This week’s edition of God Awful Movies is another Ray Comfort video, of which they have done several in the past…

Ray Comfort is a despicable piece of shit from New Zealand, a Young Earth Creationist, evolution denier, idiot, liar, and serial harrasser of people in public. America, where he has been based since the late 80s, is more than welcome to him. I haven’t actually watched any of his videos myself because life is too short I don’t get paid to watch them, which the GAM crew do (I know, I pay for them myself), so I go by their coverage, and what I’ve gathered from them over the years is that going up to people and trying to debate them in public is the chief content of his videos, whatever the nominal theme of any given video may be.

Ray’s standard tactic is the “are you a good person” question, which is the pretty much inevitable part of the video where he asks whoever he’s pinned down if they think they’re a good person, and then batters them with a bunch of biblical “proof” that they’re not. But in this video he apparently has another question for one of his victims that I actually found properly thought-provoking: “would you sell one of your eyes for a million dollars?”. This is a… berserk thing to ask a person, clearly, but it made me wonder. What answer would *I* give in that situation? If I were unfortunate enough to encounter Ray and he asked me that, what would I say?

Because, frankly, my eyes are kind of shit. I’ve had to wear glasses for, oh, only about 40 of the 48 years I’ve been on Earth so far; I could get away without wearing them full time up to about the age of maybe ten or eleven, but they’ve been a full time concern since then. (No, I will not use contact lenses, and the fact that you have to be awake for Lasik even though you’re anaesthetised does not draw me to that option either.) My eyes have never been good, and diabetes has only made them worse, and I expect that if I live long enough I will go blind thanks to the latter. Let’s actually use a photo of Ray himself (I think it’s actually the same one as that magnificent Facebook discussion above) to demonstrate:

This is a very approximate example of what my vision is like, it’s hard to actually reproduce, but you might get some idea. Basically, if I take these things off, everything more than maybe four inches from my eyes turns into just a vague mass of colour and light with no real detail.

So… if someone offered me a million dollars for one of these crappy eyes of mine, what would I say?

I’d say…

YES!

Because anyone who would offer me that much money to give up either of these things is almost certainly a demonstrable fucking idiot. I mean, they could be a legitimate scientist or optometrist or something wanting to study just how degenerate parts of people’s bodies can get (I’d introduce them to my brain if that were the case, I definitely don’t have much use for that), albeit one with a kind of remarkable source of funding if they’ve got that much money to just throw around… but I think “demonstrable fucking idiot” is more likely.

So I would take their money.

Because they’d kind of deserve to have it taken from them.

Cheers, Ray. For the only time in your worthless career, you actually gave me something to think about. Treasure it, for it will almost certainly never happen again.