I don’t understand all these Facebook status updates I’m seeing about Easter. Come on, people. Let’s show some respect and at least get the name of the day and our well wishes correct.
First, it is ridiculously expensive to climb Mt. McKinley. Not counting personal equipment expenditures and airfare, most services come in around $6500, not to mention the 21 days of not working while on the mountain (plus buffer days for travel and rest). Between airfare, visa and passport expenses, vaccines, personal equipment, and the guide service itself, I spent significantly less on my Kilimanjaro trip.
What have we had our fellow primates do in video games so far? Throw barrels? Run around on an island so boring that only the most devoted video game fans will understand this reference? Come on. Let’s give them some real fire power.
The only problem is that if we let them snipe, then every asshole is going to grab that weapon and ruin everyone else’s good time.
It isn’t merely that theists have no evidence for their particular, cultural god(s). It’s that most of them don’t even seem to understand what evidence is.