Archive for July, 2006

Mel Gibson arrested on suspicion of DUI

28 July 2006 by Sean

(Thanks to Amy for passing this one on!)

Mel Gibson arrested on suspicion of DUI

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Oh for fuck’s sake…

28 July 2006 by Ford

Heathen
So I’m watching A&E, and City Confidential is on. They’re talking about a group of teenagers from Pikeville KY, this was probably on the news a few months/years ago and I just missed/ don’t remember it. Anyways, there are these fucking teenagers, who called themselves “atheists/agnostics”, but dress all goth like and claimed to have dabbled in satanism. Yeah, wonderful, there’s one fucking box of ammo for the fundies, atheism/agnosticism=satan worship. Marvelous. Oh, but that’s not the “best” of this story yet, oh no, we have another shipment of bombshells for the fundies.

This group of teenage satan worshippin’, godless heathens decided to get the hell out of dodge, so to speak, and stole some guns. A little down the road, at a rest stop, a Jehova’s witness family decides to go proselytize to this group of heathens. Mom, Dad, two young children. One of the kids offered the group a hershey’s kiss. We all know assholes telling us we’re going to burn in hell is annoying, but I promise you’ll feel bad for ‘em in a minute. The merry band of sodomites then forced the family into the family’s van and hopped in the van and told them to drive.

The teens take the family down a gravel road, and kill almost all of them, the little boy survives, minus an eye. A witness (some guy walking through the woods who heard the whole thing) says he heard them laughing during all of this. The family was found arranged in the shape of a cross.

Yeah, thanks guys, thanks for being such great representatives, and right in Kentucky too. Murdering an Xtian family. Great.

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Well shit. Looks like they weren’t atheists. The show I watched claimed they were, but nothing official makes the claim (see RDZ’s comments), and in fact contradicts the claim.

So what did I learn today? Do more research. Oh, and City Confidential sucks ass.

But, just so our anger isn’t unjustified, someone involved with the show did decide to lump atheism in with this.

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GifS A.V. Club: Bush and Blair

28 July 2006 by Sean

Bush, Blair back multinational force

… The leaders, standing side by side in the White House’s East Room after meeting in the Oval Office…

And now a blast from the not-too-distant past.

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Points to ponder for our xian lurkers, trolls and commentors — Open your mind and think!!

28 July 2006 by Stardust

Christian MythologyFrom The Freethought Zone:
This article sums up much of what has been stated time and time again throughout our archives that xians either choose to dismiss in lieu of blind “faith” or never even bother to read:

At the core of the Christian belief system is the notion that “God gave his only begotten son” to save humans. The basic idea is that God was so angry with humans because of their sins that he would damn them all to hell. But God had a son. God decided to vent his anger by murdering his son (which was suicide according to the trinity dogma). Since God’s anger was properly relieved, he no longer felt the need to damn everybody; now the people who believe this story would no longer have to go to hell.

But since God is suppose to be omnipotent, he should be able to do anything, including forgiving people, without first demanding sacrifice. There is no reason why an omnipotent god would have to resort to the artifice of having his son murdered in order to avoid sending people to hell. This is why the notion that “God gave his only begotten son” is so absurd. Somehow Christians do not realize that their barbaric savior god story is absurd; they never seem to be able to ask themselves “Why did God have to sacrifice his son? Couldn’t he just forgive people?”.

Here are some points to ponder when thinking about Christianity:

* There are many savior god myths much older than Christianity. The supernatural aspects of Christianity are clearly nothing more than evolved myth (see Christianity and Other Mythologies).

* Christianity would not exist today if not for genocide. In the early part of the fourth century, the Roman emperor Constantine carried out “holy” wars against pagans; and in 356 CE, a law was passed officially declaring the practice of non-Christian religions to be a crime punishable by death. Before Constantine, Christianity was an insignificant little cult.

