Jesus and Bullshit

It's how the words are used. "Santa is an alien from Mars, obviously."  "Jesus, what's the matter with you"; or "Bullshit.  What's the matter with you."  Jesus here denotes incredulity and scorn.  Bullshit is dismissive and condemnatory.  They are expletives, not nouns.  You'd say, that's bullshit, not that's Jesus.  

Very disrespectful.  "Buddha, dude, yer suchuh nidiot!" "Mohammad Prophet! Git the hell outta here!"  "Santa Claus! That was awesome!"  "By Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be avenged!" "Leave Brittany alone!"

It doesn't seem right, using any real person as a cuss.  Let alone Jesus.  A little is okay, or at least to be expected.  To be human.  Imperfections.  But laziness here amounts to discourtesy.  And thoughtlessness just for the effyou of it is, well, no.  

So it has to do with arrogance.  I do what I want.  Which brings me to atheism ... or rather, away from blasphemy to rigor.  Carl Sagan wasn't a badguy.  Neither was Steven Jay Gould. They just had low standards.  The arrogance that went with it, however, well, I'd beat them so hard I'd have to pause for a refreshment.  

Sagan repackaged the idea quite neatly: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.  This became to the then-currently upcoming generation a sloppy dogmatic proof of Evolutionism and Atheism.  Same thing, really.  But this is an instance where the converse is at least as powerful, and, crucially, more true.

Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary claims.

The universe exists.  Life exists.  These are extraordinary facts.  Life does not come from non-life.  Nothing comes from nothing -- pace virtual particles (the borrowed probability that allows a particle to foam into existence becomes exponentially improbable with the passage of time).  X billions of years worth of the universe's solidified foam seems, well, Beyond Impossible*. 

The impossibility of these things existing cannot be hand-waved away by authoritatively asserting that there is no God, which somehow proves the uncaused Big Bang of the infinite virtual particle of the Singularity, and also proves the random non-teleological spontaneous generation of, well, call it life.  God does not exist, therefore there is a universe.

The extraordinary claim that God does not exist has no extraordinary evidence to support it.  So, in conclusion, that's bullshit.  Krishna.

J

* Simply be nobodies; Bible penis sodomy; spindle my boobies.