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| Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| High dialogue on teh Intarnet |
CuckingFunt said:  Originally Posted by angel_luv My thinking Senator Obama could be the anti christ is similar to someone looking at a tall person and wondering if they play basketball.
No.
No it's not.
Your thinking Obama could be the anti-Christ is more like looking at someone with a Super Mario Bros. t-shirt and wondering if they're going to anally and vaginally rape you, simultaneously, with your own amputated limbs.
OK so Spurs fans are good for something, after all.Labels: God, idiots, Obama, religion, sports |
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| Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| This is my body; take this all of you - except that guy. |
I'm a Catholic. I have to find Church in myself, because I have trouble finding a church that actually espouses the kind of Gospel that Jesus taught. Instead, I find judgment and, frankly, low-level hatred. I hear so much of it in the news: whom to hate. In particular, I hear a lot about how gays and lesbians are an abomination before God, and about how the Sacrament of Marriage is so, so sacred.
There are Seven Sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, and Anointing of the Sick. Baptism is a sort of initiation rite, as is Confirmation. Marriage is an understanding of the spiritual joining of a man and woman (as opposed to marriage, the legal term). Holy Orders is the process of becoming a priest, and Anointing of the Sick is a ritual of healing appropriate not only for physical but also for mental and spiritual sickness.
I'd say that Reconciliation and the Eucharist are the most important in normal Catholic's lives. The Eucharist is (basically) Communion (which is all about Jesus' resurrection), and Reconciliation is the forgiveness of sins. Without those two, you don't really have Christianity.
One of the Sacraments is under attack and it isn't Marriage. It's the Eucharist.
As an Obama supporter, long-time pro-life advocate and all-around Mega-Catholic Doug Kmiec had this happen to him in church:
I have been declared “self-excommunicated,” and recently at a Mass before a dinner speech to Catholic business leaders, a very angry college chaplain excoriated my Obama-heresy from the pulpit at length and then denied my receipt of communion. You gotta understand - this heretic of a chaplain judged a man unfit for one of the Sacraments, which are a Catholic's lifeline to God.
This country wasn't founded on religion. Quite the opposite. The Founding Fathers understood the poison that religion can bring into people's lives when it's politicized. They took great lengths to ensure it didn't become part of government, and explicitly said so. Here, for example, is the text of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797), which was signed unanimously by the Senate:
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." This makes the ravings of abominations like Rod Parsley even more offensive to their religion, and the conscience, as well as to the United States.
One of these days, I hope, Christians are going to figure out that leading by example, and actually helping people, is far more useful and in-line with God's teachings than picket lines and excoriating people with whom they don't agree. Imagine if the Church had spent the time and trouble that they had spent condemning abortion, and used it instead to actually help the young women considering abortion.
One can hope.Labels: Catholics, God, politics |
| posted by Steve @ 2:48 PM |
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| Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| God's Judgment... of idiots |
The Stranger, a Seattle newspaper, has a blog (called Slog). It's very liberal, and overtly pro-gay, partly because it's moderated by the fantastic and fabulously gay Dan Savage. Those who fly that banner are often frustrated by arguments that "every child deserves a mother and father" when nearly half of the children today only get one or the other. They're also frustrated by a Catholic Church that points its finger at them as the root of all childhood evils (through declarations and oft-contradicted studies), and is regularly caught molesting its own congregation's children.
So, Slog regularly contains news of badly-behaving parents and youth pastors, under the headings "Every Child Deserves a Mother and Father" and "Youth Pastor Watch," respectively. To an extent, it's an unhealthy impulse on their part to feel better about their own parenting or moral standing by exposing the worst of their opponents (who, ultimately, have no effect on their parenting abilities or moral standings); but then, pointing out hypocrisy in any form is a worthwhile goal.
Elsewhere in the newspaper, in their Last Days news bits blotter, a few articles about people "killed by religion" were posted. They detailed the sad deaths of children of people who believe in faith healing over medicine. They got an apoplectic response from a guy named Dale Richard Huff that I just had to show bits of:
I want to make clear firstly that I do not peruse your scandal sheet. There are volunteers who read the Stranger and inform us when a campaign of anti-Christian slander has slithered from the sewer like a demon from Hell.
I think I tried telling my Dad I didn't read his Playboys in a similar manner when I was a teenager.
I thought you liberals hated interrogating "terrorists"? Oh that's right that is only for your "approved" religion of Islam and the Islam-o-fascists [sic] whom you believe to be somehow your "buddies". Hee! Islam-o-matic! Tel-o-thon! Mess-o-potamia! Nutty guy-o-mail!
