Category Archives: Religion
The President Supports Equal Freedoms & Rights — What If This Were About Jews? What If This Were About Gays?
I you lived in a Christian nation that by decree and law forbid recognition and constitutional rights to Jews,
…and one member of your family was an ostracized Jew,
…and one historical day your President/Chancellor/Prime Minister publicly pronounced that it was time to provide full rights of citizenship to Jews,
…Would you say something, anything, or nothing to your Jewish family member whom you loved? Would you tweet, text, call, or even Facebook them?
What if they were Gay, and this was about Equality of Rights for Gays?
I know the answer.
Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent — A Liberal’s Calm Before The Storm
Made glorious summer by this sun of Windy City;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried…
…for how long?
For some of us the inauguration of Barack Obama ushered in the potential for an era of liberal progress, of recovery from the dark clouds of George W. Bush… illegal wars, reactionary social policy, and economic destruction.
The republican party nomination process stimulated my presaging fear of tumult as I witnessed enthusiastic applause for the proposed destruction / elimination of women’s’ rights, civil and marriage rights, health care access, criminalized physical expressions of hate, and responsible stewardship of earth’s resources.
While I know that I am not alone in my liberal desires for a more progressive and better nation, it sure feels a lot lonelier.
As I contemplated my sense of alienation and just how far I am away from the American political norm, a battery of political spectrum tests proved that, indeed, I am a Liberal Elite in a right wing, conservative nation…and it is not a good feeling.
For the Liberal Elite contemplating the national mood, it may soon be another kind of Winter…the end (winter) of our contentment…
The 2012 Screwtape Letters — Satan’s Op-Ed Regarding The GOP
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR: Not Even a Single Mention of My Infernal Glory? What Gives? By Satan
(Inspired by Cultural Correspondent on February 28, 2012)
All the buildup and excitement was for naught. The broadband cable I had installed throughout the dark reaches of Hell so my minions and the damned could watch the GOP candidates debate each other… for nothing. I thought I’d be the man of the hour, the name on everybody’s lips, the only guy that everyone hoped CNN Debate Moderator John King would ask about.
But did he ever mention my name?
Not once!
You have to go back to the early 19th Century to see my name being used as a weapon against another candidate as frequently as it is today.
If my name were a registered trademark, Rick Santorum would owe me big time!
I don’t mind being interjected into politics, per se. I get sort of a vicarious thrill out of it. But when Rick Santorum said that I was specifically targeting the United States of America, I nearly spit out my brimstone biscotti.
I look at the warlords of Africa as they steal and hoard food sent by humanitarian organizations while their people die miserable, starvation-induced deaths; I look at the former Soviet Union as their Mafia fiat governs more than their legally elected representatives. All you have to do is take a look at the Middle East. Nice people, but here they are, killing each other because of the name they use to refer to “You Know Who.” (I am technically forbidden from using His name.)
With all of that said, Rick Santorum still thinks I’m targeting the United States of America for special treatment?
I haven’t actually done anything in America since placing James Brady between John Hinckley and Ronald Reagan back in 1981. Reagan had much more work to do for me, and damned if I was going to let some little piss ant with a “Taxi Driver” fixation spoil that.
Let’s put it this way: the United States is in my crosshairs but so are all peaceful, freedom loving people. The sooner I can get you all fighting each other over stupid things like the proper way to say the word “route,” the sooner my plans will be realized.
I’m probably giving away more than I should, but this is the reason I made such a point of getting Barack Obama elected in 2008. And no, it’s not for the reasons you’re thinking. He is neither evil nor Muslim nor Kenyan. He’s a good man and a fine singer.
I got him elected because I knew what it would do to my unwitting servants in the United States — they just can’t stand having a “Head-(N-word)-In-Charge.” You know these folks, the people who can spout chapter and verse from the Bible and just as easily go against the very things their Big-Guy-In-The-Sky commanded them to do during their time on Earth!
This is precisely why I invented the Tea Party.
I knew that the very presence of a black person (HNIC) in their precious White House would so infuriate my unwitting racist minions that they would go absolutely crazy and start saying the most ridiculous things.
My willing servant, Rupert Murdoch, used his worldwide conduit to your brains to help spread this message. And believe me, nothing makes me happier than to see you idiots fighting with each other over The Other Guy’s name.
But still, imagine my infernal anger after being the subject of such controversy over the last few weeks. First, New Jersey Governor Christie (he is mine!) blathers about me and Whitney Houston in the same breath! Then, Santorum even called me “the father of lies.”
Santorum just won’t get off it; consider these remarks he made in a speech back in 2008, for example:
“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war at all. This is a spiritual war,” said Santorum. “And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country: the United States of America.”
And you can’t forget what he said about homosexuality and the Democratic Party: “Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. The prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom.”
Right, because that’s how I plan to drag America and all its precious souls screaming and kicking to Hell: By making them realize that “You Know Who” created them with organs that make them feel good when they love each other, and that it doesn’t matter who you love as long as you love.
Yeah. That’s me. I’m corrupting the human race by making them all love each other.
So, my little idiot from Pennsylvania has been in the news for a week now, using my name at every opportunity, and that damn John King from CNN doesn’t even ask a single question about me during Tuesday’s debate? He doesn’t give Santorum the time or airspace to glorify me, to spread more falsehoods, to – if you will – spray his foamy, frothy jets of deception all over the faces and bed sheets of the American public?
