Archive for October, 2005

Evangelical Assholes

31 October 2005

Evangelical AssholesSome Christians using Halloween to evangelize

Faith Meyer gives the good stuff at Halloween – Snickers, Butterfingers and Baby Ruths. But each child who stops by her North Dallas home also gets a Gospel tract. [...] “It’s just so wonderful to be bilingual with my tracts,” she said. “You’ll see the child take the tract and hand it to the parent. You’ll see the parent reading it, and most of the time I’ll have someone turn around to me and smile.” [...] Evangelical Christians have long debated whether to observe Halloween, with its pagan roots and witchcraft imagery. But an increasing number of evangelicals are, like Ms. Meyer, making Oct. 31 a prime time for witnessing. They do so with colorful little booklets whose bottom line is that only those who profess Jesus as savior will go to heaven.

Yes, start out with getting the perfect Incredibles or Thomas the Train or Batman costume and going door-to-door to get candy — but come home thinking you’re going to burn in hell forever.

Nice. Happy Fucking Halloween.

“Turn to you and smile” when they get your tract, do they? Hmmm. Wonder why they’d ever do that.

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The Bibble - (Inerrant, Dammit!) Part Deux

31 October 2005

Xian blogger David Heddle took issue with my recent deconstruction of his statement I find it very interesting, this insistence of atheist evolutionists that an inerrant bible is incompatible with science.

So he came onto your Rockstar’s own blog to brilliantly refute the evidence presented. At least, that’s what he thought

At least try a challenge that is not stupid. I mean, people have been asking those questions for two thousand years, and you present them as if your deep research has revealed them as insoluble difficulties. Do you expect Tertullian, or Augustine, or Aquinas, or Luther, or Calvin, or Jonathan Edwards, were they alive to respond “the genealogies differ! Brother, I never noticed! How could I be so blind! There is no explanation for that! I recant! Rockstar, you da man?”

Likewise for your other objections. Try to be a bit original. There are some really difficult “contradictions.” Do some research and find them. Otherwise you look as stupid as someone going to Myer’s blog or Panda’s Thumb and thinking they can stop everyone in their tracks by asking “what good is half an eye?”

I guess Mr. Heddle missed my GifS post on logic. In those two paragraphs, he commits several fallacious arguments:

At least try a challenge that is not stupid.

Ad Hominem: Insulting me and my argument without backing it up.

I mean, people have been asking those questions for two thousand years, and you present them as if your deep research has revealed them as insoluble difficulties. Do you expect Tertullian, or Augustine, or Aquinas, or Luther, or Calvin, or Jonathan Edwards, were they alive to respond “the genealogies differ!

Argument from Age, Appeal to Authority: So people believe in something for 2000 years. And they are experts on Xianity. That doesn’t make it any more right.

Do some research and find them.

Burden of Proof: It’s your claim, dude. You back it up - I’m not going to do it for you.

Otherwise you look as stupid as someone going to Myer’s blog or Panda’s Thumb and thinking they can stop everyone in their tracks by asking “what good is half an eye?

Red Herring (Changing the Subject): That’s all he has left - go back to generalizing me with those “evilutionists”.

No, David. You answer my questions:

1) Why are there 2 genealogies for Jeebus? If he’s immaculately conceived, why do we even need one? (thanks Sean!)

2) What were the “last” words of Jeebus? There’s 4 different answers in your inerrant bibble.

Thank yoooooooooo…

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Technobabble interlude

28 October 2005

Two quick admin notes for anyone who cares: (a) GifS’ Flickr pictures should be available via the snazzy Flickr badge down in the right column now; thanks to Sean for his work on that. (b) We changed the spam-killer plugin here; please let us know if you’re not a spambot but are getting blocked from commenting.

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Theocracy Fuck-Ups, Pt. II

27 October 2005

Not Enough LionsJust a follow-up to my earlier post on the Christian Exodus:

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Cory Burnell wants to set up a Christian nation within the United States where abortion is illegal, gay marriage is banned, schools cannot teach evolution, children can pray to Jesus in public schools and the Ten Commandments are posted publicly. [...] Burnell hopes to move 2,500 Christians into the northern part of the state by next year and to persuade tens of thousands to relocate by 2016. His goal is to fill the state legislature with “Christian constitutionalists.” [...] The organization’s Web site says if it does not meet its goal of change, it will work to secede from the United States.

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Crucify Jeebus

27 October 2005

No, really - you can Crucify Jeebus in this fun new game for kids!

Jeeeebus

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27 October 2005

From About Atheism via The Uncredible Hallq, we find this article:

Rape victim: ‘Morning after’ pill denied

Although it is safe, effective and legal, emergency contraception - the “morning after” pill - can be hard to find in Tucson.

After a sexual assault one recent weekend, a young Tucson woman spent three frantic days trying to obtain the drug to prevent a pregnancy, knowing that each passing day lowered the chance the drug would work.

While calling dozens of Tucson pharmacies trying to fill a prescription for emergency contraception, she found that most did not stock the drug.

When she finally did find a pharmacy with it, she said she was told the pharmacist on duty would not dispense it because of religious and moral objections.

