Q. Which of these fundamentalist nutbags is scarier?

Bill Donahue of the Catholic League

Osama Bin Laden of Al-Qaeda

A. If you’re John Edwards, apparently Bill Donahue is the scarier entity after seeing Edwards fold this week. So, for any of you Edwards supporters out there, please ask yourself how Edwards could stand up to Bin Laden, if he can’t even stand up to Bill Donahue.

Recently, William Dembski, the tireless crusader against scientific rigor, and Michael Shermer, one of my favorite authors, were involved in a debate at Bridgewater College, a small liberal arts school affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. It was hostile territory for Michael Shermer, who is used to being outnumbered. I remember quite well his taking on four different guests on Coast to Coast AM, debating each of them on some psuedoscientific nonsense.

While I didn’t get to be there, of course, I thought it was interesting to see two different takes on the debate.

Panda’s Thumb has a nice write up here: Shermer and Dembski in Bridgewater

And on the ID side, we have a writeup from Dembski’s blog “Uncommon Descent”: “Bill Dembski is world famous” says creationism’s prodigal son Michael Shermer

One of these days I will complete my report on my Amaz!ng Meeting 5 experience. I’ve been so busy with work and something new my wife are working, that I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and finish.

Anyway, on to my dislike of John Edwards. I’ve always disliked John Edwards for the following reasons:

1) He is a personal injury lawyer
2) He is a personal injury lawyer
3) He is a personal injury lawyer
4) His whole campaign is based on class warfare
5) Despite his talk of “two Americas”, he does no pro-bono work
6) He is a personal injury lawyer

Now I have a new reason. A couple weeks ago, Edwards hired bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan to work on the blog side of his presidential campaign. Marcotte was to be the blogmaster, and McEwan a part-time technical adviser. I will admit I am not a regular reader of either of their progressive issue oriented blogs, but I have read enough of Marcotte’s blog to know how “anti-religious/pro-science” her blog is.

This didn’t sit well with Bill Donahue, the leader of the Catholic League, who spends all his time combating the “war” against Catholics. We all know how oppressed Christians, especially Catholics are in this country. For example, when the latest pope was selected, it was hardly covered by the 24 hour news networks. Christmas and Easter are practically ignored. Donahue made a big stink over the hiring of these two bloggers, releasing press releases and going on television to complain.

On February 7th, Salon.com reported that Marcotte and McEwan were fired, but this turned out to be incorrect. They hadn’t been fired but, as the Edwards campaign put it, they were “reviewing the issue”. They let the bloggers twist in the wind for a full day before releasing a statement that chastised Marcotte and McEwan for what they wrote on their blogs. Instead of coming to their defense right away, and fighting back against the blithering idiot Bill Donahue, the Edwards campaign buckled. Sure Edwards didn’t fire them (they in fact have both resigned now), but he publically took the side of Bill Donahue, and not his supporters. Nice job John.

Therefore, I’m calling out John Edwards as a spineless douchebag. If you’d like to see how someone with principles and integrity handles Bill Donahue, check out this clip from the Opie and Anthony Show, where Louis CK destroys Donahue: Audio Clip.

I’ve never read the bible: