Ted Haggard Is Most Likely Guilty Of Gay Acts
My opinion is that Ted Haggard is a liar about his gay acts and doing drugs. First he denied all allegations but when evidence showed up he changed his mind and decided to admit to the allegations of purchasing drugs. The he wants to convince us that he did buy the drugs but did not use them. That’s like saying you did buy that Big Mac but you never ate it.
Here is video evidence showing that Ted Haggard most likely had gay sex with Mike Jones, most likely used meth on numerous occasions and most likely lies about it today to save face in front of his congregation.
Evidence #1:
Ted Haggard claims he doesn’t even know Mike Jones.
Reporter: Do you know Mike Jones?
Ted Haggard: No I do not know Mike Jones.
Evidence #2:
Ted Haggard: I think I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars I won’t tell your wife.
Evidence: #3:
Reporter: The voice expert […] has matched now 18 of your words left on the voicemail […]
Ted Haggard: I did call him. I did call him.
Reporter: What did you call him about?
Ted Haggard: I called him to buy some meth but I threw it away.
[…]
Reporter: how did you know he would sell it to you?
Ted Haggard: He told me about it, I went there for a massage.
Ted Haggard lied and lost the trust of his congregation. He did step down but his congregation should not accept his return unless they too are hypocrites. The position he held was one of trust and having lied to us all he should not be given another chance at lying to us and shaping religion and politics if he has demons of his own he is trying to battle.
God versus Science
Listening to Science Friday show for Friday August 4th 2006 I can’t help but feel deeply troubled.
One of the guests is Owen Gingerich author of the forthcoming “God’s Universe” (Belknap, 2006).
The second guest is Francis Collins director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and author of the popular book The Language of God is one who really irked me with his statement on atheists.
When asked wether atheists have faith or not he answered:
“Well they certainly do. In fact they probably are required to have more faith than many people who believe in God because they have to have faith in their own intellect’s ability to know so much that they can exclude the possibility of God categorically which seems to be the greatest statement of faith or perhaps hubris and arrogance that one could imagine”
I’ll remind him that many atheists:
1) do not believe that the universe was created for them
2) do not believe they were made in the image of their creator
3) that they are so loved by their God that he sent their only begotten son to save us
1) If God was smart and made the universe for us he wouldn’t have needed to make it so big. 28 billion light years in diameter and that’s what we know exists. Why would it need to be so big when we’re only but a mere spec on the outskirts of the suburbs of the universe?
2) Atheists do not believe in a creator. They believe that the process of evolution makes us cousins to the chimpanzees and we are imperfect because the process of evolution is imperfect. We are but animals with nothing special except a consciousness that other animals weren’t as lucky as us to evolve.
3) Give me a break. We do not believe in a perfect creator that holds us accountable for our own imperfections either.
With all this said Collins admitted in the same interview that he admired the strength people got out of faith and that it is the thing that drove him to know more about it.
His reasoning for believing in God rests on a single tenet… that you cannot know everything in the universe. Humanity explained disease as being satan working his evil magic. Humanity explained thunder as being the anger of Zeus. Humanity explained diformities as sins of the parents. Humanity explained all kinds of things as divine or evil because they didn’t have a readily available explanation for whatever it was they didn’t understand.
Now that we explain disease and diformities I find it troubling that a prominent geneticist uses the very advancement of science and its track record to shape a view of the world where God isn’t required. Albeit I find it funny as well. In a dragon in a garage type of way.