U S evangelicals drive Republcan support for israel

[Lilith7]

I remember Ray Comfort from his preaching in the square days too. The story went that he'd done too much of whatever drug one day & freaked out, become paranoid, 'found god' & decided his god wanted him to flush all the drugs belonging to his flat mates down the loo, which he did & which made him extremely unpopular - but no idea if that''s true or not.


And then there was this; the infamous banana argument:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ray-comfo..._n_4847082


"Comfort offers up the 'ironclad argument' that bananas are proof of God's intelligent design of the natural world because "the banana and the hand are perfectly made, one for the other."


"Behold, the atheists' nightmare!" declares Comfort, before detailing the many user-friendly features of bananas, which include its "non-slip surface," "tab at the top" for easy opening, and convenient shape which is "even curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier."
In fact, the banana as we know it is the result of careful artificial selection by humans over the course of many years. The wild banana is small, seed-filled, and unpalatable. The banana came about through human manipulation of evolutionary mechanisms.
In response, Comfort said in a video that has now been made private that he "was not aware that the common banana had been so modified through hybridization."