Ben Carson: Humans walked on the moon because America was founded on God

[smirkymonkey]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-carson-humans-walked-on-the-moon-because-america-was-founded-on-god/comments/#disqus

"Ben Carson thinks human beings were able to travel to the moon because the United States was founded as a Christian nation.

“Here’s what is also fascinating,” the Republican presidential candidate explains in a video published by the Adventist News Network. “This nation — the United States of America — one of the few nations in history to claim God in their founding documents — we talk about in our Declaration of Independence certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator, every one of our coins, every one of our bills says ‘In God We Trust.'”

In the video, described as a “celebration of creationism from 2011,” Carson suggests that America’s belief in God resulted in a technological revolution.

“Now I want you to think about something,” he says. “This nation has had a profound effect on the world. Before the United States of America came on the scene, for 100 years, 200 years, a 1,000 years, 3,000 years, people did things the same way… within 200 years of the advent of this nation, which believed in God, men were walking on the moon. Completely revolutionized and changed the world because a nation was willing to acknowledge God.”


It just keeps getting more insane. Or funnier, depending upon your take. I guess he wasn't aware that the godless Russians made it to the Moon before we did.

[underpants]

1. "Now I want you to think about something"

Isn't that what hypnotists say?

[Xyzse]

2. I would be tempted to say I want what he's smoking... but seriously...

For a brain surgeon, he says the weirdest ish.

[bravenak]

4. Omg. I keep thinking it's weed.

[Xyzse]

14. Can't be... Has to be much stronger than that.

And he's not chilled out.

[bravenak]

16. I have been getting some one hitter that has me all messed up!

He might get that medical grade. Plus his pain meds from the cancer. He needs it, imo. Better low key then stabbin folks.

[Xyzse]

18. I talk, but I don't know what I'm talking about.

I am all second hand knowledge. Sooooo... I'll trust you on this one.

[bravenak]

19. Yay!!! I'm an EXPERT.

[Xyzse]

20. That's always awesome.

[hifiguy]

58. I've smoked some incredibly high-test weed in my day

and that was never close to getting me that detached from reality. Not even the "one-puff-to-the-Moon" Thai sticks of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

I wonder if he's not self-medicating with some serious shit like Thorazine or Haldol. He obviously has the zombie vocal cadence of someone on high doses of those very strong anti-psychotic meds, but you'd think those would get rid of his constant hallucinations and, I'd bet. the voices he has in his head all day every day.

[bravenak]

59. You know he had prostate cancer tho. Prolly gets meds for that.

Combine some vicodin and some weed and prolly scotch, he looks like a scotch guy, hoo boy!! Ben is on one!

[hifiguy]

62. If he "cured it" himself, as he claims, I think that's an unresolved question.

But to get that zombied-out I have to be knee-walking drunk, yet he manages to stand up for hours at a time at the klown shows.

Vicodin/weed/scotch actually sounds pretty plausible. One stiff scotch on top of some hillbilly heroin and top-grade herb could get you pretty damned wack without smelling like a wino.

What's baffling is that he seems to be in this unhinged state 24 hours per day.

[bravenak]

63. He DOES always look like that.

I bet it's because his cure is scotch, vicodin and weed!

[wordpix]

137. that would explain his half-closed eyes & reports that

when he meets people, he is Ben Jovial and they all love him.

[wordpix]

136. as a doc he has access to all the meds, for sure

[bravenak]

3. All he really cares about is religion.

He sounds like people from my old Church.
All religious people sound like that to me. ALL OF THEM. All. Everylastone. The second they get religious, my eyes glaze. Now, a thank god, or a bless you, or pray for je is cool, i might even sit and pretend to pray if somebody needs it, but once they start nattering, .

[Rex]

10. And Nazis, his loves to talk about them Nazis!

God and Nazis...what a combo!

[bravenak]

11. He is such a weird person. God and Nazis. Damn.

[Rex]

13. I agree he might be the strangest person I've ever seen run for POTUS. His ideas are bizarre.

And that is saying something, the man makes unusual people seem very mundane by comparison.