“I was so shocked,” said the 20-year-old woman, who, as a victim of sexual assault, is not being named by the Star. “I just did not understand how they could legally refuse to do this.”

GAWD!!

…less than half [of AZ pharmacies] keep emergency contraception drugs in stock, with most saying there is too little demand, but some cite moral reasons, according to the Arizona Family Planning Council. Yet, family-planning agencies say they’ve seen a 60 percent increase in demand for the drug in recent years. The statistics are creating what advocates say is a frightening situation for some women. But others are glad pharmacists have a choice.

Women who report sexual assaults to police receive treatment, examination and the immediate offer of emergency contraception at a local emergency room, according to the policy of most Tucson hospitals.

But, like many sexual assault victims, the 20-year-old woman did not report the assault because she felt traumatized and guilty she had put herself in a situation that left her vulnerable. She was mistakenly locked outside a gathering at a friend’s house and accepted the offer of a neighbor to stay at his place.

“This (sex) was with someone I did not even know and did not want to have intercourse with, and I am in no place now to have children,” she said. “I just don’t think this should be the pharmacist’s decision.”

The manager of the Fry’s pharmacy at 3920 E. Grant Road, where the refusal occurred, offered to find another location where the prescription could be filled, according to a Fry’s spokeswoman. But the young woman said she was offered no other options.

Although emergency contraception drugs have been around in one form or another for more than two decades, they remain highly controversial, with anti-abortionists and religious conservatives saying they can abort a fertilized egg.

More widespread use of emergency contraception could prevent as many as 800,000 surgical abortions a year, according to family-planning groups such as Planned Parenthood.

Controversy over emergency contraception is roiling now at the national level, with FDA scientists resigning over the agency’s refusal to allow emergency contraception to be sold over the counter, without a prescription.

The issue surfaced in Arizona last winter, when Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have permitted pharmacists to refuse to dispense it on moral or religious grounds.

…”He (the manager [of Fry's Pharmacy]) said he would fill it himself if we could get there before his shift ended, within 10 minutes,” said Sabrina Fladness, a University of Arizona student and owner of a computer service business.

“But we were more than 10 minutes away, so that was impossible. So he said we would have to come back the next morning” - after the shift of the refusing pharmacist ended.

“We have all kinds of compassion for a rape victim - in that case, Plan B is OK, the church has no problem with it,” said Ron Johnson, with the Arizona Catholic Conference, which supports the right of any health-care worker to refuse to dispense emergency contraception and lobbied hard for passage of the Arizona law to allow it.

But the biggest roadblock to obtaining emergency contraception was that most pharmacies simply do not stock it, Fladness said. She said she called nearly 50, before finding two that had it and agreed to dispense it.

[I inserted bold]

So since gawd/Jeebus/Mohammed/Krishna/Thor et. al told this phucking pharmacist emergency contaception in the case of rape is bad, he doesn’t have to work!

Folks, rape is messed up shit. A close friend of mine experienced this several years ago and is still suffering mental effects. Should she have been required to go through 9 months of pain, suffering, and constant reminder of the tragic event because you interpreted your silly ancient book to read “‘bortions r bad”?? Seriously, that’ s like asking someone who lost a family member in the 9/11 terrorist attacks to keep a picture of the planes flying into the World Trade Center on their mantle for 9 months!

Thanks gawd for all you do. I know these women thank you daily…

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White Xian Power

25 October 2005

Love those T-shirtsTwin pop stars with angelic looks are new face of racism

Prussian Blue, a “white power” band now recording its second album, is described as a sinister version of the Olsen Twins, the squeaky clean child actresses of the 1990s. It is attracting more and more fans among young white nationalists. [...] The twins’ first album featured songs called Road to Valhalla and Aryan Man, Awake. They depict a world “where freedom exists for only those with darker skin” and encourage the Aryan man to awake and “turn that fear to hate”.

Hating for Jesus. What a concept. Angelic.

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The “liberal war on Christmas” bullshit starts again

25 October 2005

Santa gives you the fingerThe usually good Media Matters for America has a nice piece pointing out that Fux News is starting to ramp up its “Stop the War on Christmas” campaign again this year: Fox renews war to save Christmas from the “loony left” and ACLU. A couple of excerpts:

On the October 20 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News re-launched its campaign to end what several of its hosts have referred to as liberals’ “war” on Christmas…. O’Reilly discussed the “war” with John Gibson, a fellow Fox News host and author of The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought…. “It’s the loony left, the Kool-Aid secular progressive ACLU America-haters. That’s who’s doing this.”… Before Christmas last year, Fox News devoted extensive coverage to a number of small incidents involving public holiday displays that didn’t specifically reference Christmas. O’Reilly and fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity led the campaign, which included a recurring segment on The O’Reilly Factor called “Christmas Under Siege.”

Which just reminds me of a “favorite” quote from Ann “Nazi Barbie” Coulter, on being in New York for December: “Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is like saying ‘Fuck you!’ I’ve said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers, passing people on the street, whatever.” Hey, she’s a horrible lying Nazi bitch, but give her points for saying outright what the assholes at Fux News really mean.

(If you care, I commented a bit on all this last year, in Merry fucking Xmas, part I, Merry fucking Xmas, part II, and Merry fucking Xmas, part III.)

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