Sunday, August 28, 2016

The Modern-Day Noah's Ark Comes to TV as the Moronification of America Continues

Make this one even better and shoot it was a reality show on that crap shoot of an Ark in Kentucky and the whole state could serve the country well by sinking underwater.  (Deadline | Hollywood: NBC Buys Modern-Day Noah’s Ark Drama Produced By Robert Zemeckis)

All this to serve some fringe lunatics who believe a verbatim reading of the Bible while hardly anyone else does except perhaps for those indoctrinated by fundamentalist missionaries in Africa.

You know, even those Zika skeeters were on that Ark and God or Noah or somebody told them to hide for ten thousand years before biting anyone.  See, perfectly plausible.

Catholics don't seem to give much of a rip and usually respond, well, that Noah, he must have had a big ass boat.  Maybe even cool to find it to see what the crazies talk about all this time.  They're looser and tighter at the same time on different things.  Unusual, lot that one.


The only way the Ark story works is when arithmetic or much of any science at all just doesn't matter anymore.  Spare me the Creationist theory as that's no more than a theological puppy treat for uneducated dolts.  It doesn't take an advanced degree to see there's no way in hell of putting pairs of all the animals of the Earth on one boat.  The idea is patently absurd no matter how deeply you study it and the more the research the more the story falls apart.

The hysterical need for acceptance of the fundamentalist view is the puzzling aspect.  Do they think they can't believe in God anymore if you can't fit all the animals in the world on a boat.  What difference does it make if anyone believes it if your faith is real so, uh, what's the big deal.


Yet now they do it again with a prime time, big bucks, Noah's Ark spectacular and, get this, with actual restored video from the original Ark.  Sure, they had video cameras back then.


At what point do you get insulted.  I don't recall seeing a show along any line of "You're a Fucking Idiot If You Believe" unless it was a comedy special with the act trying to push buttons.  Beyond that, there's nothing like the systematic onslaught of utter mediocrity in theology.

God said, I believe it, that settles it.

Christ, it took two thousand years to come up with that?  How is it even possible unless your mind is as slow as a Central American tree sloth.


More than anything else it appears second-rate preachers perceive any increase in authority they can attribute to the Bible also comes to themselves because the congregations brings it to you plus a shitload of money with that acceptance.


Beyond that, there doesn't seem any sense in it whatsoever and it sure will bring big bucks to NBC.  Stay classy, network TV.

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