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I'm the Big Bad Wolf [Apr. 9th, 2008|03:03 pm]
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Apparently, I couldn't be scarier if I grew a set of horns and a tail. At least according to one shrill, Illinois politician.

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!

"This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God," Davis said. "Get out of that seat . . . You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon."

Ah, the power I would have over this nutjob! Just my mere, godless presence, would send her into shrieking fits. I imagine the presence of my immediate family--husband, mother, mother-in-law--would make her god-fearing heart explode. (Father-in-law and sister-in-law are probably also godless; I just haven't hear either admit it.)

Isn't it interesting how easily frightened Christians are of, well, frankly, everything? We all know that teh Gay and abortion give 'em the vapors, so their atheist phobia is no big surprise. You'd think, having the Big Imaginary Daddy in the Sky on their side, and the comfort that the rest of us will someday be roasting in hell, would be enough to allay their fears.

Which calls to might an article in the Albuquerque Journal local Right Wing Rag. (I'd include a link, but the editors of that bird cage liner think their content is too important to make available free.) Front page, with enormous photos, was an article about Calvary Chapel's (warehouse church) latest campaign to get butts in the pews. Essentially, the theme was "Be Afraid." Besides pushing the usual predictable memes--gays, terrorist, and Internet porn will eat your chiiildren!--the campaign featured posters showing families in gas masks, and other no doubt, fascist-inspired, imagery. The pastor behind the campaign noted that "It's okay to be afraid, if something is worth being afraid about."

To which the pastor at the church where I work, took umbrage. In a polite, but mildly snarky letter to the editor, he noted that, "No, it isn't okay to be afraid." In fact, he explained, the Bible is filled with admonitions against fear. His point was that essentially (He put it more elegantly, but after all, I don't actually believe in the fairy tale), that "No Fear" is kind of the point of the Bible and Jesus. It's about hope and all that fuzzy-wuzzy God stuff.

Doing a cursory Google for the topic easily yields a couple of No Fear kind of scriptures:

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
Deuteronomy 31:6

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... "
1 John 4:18

So what exactly do these fearful Christians use their Bible for?

Doorstops? A place to press dried flowers?

Bwah. Who's afraid of the big bad atheist?
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Hee-Haw [Mar. 25th, 2008|04:10 pm]
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Mayor Marty "I've never passed up a chance to waste taxpayer's money" Chavez is an ass. No, not a jackass. I live right next door to a little herd of donkeys and I can assure you, they are superior, intellectually and morally, to Albuquerque's mayor.

Ass, as in asshole. Mirroring the desperation of Hillary Clinton, like a good little minion, Chavez is whining about Gov. Richardson's endorsement of Obama. At this point, you can smell the desperation of the Hillary camp from space. What iota of respect I had for HRC has evaporated in the hot air given off by her campaign. (As of late, she's still flogging the "Obama's pastor is a scary black man, so, uh, guilt by association," meme.) If she steals the nomination, I guess I'll have no choice but to vote for her. But it'll go way beyond holding my nose and voting. I'll need a HAZMAT suit to cast that vote.

Meanwhile, Huckabee, of all people, actually said something reasonable regarding the Wright fiasco. Who-da-thunk it?

And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say “That’s a terrible statement!”…I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told “you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus…” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.
MIKA: I agree with that. I really do.
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