...the Secular Fascist Left, been doing for 30 years to eventually annihilate Christianity, Christians, America, Faith, [etc.] ... Mussolini defined fascism as being a collectivistic ideology in opposition to socialism, liberalism, democracy and individualism. So ... what exactly is a "fascist lefty"?
And rest assured this lawsuit WILL GO FORWARD, and your conspiracy will answer in OPEN CHRISTIAN COURT for your lies, defamations, slanders, [etc.], flat out meaness [sic] and rotteness [sic], and any other damn thing you have up your sleeve and haven't been vile enough to do yet! Ok, the day there is a Christian Court in the U.S. government, the United States will have died, and I will leave the country. I'm a Catholic, and I'm very happy that I don't live in a Christian Nation. There has been a long, steady trend throughout History: quality of government is inversely proportional to the influence of religion on that government.
Need I remind you, sir- glorious [volcanic] Mount Raineer [sic, should be Rainer] is a scant 60 miles away from your temple of degeneracy, and the LORD GOD will not be mocked! Wow. He certainly does seem to think he knows everything Lord is up to, doesn't he? Among the meek, this character is not.
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, HIS FATHER, SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT- Dale Richard Huff, SEMPER FI DO OR DIE! Jesus had a son?
Look, God judges everyone, and it should be noted that His judgment of idiots is usually pretty harsh. These judgments, ironically, are often titled, "Darwin Awards." Sometimes, He acts through people, though His use of gravity seems to be a favorite.
Unfortunately, the judgments aren't very evenly fair. Children, in particular, have to absorb the results of their parents' idiocy. To me, the most ironic and saddening instances are ones involving
people whose stances on religion are idiotic enough to visit pain on others. I don't see the reasoning behind faith healing. By all means, pray. I prayed when my brother-in-law Jordan smashed his head a few weeks ago, but I certainly didn't want to keep him out of the hospital that saved his life.
God, cruelly, gave us a brain that can only wrestle with these contradictions of faith and the real world, but cannot solve them. But clearly we are meant to use that brain! Scientists and doctors labor to find ways to ease and lengthen the amount of time we have to wrestle the impossible mental task we're given. We'll never do it, of course, but a little more time in front of the puzzle before bed is something we're all entitled to ask for.
God may be great and powerful, but we have a measure of power, too, and since it is God-given, we should use it. Part of that power is in medicine. Unfortunately for those kids, their parents were so in awe of God's power that they ignored their own helplessness.Labels: God, government, idiots, Jordan, religion |
| posted by Steve @ 12:28 PM |
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| Sunday, February 10, 2008 |
| Against Christianism |
All told, I think the ultimate tribute to God, in any form, is to maximize individual freedom –- and not to obstruct that freedom for others. The thing that puzzles me about moralistic government is that if you force everyone in the country to act a certain way morally, there ceases to be free will. Then nobody is truly benevolent at all, just pawns of the state. If I’m forced to act in a Christian manner by threat of law, am I really a Christian? Seems like this is quite detrimental to the Church. And to be honest, I’m just as afraid of fiscal liberals as I am of social conservatives in this regard. If the government hijacks my income to redistribute it into some form of pork designed to help the less fortunate, especially when it doesn’t go toward its intended purpose anyway, not only are they stealing from me, but they’re preventing me from being charitable. It’s destructive for all parties.
Granted, I differ from ACLU-libertarians who claim God should be totally undetectable in the public forum -- and atheism didn’t do the Soviet Union any favors. But let’s not be so sanctimonious in our governance and let’s be wary of the Mike Huckabees and the Hillary Clintons of the world. And more importantly, let’s not give up on ourselves as individuals.
Kittens & Sunshine
That's it. Exactly. I am going to be shouting this from the hilltops whenever I meet someone who thinks a making the U.S.A. a Good Christian Nation (as opposed to what we want, which is a Good Nation) is a good idea.Labels: God, politics, religion |
| posted by Steve @ 2:10 PM |
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| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| God's way of saying... |
... shut the fuck up, Phelps. If He hates anyone, it's you.
And anyone else taking His name for hate.Labels: gays, God, idiots, religion |
| posted by Steve @ 5:27 PM |
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| Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| Daily Show & God |
Apparently a news program posted that kids' "Top 10 Things About The World" has God-slash-Heaven as #10, behind "good food."
First, this is horrible journalism but what I liked was the Daily Show's take: this must be terribly troubling for God, but we don't have His take on it. If only He had a Top 10 things that He was worried about, things that He thought were important...
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Labels: Daily Show, God, kids |
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