Day: September 29, 2009

My Blasphemy Contest Entry

Buck Banks

God’s Sod, A Limerick

You say God’s omnipotent.
You say God’s omniscient.
But why believe in God,
You benighted sod,
When secular humanism’s sufficient?

Think you can do better? Doubtful, but there’s still time to get your entry in before midnight Oct. 1. (To read our previous coverage of the the Blasphemy Contest go here.)

Send your entry to blasphemycontest@centerforinquiry.net. Remember: it has to be 20 words or fewer.

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it…. And here’s the thing: I’m not engaging in hyperbole. These days, dire warnings aren’t the delusional raving of cranks. They’re what come out of the most widely respected climate models, devised by the leading researchers. The prognosis for the planet has gotten much, much worse in just the last few years.

— Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate.