Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumBus Driver Whose Bible Supposedly Stopped Two Bullets Made the Whole Thing Up
Who'da thought it? via Terry Firma at Friendly Atheist
Just like the bulk of the stories in Wagoners favorite book, his account of the attack turns out to have been nothing but a fanciful fabrication (I guess the man doesnt believe in the Biblical commandment that prohibits bearing false witness).
From the Dayton Daily News
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Police ballistics tests showed that bullets fired from the handgun - a 25-caliber Raven model semiautomatic- at the same distance as had been fired at Wagoners book penetrated the book and traveled 15 inches through a gel designed to simulate the effect of bullets on a human body. Wagoners shirt after the incident had bullet holes in the front, but not the back.
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Biehl also said Wagoners injuries were not consistent with defensive wounds, but were consistent with hesitation wounds. Alongside a deeper wound were shallower, smaller cuts. The knife Wagoner said he used to stab one assailant was never recovered for the police investigation.
From the same article Dayton Regional Transport Executive Regional Director (Mark Donaghy) said
Oh, and the book was not a Bible anyway but The Message Bible, a sort of Reader's Digest abbreviation
on edit for some reason the link to Friendly Atheist will not load probably because I need to buy a Star membership again
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)the bolt spread out all around me and saved me. I could tell it was the bible.
Another time, I was playing on the rail road tracks when a train came by and hit me. Luckily, my bible was in my front pocket, and stopped the train instantaneously, saving me from injury.
And finally, there was a gang of black muslin terrorists from Kenya who brought machetes and attacked my home in the middle of the night. You could not believe how fast and effective the Bible was in stopping them all.
Cooperstown
(49 posts)Just my guess.
False police report, anyone?
Suspended sentence and losing a job on the public payroll?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Some say religion is not just an acceptable pathway to express bigotry but also a form of mental illness
Response to amuse bouche (Reply #4)
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AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Which I suppose is why those poor put-upons had to have it hidden.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)To all of the lurking alert trolls: get a fucking life.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Clearly, that is complete bull dung
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)RussBLib did nothing more than express an opinion that one would expect to see in the Atheists and Agnostics group. Clearly some asshat with a raging hate-boner for us Godless heathens came here looking to be offended, found what s/he wanted, and alerted.
But hey, they're the oh-so-fucking-wonderful liberal religious, who are filled with God's love and whom we should consider oh-so-fucking wonderful too, and fuck us if we don't.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)... and alert to their hearts content. Fuck them all, sanctimonious pricks... stay the fuck out and go worship your imaginary cloud beings that are all-powerful but highly sensitive. ...
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)Well said!
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Can we get a mod to speak to the King and get this nonsense stopped?
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)Well, I do, here.
I'm sure the alert trolls feel as if they're doing their sky fairy's work when they alert on posts here in our....(ahem)... "safe haven," and that so do the likeminded jurors who vote to hide posts here that offend them.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)lest they smite thee with petty spitefulness."
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)The same people tell you that being condescending is a character flaw in a condescending tone with no sense of irony. Or shame.
deucemagnet
(4,549 posts)From fellow liberals on a progressive message board, no less.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Why are they so obsessed with us?
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)and her devoted Minions have to keep this room safe for people who have no fucking reason to be here except shit-stirring and disrupting. All the while denying that there are any alert trolls at all.
They can't abide that actual discussions go on here, and that their safe haven is basically a one man ghost town. If they could possibly be more petty and juvenile, I'm not sure how.
onager
(9,356 posts)Looks like what we need in here is our own SMERSH. And I bet some of the 1st Dunning-Kruger Chairborne Division will now - or after they rise from their fainting couches, anyway - alert on this as a death threat.