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Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:43:43 +0000

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:41:00 +0000

p.s. according to Mr. Hawking it shouldn't really make any difference if adults or children die, or how they die, or when they die, because it's no different than just turning off a computer.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:38:58 +0000

You can read about him here, and it has information on the FAA crash report...it was pilot error of the leased plane. I don't know how you can blame passengers strapped in their seats for any plane crash. Accidents happen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Green

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:57:26 +0000

If I follow the logical extension of Mr. Hawkings reasoning, it would make no difference if today, suddenly, everyone on Earth died. Moreover, it wouldn't matter if they died peacefully or died a horrible death. It also shouldn't matter if we feed the starving poor in Africa, or just let them die and spend our Western money on better lifestyles here. For that matter of fact, why not have some fun and just randomly lob some nuclear missiles around the world so we can see all the pretty explosions. Heck, nothing matters, we're just all computers waiting for our time to shut down, and then it's done. Makes no difference if you're a slave, or a slave driver with a whip. Mr. Hawking lives in a very simple world, because the end has no consequences for how we lived our lives here, because once we're gone, we're done, end of story, that's it, adios and goodbye. What a sad way to live, to look on life as so meaningless and empty...maybe 100 years of life, filled with pain, joy, laughter, anger...it makes no difference. I'm glad I'm not him, not because of his physical disability, but because of his emotional disability.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:27:06 +0000

How does saying that everything we have done become meaningless when we die...and our brain/computer turns off...show him being "hopeful for humanity"? That sounds totally hopeless to me and gives no value to anything anyone has ever done. If according to Hawking we live and then...POOF...die, and that's the end of it, then whether that person who lived was a Hitler or a Mother Teresa makes no difference whatsoever. We are not a Borg Collective, where the collective is more important than the individual...in God's eyes we are all equally important individuals, and each one of us matters. According to Hawking, really none of us matters, and in fact all of humanity has no value, and if all of humanity died today, it wouldn't matter that the Earth had no humans, because in his mind he sees no hope for anyone. However, I see hope in being a human, not in being a computer that's on the way to the scrap heap.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:54:57 +0000

It’s too long to go into detail here, but below is the book of Genesis from the Bible, written about 1,000 BC (3,000 years ago) http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genes... Here is a simplified, slimmed down version of Genesis. The Beginning 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light LIGHT 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” THEN LAND AND WATER 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” THEN VEGETATION ON LAND 20 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, THEN SEA CREATURES 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. THEN LAND CREATURES 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. THEN HUMANS Now, how does this compare to The Big Bang and what scientists tell us of the Big Bang and the Earth’s evolution. Big Bang causes LIGHT, much later after Earth after Earth cools WATER accumulates around the DRY LAND, and then VEGETATION appears, then SEA CREATURES, then LAND CREATURES, then HUMANS. So, we have a 3,000 year old summary which is pretty close to what science tells us now, written by people who didn’t have computers, didn’t have telescopes, had no knowledge of geology, or plate techtonics, or genetics, but yet who wrote down things pretty close to the order the same order given by modern scientists. Now, was that random chance, or divine guidance in writing the book of Genesis Bible…you tell me. If this had just been some guy writing Genesis, with no human intervention, he could have written things which would have been pure nonsense, but to someone 3,000 years ago, or even 1,000 years ago, would have seemed perfectly OK.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:20:46 +0000

Well, there are plenty of things outside of religion that are unnecessary, divisive and bothersome, so I'll let it go at that...try reading CS Lewis' book, Mere Christianity. Boils it down to the basics. I agree, I don't think mean-spirited comments directed at Mr. Hawking serve any useful function, and I hope if you read my comments you will not find that tone in them. None of my comments were meant to put down Mr. Hawking, only to show that there is hope even for him, whereas what he writes shows to me a hopeless life with nothing to look forward to in the end. To summarize his life based upon his beliefs it seems to be, "Write a lot of books, teach a lot of classes, make a lot of speeches, turn off computer, goodbye, darkness." Regarding any judgement, that's up to the individual and none of us is perfect, or even close to perfect.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:01:16 +0000

Dear SeanPatriot, I'm a Christian and not the least bit upset about what Mr. Hawking says or writes about God. I feel sorry for him, and I worry about him just as I worry about any other non-Christian. Every human being on this planet is on their own individual journey, and periodically the entire human race gets recycled. Despite all that is in the history books about the U.S. civil war, there is not a man or woman alive today who was even a baby then. Stephen Hawkings come, and Stephen Hawkings go. Alexander the Greats come, and Alexander the Greats go. The only constant in THIS world is our own self-inflated egos, when in fact we all are, as the song goes, just "dust in the wind." God cares about us, even when we don't care about Him. Others have learned that too late before Stephen Hawking, but as long as a person is still alive it's not too late.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:53:58 +0000

John 3:16 (New International Version) For God so loved Stephen Hawking that he gave his one and only Son, so that if Stephen Hawking believes in him Stephen Hawking shall not perish but have eternal life. Dear Mr. Hawking, all you need to do is believe, and let God take care of the rest.

