Good Christian Values

This is absolutely disturbing.

Prayer Foe's Parrot Beheaded

Yessir, those Christians sure are doing a bang-up job of winning hearts and minds over to their one true faith of love and compassion.

Of course, the local cops appear to be doing everything in their power to avoid doing anything about it. A death threat was made against the woman and the police will not be stepping up security.

Christians, or Christian supporters have "kicked her dog so hard it went blind in one eye", tortured her horses, beheaded her parrot, and vandalized her property. Good folks, these moral Christians.

More Disjointed Arguments from a Theist

C'mon, public prayer doesn't harm anyone

I am offended by public profanity, public partial or full nudity, racism, people forcing opinions on others, and violence. None of these do anyone any good but are tolerated by so many.

So, she's comparing public prayer to racism and violence which she thinks merely don't "do anyone any good"? (Which, by the way, aren't tolerated by so many as Ms. Koslosky would have us believe). Furthermore, what does she think that public prayer is, if not "people forcing opinions on others"?? Hell, she just made the point for the side she's arguing against.

why are atheists who make up such a small part of society having so much power over public prayer and public expression of religion?

What does the number of Atheists in this country have to do with them wanting their rights protected as well as anyone else's?

The contradictions in our society that we have based on falsehoods are almost hysterical, except for the grave nature of the true problems.

Huh?

For example:
1. Americans complain about the war because they believe that President Bush started it over oil, and then complain when the price of oil goes up and beg him to do something about it.

So, the only way to reduce the price of oil is to attack Iraq?? How about funding research into non-petrolium based alternative energy? Or is she, once again, making a point for her oppisition; that the war in Iraq has caused oil prices to go up. Besides which, people aren't complaining about the war only because of its oily implications. Nearly EVERYTHING is wrong with this war; so much so, that the oil angle is a pretty minimal concern.

2. Businesses benefit from the commercialism that has ruined Christmas but won't wish you a "Merry Christmas" because they don't want to offend anyone.

How much do you want to bet that Ms. Koslosky shops at those very stores. So really, the problem isn't with the stores ruining Christmas with commercialism, it's with Ms. Koslosky. The stores simply fill a demand. A demand created by all of us, including Ms. Koslosky, who shop for Christmas presents. But maybe I'm just confused about what Ms. Koslosky's problem is. What, exactly, is it that she wants? For Christmas to not be commercialized? Or for it to be commercialized, so long as the Wal-Mart clerk wishes her a Merry Christmas?

Frightening thought

I just had a terrifying thought. And then an uplifting one.

George W. Bush is the greatest American pResident of the 21st century! Aaahhhhhh!

Of course, he's also the worst American pResident of the 21st century. And...he'll only be the greatest until Jan. 20, 2005, at which point he'll be the worst pResident of the 21st century for all eternity.

I feel better now.

The Opinion of a Head-in-the-Sand Conservative

Opinions

From the second letter submitted:

As I see it we will have a win-win situation in November. If Bush wins, as I fervently hope he does, we will have safety in our country, prosperity in our finances, continued growth in our economy and pride in our military and our flag. If John Kerry wins, then we have four years in which we can emulate the Democrats by heaping every invective known to man upon Kerry, blaming him for unemployment, higher taxes, a gigantic health care failure, loss of life in the Middle East, and even bringing the United States under the control of the United Nations.

The inability of frothing Reich Wingers to properly ascribe the failures of their pResident fascinates me. Bush has made us LESS safe, has REDUCED our financial prosperity, and has aboslutely destroyed economic growth in this country. I guess all they have left is "pride in our military". Yessirree, we sure can bomb the fuck out of some brown-skinned people!

On a more positive note, Bush is responsible for increasing unemployment during his term, giving away a budget surplus to his rich friends, making the health care problems of the poor and elderly worse (while enriching the health care industry giants) and massive unnecessary loss of life in the Middle East. I guess I was wrong, he has had some significant accomplishments.

And what kind of shit-head hopes to have a President that he can heap diresion upon??! A much more useful hope is to have a successful President. Then again, that's clearly a lost cause in terms of the current maladministration and its followers. I guess they really are desperate to have a scapegoat on whom to blame Bush's failures.

If Kerry fails as spectacularly and unbelievably as Bush, then I'll be the first the say so. However, I imagine moldy bread would be more competent than Bush has been.

Funny Religionists

Stay out of my religion

As if atheists don't do enough to express their anti-religion, they find time to apparently make religions look bad.

Bwahahahaha! Religion doesn't need atheism to make it look bad; religion makes itself look bad! Blaming the poor image of religion on atheism is like tripping and falling and then blaming the bystander who merely saw you fall.

Deadly Distraction

In-dash DVD death.


Too many drivers are incompetent -- at best -- when their full attention is on the task at hand. Now we have in-dash DVDs to completely tie up their limited concentration. Why not just hop out of the driver's seat and let the friggin' car drive itself down the road?

Minister Thinks Many Christians Wimps

Fire and Brimstone

Many Christians today, he says, are wimps because of their lack of courage and conviction when it comes to their religious beliefs.

