May

31

You might have noticed some comments to a year old article I wrote regarding 666 and Christian ignorance.

Just in case there was any question whatsoever over Christian ignorance and hypocrisy, look no further.

I do not know what is more sick, the fact that Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in his church, or that there are people out there, your average Christians, who are doing nothing less than celebrating it. They are saying he got what he deserved. They are saying that any church he attended must be a church of satanists, extending their viciousness to people they don’t even know, making them guilty by association. 

Here are some gems:

Why is the death of a satanic worshipper tragic?

15 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:40:44 PM by newfreep (”Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” – P.J. O’Rourke)

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“His sister is a friend of mine. This is tragic.“

The real tragedy is the number lives he has taken. Not to mention the women who have had to live with what they have done to their babies.

24 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:42:31 PM by CheneyChick

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May he rot in hell alongside the mothers who aided him in his “business”.

49 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:47:40 PM by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)

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He reaped what he had sown: violent death.

57 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:48:16 PM by VaBthang4 (Too many FReepers whine too damn much. Your kneejerk contrarianism is not Conservative.)

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Could this be called ‘a very late term abortion’?

146 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:05:43 PM by count-your-change (You don’t have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)

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Shooting was too good for him. Too bad his body wasn’t torn to pieces like his victims.May he burn in hell for eternity.

169 posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 1:09:35 PM by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO – Don’t Tread on Me!)



May

31

Yeah, the one that said that anti-abortionists could be viewed as terrorists? The one the Right railed against because it included so many radical Right-Wing political groups like anti-abortionists?

Well, some guy went and proved it right by shooting, and killing, Dr. George Tiller (left). In church. The irony. It’s thick.

I do not know whether or not this was religiously motivated, but given the circumstances, I can only assume it is. Nearly all the anti-abortionist groups are religiously motivated. But at what point do you rationally say to yourself, “I believe this guy kills babies. I believe God says killing is a sin. I’m going to kill this guy for God.” How on Earth does that logic follow at all?

You might remember hearing about Dr. Tiller before. He was shot in both arms in 1993 by an anti-abortionist, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.

New category. Just sad.



May

29

I Love Fable II

May 29, 2009 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

Just a quick musing from a dialogue in the game Fable II. I’m walking with two other “heroes” who are joining me in a quest to save the world. One is an intelligent “Will” user, basically a mage, and the other is a brutish, massive woman affectionately known as “Hammer”.  Hammer grew up with an adoptive father who was the head priest in the Temple of Light. As we are walking along, Hammer and Garth the mage are talking, and it went roughly like this:

Hammer: I went back to the temple. Same old thing; a bunch of old men with thousand year old books telling people how to live their lives.

Garth: Because those ancient books couldn’t possibly contain any wisdom…

Hammer: This isn’t some sort of Old Kingdom schematic telling you how to build a powerful weapon. If you swallow everything these books say, it could cost you your life.

Garth: For once I think we might be in agreement.

The game is full of random witticisms poking fun at religion. I love it.



May

28

The Antichrist Is Gay

May 28, 2009 by Brandon | 3 Comments

In perhaps one of the most astonishingly stupid articles trying to be passed off as news that I have ever read, the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (which, may I add, is Sarah Palin’s hometown) has published a piece of excrement claiming that the antichrist will be homosexual.

The root of his argument lies in the claim that the Bible calls the Antichrist “the Wicked”. The author, Ron Hamman, who has the brain the size of a chick-pea, can only think of one thing that wicked, apparently. Sodomy.

Yes. That’s the crux of the argument. The most wicked thing a man can do is “commit” sodomy.

He then tries to back this claim up by quoting a passage from Daniel 11, stating “Neither shall he [Antichrist] regard… the desire of women…”

Oh, well aren’t you so clever, you Bible-thumping homophobe. I don’t think so. That is not what the passage states or means. This is what it says:

(Daniel 11:37) He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.

Nice try. Truncating sentences to completely reword them and change their meanings is pretty low, even for people trying to explain nonsense from their holy books.

You fail at journalism.



May

25

The Swine Flu has done a lot more than just make people sick, it’s also made them stupid. The virus has resurfaced the fancy idea that the world is coming to an end, as does almost any international threat or catastrophe.

Apparently Jehovah’s Witnesses are amassing for their 14 week long convention, and the topic of the apocalypse is going to be a big one.

This year’s theme, “Keep on the Watch!” is designed to discuss world events and how they relate to the Bible’s prophecy of the apocalypse.

While all conventions are open to the public, the Witnesses are specifically inviting the public to a discussion with the provocative title, “How to Survive the End of the World,” which will be at 11 a.m. Sunday.

“We feel it is imminent,” spokesman Richard Ferris said. “We can’t really put a date on it, and the scriptures tell us that nobody knows days or hours, but we’ll look at the signs as a theme of our convention and keep on the watch.”

For anyone who is keeping count, the apocalypse, according to Christians, has been “imminent” every single year since the alleged death of their savior, who specifically told his immediate followers that the end would come within their life-time.

Oops. He was a little off on that prediction. But hey, let’s cut him some slack. I mean, we can’t expect an omniscient god to know everything, right?

A possible, unfortunate side-effect of this apocalyptic paranoia is more door-to-door proselytizing on the part of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Witnesses feel it’s their duty to save as many souls from the impending doom of the world as possible, and so they knock on your door and ask you if you’ve heard the good news (the world is about to end).

This is a duty which I never fully understood, because as far as the Witnesses are concerned, only 144,000 of them will get into Heaven. It’s sort of like a raffle. The more that take part, the less chance you have of winning. Oh, sure. It might be for a good cause… the money for your ticket could go to feed starving children in Africa or something. But really, who cares about that? You want to win that car.

Perhaps though they feel that the more people they convert, the better chances they have of getting to see their invisible friend. So then can we say that they’re really doing it because they care about everyone else, or just their own personal salvation?



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What is Fractal Wrongness?

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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