My brain is starved and I need gold. [View All]

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a/k/a, time for another exciting episode of...Religious Right Radio Watch.

While running chores today, I felt the need for some Recreational Xianity and tuned in the local Fundie radio station here in Los Angeles. It is KKLA, and as I often rant, for consistency they really need one more "K" in that call sign.

This is the local home of "Dr." James Dobson, Jay Sekulow/Xian Lawyers of America, Xian Anti-Women of America, and my favorite show--the hilariously misnamed Intersection of Faith and Reason. Which is just as bad as you might imagine, given that pretentious moniker.

The modern St. Augustine who hosts IOFAR is a washed-up jock named Frank Pastore. He claims he was "an agnostic and atheist for 20 years." Both at the same time, I reckon. Assumed translation - he didn't think much at all about religion until he saw that Jesus paid very well.

I only caught part of a couple of shows today:

Show #1 - Buy gold, according to some hi-falutin' Brit-twit, who breathlessly announced that "Obama is frittering away your savings with his schemes to stimulate the economy."

"Your paper savings in the bank are evaporating right now! You need an asset you can hold in your hands!" (OK, I can't resist. The asset I most want to hold in my hands probably belongs to Scarlett Johansson...)

He wants to send you a free DVD and booklet.

Oh, his qualifications?

"I worked for Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in Eng-UH-lund..."

:rofl:

Yeah, THERE's some great CV material in the current economic climate!

Show #2 - Your brain is starving if you are over 25, but you can restore it by feeding it...well, some BS "organic" concoction. (Natural/homeopathic cures are a BIG product on this station. Listening to it often sounds like somebody is reading the DU Health threads out loud.)

This "show" featured a man and woman, with the woman asking rhetorical questions and the guy answering at length.

To be honest, I couldn't follow his science-y explanations. They were all over the map and I'm sure a couple of them contradicted each other.

One jumped out at me, though: "Our brains are not evolutionarily developed for the stress of modern life."

I thought it was hilarious to hear the words "evolutionarily developed" on a station that spends much of its time attacking evolution.

Though to be fair, the other day I heard some expert on this station trying to square evolution with the Genesis fairy tale. He was greatly bothered by the words "the evening and morning were the first day." And IIRC, finally settled the question by saying "God is outside of time."

Oh. Well, that helps a lot.