That's right my fellow atheists, Ray Comfort has come to Examiner.com. Sharpen your pencils; get your typing fingers ready...
Ray is probably one of the most controversial atheist "battlers" out there. And, what do you think his title is?
Anti-Atheism Examiner. Wow. He isn't pulling any punches, is he? So, be prepared for the onslaught. The title says it all.
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My condolences that his cheezy mustachioed image is next to yours in the examiner index...
Ah Trina you noticed. I was about to say 'you're probably about to pick a few new readers, like myself, Ray Comfort has come to town!'.
Ray linked his old blog to this site, so I expect quite a few regulars will make there way over, especially since these comments don't appear to be moderated (yet) and he can't simply delete the messages he disagrees with, and hopefully a few more will end up over here.
I feel that an intro to Ray is in order in case you or any of your regular commenters are not regular Bananaman Readers.
Ray is a True Christian™.
A True Christian™ is a Young Earth Creationist Fundamentalist Christian who agrees 100% with Ray.
If you disagree on theology with Ray, you aren't a True Christian™.
A True Christian™ can't doubt or backslide, if you do then you weren't a True Christian™.
If something disagrees with his literalist reading of the bible, then it is wrong. That's it, end of discussion.
Ray is a shameless liar, and Troll Baiter/Antagonist, (he has a blog post on this very subject).
Ray believes Evolution and Atheism are the same, and the words are interchangeable. Just see his first post here at Examiner which to normal people has nothing to do with Atheism.
Ray also believes the words Atheist, Physicist, Scientist, etc are all completely interchangeable.
Ray believes Charles Darwin was an Athiest and is currently using him that way in an advertising campaign.
Rays current definition of an Atheist is "Someone who believes Nothing made Everything".
Ray, rarely, if ever answers direct questions.
Ray feels free to delete and edit his posts without notice if he actually realises he's made himself look to be a fool.
Ray has been corrected countless times, by some excellent posters, but refuses to correct his strawmen posts, which is one of the main reasons I freely call him a Liar for Christ™.
I guarentee you will never run out of things to talk about with Ray posting here, he is a comedy goldmine. See his post on how Humans evolved before Gender did.
And I wish this site had a comment preview function.
And wow that turned out longer than I expected!
Oh and finally.
Ray's ministry technique is to "Insult, Belittle and Misrepresent Atheists until they convert to Young Earth Creationism Christianity"
I listened to Ray Comfort debate on the Alan Colms Show on last Thursday night. Ray sounds like he's more interested in selling his books than anything. He was trying to debate with the atheist.org group. But I think he hurt himself more than helped. It's funny to think that Christians actually want him on there side.
Are you serious? The guy is obviously a comedian making fun of creationism.
Please let the powers that be at the Examiner that their credibility will suffer by hiring these idiots. Or will they care? Is it only about numbers and page views?
OMG? From you? Isn't that a bit hypocritical? :-)
I'm stunned. I don't know what to say about this.
They wouldn't allow a white supremacist examiner or a anti-homosexual examiner or an anti-Muslim examiner.
Trina, this is not cool.
Ray also likes to use the arguing technique of the Big Lie, saying things that are so outrageously stupid and demonstrably wrong that it's hard to know where to start.
He claims evolution requires men and women to have evolved separately, and he now seems to have moved beyond this absurdity to the incredibly stupid notion that the chicken / egg would have had to evolve independently.
Is there an anti-theist examiner here? Maybe we need one for balance :)
BathTub: Lovely summary of Ray "bananaman" Comfort.
An anti-atheist examiner?
An anti-reality examiner. He thinks chicken and the egg is a scientific stumper! LOLZ!!!
About as sharp as a bag of bowling-balls, that one.
I think comments CAN be deleted - one of mine vanished from the Evangelical Examiner blog.
Anyway, Comfort's a nutter, but then we all know that. I sort of wish I had the talent for fantasy that he does.
Okay, if Ray Comfort is allowed to have an Anti-Atheist Examiner, I'm allowed to have the Anti-Christian, Anti-Muslim, or Anti-Jew one. This is a person who said "atheism is the epitome of stupidity" on page four of his new book. I'm not amused.
I think they're allowing an Anti-Atheist Examiner because they know we're the only group that isn't likely to start a riot/jihad/crusade over some uneducated criticism. I suppose that makes it a compliment of some sort, although a thumbs-up could have been just as good.
debating the bananaman is useless.
I see he's now "Creationism Examiner", though his URL still says "Anti-Atheism".
Every click earns him money. I won't pay him for that crap.
There's going to be Trina/Ray battles!!!
I'm already an Examiner (30 Rock), but I think I'll try to become the new Crocoduck Examiner.
I see Examiner made him change his title - obviously they recognize hate speech when they see it.
Well if he wastes his 'coming out' post on nothing to do with Atheism it's only fair to change the title.
I thank God for Ray Comfort! He has compassion and concern for people (including those who don't believe in God) enough to lovingly, respectfully yet boldly speak the truth in a unique way. I know many of you appear to be indifferent, you may not understand, and are perhaps even offended, but someday you’ll see his motive is to help you and to tell you how to escape the wrath to come. Ray--you're an inspiration!
Ray Comfort is a liar for Jesus. He knows the things he says are lies, but he reckons it's justified because the "controversy" gives him a platform to preach from.
I think he's scum and will never again leave comments on any of his sites.
There are 366 prophecies about Christ in the Bible. 48 of those are about His first coming, written hundreds of years before His birth. There is historic evidence of the books of the prophecy long before Jesus came.
The chance of just 8 of these 48 prophecies about the coming of Christ being fulfilled by coincidence is 1 in 100 million million, or millions of times greater than the total number of people who ever lived. 100 million million silver dollars would cover the state of Texas 2 feet deep. If we marked one of these silver dollars as the one we wanted a person to find, blind-folded that person, and asked them to find this coin, the chance of that person finding the marked coin somewhere in the state of Texas is the same chance that 8 of the 48 prophecies about Jesus' birth would be fulfilled by coincidence. Finally, for all 48 of these prophecies to be fulfilled by coincidence, that would be 1 chance in so many trillions; it would be equal to the number of atoms in a million billion billion universes like ours, in other words, STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
God loves you so much that HE DIED FOR YOU. On the cross, Jesus said, "Tetellestai", which means "paid in full". What was paid in full? My sins were "paid in full" by Christ because he was the perfect (sinless) substitute for me. Tetellestai was a word meaning "paid in full" that used to be stamped on ancient tax documents when the taxes were paid in full!
Comfort is good but so was the late Greg Bahnsen whom the Lord took too early.
Check Dr. Bahnsen on youtube.
Bahnsen wrote: "The life of the unbeliever is riddled with such inconsistency. He will presuppose human dignity and attend a funeral to honor a dead friend or relative, even though he previously argued that man is, in principle, no different from any other product of evolution like a horse or dog. The unbeliever will insist that man is nothing more than a complex of bio-chemical factors controlled by the laws of physics—and then kiss his wife and children when he goes home, as though they share love with each other. He will argue that in sexual relations ‘anything goes’ (there are no moral absolutes)—but then indignantly condemn child molesters or morally repudiate necrophilia. He will suggest that the things which happen in the universe happen randomly—by ‘chance’—but then turn around and look for regularities, law-like explanations of events, and uniformity or predictability in the things studied by natural science. The non-Christian does not have a workable worldview, and he exposes its weakness at every turn in his life.”
Peace,
-D
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