Ready for a laugh?

Then read on…

I. Why I’ve never trusted large crowds…

(From Leprechaun Sighting.)

II. E-Z Answer Squirrel

(From wondercafe.ca)

III. A funny webcomic…

‘Only the Good Die Jung’ (Click to read high-res version.)

(From here.)

IV. Naturalism vs. Theism debate

Fernandes vs. Lowder

V. On Justice Scalia

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our Nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists. … The three most popular religions in the United States, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam–which combined account for 97.7% of all believers–are monotheistic. (Bold mine; Justice Scalia, dissenting opinion, McCreary County v. ACLU of KY.)

Wait! Wait! One of these things is not like the other! One of these things just doesn’t belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others; which one do you think it is? Is it (1) a video about large crowds that believe they saw a leprechaun in a tree, (2) the skit on solving our most pertinent questions with something as random and reliable as a Magic 8-Ball, (3) a webcomic about irony, (4) a poor debate where it’s clear to most parties that the theist needs to stop sucking down helium (and make a better, more intelligent case; I’m serious, I’ve heard far more eloquent words from the believers that have written here), or (5) this guy:

I’d go with the webcomic. It’s too highbrow and self-referential to be funny.

But seriously, one of the most powerful men in the free world believes that both a majority and tradition necessarily dictate civil rights. It ‘is to lift the evil at once and exhibit in its naked deformity the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers, or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor.’ (James Madison)

(Cribbed sources of quotes from the excellent site, Positive Liberty, in a relevant post to my recent argument on postmodernism in the Right-wing.)