Worst example of cultural appropriation ever: LGBTs stole the rainbow from God. It’s his. He invented it. Gen. 9:11-17. Give it back.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 2, 2017
“Worst example of cultural appropriation ever: LGBTs stole the rainbow from God. It’s his. He invented it. Gen. 9:11-17. Give it back.”
People have been making nonstop fun of Mr. Fischer for his indignant tweet, but rather than just letting it slide, he’s back, with a double down demand.
“The rainbow is God’s,” Fischer said. “God invented the rainbow—look at Genesis 9:11-17—He invented it, it’s His thing, He put it in the sky as a promise that he would never again destroy the earth through a flood. Are you listening Al Gore? Al Gore, you do not need to worry about the planet being destroyed by floodwaters. Why? Because God has put His rainbow in the sky to let you and everybody else know, ‘I’m never going to do that again.’”
The LGBTQ community, Fischer warned, “is using something that doesn’t belong to you. That’s cultural appropriation … You’ve culturally appropriated something that doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to God, it’s His idea and you need to give it back.”
The first thought here is how any being so utterly weak as to not be able to retake a rainbow, well why bother with it? Apparently, it never bothers Christians that they simultaneously exalt the might of Jehovah, and his absolute weakness. Also, Jehovah is a latecomer in the god business, and a fair amount of the old testament stories are lifted from earlier peoples and their mythologies, so there’s no reason to think ol’ Jehovah had a lock on a rainbow. There is the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, which the OT writers shamelessly stole from when hammering out Genesis. What about the Bifrost? That’s a whole rainbow bridge, from Asgard to Midgard, which would kind of put Jehovah’s measly rainbow to shame, yeah? What about Cuchavira, god of the rainbow? How about the Greek Goddess Iris, who is the personification of the rainbow, a messenger, and the link between the gods and humanity? Iris had long been in business before your sorry god was dreamed up, so that weak god of yours loses this one. There are plenty of other rainbow ties to various mythologies as well.
You also lose the whole “you can’t have a rainbow flag!” tantrum, too. Rainbow flags are not new, have been used for centuries. So, about that cultural appropriation business…of all people, Christians need to shut the fuck up about cultural appropriation of any kind, seriously, because the list of your crimes in that category are damn near endless.
Via RWW.
Genesis doesn’t say that God™ invented the rainbow for the occasion, just that from then on it will be a symbol of NoDestructionByFlood®.
Also NoDestructionByFlood® does not preclude destruction by fire, catastrophic storms, drought, famine, disease, etc.
God™ was being disingenuous.
That’s another bit of idiocy, that people don’t have to fear floods -- it’s also downright nasty given that many people were recently killed in floods.
I’m think genocide is a worse example.
Give Ostara her holiday back, then we can talk about the rainbow.
Love,
paganism
The Christian god has to be the weakest, most sensitive god ever. He’s getting offended by his minuscule creations using a rainbow a certain way. Not only that, he then has to get old whiny white dudes with radio shows to fight for him. I mean to go from floods and plagues to angry radio hosts…. talk about mellowing out over the millennia…
An angry Greek god would handle this so differently.
So, was the refractive index of water independent of wavelength before the flood?
Also, Ostara might also want her potatoes back (there’s a cultivar called Ostara, about which i wonder, should a good Xtian eat those satanic pagan god tubers at all?).
There is also his misuse of the term “cultural appropriation”.
No. No potatoes for christians. I am the angry Latvian god of potatoes and I say no.
Now I want potatoes.
Now I want the blessings of bacchus.
That too.
All you need to know about christians is that they think they’re turning wine into the blood of their god, and using it to wash down raw god sushi. What kind of shit-for-brains would do that to perfectly good wine?
[emily littela voice]How dare you compare those evil muslims to anything to do with god?!11!! They chop off people’s heads and hate us amurricans! They even kill their own! And . . . what’s that? You said Iris? Oh never mind.[/emily litella voice]