I quiver in fear that my number is up, now that Dinesh has caught on. With great trepidation, I read his screed, certain that such a brilliant mind would demolish my godless ways with his deep insight.
Well, no. He’s indignant, but he’s got nothing to say. Oh, well, I’m sure there might be someone out there with greater wit than him who will teach me a lesson.
After a pleasant period of my mailbox cooling down a bit, I’ve recently seen a significant surge of howling mad Catholics shrieking at me. I was wondering what prompted the resurgence, and here it is: apparently I made the cover of the Catholic League’s newsletter, The Catalyst, and am even the subject of a frothing mad editorial by Billy Donohue, a complete timeline of the Great Desecration, and various requests for the faithful to howl for my job.
It’s kind of cool, in a perverse way. Cry, babies, cry.
That’s a quote from Lou Engle in this video — and it’s actually kind of true. He thinks it will be a wonderful thing when people see this, and there probably are a lot of Americans who think the events portrayed are perfectly ordinary, and even commendable.
I see nothing but madness.
By picking Sarah Palin for a running mate, John McCain has turned over a rock to expose a festering, primitive insanity in our country. Look on the squirming horror, world, and learn that it does exist!
A further indictment: Juan Cole sees Palin through the lens of his expertise on the Islamic world.
John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the “transcendent challenge” of the 21st century, “radical Islamic extremism,” contrasting it with “stability, tolerance and democracy.” But the values of his handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God’s will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts. What is the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick.
One of the weirder religiot freakaloons recently was the fellow whose electoral strategy was to pray for a McCain/Palin victory, and then pray for McCain’s “speedy death”. Well, that kook has since gone back and revised his post to be a little less blatant: “Pray for John McCain’s salvation and pray specific imprecatory prayers if he fails to pro-actively defend the sanctity of human life”. Isn’t that ever so much better?
By the way, if you follow that link, you really must watch the video of Holy Ghost Power Encounters. Thoom shaka laka nonny-nonny ding-dong, yabba dabba doo.
Raving creationist nutbags get shredded pretty thoroughly when they make comments here, I know. Still, that doesn’t excuse the efforts of the craven lackwit to hide from criticism by scuttling over to my daughter’s blog and whining that I’m a wicked parent who has condemned his own daughter to hell.
It’s awfully stupid, too, since Skatje and her friends are having all the fun of using their claws and sharp, sharp teeth on him. If anyone wants to join in the evisceration, go on over. Ask for Gustaf.
It’s true, I cannot overcome this poll on WorldNutDaily. They are ‘reporting’ on the Large Hadron Collider and the weird fact that people are fretting over whether the Swiss will annihilate the word, so they ask their readers about why they’re worried.
The first way they stumped me was by not giving any good answers (the seventh and eighth are probably closest to what I think). Then they threw in so many possible answers, which contain a lot of insane answers, which I thought at first were intended to be jokes…until I looked and saw that several of the crazy answers were leading in votes.
So here’s the lunacy, with the current leading answers flagged. I don’t think we can crash this poll — it’s too bizarre to be addressed.
I DON’T WANT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE. Are you concerned about scientists turning on a machine some say could destroy the planet?
- No, I trust the scientists to know what they’re doing
- No, doomsayers said the world would end two weeks ago when the supercollider was being tested
- No, somebody has been watching too many science fiction TV shows
- No, it’s simply not plausible that a machine underground could destroy the entire earth
- #2: No, this kind of catastrophe doesn’t fit into Bible prophecy
- No, if Al Gore isn’t worried, I’m not worried
- No, the risks have been wildly exaggerated
- No, the benefits of the research are worth the risk
- #1: No, the only black hole I’m concerned about is the one that sucked billions of dollars from taxpayers to fund this boondoggle
- What’s the difference? Global warming is going to kill us eventually
- I don’t know, but if the worst happens, you can be sure some lawyer will find a way to make money off of it
- Yes, it could ruin my whole day
- Yes, this may be the time scientists finally go too far
- Yes, these are forces of nature man was not meant to monkey with
- Yes, the courts should halt the startup until more studies are done
- Yes, these scientists are nothing more than al-Qaida in lab coats
- Of course, creating black holes is dangerous
- #3: Yes, this arrogant search for a “God particle” is no different than building the Tower of Babel — God is not mocked
- Yes, I’m convinced this is putting us all at risk
- Other
I surrender. The drunken monkey style of WND is victorious.
Some guy up in Moorehead wrote a letter to the local paper explaining why we don’t have to worry about global warming. You can just picture the gears jerking haltingly around in his head as he tries to explain how a planet works while he doesn’t even understand why Australians don’t fall off the earth.
When God sent the rain on this Earth for 40 days and nights, all this water had to go someplace so the Earth would be dry again.
Remember, God is the Creator and controls the universe.
God tilted the Earth from its original position and caused all the excess water to rush to the poles, and there he instantly froze the water into the ice formations that exist today.