[bravenak]

17. If he wins, I move to pluto.

[Rex]

21. Save me a seat, please.

This country is done if that guy or Cruz gets into the WH. Game over.

[bravenak]

22. We might have to start selling spots on our colony. Bet we get lots of people to come with us.

[Rex]

24. LOL! Nobody will want to stay on this planet!

I say we set up OUR gated community first...last thing we want is for those darn South Plutonians coming around...with their rock and roll and skin tight jeans!

[bravenak]

25. Hee hee!!!

Their jibber jabber and slang talk.

[Rex]

26. Yes! We must establish our hegemony/economy first thing!

Have to make sure people don't forget what they left behind!

[bravenak]

30. A caste system!!! With us on top!! I'm gonna be Queen like Daenarys.

[Rex]

36. I will make sure to be the ONLY Evangelical charlatan in existence.

There can be only one...with all the money! ERRR...I mean...Plutonians listen to my tale about a place you can go to called Earth! Ruled by this evil devil named Ben.

"Tithe at the church of Pluto or be cast down...er...sideways to Earth!"

WE can have the monarchy, church and office all rolled into one!

Can I get a Praise Pluto!?

[bravenak]

38. Please!!! Can't! Too funny. Praise Pluto!!!!

[Rex]

41. Sorry too late...my brain now just wired itself!

Everytime I see Carson now I will think...Praise Pluto! Thanks bravenak, I am laughing-crying so hard my shirt looks like I stepped out into the rain.

AND this is still so far away from the main GOP show! Can we survive more hillarity, who will be next?

Jeb? Cruz? Can Ben Carson be topped? That shit with the pyramids was something else and now God's help to the Moon.

Just a small push.

PRAISE PLUTO!

[bravenak]

42. Hey! My art teacher had me convinced for TWO HOURS that the pyramids were a power plant.

I wa believing in levitation, aliens, all manner of wonders. Then I left class. It was gone. Except the aliens part.

Imagine him on the debate stage.

[Rex]

43. We have evidence (science!), clearly, who built the pyramids?

Clearly, with phototogrophy...it can be seen the dinosaurs did it!


T-Rex was bigger back in those days do to a larger amount of oxygen in the air.

[bravenak]

44. If I send this to her she will work it into our class, I shit you not.

[Rex]

46. I believe you.

There are many that believe The History Channel makes them honorary historians. So does Google U.

[hifiguy]

67. OK, that even tops

[Rex]

76. True but nothing tops assassin raptor riding death shark.

[hifiguy]

77. Needs a frikkin' laser attached to its head.

[smirkymonkey]

91. Ok, that is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time!

[Scurrilous]

120. This is more Ben Carson's style:

&feature=player_embedded

YouTube is @#$% things up. Half my favorites are now blocked (uploaders won't sign YouTube Red contract) and now this link is wonky.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. But, It's Not A Planet Anymore!

Venus is a shorter ride, too! You should reconsider, Brave!

[bravenak]

32. Venus is sooo hot!!! I'm alaskan now. Maybe Mars?

[ProfessorGAC]

54. I Hear Mars Is Nice

Property taxes are really low, too! Maybe my wife and i will come with ya!

[hifiguy]

72. It has Mars University and the Wong Ranch.

Can't be all bad.

[bravenak]

89. Yay!! Carpool!!

[LiberalArkie]

78. I hear that the rapture is coming any day to take them away. And then finally sanity.

And a lot of empty parking places.

[bravenak]

88. I hope so. The line is too long at The Lucky Wishbone. I want pan fried chicken.

They be in my way.

[Rex]

37. Blaspheme! You will have to be Left Behind...

on Earth.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. I'll Just Wait For Cochrane To Build The Phoenix

Then we'll see who's laughing!

[hifiguy]

64. Pluto?

Hell's bells, Crazy Uncle Benny will already be there - as head of the welcoming committee. He may be already.

[bravenak]

66. NOOOOOOOOO!!!

[nxylas]

115. You can only do that because America is a Christian nation

[bravenak]

116. Of course!

[PosterChild]

128. You could do worse . ..

[Initech]

47. Stranger than Herman Cain?

Remember this gem of a campaign ad?

http://

Hmmmm... tough call.