* Christianity, if taken seriously, would lead to the most perverse kind of moral relativism. The Bible is self-contradictory. People who attempt to base their morals solely on the Bible will have morals that depend on what parts of the Bible they choose to believe and what parts they choose to ignore. Fortunately, most Christians ignore the many Bible passages which glorify genocide.

* By placing emphasis on a mythical afterlife at the expense of real life, Christianity devalues human life. Many Christians claim that life would have no meaning without God and the hope for an eternal afterlife. This is equivalent to saying that they think that our life here on Earth is worthless. How very sad.

    (Some “atheist proselytizing” here): If you are a Christian, there is hope for you. You don’t need God to save you from himself; you can take responsibility for your own life. All you need to do to start down the path of becoming a freethinker is to open your mind and think! If, like most Christians, you have never read the Bible, that would be a good place to start. Read it starting from Genesis and try to understand what it really says without twisting the meaning into some preconceived notion of what you think it should say. Most Christians would be shocked to learn what is really in their “holy” book.

“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.” – Thomas Paine

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Oh, please. Please, Marcus. Make Ann the subject of our next Monthly Metamorphosis!

28 July 2006 by Sean

I’m dyin’ here. Let’s do it! Oh, I beg ya.

Past Metamorphs.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving

27 July 2006 by Raindogzilla

Heres a few more choice mots from the gift whore that keeps on giving.

“You title your book “Godless.” Are all liberals atheists?

No, but it increases the odds.

What portion of liberals would you say are religious in the more conventional sense of the word: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, even Wiccans?

Hmmm, so you consider Wiccans “religious… in the conventional sense”? That would definitely get liberals’ numbers up! I’d have no way of knowing, but make no mistake: Liberals are everywhere, in every religion, denomination and spiritual practice–especially Wiccans!”

Damned, dirty witches.

“We’ve done some polls here at Beliefnet, and a surprising number of Democrats at least say they are religious. Some 61 percent say they pray daily and 72 percent attend worship services once a month or more. How would you explain that?

Just curious: What percentage of them know which Testament the Book of Job is in?”

Stupid, stupid, stoopid.

“When you say that most liberals don’t believe in God, what is your evidence? According to a Fox News poll last year, 92 percent of Americans believe in God. And nearly half of Americans voted Democratic in the 2004 election. So doesn’t that suggest that most liberals do believe in God?

First let me say that I think it’s terrific to hear a journalist citing a Fox News poll as authoritative evidence and would like to encourage this development. I don’t say “most liberals don’t believe in God”; I say liberalism is a godless religion. Some liberals don’t understand the underlying religious dogma and principles of liberalism–if they did, they would flee the building.”

Or bolt the doors against harridans like Annie.

“You write: “Liberalism is a comprehensive belief system denying the Christian belief in man’s immortal soul.” Yet our Beliefnet polls show that 58.7% of Democrats believe in life after death. Doesn’t that disprove your statement?

No, I think it proves it–58.7% of all Democrats? That’s pathetic. Also, you forgot to ask them the follow-up question: Is that because you hope to come back as a snail darter?”

What the fuck does reincarnation have to do with it?

“Will most liberals go to hell or heaven?

I really can’t improve on Jesus’ words: “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.”

Perhaps that explains why she’s so skinny. Hopeful emaciation?

“Are churches that don’t agree with your politics or religious beliefs not really churches?

Correct: They’re called “mosques.”

Actually, the answer to that question is contained in what those in the publishing industry refer to as the “title” of my book, which is: “Godless: The CHURCH of Liberalism.”

What a snotty bitch- pardon the expression.

“And don’t many people whom you would classify as belonging to the Church of Liberalism define themselves as Christian or Jewish? Jim Wallis of Sojourners and Michael Lerner of Tikkun claim to be applying authentic Christian and Jewish theology to political and social questions. Are such people not really Christians or Jews?

