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How To Support Japan And How Not To

March 15, 2011 – 10:23 am

Donate to The Red Cross instead.

Already some idiots are claiming that the Japanese people were asking for it because a majority of them are atheists. A country full of atheists that don’t even loot? We’ve got to get a bible over there quick!

The blindness of mainstream Christianity astounds me. They seem to be too busy shoving a belief system down people’s throats to see the real needs.

This is exactly why I don’t support mission trips (sorry Mom and Dad). If you aren’t bringing clean water to a village or food to starving children then I have no use for it.

At a church we used to attend, the youth had a field trip to London. LONDON. They left Chattanooga, TN, a few hours away from Appalachia, where people lack basic dental and health care, and they went to London.  Send all the support requests you want, I’m not paying for your vacation.

(The next time they had a youth mission trip, Paul said, “Where are they going now? Vatican City?”)

In Japan, so many people have lost everything (people they love, shelter, food, and water). They need to be fed and comforted, not inundated with religious rhetoric.

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‘Tis the Season

December 23, 2010 – 7:32 am

I am chock-full of Christmas spirit this year. I have reindeer antlers on the van and have listened to Little Drummer Boy all the way through, many times, without stabbing anyone. And because my heart has grown three sizes (I think I just need to lay off the junk food and it may return to its normal size), you will only get one Christmas rant from me this year.

1. I don’t know if this just happens in the Bible Belt, but every year someone gets their nose bent out of shape because someone didn’t tell them “Merry Christmas” or Wal-mart took down their Christmas trees. Link

So here stands this God-fearing citizen bitching about some retail chain not knowing the real meaning of Christmas when the whole reason they went to the store in the first place was to buy copious amounts of merchandise because baby Jesus told them to.

Really, people? Because a store that doesn’t pay a living wage and exclusively sells merchandise made by foreign workers in inhumane conditions would be okay if someone just said, “Merry Christmas” on the way out. What part of Luke is that in again?

2. House fires. No, I’m not going to complain about people’s houses burning down, I’m going to complain about the media. Everybody on board now? Good.

If someone’s house burns down in December the news says it’s a tragedy because “it’s right before Christmas!” So…a house fire at any other time of year isn’t a tragedy? If you lose all of your possessions and none of them happened to be obscured by wrapping paper, I guess you lucked out?

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Now I’m off to celebrate the real meaning of the season: Keeping the pagans from having a peaceful solstice. Happy Festivus!

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It’s not just the robes and candles…

September 13, 2010 – 10:48 pm

We missed church on Sunday because Wesley had been sick all week and we were all nursing milder versions of his sickness. That and Paul said I could sleep in while he watched the kids. I’m not going to pass that up. 

Later that afternoon I received a caring facebook message from a friend from church (whose child is also selling coupon books)  noting that I must have been too chicken to show up. It wasn’t all taunting though. The most touching line:  Missed you… but only in the “Episcopal Church” way not in the, “where the hell were you and don’t you know you are going to hell now that you missed one service” way. :)

I love our church.

 

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A few kudos on the religious front

August 1, 2010 – 8:04 pm

As an addendum to my earlier post on Anne Rice… A few people from Episcopal Cafe started a facebook page named Anne Rice, The Episcopal Church Welcomes You. I’m tickled because we started going to an Episcopal church a few months ago. After five years of circling, we finally found a church that shared our opinions on homosexuality, feminism and science. Bonus: It’s filled with great people who care about us and our kids. I think Anne Rice would be pleasantly surprised if she tried out an Episcopal church.

In other news, the Dove World Outreach Center plans on having a Quran burning day to prove that their name has nothing to do with their ministry.  (It worked so well with witches, books, and Beatles albums. I mean, you never see them around anymore.)

The good thing however is that the National Association of Evangelicals actually issued a statement: The NAE calls on its members to cultivate relationships of trust and respect with our neighbors of other faiths. God created human beings in his image, and therefore all should be treated with dignity and respect.  -via CNN

I would have been happier if they had said something more along the lines of “these people are a bunch of crackpots and we have nothing to do with them,” but at least they said something. Christians need to be more willing to denounce those in the ranks that are spewing hatred and nonsense instead of grousing about being lumped in with them.

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Et tu, Anne Rice?

July 29, 2010 – 11:08 pm

Anne Rice who famously became a Christian a few years ago, has had enough.

I blame it on her conversion to Catholicism. If she had become Southern Baptist, it would have been a much quicker realization.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Mohandas Gandhi

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Going Rogue in the Bedroom

July 14, 2010 – 8:31 pm

Sandy over at Southern Liberal Living has a funny article about Bristol Palin deciding to marry her baby’s daddy after all.

The only thing noteworthy from America’s biggest hypocrite family is selling the story to US Weekly magazine before telling her parents. Classy? No, but these are the Palins, so what do you expect?

Read the rest here.

It gets uglier

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Jesus goes to rally, spits in senator’s face

July 1, 2010 – 10:10 am

There’s a new blog out there called Tea Party Jesus, the words of Christians in the mouth of Christ. The quote below is from a Baptist pastor named Jeff Owens:Now here’s a quote from the Bible:

 ”If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing…”

Let’s compare and contrast, shall we?

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Shouting down the hate

June 2, 2010 – 10:17 am

In my opinion, Westboro Baptist Church consists of some of the most despicable people on earth. If you haven’t heard of them, crawl out from under your rock and see what some people are doing in the name of God. These cretins protest at military funerals, screaming, “God hates fags,” and suggesting that soldiers die because of the United States’ support of gay rights. Meanwhile a grieving family attempts to bury their dead. They also protest at the funerals of victims of hate crimes.  Apparently, they hate everybody and can’t pass up a chance to make asses of themselves.

One of the good things that has come of all this is the art of the counter-protest.  There is a motorcycle group that also comes to the military funerals and makes sure their bikes drown out the shouting of the WBC.  Local LGBT’s and supporters come to the street protests and turn it into a dance party/ridiculous sign contest.

My questions: Where are the churches? Why aren’t entire congregations coming out to these counter-protests and reminding people that not everyone who follows God is filled with hate and vitriol? Also, how does the WBC support itself financially? The church mainly consists of one family but they seem to be able to travel all over the country. I would love for their financial records to be made public and see who is funding hatred.

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