as O’Reily does.
There are many people who watch FOX who may not know any better, or have ever been exposed to another religious point of view. Yet feel that they are seeing genuine discussion about the existence of God between a scientist like Richard Dawkins and the scientifically uneducated O’Reily. It creates these sort of “tide comes in, tide goes out” statements, which win a large percentage of people over, because likewise they are scientifically uneducated.
It’s not their fault, they were brought up with their particular religion from the day they were born, and cleverly, most religions damn you if you question their respective deity. So when someone with their own TV show seems to question science with some sort of authority, they listen, and agree. The unfortunate people don’t question any further, and the ignorance (that’s not an insult by the way) sadly continues. Their mental exploration into the God vs Science space ends. They would even discover why the tides rise and fall, and why the sun raises and lowers, amongst the many other beautiful actions in the universe every microsecond.
That’s why I choose to attack influential individuals like O’Reily. Religion is an old mistake, that needs to be corrected for us as a race to move forward.
If Bill has no idea what causes tides or makes the sun rise and set, then he is as big an idiot as…well, as one would expect a Fundamentalist to be. “I don’t understand it, and it is very complicated, therefore God did it.” That is the mantra, and the primary doctrine, of all of Fundamental Christianity.
Now, people will tell you that their beliefs should be respected; this is not so. There is no reason to take such people seriously at all, or to show any respect for their stupid superstitions. Their beliefs, remember, are all based on nonsense that they read in some old writings that were made up by Bronze Age people who thought the sky was a giant, solid dome. Those Bronze Age people can be forgiven for thinking that God was responsible for everything from a stubbed toe to the tides going in and out, for they didn’t know better. People in the 21st Century industrialized world DO know better, so if they still imagine that “God did it” is the explanation for everything, then they deserve to be ridiculed. Thank “God” (invisible entity in the sky, never seen or explained) there are people like Stephen Colbert to do it right!
Congratulations to everybody who took an allegorical figure of speech, to convey the most literal meaning possible. This is what Colbert does for a living.
Not sure what the big “gotcha” moment is here. Is everyone defending atheism to prove Bill O’Reilly to be unintelligent?
they’re attacking it by acting like superior pompous jerks. It’s always that way. There is never a serious discussion. Notice how they had all that footage (probably backed up in a database) to make bill oreilly look like a robot or a phony. BELIEVE ME, I don’t watch Bill O’Reilly or any of the “left” or “right” shows. I’m just noticing a lot of immaturity when it’s an “anti-God” matter at hand. I don’t see why people get so touchy…
@Jim: Can’t be explained without fully understanding basic physics. At least that’s what i got from Richard Feynman in this awesome video about why you can’t explain magnetism without understanding physics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Stick with it… it gets more awesome as he goes along.
1. Man needs a reason to exist, he cannot simply fathom that he exists. Like all other species.
2. More wars have been fought and men dead in the name of ‘religion’ and ‘God’.
3. Life and this planet are about cycles and you are simply a part of it. Accept it and own the time you have.
Don’t over-think your position on this planet, as you have no more entitlement to it than a common ground squirrel.
I wish Bill O’Reilly, or someone…ANYONE…can explain to me how my icemaker works. Also, those Thermos things….keeping hot things hot, and cold things cold.
As the guy once asked, how do it know? HOW DO IT KNOW???
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My father, who was born 32 years before O’Reilly, had some odd beliefs about nature (for example, for much of his life he refused to accept that the sun was a star), but even with that, he knew full well that the moon was primarily responsible for the tides. O’Reilly is eight years older than me, and I learned about the moon’s effect on tides even before I set foot in a classroom, but it was covered in school by the time I was in third grade. If there wasn’t some kind of educational hole that took place between my father’s time and mine, where did he go to school? He claimes to be Roman Catholic, so I’m assuming he went to a Catholic school (as did my father and I), so that can’t be it.
I guess the only answer is that he lives in his own private little world where he makes his own private little reality.
