Just because formal ad buy protocol wasn’t followed doesn’t mean that Koch was blown free.
“The Bible, which we Christians say is one of the most important historical documents of ancient times, never mentions things like that,” Scarborough said.
You Christians may say that, but its validity as a historical document is pretty dubious… pretty similar to Herodotus, I, an atheist, would say.
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Josh Marshall’s theory about Carson’s campaign being a SCAM really makes sense. This fraud just started to take off, and now he’s LEADING the GOP. They must sit back in the Carson campaign HQ each night and laugh about all of the rubes they’ve conned that day. 'How’d the fundraising go today? REALLY? wow. Ha! Another great day fleecing the fools."
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… why in the world is TPM posting anything Scarborough said as even remotely relevant?
Is the assumption here that it’s “news” when Scarborough says something that’s actually true rather than his 99.9% usual utter BS?
I am a Christian, I believe the Bible as well as General Revelation (involving science and the natural world). But nowhere in the Bible nor in Archaeology is there any evidence whatsoever that the biblical Joseph during seven years of abundance built the pyramids.Maybe seventhday adventists preach this but it just sounds to me entirely wrong and discrediting those who accept this Joseph theory. I would hesitate to elect a person as POTUS who was caught in such strange theories. .
If this is SDA theory then it goes a long way to discredit the entire SDA movement as a fraud.
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Tax cuts increase revenue. Global warming is a hoax. Guns in schools save lives. Obamacare is killing jobs. EQUALLY disprovable nutbaggery. Now, the GOP is trying to make me believe Ben Carson is more insane than Jeb! or Marco Rubio. Nope. My opinion of Ben Carson has neither fallen nor risen because of his comments.
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On Friday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough pointed out that there is no religious grounding for Ben Carson’s theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built by the biblical patriarch Joseph for grain storage.
Joe, I’m actually going to come to the defense of Dr. Carson, here: YOU don’t get to decide the man’s beliefs, the validity of his beliefs or his church’s interpretations/understanding of whatever scripture they’re using. Will you be so bold as to challenge your good friend Mitt Romney on the differences between “The Book of Mormon” and the interpretive teachings of the Southern Baptist Church (which I attended until my very early teens because of the racist homophobic crap got to be too much for me – I kinda love myself and didn’t want to internalize your religious beliefs to learn to hate myself).
Do I believe Carson is rather bonkers with this belief? Yes, but I don’t get to decide that for him. I’m not his church–and neither are you. Please stop and think about what you said here and try to slip on Dr. Carson’s shoes.
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Yep, it is…but when militarizing, FauXians prefer the vengeful father rather than the gentle son…
Song of Solomon, however, is preferred reading by hormone-enhanced teens …
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as told by the bat shit crazy
“In my 50 years in church I’ve never heard this theory.” Apparently this theory has been around for centuries. Five hundred years ago people in Europe didn’t know much about the Pyramids, other than that they existed. Even if you were educated, you didn’t know if they were hollow or solid. Combine this with the generally held belief that the Joseph stories were literally true, and the idea that something as big as the Pyramids must have had some purpose, the conjecture that they were grain storage doesn’t seem that absurd to one living in the sixteenth century.
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No more rhyming and I mean it!
(Anybody want a peanut?)
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“The Bible, which we Christians say is one of the most important historical documents of ancient times, never mentions things like that,” Scarborough said.
So what? Who cares what the words are, or how they might be interpreted? The fucking pyramids speak for themselves. They are practically solid, with only a minuscule amount of storage space.
If stupid was stone, Carson just built a larger pyramid than the ancient Egyptians ever did.
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Carson camp acknowledges one childhood exaggeration.
danger for Carson now is
if this correction opens floodgates. 
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Anyone who disagrees with me that the holy day of rest is Tuesday is a fraud.
My dog told me. He was speaking backwards, so I knew it was really god talking.
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JOE…you of all people should know that you can find support just about any idea you want in the Bible if you look for the right source and there are certainly LOTS of sources ready to sell you their interpretation of everything from prohibitions on masturbation to building pyramids to store grain to black robed ministers leading Revolutionary troops in religious zeal.
Ben just happens to have HIS interpretation of the Gospels and you no doubt have yours.
One could equally viably argue that your “interview” of the Kochs was based on your own interpretations of their relative contributions/degradations to our own society. The fact that you paid no attention to their ability to dump large amounts of paper waste into Florida waterways, or use their vast wealth to try and buy the kind of America THEY think is best, would argue that that kind of information never showed up on your radar.
In such cases, it is pretty easy to say of Dr. Carson’s beliefs AND yours, “It’s Crazy!!”