[Rex]

48. He smokes. Block is Block. Blockhead?

Does that ad even make sense? Never saw that one...WTFF? I'm left...with no words.

[Initech]

141. No that ad makes absolutely no sense.

I wonder when they finished it, the people who made it were like "nailed it!"?

[wordpix]

138. If you're a smoker, Cain's your man? Cain's choice for surgeon-general was Ben Carson

If Cain had gotten in, we'd be back to sharing cig smoke with smokers on every train, plan and bus in the country

[KamaAina]

81. And slavery. He is slavery-obsessed.

[Volaris]

118. see hes almost got it lol..

most of our (initial) post ww2 rocket and propulsion systems were Bogarted from the Germans anyway. Not saying that nazi v2 rockets got us to the moon, (they clearly didnt) but Verner Von Braun didnt become the original 'steely-eyed missle man' by not cashing Hitlers paychecks and marching in peace parades..he got that way by activley trying to destroy London, and it taught him a lot.

But if he likes to think that NASA getting to the moon was more Jeezuz than Jermanz...well....

[Rex]

119. Just like his Joseph and the Pyramids being granary myth...he gets about half of the legend right.

The story he told of Joseph was half correct...he even fudges on urban myths! Needs to stop smoking so much chronic imo.


Before I answer that question, does anyone want to order pizza?

[trusty elf]

124. .....

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[Rex]

130. Yes! We now have a way to measure the total effects of THC!

WELL DONE!

[smirkymonkey]

94. My god! You mean there is more than one of them!

Gah!!!

[jmowreader]

117. Fraid so...

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. Oh pleeeeese let this guy be the Republican Nominee...

If God does love us more than other countries....he will give us this guy as our Republican opponent!


HRC will mop the floor with this poser!

[MrWendel]

6. If he gets in...

the oval office is going to have padded wallpaper.

[randome]

35. "Orderly, open the door. We need him to sign something."

"He hasn't had his din-dins yet."

"I know but...damnit, it's an emergency!"
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[Rex]

7. So he doesn't know shit about history, why am I not surprised?

People did NOT do the same thing 100 years ago as they did 3000 years ago. Unless he is talking about eating and shitting.

[XemaSab]

96. Pretty sure f***ing is the same, too

n/t

[Rex]

103. Oh yes, fucking too.

nt

[RKP5637]

8. A very strange person to say the least! n/t

[hifiguy]

68. Not strange,

"special." That kind of special.

[RKP5637]

73. Yep!

[smirkymonkey]

93. That certain Christian kind of "special".

[packman]

9. "this nation, which believed in God"

Damn, I thought the Jews had a lock on that. Or maybe those red-hot Christian Spaniards, or Roman Catholics - Naw, just us Godly Americans who looked up to the moon after slaughtering the American-Indians, or Godly Americans on those midnight rides in their white robes and said, " Oh Lordy, I gots to go to that moon for God's sake."

[Mendocino]

12. God invented penicillin

rock and roll, swing too. That's the ticket, yeah!

[joeybee12]

15. And we invented the radio beacsue of God...

Oh what, it was a heathen Italian.

[Johonny]

23. So once he isn't president how soon does the history channel hire him to voice over shows?

[Vinca]

27. And we think we're the laughingstock of the world now . . .

they ain't seen nothin' yet.

[smirkymonkey]

33. I know, he makes W look like a statesman!

God help us!

[hifiguy]

69. And Jethro Bodine

sound like Stephen Hawking or Richard Feynman.

[HassleCat]

28. Russians beat us into space, not to the moon

Yuri Gargarin, first man in space. "Scuze me while I check that spelling... April 12, 1961 and it's Gagarin, without the extra R I stuck in there.

As for Carson's logic, I will accept it, but I guess it means we overstayed our welcome on God' moon, and He prevented Apollo 13 from getting there. Almost killed the astronauts, in fact.

