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Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | Reason : Wingnut News | print version Print | Comments

Video Highway to hysteria

PZ Myers, Pharyngula

Reposted from:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/highway_to_hysteria.php
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5S38LpMgu0

PZI swear, they're trying to see how stupid they can get before my head explodes. Read Isaiah 35:8:

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.


Obviously, to any brain-dead literal-minded pismire of an evangelical Christian, that is a reference to I-35, the interstate that cuts through Minnesota and Texas. Obviously. Never mind that unclean PZ Myers has driven on it quite often, or that this is the road with the bridge that collapsed, or heck, that it is just a long piece of concrete with trucks blatting out nasty hot gasses all day long.

Good god.

Don't watch this video unless you've got an awesome tolerance for high-density super-concentrated stupid and dancing howling raving demented fuckwits. This is America, land of prophecies, dreams, and visions taken as insight, where imaginary demons and angels are supposedly fighting over a strip of pavement.



CLICK HERE to watch a QuickTime version of the video (10.3 MB, 5:09)

Must rest. Intracranial pressure rising…rising…rising…

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1. Comment #93901 by dvespertilio on December 4, 2007 at 12:31 pm

More insanity from the American heartland! These people are really quite insane. And scary, too.

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2. Comment #93909 by Johan on December 4, 2007 at 12:49 pm

There are obviously no limits to some Americans' gullibility and superstition.

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3. Comment #93914 by BaronOchs on December 4, 2007 at 12:52 pm

avatarthat is hilarious!

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4. Comment #93917 by Northern Bright on December 4, 2007 at 12:54 pm

avatarSomebody pleeeeeeeease tell me that's not real.

OMG, imagine if they were right: can you imagine what an eternity in heaven would be like, surrounded by people like this? Just doesn't bear thinking about, does it?

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5. Comment #93924 by Beteo on December 4, 2007 at 1:11 pm

How long has I-35 been around? And they're just now jumping on this?

Someone please find and interview that "reformed" gay man about a year from now... let's see if he maintains his new 'holy' ways.

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6. Comment #93928 by hayesky on December 4, 2007 at 1:16 pm

This is so Alien to me. Crazy what people will believe.

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7. Comment #93940 by briancoughlanworldcitizen on December 4, 2007 at 1:30 pm

avatarWhat is truly chilling is that this is exactly the same nonsense I grew up with. In those days of course, bar codes were Satans method of choice to mark you with the number of the beast, today it's rfid tags.

Incredible, sobering and down right humiliating to think I was one of these people.

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8. Comment #93942 by Unknown on December 4, 2007 at 1:32 pm

Einstein was right, stupidity has no limits.

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9. Comment #93943 by decius on December 4, 2007 at 1:32 pm

avatarI disagree with PZ, here. "Fuckwits" is too kind a word.

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10. Comment #93946 by phasmagigas on December 4, 2007 at 1:34 pm

avatarive yet to watch the video but it got me thinking.

The next time you have a religious moderate beating you up because you are an atheist or accept evolution you can offer them a challenge.

Take them to the computer and ask them to locate some pro atheist material that would actually make you (the atheist) say 'oh jees, they are just so crazy, thats appauling thats not me, thats a very scary atheist and we are not all like that' then do the equivalent for them with some theistically driven madness, you know maybe jesus camp, this video (i guess), that crazy woman on wife swap, or even some actual decapitation footage if you want to get the message across more forcefully

I guarantee you will be showing them a lot more links than they will be showing you. This is a take on the hitchen challenge but its one that could be quite fun after a few drinks (i personally would not bring up any actual murders but could at least threaten to show them, they are there to be seen after all).

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11. Comment #93950 by Duff on December 4, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Didn't that Oden dude have a big chaw of tobacco in his cheek?
Its sooo hard not to meet these people and tell them to their faces how utterly, completely stupid they are - with the exception of Pat Robertson, who is a genuine, cynical, snake oil...no he's stupid, too.

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12. Comment #93951 by geru on December 4, 2007 at 1:37 pm

Sheesh, these people really have nothing better to do, than to worship a highway? Well, as long as it keeps them from doing some stupid AND harmful activities...

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13. Comment #93952 by Goldy on December 4, 2007 at 1:38 pm

So it's pronounced Doolooth? And I always thought it was pronounced Duhluhth.
Have to say, fucking glad there's a Pacific Ocean twixt me and them!

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14. Comment #93954 by notsobad on December 4, 2007 at 1:39 pm

avatarSo, god needs a delusional intolerant prick to shout Fire! at people to take away their homosexuality (...). What an omnipotent god that is. And why did he even create homosexuality in the first place then? absurdity

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15. Comment #93957 by matt2112 on December 4, 2007 at 1:43 pm

Thank you for that clip, which was obviously a sneak preview of a forthcoming Chris Morris satire.