Yes, the percentage of liberals who define themselves as practicing Christians or Jews goes up in direct proportion to their proximity to elective office.

I cannot speak to individual cases–only God knows who is truly following Him–but claiming to be Jewish or Christian doesn’t immunize one from bad ideologies. Some slaveholders claimed to be Christians, too. Howard Dean, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry all belong to a church that believes it’s okay to stick a fork in a baby’s head. To the extent one is practicing liberalism, one is not practicing the religion of our Father.”

Personally, I’d settle for sticking a fork in Ann’s head

“You devote four of your eleven chapters to evolution, and say that Darwin’s theory of evolution is “about one notch above Scientology in scientific rigor.” So what do you think really happened? Did God create the world in six days? Did he create each species separately? Did he set a chain of causation in motion? Did he “cause” evolution in the sense that all the species are related to each other but God guided their descent?

These are unanswerable questions–except the latter. God did not “cause” evolution because evolution doesn’t exist. Thus, for example, He also didn’t “cause” unicorns. My faith and reason tell me that God created the world and I’m not particularly interested in the details. I’ll find out when I meet my Maker.”

Ann’s maker.

“Many arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution strike me as actually being arguments against the existence of God–that is, why would a creator create tapeworms, disease viruses, and other bad things? Why do you think such things exist in a world of intelligent design?

Your question is incomprehensible. I assume you are trying to ask me: “Why would God create tapeworms?”

My answer is: God also created mosquitoes, which I hate. But purple martins love mosquitoes and would probably all starve without them. It’s kind of a “big picture” thing. Of course that doesn’t explain why He created Michael Moore. For that, I have no explanation. My guess is that disease, pestilence, and Michael Moore are all perversions of the good that God created, a result of sin entering the world through Adam and Eve.”

So, Michael Moore is one of the Four Horsemen? Poor horse.

“You make fun of journalists who predicted that AIDS would become a heterosexual threat: “It’s been twenty years, and we’re still waiting for that heterosexual outbreak.” While it’s true that here in the U.S., AIDS is an overwhelmingly gay disease (about 80 percent), that’s not so true worldwide, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 40 percent, perhaps up to 48 percent, of those with HIV are women, according to U.N. figures. What do you make of that?

Same lie, different continent–with the same evil consequence: Millions of lives being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. (Could we get back to Fox News polls and dispense with U.N. studies?) AIDS is overwhelmingly spread by anal intercourse and dirty needles. In the U.S., dirty needles come mostly from junkies; in Africa, dirty needles come from medical workers. See, e.g.:

By the way, those journalists I make fun of were talking about AIDS in the U.S. So the above information is merely for your edification.”

I don’t even know how to respond to this one except it’s nice to see an animal in the wild reaching for the comforts of it’s lair.

“You say: “The core of environmentalism is that they hate mankind.” But in February the National Association of Evangelicals, including such signers as Ted Haggard, James Dobson, and Chuck Colson, etc., issued a statement urging Christian stewardship of the environment, “creation care,” and so forth. Are these people godless liberals who hate mankind?

Of course not–but I’m beginning to suspect you are. As Dobson and Colson say: God asks us to be good stewards–a statement that presupposes we are stewards of the plants and the animals, they are not stewards of us, as liberals prefer. We are commanded to worship the Creator of the environment, not the environment. As Jesus said, we are of “more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:21).”

My personal steward.

You say you’re a Christian. Do you think Jesus would want you to be nicer to your political opponents?

Who knows? Maybe He’ll say I was too tough or maybe He’ll chastise me for not being tough enough on those who hate Him. Ask the money-changers in the temple how “nice” Jesus was. Maybe He’ll say I needed more jokes or fewer adjectives. I’ll just apologize for not getting it right and thank him for dying for my sins.

Is it important to you as a woman to be standing up for positions that many people (especially liberals) think are unrepresentative of women: opposing abortion, favoring the death penalty, and so forth?

