And he puts all his faith in the Bible, dammit. The Bible is not a good scientific report / study for condemning so much and being so ancient. People in the past used dangerous medicines made from mercury and lead and also bloodlet to try and get better from this and that.

And Amber, I'd like to hear about what else angers you. Maybe even create a page or two about the site, and hope it gets on Google. Someone's age does not mean invalid opinions necessarily -- it all depends on how knowledgable the person is or how sheltered and how much shit has been put into their head. Naturally, Cappyman is not likely raising any scholars with him, since scholars, as opposed to brainwashed conform-bots, actually need to know things about the outside world down there on the ground rather than inside some crappy preacher's trailer...(I always pictured Cappyman's house as a large white trailer with one bathroom....)

And the pages in his site map only reveal how homophobic he is! Homophobic people aren't as different from racists as fundies seem to tihnk.

and when i said "i never remember anything in the bible saying that animals dont have souls." he responds saying "neither have you read that they do". Well then, according to him, his opinion is also invalid because if I can't assume one way, why can he just assume the other?

I just can't stand it when I talk to religious people and they try to tell me all this bullshit about what they think they know about animals. I've been raising horses all my life, so its obvious that I know more about animals than someone who has never had any experience with them and has only been told about them at church. If they beleive some ranting old man over me then theyre ignorant. It's just like how he bashes the theory of evolution. I'm sure the scientists know more about the theory (and therefore understand it better) than someone who has only been fed a bunch of biased opinions at church. Bottom line is you have to take the word of experienced people to get the truth, not be brainwashed at church.

I could go on forever about all the other things on his site that anger me, but that would take forever. I feel sorry for his kids. Seriously I do. I can't imagine living in a home where there you can't have your own opinion about anything. Hell, he probably ignores his teens because he thinks that they all are crazy and they all have invalid opinions because of their age (unless they agree with him).

Things I find annoying about CAP Alert are:

• their using gays as scapegoats for almost everything, Satan (who I picture more as a "God hates me, watch me slit my wrists"-type figure than anything else if he does exist) also, and sometimes even deducting points from their "Sexual Immorality" section solely due to an openly gay actor / actress or to a song by an openly gay person playing.

• On one of the pages in the "SAD (Sex Ed, ABC, and Disney)" section, Tom talks of how he would have added an image of Mickey Mouse wearing an earring on his right ear if he couldn't get sued for it, which sounded somewhat mean-spirited and "HAW HAW LYK LOL F4GS R MICKEY DISNEY R F4GGG DISCRIMNATE HA8 ON 4 NO RESON LOLOLOLOL"-ish to me.
• how Tom Calder spends a ton of his time writing for CRAP Alert while his wife is forced to take care of 30-something adopted kids. How rude and chauvinistic is that?!
• their insistence in their "Back-To-School Special" article that parents must overreact over their kid having something with a peace sign on it because apparently any non-cross symbol is of the devil. And yin-yangs, and the all-seeing-eye thing on the back of the dollar bill (yet he most likely uses dollars with it on them to buy movie tickets for himself). Talk about invasion of privacy and hypocriteness in the last part.
• they believe other fundies when they say things like "Harry Potter are evil for junxtaposing morals with magic and made-up creatures [Totally Random Bible Quote 7:77]". My mom thought that Harry Potter was evil at first, until she actually began to actually read the books and fell in love with them. Contradicted when CAP reviewed that "We Are Family" video thingy that other fundies condemned just because SpongeBob was shown in there and SpongeBob acts gay towards Patrick.
• their talking on and on about "His expectations for the movie industry" when God cannot possibly watch movies and all 6.something billion people in this world at once! And all the events in the Bible took place around two thousand years ago and before that. The Old Testament of the Bible's a historical document with old laws (that sometimes change within it), myths, and writing out history and commands to people, and the New Testament's writings about the life of Jesus Christ, his philosophies, and his disciples' lives and what they went on to do. Following everytihng in there at once is incredibly restricting and is being somewhat ignorant of history.

• And where does the Bible refer to "the most foul of the foul words"?! Is that in the currently undiscovered Book of Tom Calder or what? People didn't speak English then, so therefore they didn't say the F word then. Besides, the line in there referrign to what comes out of the mouth defiling could also refer to spitting in public, not necessarily swearing, though CRAP Alert certainly defiled my brain for aeveral months.
• The whole "Drugs / Alcohol" section when the Bible doesn't mention drugs to my knowledge. eople were pretty ignorant about drugs back then, in particular people in the Biblical Lands, though they were probably there. Talk about the Lost Book of Tom Calder there again.