Wasn't it?

Oh... :/

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16. Comment #93958 by AlexAtheist on December 4, 2007 at 1:47 pm

As a gay man and atheist I was particularlly concerned over the Christian attack tactics at the gay bar. I was especially sickened by the gay man who said that he felt god "taking away his homosexuality"-yeah right, let's check back with this guy in a couple weeks. I fear for my country.

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17. Comment #93959 by BicycleRepairMan on December 4, 2007 at 1:47 pm

avatar"I guarantee you will be showing them a lot more links than they will be showing you."

And I personally guarantee they'll throw the old Hitler,Stalin,Mao combo to show how crazy all we atheists are.

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18. Comment #93960 by joe brummer on December 4, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Amazing to me that most ex-gays claim it takes years to "recover" from homosexuality, but this guy did it at the touch of a street preacher? I doubt it.

Why is it that god is happy to cure the gay people but refuses to help war vets grow back limbs?

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19. Comment #93967 by monkey2 on December 4, 2007 at 1:57 pm

avatarThat devil music says

Travel my way, the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66

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20. Comment #93969 by phasmagigas on December 4, 2007 at 2:01 pm

avatar
And I personally guarantee they'll throw the old Hitler,Stalin,Mao combo to show how crazy all we atheists are.


of course id be ready for a bit of fallacy bashing.

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21. Comment #93970 by toddaa on December 4, 2007 at 2:03 pm

I live a mile from the intersection of I-80 and I-35. Why hasn't anyone tried to lay hands on me? I've always wondered what that laying hands on stuff does to someone. Do they push you over or do you just fall on your own? The one guy without the shirt didn't seem to know what the proper procedure was for the recipient of the laying on of hands. Will a FAQ pamphlet be provided before the laying on of hands? Are you judged on how well you pass out? I could end up on Youtube as a conversion blooper and be a laughing stock. DAMN IT, I DON'T WANT TO WASTE MY FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME ON AN INTERNET VIDEO OF ME TRIPPING OVER A PARKING PYLON AFTER SOMEONE LAYS HANDS ON ME. That's it, time to move.

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22. Comment #93992 by Aquambulus hirsutus on December 4, 2007 at 2:33 pm

avatarComment #93967 by monkey2
Get your kicks on Route 66

Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491

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23. Comment #93997 by Nick Good on December 4, 2007 at 2:43 pm

avatarBarking mad, difficult to credit, and yet you will get worse, and more malign in plenty of Mosques, including a goodly number in the UK. Stuff that'll make this lot of fruitcake's carryings on, look like the Reading Rotary club AGM. The US holds no monopoly on crazy religious credulity.

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24. Comment #94007 by drive1 on December 4, 2007 at 3:16 pm

avatarIt should be obvious, to any right-thinking Christian, that the passage actually refers to the A35 in England. This tarmac of Satan runs between Poole (a thinly disguised reference to 'poole of one's own filth') and Honiton (an anagram, in the original Greek, of the word 'strumpet'). I hesitate to provide a link to this pathway of perversion but, as any of you with strong stomachs will attest, it needs holy saving, and it needs it NOW!

http://www.freefoto.com/preview/2032-17-29?ffid=2032-17-29&k=A35

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25. Comment #94011 by drive1 on December 4, 2007 at 3:21 pm

avatarOh, won't you just think of the children?!?
http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/flatfiles/campaigns/a35/a35form.aspx

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26. Comment #94014 by wagnerfilm on December 4, 2007 at 3:24 pm

avatarAmazing to me that most ex-gays claim it takes years to "recover" from homosexuality, but this guy did it at the touch of a street preacher? I doubt it.

Well, yeah. That "ex-gay" dude was such an obvious plant that he practically had chlorophyll dripping out his ears.

My snark on this sad insanity is here:
http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2007/12/lost-highway-indeed.html

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27. Comment #94017 by Mark Till on December 4, 2007 at 3:28 pm

"See them get on fire for God..."

*gulp*

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28. Comment #94022 by HoyaSaxa87 on December 4, 2007 at 3:35 pm

didn't the guy in the video seem to encourage "putting churches on fire"

You, know, that's interesting, i'm assuming he's using a metaphor here, which means he knows what a metaphor is, yet he can't figure out that the book he bases his whole life on is just a collection of symbolic metaphors...and where does this lead you? to the sides of a highway, amazing

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29. Comment #94036 by BigJohn on December 4, 2007 at 3:55 pm

avatarHallefuckinglujah!

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30. Comment #94044 by Shane Williams on December 4, 2007 at 4:14 pm

avatarHoyaSaxa87, well said.

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31. Comment #94071 by cerbera on December 4, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Oh dear - you don't know whether to laugh or cry. As I believe Ross Noble once put it, it's like being molested by a clown.