Breitbart.com : Heaven is a \'fairy story\', says Stephen Hawking

Mon, 16 May 2011 13:06:50 +0000

I would ask Mr. Hawking two questions. First, why does he feel a need to accomplish anything, if when we all die he feels it's the end of things? If that is the case, accomplishing great things and doing great good for people in the world has no more significance than accomplishing nothing, zero. Second, he has his own faith. It is the faith that there was something, some little ball of matter which always existed, and then...BOOM...at some time in the past it just decided to erupt into the Big Bang. Why does he have faith that that happened, as it is surely faith because it is totally unprovable? I feel very sorry for Mr. Hawking. So brilliant, and so lost, with nothing to look forward to other than the OFF switch being hit on his brain/computer, and then eternal nothingness and the complete erasure of all that he ever did, thought, or wrote. I believe in heaven, and as a Christian I can't wait to get there.

Breitbart.com : Top Iran cleric rejects Holocaust as \'superstition\'

Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:59:55 +0000

The Holocaust was very real. However, the idea that "there are moderate Muslims"....now THAT is a world class myth.

Breitbart.com : Pelosi: US health overhaul will happen

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:00:39 +0000

It's time for a real March on Washington...with pitchforks, tar, and feathers!

Breitbart.com : Pelosi: US health overhaul will happen

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:58:12 +0000

Dear Ms. Pelosi, just because 40 politicians sat at a table for 7 hours yammering does NOT mean that the American public now support your bill or Harry Reid's bill or Obama's bill. You met at a table and talked. So what! People in business do that all the time and STILL often do not arrive at a deal that works for both of them. In that case, guess what happens? Nothing! The bill is dead, dead, dead. Sheesh. How much time are you going to waste on that thing?

Breitbart.com : Scientists seek better way to do climate report

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:13:03 +0000

"small errors"? "small errors"? Let's see, the Himalayan glaciers NOT disappearing, African NOT running out of food, the Amazon NOT being destroyed, half of the Netherlands NOT being under sea level....those are three small errors I guess. So, what would big errors be? Al Gore NOT deserving the Nobel Peace Prize? The world being square instead of round? I dunno about the writer of this story, but to me those are four pretty HUGE errors.

Breitbart.com : Clinton-era health aides push to save Obama\'s plan

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:19:56 +0000

Mr. Jennings said, ".... What Americans respect are those people who can take a punch and come back...." Mr. Jennings, you must be deaf, dumb, and blind. We won't resepct the Democrats if they catch their breath and jam this health bill down our throats, we'll hate you for it. What in the name of God does it take for you people to wake up and smell the roses and realize the taxpayers of the U.S. don't want to support the NON-taxpayers of the U.S. Get it. You won't be respected now no matter what you do.

Breitbart.com : Obama \'strengthened America\' in first year: White House

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:12:15 +0000

Proof positive that everyone in the White House is stoned.

Breitbart.com : Obama vents frustration at Senate delays

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:05:08 +0000

He still can't even decide on a church....I guess because he's still too busy trying to select a mosque to attend. Obama is a joke. Pity the poor citizens who voted for this idiot.

Breitbart.com : Clinton returns to limelight after breaking elbow

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:33 +0000

I'm confused, why does a broken elbow make it impossible for her to do office work? In private industry if you used that as an excuse to stop doing and "office job" you would be canned the same day. What a wimp.

Breitbart.com : Clinton returns to limelight after breaking elbow

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:47:22 +0000

Here are some ideas for other political slings Bill Clinton - Playboy logo Barack Obama - Hamas flag Ted Kennedy - Guinness beer logo Sonia Sotomayor - Reserved for Non-Whites Only logo Al Franken - Ringling Bros. Circus logo Michelle Obama - Any designer logo Dick Cheney - NRA logo The opportunities are endless. With enough broken political elbows it could be a real boon for the logo printing industry.

Breitbart.com : Clinton returns to limelight after breaking elbow

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:26:49 +0000

Yeah, I would like to know if U.S. taxpayers paid to have the cool looking black specialty sling made for her with the seal on it. Why do we have to spend so much money treating these bozos like royalty? Maybe it only cost a hundred bucks, but that is OUR hundred bucks, the taxpayer's hundred bucks, that was wasted. Maybe that sling was part of the stimulus program. Fact is, if one of those auto execs had appeared on Capitol Hill in a sling with a GM, Ford, or Chyrsler logo on it they would have been skewered. What unmitigated gall to show off that seal at our expense.