Fuck the Motherfucker (sorry)

This song is full of profanity, and it's likely to piss off a lot of people, potentially including people I know and love dearly. I apologize to them in advance, but I do not, can not, and will not apologize for the content or meaning of the song which I, instead, support with every inch of my being. It's full of profanity (hence my title), and so is my follow-up. Easily offended? Leave now.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0

Tim Minchin's one of my favorite musicians and comedians. He's funny and honest (which tend to go hand in hand) and has no problem calling an idiot an idiot, and we need more of that. In this case he doesn't hold back one bit, and I thank him for that.

I don't respect this authority figure just because a bunch of other supposed authority figures got together and voted that he was the guy who should be the leader of their church. I know as a non-Catholic I can't possibly understand what it's like, and how important he is, and how infallible he's supposed to be. He's a motherfucker who covered up for and protected child-fuckers. Children were RAPED by men who they and their parents TRUSTED, who they were supposed to trust more than anyone else by the very design of the motherfucking organization, and this trust was violated. And then, when the motherfuckers who violated their trust and bodies were called out on it, even bigger motherfuckers like the current Pope (then a a Cardinal) protected them from prosecution and hid their motherfucking crimes.

So no, I don't understand your church, and I don't understand why you feel the need to protect this man when you'd be crying for blood if a cop or a judge or the mayor either fucked your kid or covered up for someone who did. I'm sorry I don't understand it and I'm sorry I never, ever fucking will. There is no damn bloody excuse for this no matter who this man thinks he is, has been told he is, or has been divinely inspired to be that allows for this.

And in the off chance that I'm fucking wrong, and he is divine, and this is all part of the plan, well you know what? Fuck the motherfucking plan, too. Yes, I'm an atheist, and contrary to what people who can't comprehend atheism believe, no that doesn't mean I hate your god, or that I'm angry at him. It means I simply do not believe he exists. None of your evidence has managed to convince me so far. But just for a moment suppose you managed to do the trick. You managed to find the evidence, display the miracles, push the boundaries and prove to me that, holy shit, it's all true. If the religion you reveal to me to be reality happens to be one in which motherfuckers like this are RIGHT and JUST in their actions, and your god condones this evil prick's actions, you'll only have managed to convince me of your first opinion. Because that's a god I could hate, loathe, revile, detest, and vow my life against. That's a sick, twisted deity, and one that doesn't fit your descriptions of a loving, just god. At that point I'd be more interested in taking my chances with the devil.

Ignorant Clown Posse

So these videos have been flooding the skeptical community lately, but the latest parody from SNL brought it to the forefront for me again and I thought it was time to post these videos for myself. They're both just too good, in very different ways, not to pass along.

First off, we have this, er, gem from ICP. Comments to immediately follow...

Courtesy of Skepchick

Okay, so let's get the obvious out of the way first: holy fucking shit are these guys dumb. Listen, I have nothing against ICP. I also have nothing for ICP. I'm not sure I've ever heard their music before, but I know they have a huge, fanatical following, and I can only guess this is due to some level of talent. Heck, they seem to be able to put together a mildly catchy beat and rhyme words in this song, so I'll give them that.

What they're apparently incapable of is any level of truly intelligent thought. In this case they've decided to take all the majesty of the universe (and kudos to them for appreciating it) and boil it all down to magic. They go through a long list of random (and sometimes truly peculiar) elements of our world, and ascribe them to magic and miracles, as opposed to crediting them to everything we know they actually are. They also throw in UFOs, which is even more random, what with the lack of compelling evidence for their existence and all. Then again, they seem to have no interest in or respect for evidence.

See, according to Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, see they don't want to talk to a scientist (it's unclear if this is only on the subject of how magnets work, or on everything), because "y'all motherfuckers be lyin', and gettin' [him] pissed." Apparently their definition of "lying" includes telling the truth based on cold, hard facts and evidence. Magic and miracles to them are the only truth, and anyone who bothers to explain it is clearly a "motherfucker" and is just trying to confuse their feeble minds. How deeply, deeply sad.

I strongly suggest you check out Rebecca Watson's beautiful shredding of this video by theorizing a world in which one of these two Clowns isn't a clueless dipshit and actually answers the other one's questions intelligently. It's hilarious and easy to understand, and manages to prove how badly people like these two "musicians" have been screwed by education in this country.

Now the new video that touched off my desire to blog about this one is SNL's completely brilliant parody. Yes, yes, SNL's been hit-or-miss over recent years, and I won't argue that. But occasionally they hit the nail right on the head, as they did here:

Courtesy of Skepchick (which includes the YouTube version for those outside the US, for as long as it stays up

The sad part is, the parody is not THAT much stupider than the actual video. Almost any of what went into SNL's version could have been slipped into the original unnoticed. Their definitions of magic and miracles had THAT low of a threshold, that I wouldn't have been surprised if clocks landed on their list.

Anyway, as funny as this all is, and damn is it funny, it's just another wake-up call that if two people like this can manage to escape education on the simplest levels of science, our country needs a lot of help. Schools need to promote science at a much higher level than they are now, and the scientific METHOD most of all, so our future voters and leaders understand that science isn't just a collection of opinions, but a technique for finding truth. As long as it's believed to be an ideology, which it most certainly is NOT, it's too easy for fools like this to consider it an optional opinion and dismiss it. And when they've got as many followers as they do, they influence a lot of minds to believe the same clueless garbage. Looks like it's time to get to work, folks.

Oh, and for those viewing the auto-repost of this on Facebook, click the View Original Post link at the bottom of the Note to see this on my actual blog, with the embedded videos intact. Facebook doesn't display them.

EDIT: Further courtesy of Skepchick, and specifically the comments, we have these gems:

• Apparently even MTV knows more about science than ICP.


• Cracked proves once again to be an invaluable source of humorous skeptical content


• And lastly, FuckingMagnets.com