In other words, never stop and wonder, "Are my beliefs going to make me look like a raving lunatic?". Be the raving lunatic!

"Christians have used truth to beat people over the head," said Mr. Jeffress, senior pastor of the 9,000-member First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls.

Oh. Yeah. Truth is a big weapon in the arsenal of Christian theology. What's next? Compassionate Conservatism?

People are turned off [to Christianity] because of the offensiveness of other Christians, not because of Christianity itself.

That's true. It would be nice if the good Pastor would realize, though, that he's one of those offensive Christians. If people like him would simply leave the rest of us alone about the "truth", I'd have no problem with him. But people like this continue to try to ram their theology down everyone's throat. He's trying to find a kinder, gentler way of beating people over the head with his theology, while we want him to leave us alone completely.

"Ministers have been soft-pedaling the doctrine," Mr. Yeats said.

For the life of me, I can't understand why. Why would ministers want to downplay misogyny, bigotry, racism, and elitism? I can't figure it out!

"There is nowhere in the Bible that advocates killing unbelievers as it does in the Koran," he said.

Ahem. And I quote...Exd 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." See also...Dt.13:6 "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." Or the simpler...2 Chr.15:13 "Whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman."

Mr. Jeffress argues that the separation of church and state is nothing but a fallacy.

"Nowhere in the Constitution can you find those words," he said.

"America is a Christian nation. Christians need to start speaking out that ... this is a Christian nation."

What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." do these people not understand? But if the Constitution isn't enough, maybe a quick read from the Treaty of Tripoli can help clear things up: "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion..."

Mr. Jeffress doesn't want to ban the teaching of evolution, just offer this alternative explanation.

Oh, of course. They don't want to ban the laws of science, they just want to offer their completely baseless fairy tale as an equally valid alternative to reality. And Fundies don't "hate fags", either. They just berate them and demean them and threaten them with eternal damnation if they don't "change" their wicked ways because the god of Christianity does hate them (in spite of having, himself, created them exactly like they are).

"Atheism is a crusade to remove any religious symbols from the public square."

If that's true, then all religion is a crusade to impose their religious symbols on the public square. Unfortunately for the simple minded Fundies, it's a little more complex than "they just want to erase us". Even I admit that there is more to Christianity than just imposing its symbols on the public square. Similarly, there is more to Atheism than just removing symbols from the public square. Atheism is simply a philosophy of living life without theology. And, in reality, the push to remove Christian symbols and theology from government sanctioned/funded venues is less an Atheistic movement and more a Democratic one. Hard as it may be for Fundies to grasp, there are even Christians who would have theology separated from the forays of government.

Groups like the [American Civil Liberties Union] and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State are on this (atheistic) mission.

AU is hardly an Atheist organization. The leader is a Reverend!

This is like the early stages of the Soviet Union.

Oh, here it comes. The tired old, "The Commies are coming! The Commies are coming!"

Fortunately, the article ends with interviews of several reasonable theists, who point out the fallacy of Jeffress' arguments and how divisive and un-Christian he is with his theology.

Role Model: Ron Reagan...

...Jr!

I don't know anything about the Reagan family dynamic. I know that Patti Davis (Reagan's daughter) posed nude for Playboy, which was probably not a move approved of by mom 'n' dad. In fact, it was probably done partly because they wouldn't approve. But, I've read speculations that Nancy implicitly, if not explicitly, approved of Ron Jr.'s essay below. If that's the case, you know that Duhhhhbya has really fucked up in order to have earned the scorn of Nancy Reagan, matron of the Conservative Reich's first family.

The Case Against George W. Bush

And the Repug Base will Probably Buy It

Bush Campaign Tactics

With Mr Kerry enjoying a bounce of about 4 per cent from last week's Democratic convention in Boston, Mr Bush's aides said they will campaign on the President's record and his agenda for a second term.

So, they're going to campaign on Bush's botching of two wars in as many years, the fact that he hasn't caught the perpetrator of 9/11, the fact that he has failed to made us safer in the wake of 9/11 (see the Commission's findings), his turning a 300-plus billion dollar budget surplus into a 400-plus billion dollar deficit (not to mention the several hundred billion dollar deficits he ran in previous consecutive years), his increasing unemployment, his tanking of a strong economy, his increasing the wealth of the wealthy while taking away social services for the poor, his gutting of the EPA, his pissing away international support, etc, etc, etc. I don't know...seems like kind of a risky campaign tactic.

But reports indicate [the Repugs] will also directly attack Mr Kerry, trying to divert attention from what they say was his brief, four-month tour in Vietnam 30 years ago.

Really! Do they really think that comparing an actual tour of duty in Vietnam to not even being able to complete a son-of-privilege tour in the ANG is such a wise idea?

"This gives us a chance to lay out an agenda, to tell people what he wants to do over the next four years," Karl Rove, Mr Bush's senior political adviser, told The New York Times.

More money thrown at the wealthy, more pandering to the Religious Reich, more fear-mongering, more war. Thanks Herr Rove, we get it.