I just hope that Silverman was being sarcastic when he referred to Thór as living on Mount Olympus. Everybody knows he hangs out in Ásgarð.
No matter what his beliefs we can attack another person for their religious faith. It’s just wrong. We all have a right to our beliefs.
So who’s attacking his religious beliefs? Saying that nobody can explain the tides is like saying that nobody can explain electricity or magnetism and using that as proof of a deity. What’s under attack here is not O’Reilly’s beliefs but his (ill)logic and his (lack of) reasoning.
Bill O’Reilly said something stupid?!?! NO WAY!!!
Actually, I 100% can attack you for your beliefs (verbally, of course). Especially if they are really stupid, and even more especially if you use your own ignorance as proof to defend them.
Blair is so right couldnt have said it better. If some americans were not so ignorant and did not watch this guy he would be on comedy central not a news channel.
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Animals must believe because they have few reasoning powers. You’re in good company there. But those who have mastered reason know that freedom of religion implies freedom FROM religion. Time for you to hide in the shadows where you belong, away from the light.
“No matter what his beliefs we can[t] attack another person for their religious faith.”
Really? What if their faith calls for them to ritually disembowel a virgin every month so that the tides will go in & go out, with “never a miscommunication”?
We HAVE & CAN & SHOULD challenge all forms of superstition, while also understanding that people aren’t perfect – and some … many … maybe even most … have a psychological need for a god figure.
“We’re both atheists, you & I. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.”
Ignorance is bliss
The root of his argument is the clockwork universe… only a god could build such a clock. It was always week, even in the 16th Century when the great Bloviator was in school. In the 18th century, long after Billo left school, Issac Newton established that something called gravity exits. Newton, a minister and the author of an advance mathematic system called Calculus, failed to text the Great Loofah. So blame Newton!
KNEEL BEFORE NEAL! KNEEL BEFORE NEAL! LOL!
Actually, I agree, we can attack his beliefs. Especially if his beliefs are outdated by 500 years. He is a fucking retard, he is an idiot who cannot reason for himself. He has to attach himself to different ideas, and pretend that he is the one who makes these ideas. Bill O’ Reilly impersonates everything that is wrong with America, as is Fox News. This idiot probably cannot even writes in the perfect grammar and vocabulary that I speak in. This man has only gone so far because of his money and his height. No one respects him except for trailer trash that is uninformed. I hope he dies a horrible death for misleading so many gullible people.
Mcfarland, you should really proofread your comment(s) before submission.
well it’s no coincidence that religion and lack of education go hand-in-hand
Turns out he did go to Catholic schools: He attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school in Mineola.
@E.A. Blair
My dad actually attended the same school Catholic high school Bill O did in New York. I’d also like to point out my dad knows how the tides work and why the sun magically rises and sets. I can’t necessarily attribute him learning these things to his catholic school though…
“No matter what his beliefs we can attack another person for their religious faith. It’s just wrong. We all have a right to our beliefs.”
I agree… until the idiot in question takes to the nation’s airwaves and begins to spread his idiocy, lowering the standards for intelligence and reason in public discourse. At that point, it’s open season.
I agree… until the person being attacked starts a television show in which he attacks and derides guests for their beliefs… corroding the quality of political discussion and debate in this country. At that point, rally the troops and chard.
I agree… until the person promoting this drivel goes to work for a wealth, power-hungry man intent on re-shaping the political landscape to benefit his interests. At that point, we should take notes from the other side and begin publishing maps with cross-hairs on them.
john5 – I was just speculating as to whether there was a gap in between my Dad’s time and mine (he and I attended the same grade school – 40 years apart), which would have been the time Billo was in school, wherein they stopped teaching that stuff. High school is a little late for explaining tides, anyway.
For example, in my Catholic grade school, not only was evolution not taught, it was a forbidden subject. It was strict creationism or a smack on the back of the head.
It’s more likely one of two things – like my father about the sun, this may just be something Billo has chosen to exclude from his worldview, or, more likely, it’s just a talking point he uses so much that he can’t think of anything else.