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32. Comment #94075 by Cartomancer on December 4, 2007 at 5:57 pm

avatarBah! one night with me will cure you of Gay more effectively than any amount of trundling up and down some godforsaken stretch of yankee tarmac!

Or so several potential boyfriends of mine claim...

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33. Comment #94076 by Gymnopedie on December 4, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Reading PZ's comments and everyone elses' comments, I thought I was gonna see a human sacrifice or something. This is pretty typical religious behavior as far as I can see, except maybe the part about the highway of Jesus.

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34. Comment #94077 by Quine on December 4, 2007 at 6:02 pm

avatarIf they want to be on fire, that's fine, but let them not stand near flammable materials.

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35. Comment #94083 by USA_Limey on December 4, 2007 at 6:13 pm

avatarI'm not too familiar with the geography, is there a stop over at the garden of eden in Missouri?

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36. Comment #94098 by Goldy on December 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJc4dzZ3IA

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37. Comment #94101 by Lord of the Morning on December 4, 2007 at 7:09 pm

avatarI just had to stop halfway through. I really don't have words for how horrible this is because I know it must be true.

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38. Comment #94106 by spikie on December 4, 2007 at 7:42 pm

Couldn't watch it all for fear of it destroying my will to live.

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39. Comment #94108 by spikie on December 4, 2007 at 7:48 pm

It must be a nightmare living around people like this.
I,d be afraid I would go completely insane.
Just like those people in the video

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40. Comment #94126 by will young on December 4, 2007 at 9:31 pm

avatarThe highway of holiness…certainly for drugs. I-35 is a main artery (!) for drug trafficking and has been for many years.

I live amongst these bug-wits and they are exactly as they appear in the video clip. It is difficult not to feel like a prisoner or undercover spy or even an insurgent with all their talk of being warriors in god's battle.

Things like the link in…
#36. Comment #94098 by Goldy on December 4, 2007 at 6:52 pm
help keep me sane!

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41. Comment #94130 by EvolvedDNA on December 4, 2007 at 9:49 pm

You know.. after watching this it baffles me as to why Christians are so concerned about publicly offending Muslims... thereby having the rage of Mo bestowed upon them. If they had their heads lopped off it is something they would not miss and could still function for years.

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42. Comment #94176 by Flagellant on December 5, 2007 at 12:42 am

avatarPlease, Wikipedia, bring back your definition of Poe's Law and extend it to cover film clips.

(Poe's Law currently says something like: any fundamentalist religious website is indistinguishable from a joke fundamentalist religious website. Or is it vice versa? Has anyone got a better version? I don't like the one that mentions a winking smiley.)


Religion - an activity for consenting adults in private.
[Edit: expanded]

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43. Comment #94211 by Mysturji on December 5, 2007 at 3:10 am

avatarMine eyes have seen fuckwittery
That truly knows no bounds!
On Interstate I-35
The cars drive up and down
While the faith-heads and the Jeebuz-freaks,
Their eyes spin round and round,
Alllllll o-ver town!
(All together now!)
Heee-bee Jeebee holey Jeeeeee-buz!
Weee were mad but then he heeeeeel'd us!
Weee don't need our meds belieeeeeeve us!
Our faith will keep us sane!

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44. Comment #94213 by Northern Bright on December 5, 2007 at 3:14 am

avatar43. Comment #94211 by Mysturji on December 5, 2007 at 3:10 am
Mysturji, that is seriously good! :-) Thanks for the laugh!

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45. Comment #94216 by irate_atheist on December 5, 2007 at 3:27 am

avatarOn your journey cross the wilderness
From the desert to the well
You have strayed upon the motorway to hell

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46. Comment #94227 by treeman17 on December 5, 2007 at 3:56 am

avatarAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!! My eyeballs are hurting! Posts like this drop IQ points.

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47. Comment #94238 by Nighttripper on December 5, 2007 at 4:23 am

avatarExcuse me whille I'll go fling myself off a building now.

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48. Comment #94241 by celestialtea on December 5, 2007 at 4:31 am

avatar"How strange is it really, that he's using a HIGHway to lead people to THE way?".

How can you argue with that? Airtight logic, that is.

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49. Comment #94249 by agg on December 5, 2007 at 5:07 am

avatarYeah, I can recall a few months back when the Almighty sent special blessings to this highway (as only He can):

http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/august032007/bridge_photo_3.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osocGiofdvc

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50. Comment #94252 by Tyler Durden on December 5, 2007 at 5:13 am

avatarFellow rationalists, atheists and clear-thinking individuals:

Our work here is done! We've won! :-)

Anyone with a semblance, nay modicum, of intelligence watching that awful piece of tripe can only come to the conclusion that those people are sick, demented and deluded to the point of being dangerous - and should be locked up accordingly.

Can we get this piece onto the mainstream news? These people deserve to be ridiculed.

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