The answer to any question beginning “Is it important to you as a woman” is: No. It’s important to me as a Christian and an American to take the positions I take, but I would hold the same positions if I were a man. And by the way, despite your nearly mystical fascination with polls in earlier questions, you have apparently not brushed up on the abortion polls if you think opposition to abortion is “unrepresentative of women.” No matter who takes the poll or how the questions are asked, women almost always oppose abortion more than men do. Abortion is a convenience for men who want to be able to have sex with women without consequence. Women love and protect children. Godless men–like Herod in Jesus’ time, the Pharaoh in Moses’ time, and Bill Clinton in our time–target babies for destruction.

I’m thinking the only baby Bill Clinton might want to destroy is the one born, like, 46 years ago to Mr. and Mr. Coulter.

As a woman, do you long for that source of great fulfillment for many women: a husband, a family? Or do you see your life’s vocation as primarily in the public arena?

As a journalist, do you long to have a sense of decorum? Or do you see your life’s vocation as primarily asking strangers utterly inappropriate personal questions?

Actually, I’d prefer a wife, preferrably with a great rack.”

Okay, that was me.


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The End of World as We Know It?

27 July 2006 by Sean

(Thanks to Mark for this one.)

Holy War:
A Texas Preacher
Leads Campaign
To Let Israel Fight

Mr. Hagee Draws Evangelicals
By Arguing Jewish State
Fulfills Biblical Prophecy
By ANDREW HIGGINS
July 27, 2006

WASHINGTON — After Israel sent warplanes into Iraq in 1981 to bomb a nuclear reactor, Texas televangelist John Hagee sent letters to 150 fellow Christian preachers to rally support for the Jewish state.

He got just one positive response. When Mr. Hagee pressed ahead with plans for a pro-Israel gathering in a San Antonio theater, he says he got a death threat on the phone and someone shot out all the windows of his station wagon parked in his driveway.

Last week, as Israel’s armed forces pounded Lebanon and worries of a wider conflagration mounted, Mr. Hagee presided over what he called a “miracle of God”: a gathering of 3,500 evangelical Christians packed into a Washington hotel to cheer Israel and its current military campaign.

Standing on a stage bedecked with a huge Israeli flag, Mr. Hagee drew rapturous applause and shouts of “amen” as he hailed Israel for doing God’s work in a “war of good versus evil.” Calls for Israel to show restraint violate “God’s foreign-policy statement” toward Jews, he said, citing a verse from the Old Testament that promises to “bless those who bless you” and curse “the one who curses you.”

The gathering was sponsored by Christians United for Israel, a national organization the 66-year-old preacher set up this year. The group lobbies politicians in Washington, rallies grassroots support for Israel and aims to educate Christians on what it calls the “biblical imperative” of supporting the Jewish state.

Mr. Hagee is a leading figure in the so-called Christian-Zionist movement. This evangelical political philosophy is rooted in biblical prophecies and a belief that Israel’s struggles signal a prelude to Armageddon. Its followers staunchly support the Bush administration’s unequivocal backing of Israel in its current battle with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

President Bush sent a message to the gathering praising Mr. Hagee and his supporters for “spreading the hope of God’s love and the universal gift of freedom.” The Israeli prime minister also sent words of thanks. Israel’s ambassador, its former military chief and a host of U.S. political heavyweights, mostly Republican, attended.

More…

Hey, here’s a thought: maybe John Hagee is the Anti-Christ?

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Virus Mail from Judge El Dwarfo

27 July 2006 by Sean

So check this out. The crazed Filipino judge Florentino V. Floro is now swamping us with attachments that contain viruses. In the last 24 hours we have received a JPG, a Windows executable and a zip archive all containing unknown viruses, all from the original address this lunatic first wrote to us from:

judge_florentino_v_floro@yahoo.com

I think he’s gone off the deep end, folks.

Hey, King Retard… What’s your home mailing address, dude? ;)

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