Yup, you guessed right. I have a burning hate for CAP Alert, embittered by them. CRAP Alert and other similar fundie sites I found links to taught me that some people choose to become ignorant on everything, and that reason and instincts can become overrided by preaching the 'right' lines to mold a person the 'right' way. Basically, it brainwashed me for a bit. CAP Alert was addictive at a drug level -- it sucked out my soul and very sense of being, it chewed me up and spit me out. Good thing I became addicted during the sumer time, so I couldn't embarrass myself through spewing out fundie words memorized more than I did. And, even though fundies claim that you should only worry about what God tihnks of you, CAP Alert made it appear that God was more judging, more bitter than any human there is. How does that make people less self-conscious, when it'll only make them more?!?

Now it makes me wonder what does Tom Calder let his kids do, other than watch the few movies getting a G-equivalent "wisdom" score? Does he even let them breathe??! And how come he's allowed to adopt kid after kid after kid when he already has thirty-two or so taken care of crappily? Is there some sort of underground fundie adoption agency where they steal kids from regular orphanages and sell them to fundies (yup, I know it sounds like a conspiracy thory, but it isn't that far-fetched compared to other theories about non-fundies that fundies make up)?!? If so, then I'd like to hear about it. I also typed out most of this from the top of my head, since I refuse to ever visit the site ever again since people willingly being ignorant makes me irritated.

Oh, and Tom Calder and God are two separate beings, though, through CAP Alert, I began to think of Tom Calder as God from his implying that he's so. Damn man needs to gain some reason, and he needs to understand kids and teenagers, understand that the world ain't black and white. Fundies only see a ton of black and little dots of white here and there, and it makes me kind of sick.

It is the holy and inerrant inspired Word of God.

I believe that the MEN that wrote the bible were deeply spiritual, seeking to understand their idea of God from the perspective of a bronze age culture.

Yes, MEN put pen to paper. But they did not engineer the words. God did. Whether you believe it or not. And don't argue with me about it. Argue with God. He will give you a much better and more permanent answer than I ever could.

They were not infallible.

Then by your argument God is fallible.

The best example of this so called divine word of God is that there is no repudiation of human bondage.

Now you speak to era-specific matters. Incest was not sinful in the Beginning either. You need to expand the score of your thinking.

The Apostle Paul advised in 1st Corinthians that slaves faithfully serve their masters. This is the justification for slavery that was used in the antebellum old south, and led directly to the most horrific war in our nations history.

"Nation's." And it was the Japanese leaders who led us directly into the most horrific war in our nation's history. But then, if you speak to the Jews, it was Hitler.

The belief of fundamentalist Christians is that the bible is a literal document is wrong thinking.

Men corrupted the concept of slavery. Not God. Much the same as we corrupted "suffer not a witch to live", ignoring that "not to live" meant not among them. The "slavery" to which you refer and on which you so earnestly try to rely for argumentative victory was paid servitude much like a butler or maid. It seems you are grasping for straws borne of failure to read just the words and not the Word to defend your "wrong thinking." Or borne of Religion-101 or World Religion-601.

If you don't bring your religious views

I am not a "religious" man. I am Christian. Too much "churchianity" or "religianity" in modern organized religion. "Churchianity" and "religianity" might be described as a system of worship and obedience doctrines which satisfy man but any adherence to the teachings and expectations of Jesus is coincidental, superficial, or counterfeited.

out of the bronze age you are doomed to repeat all the failures of history.

Or successes. And that you claim my platform is in the bronze age does not make it so. But it rather does say something about you. Also, I suspect that what you would call failures were not.

I will not play ping pong with this, son. I will see your email in our inbox no more.

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Well, he was right about one thing, he is not a religous man, he's an incest defending supremist. People like this are the ones that kill in the name of God or look the other way when others do.

But that which happens "behind the scenes" in the practice of homosexuality of which intentionally few are aware is always carefully and strategically guarded from being revealed in matters such as this film targeted at your adolescents (which include at-home teens).

The conservative obsession with the details of gay sex fascinates me. Do they realize that many people can find out the details without being disgusted/curious to try it (in the case of some Christians, I wonder if it's the later).

Verily. If there's a musical group worth boycotting, I would definitely say it's Creed.

After reading what the creationist wrote, I'm feeling vaguely sick. If someone believed a simple story or game as seriously as he believes Christianity, they'd be in mental therapy faster than one could say neural imbalance.

Which brings to mind the saying: "What's the difference between a madman, a cult, and a religion? The number of people holding those same crazy beliefs."