What happens instead? He gets softball questions.
John King has displeased me.
CNN has displeased me.
Rick Santorum is my most useful tool in America and he will be heard.
- Satan, formerly known as Lucifer, is the dark lord of the underworld and creator of all pain and suffering. He also is a cribbage aficionado.
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“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” he said. “The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”
Gingrich Family Values… Republican-Christian Family Values? Oy Vey!
Newt Gingrich — balancing pro-family values with a commitment to Darwinian survival of the fittest in the marketplace.
As reported by L.H. Carter, his campaign treasurer, Newt said of Jacqueline: “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.”
Newt — A Committed Adulterer With Conservative Family Values… !
- We know that Newt cheated on his FIRST wife (some call this Destroying the Sanctity of Marriage… oh wait, that’s committed, loving gays) while she lay on her hospital sickbed during cancer chemo treatments.
- We know that Newt cheated on his SECOND wife at the exact same time he led impeachment against President Clinton for the same offense.
- And, of course, we know that Newt cheated with his future THIRD wife while he sought an “open marriage” with and then finally a divorce from his second wife.
Gingrich family values… dishearteningly on display yet again. But it’s all good, I guess. After all, Pat Robertson — purveyor of all that is Christian – has deemed it permissible to dump your wife when she gets sick… and he’s got that direct line to Jesus, you know.
Difference of opinion on the issues is one acceptable thing. Hypocrisy by conservative support of Gingrich is both revealing about the true heart of our right-wing compatriots and unacceptable to more thoughtful persons… aka, we Intellectual Elite.
Do Republicans really hate having a black man as President this much?
Good old Republican, Christian values… It’s no wonder Newt has vaulted to the top of the pack.
All I can do is a face palm in disgust and ask, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Forget legitimate differences of substantial policy matters. Supporting Gingrich from a conservative, Christian perspective simply makes no sense… except if mitigated by a hatred in your heart toward a negro as president and fear of another religious sect… like, oh say, Mormonism. And that’s not very American… or is it?
Full Disclosure: My President, Clinton, is a “recovered” husband who cheated, but he never claimed the sanctimonious heights of moral perfection and spousal infallibility, as do conservatives… Yes, that makes all the difference. He’s still with his first wife and raised a stable, intelligent daughter.
“Thanks, Jesus…” — A Reality Primer
A smack-in-your-face image of reality has gone viral and speaks to the “boots-on-the-ground” truth of real labor in our society…
Pope Benedict XVI: Gay Marriage A Threat To ‘Future Of Humanity’
“This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself” -Pope Benedict XVI
VATICAN CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Pope Benedict said on January 9th, 2012 that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself”.
The pope made his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he touched on some economic and social issues facing the world today.
He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper “settings” and that “pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman.”
The Vatican and Catholic officials have protested against moves to legalize gay marriage in Europe and other developed parts of the world. Gay marriage is legal in a number of advanced civilized European countries, including Spain and the Netherlands.
One leading opponent of gay marriage in the United States is New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who fought against gay marriage before it became legal in New York state last June, and in September sent a letter to President Barack Obama criticizing his administration’s decision not to support a federal ban on gay marriage.
The Roman Catholic Church, which has some 1.3 billion members worldwide, teaches that while homosexual tendencies are not sinful, homosexual acts are, and that children should grow up in a traditional family with a mother and a father.
“The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue,” Benedict told the diplomats.
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Threats To Humanity? Plentiful, but…
Listen, Pope… I’m supposed to take seriously a sheltered, celibate man who dresses in medieval garb? A dress, no less? The validity of your ideas are so far removed from reality, that it confounds why your banal utterances are even reported as news.
Truth be known, Pope, there are real threats to the future of Humanity:
-It’s the Catholic Church that is a threat to the “Future of Humanity”. Look no further than all of the sex scandals rocking the Catholic world, the young boys’ lives you’ve ruined, the deaths you have caused. It’s shameful and an embarrassment to modern civilization.
-Humanity — the quality or lack thereof — as you advocate… a threat to future of Humanity.
-Religion has throughout history led to judgment and war against the heathen; it continues as a great threat to Humanity.
-Great threat to the future of Humanity: uncontrolled human breeding, which all the major religions not only accept but vigorously promote. Ergo, it’s not a stretch to say that organized religion itself is a threat to the future of humanity, based purely on its stance on birth control.
-Far more than an honest, loving “gay marriage,” it is ” Catholic intolerance” as the threat to Humanity.
- A clear example of one of the great problems of the world today: “Half” the population has entered the 21st century and the other “half” still has its head in the Dark Ages. All of this “old world” thinking is being driven by the established religions of the world… science and logical thinking be damned.
The Catholic Church. Still hundreds of years behind the times.
No church should ever be forced to recognize gay marriage, or any other kind of marriage which violates its moral standards, but that is NOT the issue at hand, here. Pope Benedict is not worried that the laws of various countries will force his church to accept gay marriages, he is worried that laws allowing gay marriage would allow other religions to recognize them. He wants our government to enforce the Catholic Church’s version of morality.
The Taliban is an evil in the world because it is intolerant, ruthless, and dictatorial… NOT because it is Muslim. Your Christian Taliban is no better.
“We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate.” - Ronald Reagan
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