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Scalia: Not As Originalist As He’d Like to Think

February 15, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 501 Views 1 Comment Antonin Scalia, Constitution, Dick Cheney, Originalism, supreme court, Ted Cruz

So, by now everyone knows that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died over the weekend. As is usual, everyone is rushing to the airwaves to talk about what a nice and brilliant person he was. Of course I don’t know him personally, but certainly his public personae were not so nice, and I don’t think his legal reasoning, considered by many to be smart and original (pun intended), was all that brilliant. It was merely partisan and theocratic. Scalia was not really interested in the original intent of the framers. He was interested in creating a facade of intellectualism around his rulings. His genius was not in a new form of thought around the Constitution, but in a way to package his rulings so that people thought they had a grand origin.

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Theological Silliness About Communion

February 12, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 320 Views 1 Comment Communion, Eucharist

Recently, a person posted on a conservative Methodist Facebook page about the words used at a Communion Service he had recently attended. Apparently, this set him into a real tizzy, because the Officiant didn’t follow the exact words of the Liturgy from the Hymnal. And you wouldn’t believe the discussion that followed. I don’t think, in all my 50+ years as a Methodist I can ever remember a Communion service where, amongst all the words said, the Officiant didn’t stumble over, mispronounce or add to or leave out some words. But to hear some of the people on the Facebook page, you’d think he’d committed heresy for a slight change.

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Talking Ted Cruz-Scariest Candidate Running

February 11, 2016October 22, 2019 B. John 792 Views 0 Comments 7 Mountains, Bill Bright, C. Peter Wagner, Dominionism, Dominionist, Fuller Seminary, Johnny Enlow, Lance Wallnau, Loren Cunningham, Rafael Cruz, Rick Joyner, Seven Mountains, Ted Cruz, theocracy

So, Rafael “Ted” Cruz wants to be President of the United States. That should scare the crap out of any sane person. Ted and his supposed pastor father (I say “supposed” because there is scant evidence of his ever pastoring a church) subscribe to a very dark end-times religious doctrine referred to as Dominionism, and the two of them have decreed that Ted is ordained by God to lead the Government. There is a reason none of the people like him who know him, and there is a very good reason people who find themselves in his presence get a sense of creepiness. But he’s way more than just an unattractive, vindictive demagogue…he’s a downright scary person with a set of religious beliefs that make the most radical Muslim clerics look tame.

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The Snowbillies Reprise

January 21, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 398 Views 0 Comments Bristol Palin, Domestic Abuse, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Track Palin, Wasilla

I was going to write about Ted Cruz, but lo’ and behold, the Palin family reappeared. Sarah Palin popped up and tossed up one of the biggest bowls of word salad ever in support of Donald Trump. This coming on the heels of her daughter being sued for child support and shared custody or a second out-of-wedlock child, and her son’s arrest on a range of charges related to firearms and domestic abuse. And, no surprise here, she blames most all of that on Obama.

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Why the Christian Church May Never Crawl Out of Its Hole

January 18, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 768 Views 0 Comments Barnna Group, christian, conservative, Evangelical, Facebook, methodist, Pew Research, UMC

In the western world, churches, in particular Christian churches, are showing a general decline in attendance and membership. There’s much hand wringing within those denominations most affected; reports are being prepared, and great plans are being made to try to stem the tide, but I am not yet convinced the people in these organizations have the self-awareness to overcome the trend. The Facebook response to a recent article I posted in a conservative United Methodist discussion group really brought this home for me, and helped me congeal my thoughts on this subject.

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Firing God

January 13, 2016September 29, 2018 B. John 388 Views 0 Comments Christianity, God, Politics, republicans

That’s right, I said it. I’m firing God. He’s not doing a good job, and he’s not serving his creation very well. Of course, a lot of you all will accuse me of blasphemy and apostasy, but before you do, hear me out. I’m not firing THE God, I’m firing the guy that far too many people claim to “worship.” A god we’ve managed to make in our own image (generally speaking, a white male), who conveniently hates all the same people you do.

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Big Talk About Terrorists

December 6, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 318 Views 0 Comments Ammosexuals, Facebook, Guns, Jihad, Kings Mountain, Terrorists

Suddenly, everyone’s a warrior in the war against terror. That is of course only the terrorists attacks that 1. Don’t involve white male American terrorists, and/or 2. Aren’t likely to actually happen in the first place. Take inspiration for the protection of the homeland from some Facebook posts from early this morning. Here you’ll see the batshittery we’ve devolved into in this country. It started with this fairly incoherent post, which I mostly just ignored after assuming the person who wrote it was either high, drunk, or both.

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Christmas Cup Craziness

November 11, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 386 Views 0 Comments Christmas, Donald Trump, Josh Feurerstein, Starbucks, War on Christmas

By now you’ve likely heard the craziness of some conservatives about Starbuck’s holiday cup design. You’ve probably heard about it because of one idiotic attention whore, who claims to be a pastor, Josh Feurerstein. He apparently managed to finally have a video go viral (trust me, he’s produced some doozies in his efforts to get attention), where he raises a stink about Starbucks, because of their holiday cup design…plain red with their green logo.

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Evangelical Ugliness Directed at the Pope

October 1, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 302 Views 0 Comments Facebook, Krazy Kristian Kooks, Pope Francis, Teabangelicals

Unless you live under a rock, you know the Pope visited the US last week. There was much hope that this Pope might further soften the exclusive tone of Catholic doctrine as espoused by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and while never moving to change doctrine, he did give several speeches indicating that he believed the Church’s emphasis needs to move away from culture war issues to caring for the poor and taking care of our planet. This, of course, set the hair on fire of many of America’s evangelical wing. When Ratzinger was Pope, they had a friend in Rome, but now the two branches of Christianity seem to be, once again, going their separate ways.

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Tony Perkins’ Mouth is Moving, So He’s Lying

September 28, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 391 Views 0 Comments FRC, Islam, jesus, KKK, Muslims, Old Testament, Tony Perkins

It pretty much goes without saying that, if Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (FRC) is talking, he is mostly likely telling a lie. There may be no other group that spends more time perfecting the art of lying for Jesus than the FRC. Having lost the marriage-equality fight, they need a new demon to keep the dollars flowing in (grifters gotta grift), and lying for Jesus pays so well, so Perkins is now after Muslims.

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The Home of the Brave?

September 20, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 217 Views 0 Comments

We’ve pretty much that line in the National Anthem a joke, haven’t we. A few years ago, as part of a publicity stunt, some LED boards were put up in cities around the country, and we all freaked. Most recently, we have let a child’s engineering project scare the crap out of us. We’ve become a nation of nasty, sniffling cowards. Let’s just be honest about it. Anyone that doesn’t look like us or believe exactly as we do is automatically a threat. And now, to cover our own embarrassment, we double down on the ugliness towards the kid. What a bunch of brave people.