Da Boy from Joisey
7 September 2008 by BobAh, the joys of seeing xians in political power. (Who the hell elects these yahoos?)
“If you think he’s an idiot, you should see his constituents”…
Think Progress has a good link on Chris Smith and his crusade to get us all back to that ole’ time religion:
Universities have become “bastions of moral relativism?” What kind of bullshit is that? When’s the last time this moron was ever even in a college classroom? Don’t colleges and universities have codes of conduct that they follow? (Oh, that’s right, I forgot: cheating is now accepted and encouraged all across American campuses.)
In general, there’s an important difference between questioning something and rejecting it — and if Smith ever got a decent education he would know something about that.
Why do xians so often think that merely questioning something is going off into the abyss?
(Oh, that’s right, I forgot)…
7 September 2008, on 4:31 pm
Funny, “bastions of moral relativism” is how I tend to describe churches. After all, where else can you find someone who’ll say watching a video with a couple doing a little nookie is an unpardonable sin, immediately followed by near-sexual pleasure at describing watching those people be tortured for eternity and calling it holy?
7 September 2008, on 4:47 pm
“culture of death” ? Is that what he said? Or was it “culture of debt”? Because DEBT I can understand, related to universities, but culture of DEATH? WTF?
7 September 2008, on 5:53 pm
Karen
“Culture of Death” is code fundi-speak for Gay/Lesbian. They have it wrong on so many levels it boggles the mind.
The fundis believe that: Sex Education means teaching kids how to have sex. They believe that the gay issue means that schools teach kids how to BE gay. And on.
Go figure, who really knows what they have in mind. It is all so vacuous that most normal folks can’t relate.
7 September 2008, on 6:43 pm
Shouldn’t culture of death be xianity, seeing as how they all look forward to the day they die?
7 September 2008, on 7:51 pm
AUM:
“seeing as how they all look forward to the day they die?” Yepper; right up until they see that there is no tunnel of white light.
8 September 2008, on 12:56 am
Isn’t the “tunnel of white light” actually the brain dying?
8 September 2008, on 10:05 am
i’m so burned out with this election. lets all just vote already so i can be depressed because america chose McCain, and i can slip back under my rock of Crown Royal induced political apathy for 3-5 months.
the more i learn about Sarah Palin, how her daughter is knocked up and how she cut funding to help teens with babies, how her son will probably come back from Iraq with PTSD, the more i see the evidence that GOD DOES EXIST, AND HE HATES CHRISTIANS
8 September 2008, on 10:51 am
Thanks jimmer, obviously, I didn’t know that. See, blogging is educational! Will that be on the test?
8 September 2008, on 8:24 pm
Actually, culture of death generally means abortion when they hate it, executing black prisoners when they love it.
8 September 2008, on 9:56 pm
“Culture of death?” Really? This coming from the party that continues to push for endless war. Coming from a man that urges for this country to heed his message and partake in his death-cult?
It’s been 8 years since I’ve been at a University, so perhaps things have changed a bit since then, but to the best of my recollection, Colleges were more a culture of beer and Ramen than anything else.
For those outside of the fundie loop, it does get a bit tedious to attempt to discern what exactly jokers like this mean when they say “culture of death.” I am guessing that in addition to the fundie fears already mentioned (”my daughter went to college a good Christian cheerleader and came back wearing Teva sandals and a N.O.W. t-shirt and working for Planned Parenthood) he is also referring to the tendency of Universtities to present material (otherwise known as “knowledge”) that is challenging to and even inconsistent with a modern-day fundamentalist interpretation of the buybull.
The stock bullshit that comes out of the mouths of these ovine troglodytes is so ridiculous, I really don’t know how they can repeat it on a daily basis and still feel good about themselves or their addled intellects.
8 September 2008, on 10:09 pm
It would be sorta fun to go to one of these group therapy sessions and say, “I want to believe, but I need a sign. If Sky Boss will call YOU home, right now, I’ll sign up, as soon as the ME pronounces you dead. I feel the Spirit, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, yeah!!!!!!!
9 September 2008, on 9:10 am
Just for the record… I knocked up Bristol Palin.
Thank you, carry on.
9 September 2008, on 12:33 pm
Travdawg ^ : “Just for the record… I knocked up Bristol Palin.
Ummm…
“Knocked up”…as in forced semen in a relatively upward direction?
As opposed to “knocked down”?
Sorry…I’ve always thought those kind of expressions to be of curious origin.
Like, who was the original dork that started THAT expression!
[Shades of early George Carlin routines?]
Bottom-line (and of MOST importance): “Did you ENJOY yourself?” Or…
“Any S&M (latex or leather)…stiletto style high heels?…involved”?
“And…WAIT!…what about her mom?…zama, zama!”
Yeah…”Laugh it up folks”…tomorrow we may all be sucked (in a nano-second?) into a ‘micro black hole’!…?
On that ‘positive’, conspiracy theory, note…
Here’s an interesting BBC article related to tomorrow’s firing up of the CERN particle accelerator…
(albeit, pointed out to me by our old GifSter friend “The Old Git”)…
” Why the fascination with the end of the world?”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7600966.stm
“What!…Me worry?”
9 September 2008, on 1:43 pm
ChuckA
Well, if the world is going to end tomorrow, there’s really no sense in cleaning my house today, is there? Thanks LHC, for enabling my procrastinating! Fiddle-de-dee!
9 September 2008, on 3:48 pm
You know, if all those idiots who think the world is going to end tomorrow quit their jobs, I’d have an easier time finding one.
9 September 2008, on 7:13 pm
fritzy: …ovine troglodytes…
Is that the same as “Stone Age sheeple?”
Sorry; I gets my giggles where I can!
9 September 2008, on 8:07 pm
OK, the way I was hearing it came from some immigrant fundis who were talking about some link between Nazi Germany, The culture of death, and Gay Lesbian. I listened and wondered if I didn’t miss something in the translation. I know I did start to twitch a bit because of the inane and nearly superstitious and ignorant way they portrayed their knowledge.
These same people think that the gay “agenda” means that gays will be teaching kids how to be gay in schools. They also believe that the fires we had in Cali a few months ago were a direct result of Ahnny signing the gay marriage thing.
Fortunatly I no longer associate with them as they became too unhinged in other regards and I am none too polite with stupid.