Quote (taekvideo @ May 5 2013 03:50pm)
The Hitler one is very misleading/deceptive at best.
The passage in question is
1) They weren't necessarily kids. The original (untranslated) word for "youth" has been used to describe people other places in the bible known to be up to 38 years old. And considering they were allowed out of the city by themselves, it's probable they were at least teenagers.
2) They weren't killed for calling him bald. To put the passage in context, Elisha was Elijah's disciple, and Elijah had recently "ascended into heaven in a whirlwind" (earlier in the same chapter). Shaving the head bald was a traditional sign of mourning. When the youths say "go up, you baldhead", they're calling him a liar, and mocking the supposed miracle of Elijah's ascension into heaven (like, "if your master really did ascend to heaven then lets see it, ascend now, go on"). So they were killed for blasphemy, not for calling someone bald.
If Christianity is really as absurd as you seem to think it is, you shouldn't have any problem finding ways to ridicule it without making stuff up. If you have to resort to basing your criticisms on fabrications like this though, then you're just as ignorant/foolish as you accuse them of being.
very well said....
I am a christian and my opinion on letting scientists talk about religion is the same as letting a religious zealot talk about science...
I believe in evolution, and any scientist that wishes to speak about it I will trust what they have to say (given some evidence of course) but when they try to say evolution disproves god (without evidence) that is when I stop listening...