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Ezekiel 23:20–21
20: There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21: So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
For that matter the whole of chapter 23 reads like a porn novel…
I need to watch this. It is going to be on the Sundance Channel towards the end of February.
When I was a County Sanitarian (Health Inspector) in Arkansas from 1983 to 1989, I had to deal with several Tony Alamo businesses. They had a restaurant, at least one convenience store I remember. They had a hog farm that was something out of a Mel Gibson Mad Max movie. Between myself and another agency we got them to close that down. I had to get on their main property one time to investigate a sanitation complaint. They blocked my entrance, and of course by the time I went through all the legal hoops, if there had been a problem they had covered it up. Fortunately, I never had to deal with Tony directly.
The rumor around town was that he kept his wife’s body Continue reading “Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo”
This is one of the scariest things I have read in a while.
I’ve long wondered about Gospodin Trump’s attraction to “Christians”. To me he is the antithesis of all things Christian, he is the antithesis of all things democratic, he is the antithesis of all things moral…
Yet I know many folks who identify as Evangelical Christians and they will be quick to tell you the Gospodin Trump is a vehicle of change sent by God. That is typically the point where I excuse myself to go puke in the bathroom. While not a believer myself I do try to be sensitive to the religiosity of others, but their fanaticism about Gospodin Trump really makes wonder if this is deserved.
A quote from the article :
“This isn’t the religious right we thought we knew. The Christian nationalist movement today is authoritarian, paranoid and patriarchal at its core. They aren’t fighting a culture war. They’re making a direct attack on democracy itself.“
The article entire can be found here: Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus
When folks ask me about my religion I have a tendency to tell them that I was raised Southern Baptist, but I am much better now. If I am in an even more playful mood I might tell them I am a Born Again Agnostic. If I am really feeling like a stinker I tell them I belong to the Church of Later Day Hedonist, and we meet every Friday down at Joe’s Bar and Grill, please join us for evening services. Depending on the person it is either a conversational stopper or elicits a laugh and may lead to more conversation. If I am being a bit more serious I describe myself as agnostic. I choose this appellation mainly because militant atheists bother me as much as evangelic Christians or jihadists Muslims. I would like to think that what I believe is most likely true, but ultimately the answer to the god question is unknowable. I have a B.S., but no matter how much science you throw at it, the mere existence of the universe blows my mind.
It is not original with me, but I have been saying for years that religion was a form of mass psychosis. Psychosis being defined as a mental illness whereby the sufferer loses touch with reality.
Along came Dawkins, Blackmore and others Continue reading “The God Virus by Darrel W. Ray”
Humanity Will Always Live in Chaos as Long as Organized Religion Persists
He absolutely read my mind:
“Organized religion is the worst thing that’s ever happened to human kind.
All organized religion does is provide a tool for those in power to manipulate millions to act against their own self interests. Which is exactly what you see in Christianity and Islam. People in power, using religion, to get people to act like absolute fools. People living their lives under the control of religious rules that are derived by some human’s interpretation of something they read in a book.”
I do not have a problem with faith, just how it has be kidnapped by the power structure. I perfectly okay if you want to dance naked around a 10 foot statue of G.I. Joe. But please to not hand me a glass of your Kool-Ade or force me to dance.
I really did not know a lot about Ben Affleck before this, but after watching this episode of Bill Maher I lost a lot of respect for him. He did what a lot of folks seem to do on these types of shows, rather than reason and debate, he was loud and obnoxious in an attempt to make a point.
I am secular and I have a hard time with most religions, but Islam in particular (at least as portrayed by our media). The main reason being is the few Muslims I know personally seem like good and reasonable people. They seem to love and believe their faith as much as any Baptist from Oklahoma. In an attempt to understand the religion that is so much in the news these days I have read a couple books about Islam. At the core Islam seems full of love, care and kindness for fellow humans. I know that the Islam religion as practiced early was very tolerant of other religions. The Islam that seems to predominate today is one of the fundamentalist ilk that does not seem to very tolerant of some very basic human rights. It seems like separation of church and state is a goal to avoid. The religion I see on the news is not tolerant of different points of views. It appears to me that much of strife in the world currently comes from the Muslim arena.
The message that Christ preached was full of love, caring and kindness also. Something seems to happen when religions move pass this “Golden Rule” core. The history of all the Abrahamic religions is not pretty. It is one of strife, conquering, destruction, intolerance and murder all the way to genocide. The history of the Catholic Church is very troubling.
My basic point of view is that life is tough, so whatever gets you through the day is fine with me as long as you don’t want me to drink your Kool-Aid. I try to be tolerant of religion, but some days I just want to scream. I really do believe that the world would be a far better place if all religions would go away. I also realize that humans have a spiritual need. I just wish there was something else besides the bloody, intolerant Abrahamic religions to fill this need for the 2 or 3 billion individuals that follow these religions.
Oh well. Here is the video. It does not even include the worse of Ben Affleck’s rants.
Any wonder I do not want to live in Oklahoma…
Click hyperlink below to read story on Slate.com
Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Supports Stoning Gay People to Death