[smirkymonkey]

34. Oops, sorry. My mistake. Thanks for the correction!

[Frank Cannon]

97. If it makes you feel better, you weren't totally wrong.

The Russians landed a probe on it before we even sent someone into space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_2

[smirkymonkey]

121. Good to know! Thanks for the info!

[Ilsa]

90. Thank you.

I was melting down inside just a little.

[romanic]

29. And this guy is a doctor?

JFC.

[onenote]

39. yes, because only God-fearing American scientists could build rockets

Like this guy:

[Scurrilous]

49. LOL

This guy isn't Drunk History, he's Hallucinogenic History.

[hifiguy]

71. Best line

"I makes zhure zey go up
Don't care vhere zey come down,
Zat's not mein department!"
Says Wernher von Braun.

[gregcrawford]

102. Back in the sixties, Tom Lehrer...

... was the funniest man on the planet. I had every one of his albums. He was also a professor of mathematics at Harvard. The musty-smelling stuffed shirts that ran that august institution thought it unseemly for a Harvard professor to be funny, so they told him that he had to stop being one of those things.

Alas, the world became a sadder, grayer place when Lehrer chose to shuffle back into the shadows of academia.

I still miss you, Tom.

[spanone]

40. more proof that he is unqualified to be president. i don't find it / him funny at all.

[JI7]

45. sadly this is why he has been polling well in the republican primary

And I'm thinking a lot of it is an act. Like the story of how he use to be violent. But that christian redemption thing is appealing to a segment of the republican party

[wiggs]

50. Of course it is....any chance to proclaim american exceptionalism, sit on top and punch down

is primary gold.

[yellowcanine]

51. Actually Ben it was because we had Wernher von Braun and the Soviets didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Von Braun went out of his way to surrender to the Americans rather than the Soviets near Peenemünde at the end of WWII. Von Braun was instrumental in the development of the Saturn V rocket which was used in the Apollo program. Without the Saturn V we may have still eventually gotten to the moon but probably not in nearly the same time period. So Ben if you want to say that Von Braun is God, okay, but otherwise you are quite full of shit.

[shenmue]

52. Acid: not always helpful.

[valerief]

53. Why is this lunatic getting secret service protection? He's a fuckin' hologram, not a human.

There's nothing to protect.

[hifiguy]

55. Herr Protessor Einstein?

How is it possible to even BE this stupid and still remember to breathe?

[struggle4progress]

57. I just love this picture of Mission Control singing "Gimme gimme gimme that ole time religion"

during the Apollo 11 landing!



The photographer unfortunately didn't get the goat sacrifice into the shot

[unblock]

60. this nation was founded by people who *fled* christian nations

i'm fed up with idiots trying to turn our nation into everything our founders loathed about the nations they fled.

[treestar]

61. He forgot all Greek, Roman, Ancient, European history

Or never realized it existed. Nothing happened until America?

People did things the same way and no progress was made. OK.

[haikugal]

80. He also left out everything contributed by

China, India and the Muslims....quite a feat.

[treestar]

87. Yes there too!

All of Asia, Africa and the Indian subcontinent!

If Ben doesn't know about it, it never happened!

[rockfordfile]

65. lol

[Adsos Letter]

70. Nazi scientists

Didn't post-war Nazi scientists have a lot to do with the success of our space program?

[hifiguy]

74. Yes, see post #39.

But they were the good/reformed ones. The CIA kept all the unreformed Nazi true believers for itself. Project Paperclip.

[haikugal]

82. Why yes they did! Thx hifiguy....you rock! nt

[BigDemVoter]

75. Seriously, every time I read the newspaper or log on to the internet,

I see an even more asinine statement attributed to that dumb ass. Oh but wait. . "He's smart. He's a neurosurgeon."

Hmmm. Maybe he can do brain surgery, but if he's not stupid, he's 100% CRAZY.

[pansypoo53219]

79. i have a teddy roosevelt era book, it say america was based on the magna carta.

[haikugal]

83. He's never heard of it.....

[hifiguy]

84. Why, yes it was.

The Magna Carta plus rather a lot of John Locke and David Hume, a bit of Rousseau and the general background principles of Enlightenment rationality and scientism. Jefferson and Madison had read them all, countless times.

