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Getting Past The Village Idiot

September 27, 2009September 29, 2018 372 Views 0 Comments evangelical Christians, evangelicals, ultra-conservatives, Rachel Maddow, Frank Schaeffer

Rachael Maddow reports on a survey that says that more than one in three conservatives in New Jersey believe that Obama is the anti-christ. She discusses with Republican operative and former religious right co-founder Frank Schaeffer how we respond to the idiocy. Schaeffer rightly notes that there is a sub-culture within the ultra-conservative evangelical right that is taught from birth to reject fact as a matter of “faith.” These are people who believe the world is only about six billion years old, that humans lived with dinosaurs, and that John F. Kennedy was the anti-christ. He refers to them as a “fifth column of insanity.”

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It Would Be Funny If It Weren't So Scary

September 15, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 375 Views 3 Comments facism, Fox News, Communists, Tea Bagging, Tea Baggers, Glenn Beck, Socialism

These are interviews with the 60,00 to 70,000 people who turned out for the big Tea Bagger March in Washington. Apparently, you don’t have to really know anything about what you’re protesting. It’s all just bad because it is Obama, and some industry or media flak like Glenn Beck told you to be mad and scared.

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More Flap Over Miss Jugs for Jesus

May 6, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 385 Views 1 Comment Carrie Prejean, professional christians, Miss California Pageant, Jugs for Jesus, nude photos, contract, obligations, Nom, National Organization for Marriage

The brohaha over Carrie Prejean seems to be continuing as nudie pictures have surfaced, and she seems to think the contract she signed with the Miss Califonia organization doesn’t mean anything. It all sounds so Christian to me. I mean how dishonest and hypocritical. Seems a perfect with today’s version of professional christianity.

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Miss California Boob Job

May 4, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 358 Views 0 Comments bigotry, Gay Marriage, Miss USA, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, Perez Hilton, professional christians, homophobia

I have held off posting on this whole Miss USA conflagration. I thought it mostly much ado about nothing, but now everyone seems to be jumping into the act. Not suprisingly, the krazy kristian kooks are trying to martyr Miss Jugs for Jesus.

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The Gathering Storm of Gay Marriage

April 10, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 331 Views 1 Comment Gay Marriage, Vermont, Iowa, Eric Schumacher, Northbook Baptist Church

The krazy kristian kooks have their knickers all in a wad over the gay marriage situation in Iowa and Vermont, and their responses are predictably idiotic. Basically we can’t allow equal protection under the law because it violates their religious sensibilities.

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Rick Warren Screws Himself All Around

April 8, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 296 Views 0 Comments Proposition 8, Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Larry King Live, evangelicals

Mark Twain said, “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Rick Warren, darling of the “intellectual evangelicals,” is learning that lesson the hard way this week after an appearance on Larry King Live. Obviously I don’t agree with the evangelical view on homosexuality, and believe they are misreading the Bible based on many years of misinterpretation by their clerics, but I understand their right to believe as they wish. One thing, though, I’m fairly clear about is that lying is pretty much frowned upon throughout the Bible, yet Warren decides to play fast and loose with the truth. Now, even the evangelicals are mad at him.

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Anti-Gay Student's Case

February 24, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 343 Views 0 Comments Kentucky, Boyd County School District, Anti-Harassment Training

The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a Kentucky High School student who wants to sue the school district for barring him from expressing opposition to homosexuality. Morrison, a senior at Boyd County High School, sued the Boyd County school district over a policy that required students to undergo anti-harassment training. He claimed the policy threatened him with punishment for expressing religious beliefs in opposition to homosexuality.

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LDS Prophets Experience Sudden Revelations

January 31, 2009 B. John 290 Views 0 Comments California, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS, Proposition 8

Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin seems to have found out why the Proposition 8 people were so hell bent in trying to prohibit the release of the names of donors to their campaign to take away the rights of Gay people in California. It seems the LDS had way more to do with this than they were claiming. (And by the Church, I mean the church corporate…not just “members.”) Burroway reports they had 190,000 reasons to prevent the disclosure. Seems the LDS provided lots of official corporate support and in-kind services.

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The Madness of Genuine Respect for all People

January 21, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 365 Views 0 Comments christian, Barack Obama, Bishop Gene Robinson, Inauguration, Christian Anti-Defamation Commission

The fine christians (Dr. Gary Cass) at the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission have their knickers all twisted because Bishop Gene Robinson had the nerve to pray to God to help us get past mere tolerance and to a place of genuine respect for all people. Obviously, according to these demented idiots, we can have none of that. I mean really, what would Jesus think if we went around actually respecting one another.

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The Inaguration – My Take

January 20, 2009September 29, 2018 B. John 390 Views 0 Comments Yo Yo Ma, Oath of Office, Inaguration, Bush, john roberts, Barack Obama

I took time out, as did a lot of Americans, and watched today’s ceremonies swearing in Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. As you might expect, I have some opinions on the ceremony and some of the participants. I’m a sucker for the ceremonies of state, and today’s was “high church.” Barack and Michele Obama, and his children, were just the height of grace and beauty, and it does give me some hope that maybe a new day has begun.

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Rick Warren and The Obama Inauguration

December 29, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 471 Views 1 Comment bigotry, hate, Obama, Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Inaugration

For those of you living under a rock, President Elect Obama has invited Rick Warren, from the Saddleback Mega-Church, to deliver the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Gay rights and other activists groups have strenuously objected, and Obama and his aides have made any number of statements defending the choice with the tired old line of how the Obama campaign has always been about “uniting people” and showing how “we can disagree without being disagreeable.” So let me be clear in my response. In the case of claims by the Warren supporters (including you Obama), they are correct. I am being intolerant and am applying the standard applied by Warren and his supporters to love the sinner and hate the sin. I believe that the sin of hate and bigotry, most especially when used for monetary gain, should never ever be tolerated. I guess that fits the definition of intolerance, so I am guilty as charged.