Time is ticking down on God’s time clock. With all the nuclear bombs that are made and stored for the fast-emerging last battle, this Earth would burn up when these nuclear bombs are set off.
We are not creating global warming – God is tipping the Earth back to its original position on its axis and thus getting all this ice to get ready to move and extinguish the nuclear destructive fires man will create.
So the Arctic and Antarctic are just our local firefighting reserves? Let ’em melt, then, I guess.
You think you’re tired of these? Boy, am I tired of them. The irony is relentless, the cluelessness indefatigable, the obliviousness all-encompassing. Fortunately, I’m down to only 5-10 emails and an average of less than 1 written letter from outraged Catholics now…but still, they’re just so looney. Here’s one from Richard Riley of Oregon who does an exceptional job of hitting several common themes all in one place.
Professor Myers: Your intentional desecration of the Eucharist is the most dispicable act that i have ever witnessed or learned of in my 70 years. You act is far more deplorable than Hitlers’ Holocaust or the terriorists on 9-11 . You sure showed those Catholics, huh ? Now why don’t you go after others such as the Muslims , or the Jews, perhaps the Mormans while you are at it. I am sure you can find something to desecrate along the way.
Shame on the University of Minnesota for allowing you on campus much less on staff . Their failure to act on your despicable act is a clear failure on their part and a horrible reflection on the administration at the U.O.M.
You will answer to a higher authority some day for your despicable desecration of the body of Christ, and your suffering will be for eternity and so will those that allowed you to do so.
How about that? Throwing a cracker in the garbage is more deplorable than murdering 6 million Jews.
Some of the right-wing loons are speaking their minds, and it certainly is an ugly pit of frothing, foaming sludge sloshing about in their crania. Archy finds a frightening example of insanity out there; this is the blog of an anti-choice Christian Reconstructionist who is just thrilled to pieces about Sarah Palin, but can’t stand John McCain. After demonstrating his ignorance rather painfully in giving his reasons why Palin should be elected, (“There is more untapped oil in Alaska than in Saudi Arabia”), he offers his plan for fundies to win the election.
- Vote Constitution Party. (I vote my conscience and cannot support McCain even with Palin.)
- Pray for Sarah Palin to win. (I am an idealist, but also a realist!)
- Pray for John McCain’s salvation and speedy death. (Google The Forerunner’s articles on Impecatory Prayer if you think this is harsh.)
So…vote for some other gomer who doesn’t have a chance of winning — I like that part. I hope he does vote that way, as do many other radical Christians.
Next, be a realist (I don’t think he knows what that word means), and ask his omnipotent sky fairy to magically bypass his vote and give the election to the Republicans. This isn’t so bad — I wish more radical Christians would take their faith more seriously and sit at home praying furiously and ineffectually. I urge them all to spend election day on bended knee before folded hands.
Finally, and this is the ugly, as opposed to the merely moronic, part of the fundagelical brain, ask said sky fairy to murder the president. Also ineffectual and a good waste of the Christian’s time, but jeez, that’s cold and amoral. And revealing.
Harper Collins is about to release a children’s book called The Daring Book for Girls(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) in Australia. It contains a very short section on how to play a didgeridoo — and wouldn’t you know it, someone is offended.
But the general manager of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association, Dr Mark Rose, says the publishers have committed a major faux pas by including a didgeridoo lesson for girls.
Dr Rose says the didgeridoo is a man’s instrument and touching it could make girls infertile, and has called for the book to be pulped.
I think Dr Rose has confused aboriginal belief with reality. The didgeridoo is a long piece of hollow painted wood. Go ahead, girls, you can touch it and it won’t hurt you, no matter how much someone claims its magic powers will do weird things to your gonads.
I would think that he could, possibly, make a case for cultural insensitivity if it were true that it would the book violated native taboos, but even that wouldn’t be grounds for demanding that the book be destroyed — it would just mean that members of a culture that rigidly defines women’s roles would not be buying the book. But this Rose kook goes further — he’s not just saying it violates a tradition, he is arguing that it literally has magic powers. What next, will Catholics start claiming that pieces of bread literally turn into pieces of a god? That would be ridiculous.
“I would say from an Indigenous perspective, an extreme mistake, but part of a general ignorance that mainstream Australia has about Aboriginal culture,” he said.
“We know very clearly that there is a range of consequences for females touching a didgeridoo, it’s men’s business, and in the girls book, instructions on how to use it, for us it is an extreme cultural indiscretion.”
Dr Rose says the consequences for a girl touching a didgeridoo can be quite extreme.
“It would vary in the places where it is, infertility would be the start of it ranging to other consequences,” he said.
“I won’t even let my daughter touch one…. as cultural respect. And we know it’s men’s business.
“In our times there are men’s business and women’s business, and the didgeridoo is definitely a men’s business ceremonial tool.”
Heh heh. He said “ceremonial tool.” I know who’s playing the tool here.
(via Josh Reviews Everything)