But don't tell the repigs and the jebus-wheezers that.

[kydo]

85. He does know the nazi's were pagan's right? And that von Braun was a nazi right?

And that the US hid these scientists Nazi past's so they could build rockets for the US and not the Soviets, right? And that, that whole "Under God" and "In God We Trust," are new additions right? And that the founding moral values are not solely copyrighted by Christians, they are morale and values humanity has had for well over 2,000 years, right?

Oh wait never mind .... I forgot we were talking about Dr Ben the nutty nero-surgeon who gave himself a frontal lobotomy once.... Crazy Ben ....

[Yavin4]

86. Official response from Neil DeGrasse Tyson

COME ON MAN!

[hobbit709]

92. Then how does he explain the Russians being first in space?

[MisterP]

95. God says not to bring all of ... this ... up to Sulva, thank you kindly

[DetlefK]

98. Computers were invented by a woman, a gay atheist and another atheist.

Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse.

And I dare to claim that computers played a major role in getting to the Moon.

[Recursion]

99. In boot camp, my drill instructor used to say

"Recruit Recursion! Nasty belligerent pigs like you are why the Russians beat us to the moon!"

as well as

"We won at Pearl Harbor because we were prepared!"

(For the curious, he's not remotely stupid; it's an attempt to get you to break your composure.)

[B Calm]

100. America was founded by Deists!

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[jberryhill]

101. El Salvador was NAMED after Jesus

[Javaman]

104. I find it truly amazing how talented he is...

by training his ass to talk.

[swwallace81]

106. ?

Am I the only one reminded of Chance in Being There?

[tclambert]

111. His speaking style does remind me of Chance.

I can picture Ben Carson saying this: "In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again." Except Carson would then conclude that climate change is a myth.

[JohnnyRingo]

107. Just like Mexico and South America!

Those countries included in Central and South America have a stronger Christian contingency than the US and also did great things, like drug cartels and vacation resorts. It just proves that with God all things are possible.

Hahaha

[VWolf]

108. New campaign slogan!

Ben Carson: A special kind of stupid

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

109. "[E]very one of our bills says ‘In God We Trust."

Not always, asshole!

1950


2010


"In God We Trust" was added to coins minted after 1864 largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. It was added to paper money in 1957. source

Since then, religious and secular groups have argued over the appropriateness and constitutionality of a motto that mentions “God,” considering the founding fathers' dedication to maintaining the separation of church and state.

[GoneFishin]

110. So we wasted all that money and tapped all those scientific minds for nothing because it was

god's will and would have happened anyway? Damn.

[Eric J in MN]

112. There are other nations where some people believed in God.

Such as: all of them.

[WinkyDink]

113. You're joking with your last sentence, right??

[eppur_se_muova]

114. In 301, Arsacid Armenia was the first sovereign nation to accept Christianity as a state religion.

Under Ezana (fl. 320–360) Aksum {now in modern Ethiopa} adopted Christianity.

So where's their stinking rewards ?

[Hortensis]

126. But did God TELL them they were his special children, like us? :)

[NonMetro]

122. "Under God" was added to the pledge when Carson was 3 years old, and..

"In God We Trust" became the motto when he was 5. So now, we have people like him running off their mouths about how the nation was founded on a belief in God, when, in fact, The United States was the first country in the world to be founded on a secular basis with a separation of church and state. And we have McCarthy era Republicans and Dwight D. Eisenhower to thank for this undermining of our secular democracy - and guys like Ben Carson to thank for spreading this malicious lie!

[HeiressofBickworth]

123. Carson is wrong

Most of the technological advances have been made since women got out of tightly-laced corsets.

Hey, it makes as much sense as what he said!!!

[quaker bill]

125. a kick for absurdity n/t

[PosterChild]

129. Actually, more. nt

[Shankapotomus]

127. Yea nobody believed in the God of Abraham

or the Christian God more fervently before ''Merica to be worthy of the moon..

Not Moses and the Israelites. Not the disciples. Not the early Christians who were fed to the lions.