I dig Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s awesome. And while I believe in the existence of a supreme, omniscient intelligence, I have to laugh at Bill O’Reilly. Especially as he repeats that nonsensical statement over and over…as if it’s some grand theological mantra. “Never a miscommunication.” Correct, Bill…until you open your mouth.
I will always attack the beliefs of a person who has such a large control over so many people, as O’Reily does.
There are many people who watch FOX who may not know any better, or have ever been exposed to another religious point of view. Yet feel that they are seeing genuine discussion about the existence of God between a scientist like Richard Dawkins and the scientifically uneducated O’Reily. It creates these sort of “tide comes in, tide goes out” statements, which win a large percentage of people over, because likewise they are scientifically uneducated.
It’s not their fault, they were brought up with their particular religion from the day they were born, and cleverly, most religions damn you if you question their respective deity. So when someone with their own TV show seems to question science with some sort of authority, they listen, and agree. The unfortunate people don’t question any further, and the ignorance (that’s not an insult by the way) sadly continues. Their mental exploration into the God vs Science space ends. They would even discover why the tides rise and fall, and why the sun raises and lowers, amongst the many other beautiful actions in the universe every microsecond.
That’s why I choose to attack influential individuals like O’Reily. Religion is an old mistake, that needs to be corrected for us as a race to move forward.
If Bill has no idea what causes tides or makes the sun rise and set, then he is as big an idiot as…well, as one would expect a Fundamentalist to be. “I don’t understand it, and it is very complicated, therefore God did it.” That is the mantra, and the primary doctrine, of all of Fundamental Christianity.
Now, people will tell you that their beliefs should be respected; this is not so. There is no reason to take such people seriously at all, or to show any respect for their stupid superstitions. Their beliefs, remember, are all based on nonsense that they read in some old writings that were made up by Bronze Age people who thought the sky was a giant, solid dome. Those Bronze Age people can be forgiven for thinking that God was responsible for everything from a stubbed toe to the tides going in and out, for they didn’t know better. People in the 21st Century industrialized world DO know better, so if they still imagine that “God did it” is the explanation for everything, then they deserve to be ridiculed. Thank “God” (invisible entity in the sky, never seen or explained) there are people like Stephen Colbert to do it right!
Congratulations to everybody who took an allegorical figure of speech, to convey the most literal meaning possible. This is what Colbert does for a living.
Not sure what the big “gotcha” moment is here. Is everyone defending atheism to prove Bill O’Reilly to be unintelligent?
they’re attacking it by acting like superior pompous jerks. It’s always that way. There is never a serious discussion. Notice how they had all that footage (probably backed up in a database) to make bill oreilly look like a robot or a phony. BELIEVE ME, I don’t watch Bill O’Reilly or any of the “left” or “right” shows. I’m just noticing a lot of immaturity when it’s an “anti-God” matter at hand. I don’t see why people get so touchy…
i dont believe bill is challenging how it works, just that its existence and function somehow is proof his gods work.
Omg hahahah i actually laughed out loud when it showed him repeating it over and over!
Magnets? How the hell do they work
@Jim: Can’t be explained without fully understanding basic physics. At least that’s what i got from Richard Feynman in this awesome video about why you can’t explain magnetism without understanding physics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Stick with it… it gets more awesome as he goes along.
It’s rainbows, Jim–rainbows all the way across the sky! :-]
…and it’s turtles all the way down.
1. Man needs a reason to exist, he cannot simply fathom that he exists. Like all other species.
2. More wars have been fought and men dead in the name of ‘religion’ and ‘God’.
3. Life and this planet are about cycles and you are simply a part of it. Accept it and own the time you have.
Don’t over-think your position on this planet, as you have no more entitlement to it than a common ground squirrel.
I wish Bill O’Reilly, or someone…ANYONE…can explain to me how my icemaker works. Also, those Thermos things….keeping hot things hot, and cold things cold.
As the guy once asked, how do it know? HOW DO IT KNOW???