American exceptionalism.

[Hepburn]

131. Man, this guy NEEDS to be in a rubber room!!!! n/t

[backscatter712]

132. In spacecraft named after Roman gods!

Yep, that's paying homage to Jesus to make sure he lands the astronauts on the Moon safely!

[kwolf68]

133. WTF

So if "God" in the founding documents allowed us to goto the moon then why the fuck didn't we go there in 1777?

Dumbass

[cynzke]

134. WAIT......

I thought we were on the verge of sinking to a communist dictatorship but Faux news saved us?

[left-of-center2012]

135. "for 100 years, 200 years, a 1,000 years, 3,000 years, people did things the same way"

The guy should read a history book.

[wordpix]

139. they explored the planet by crossing oceans in dugout canoes

and rowing their little fishing boats.

And that's how our godly nation was born

[Moostache]

152. He thinks he is...

problem is that the Bible is not real history, its not even real anecdotes.

These biblical literalist types like him and Cruz and their mouth breathing fans all need to be treated for mental illness. They no more belong in positions of power than my lawn care specialists.

[Martak Sarno]

140. SAPs

It looks as though the Republican plan for dumbing down Americans in Science, Technology and Revising History finally has its real, live poster boy.

And it looks as though it's working, too, judging by those who believe him.

SAPs (Stupid AMerican Public)

[They_Live]

142. just think of all the grain

that Joseph could store inside of the moon!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

143. Is Carson on something?

[Arugula Latte]

150. Yes. Religious lunacy.

[NonMetro]

144. Anyone who thinks this country was founded on "God" doesn't know anything.

And this conceited jerk thinks he can be president of this nation of over 300 million people? He needs to crawl back into whatever hole in the wall he came out of! He's a joke!

[ThingsGottaChange]

145. Isn't it way past time

for someone to force him to have a psychiatric evaluation???? It's like listening to someone who has a severe mental disorder or brain damage of some sort. Enough already!

And before you bash me for (gasp!) mentioning a mental disorder, I have one myself. Which is why I don't talk much.

[MrScorpio]

146. He's been grifting right wing religious whites for quite some time…

I'm quite sure that he can't wait to get back to not being elected, so he can get back to his bread and butter.

[PatrynXX]

147. hey quit making Ben look good

I see this one and think so.. On that one that is the Christian Belief. the Irony being thanks to a Catholic Democrat (which I was just reminded) that Catholics could never be elected... we went up. But we haven't gone back up because his kind thinks it costs too much money. Don't go after someone because of his beliefs please. Albeit I do but only so far as to say 10 years of it being pounded into my head that there are 4 main cults and so far people who pounded that into my head are big fans of Cults of late First Mormons in 2012 and now 7th days .. which right now via mergers there are 2 Lutherans running. (Presbyterians, which with the UCC merged in 1997 with the ELCA) thus Obama and Donald Trump are of the same religion Lutheran.

[PatrynXX]

148. hey quit making Ben look good

I see this one and think so.. On that one that is the Christian Belief. the Irony being thanks to a Catholic Democrat (which I was just reminded) that Catholics could never be elected... we went up. But we haven't gone back up because his kind thinks it costs too much money. Don't go after someone because of his beliefs please. Albeit I do but only so far as to say 10 years of it being pounded into my head that there are 4 main cults and so far people who pounded that into my head are big fans of Cults of late First Mormons in 2012 and now 7th days .. which right now via mergers there are 2 Lutherans running. (Presbyterians, which with the UCC merged in 1997 with the ELCA) thus Obama and Donald Trump are of the same religion Lutheran.

[Sheepshank]

149. Politics are all about the issues

and all of the facets that makes these politicians view the important issues from a certain paradigm.

This stuff from Carson is scary shit...therefore I agree with the person up thread that if God was really in the Carson camp, he would help Carson win the GOP nomination. I'd be ok with that.

[randys1]

151. FIrst time I am seeing this LOLOLOL

[thucythucy]

153. Spain under Philip was way more "Christian"

and I don't recall any Spanish galleons landing in the Bay of Tranquility.

Just sayin'.