Religious Zealots

There’s a bullet with your name on it

Answer’s in Genesis is “an an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.”

It’s also the source of the following video depicting a white kid aiming a loaded gun at the camera while some man states that “if you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone”:

The message, of course, is “if it weren’t for my firm belief in the existence of Hell, I’d shoot your ass”, which is a rather common brand of fuckwittery amongst Christian apologists and extremists.

Did you see this one coming?

Newsweek recently ran an article about the religious case for marriage equality.  The professional Christian set is, shall we say, not happy?

Leading social conservatives blasted Newsweek for its current cover story, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage,” which they said misinterprets both biblical scripture and their own political movement.

“It doesn’t surprise me. Newsweek has been so far in the tank on the homosexual issue, for so long, they need scuba gear and breathing apparatus,” said Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. “I don’t think it’s going to change the minds of anyone who takes biblical teachings seriously.”

Tony Perkins, president of the socially conservative Family Research Council, agreed, calling Newsweek’s cover story “yet another attack on orthodox Christianity.”

What Newsweek ought to have done is print an article about the religious case for executing “anyone who takes biblical teachings seriously” yet continues to eat shellfish.

Child killing Bishop arrested in Nigeria

One of the Christians in Nigeria who’ve been terrorizing local children by labelling them as “witches” has been arrested in Nigeria.  According to the BBC the man claims to have killed over 100 children.

Police in south-east Nigeria have arrested a man who claimed to have killed 110 child “witches”. “Bishop” Sunday Ulup-Aya told a documentary film team he “delivered” children from demonic possession.  But after his arrest, he reportedly told the police he had only killed the “witches” inside, not the children.

Five others have also been arrested and Ulup-Aya has been charged with murder. This is a first as usually such people are quickly released if they’re arrested at all. If it should turn out that he has murdered children, I hope they kill his ass.

Attn Muslims: Burn In Hell

Just a friendly neighbourhood message from Kenneth Frock of Littlestown, New York.

hate_sign The sign [which states 'I believe in gun control. I have a sharp eye and a steady trigger finger. All Muslems Burn in Hell'] sits in a front yard in Littlestown, Adams County aimed at gun control and Mulsims. Our CBS 21 News crew went to Littlestown and tracked down the homeowner, Kenneth Frock.

“It’s our right according to the constitution to have and bear arms and anyboyd who tries to take that away from me i’ll fight to the death,” says Frock. Frock believes greater gun control will be enforced by the new Obama administration. And believes Muslims out to do harm need to be stopped.

Meanwhile, the professional Christian set is up in arms about Humanists putting ads on the sides of buses that fail to mention how good they’d be if they should decide to shoot their neighbours.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Onward Christian Soldiers

Evangelical Christians are threatening to run their own third-party candidate if Rudy Giuliani becomes the Republican nominee:

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that ?if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.?

I think it’s hilarious and hope they get so fed up with the GOP that they do run their own candidate.  There’s just one question though.

Is there a nutball out there that isn’t on the Republican ticket yet?

Micro-minority terrorizes majority by being collective smartasses

There’s a dispute going on over in India in relations to a land bridge Hindus are insisting was built by Lord Ram.  In response to the hoopla a few politicians have made smart-ass remarks regarding Lord Ram’s formal education.   And much like the Christians here in America, Hindus are claiming they are being victimized by the “micro-minority” of atheists with the author of the linked piece saying the “bullies” ought to be arrested.

And why should they be arrested?  Because India has a law that forbids anyone from upsetting religious people:

Meanwhile, someone should read out Section 295 A of the Indian Penal Code to Mr Karunanidhi. It says anyone who, by words or visible representation outrages the religious feelings of any class of citizens “with deliberate and malicious intention” or otherwise “insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of the class”, shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years or with fine or with both. Section 298, too, prescribes punishment to those who, through words or gestures display a deliberate intention to wound the religious feelings or any person. Apart from these two sections, there is also Section 153(A) under which a person who promotes or attempts to promote disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religions, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities can be put away for three years.

It seems to me that if anyone is “bullying” anyone it’s the theists who are using the threat of confinement in order to protect their silly-ass beliefs from being called silly-ass beliefs.  How anyone can have a law like this on the books and still insist that one is a victim just goes to prove how persuasive religious privilege is.  

What’s worse than a Dominionist in the White House?

liberty-crossHow about a dominionist that’s at the least heavily influenced by premillennialism?    Take a look at a blog entry by dogemperor, a former dominionist himself, on all the things that King George has said and did that point to this being the case.  To make matters even worse, the King seems to be preparing for an attack against Iran who figures prominently in End Time scenarios.

To me, this isn’t that surprising.  King George has always hit me as a Christian nutball and it’s been frustrating as hell to realize people are genuinely suckered by that good ole boy routine. 

Pakistani women beheaded by religious zealots

The headless bodies of two women were found outside the city of Bannu.  A note was pinned to one of the women and stated “We have started doing this to end obscenity in the area.”  The “we” is Islamic religious zealots.  The obscenity is prostitution.

Perhaps it’s just the godlessness in me, but for some reason I have the firm conviction that cutting a woman’s head off because she doesn’t follow obey your religion is multitudes worse than any “obscenity” she may have committed.

Amnesty International supports women, Pro Forced Maternity Activists not happy

Amnesty International (AI) has confirmed that it has dropped it’s neutral policy in regards to abortion and now supports access to abortion services as a human right. The pro-”lifers” aren’t happy about it. In fact, the right reverend Michael Evans has resigned because it’s not right when a human rights group quits being “neutral” about the rights of women.

The Vatican has started it’s smear campaign and is threatening a worldwide boycott of AI. Of course, the Vatican isn’t as stupid as some of us like to believe or hope. The official policy is, more or less, to support the decriminalization of abortion and not much else from what I can tell from the press releases. The Vatican has to know due to it’s decades long assault on reproductive freedom for women that AI is going to find out that decriminalization isn’t good enough when you’re dealing with laws such as the ones in America.

The fact of the matter is that while abortion is not illegal in the United States, access to and valid information about it is difficult. Various laws restrict organizations from using public funds in providing abortions as well as information and referrals. Other laws allow various organizations and individuals to refuse to provide abortion services, information and referrals.

There are laws requiring women to obtain permission in order to procure an abortion and at least one that makes it a crime for people to help those women subject to these kind of laws to procure an abortion elsewhere. Certain organizations which exist to cajole, manipulate and harass women into carrying a pregnancy to term have managed to procure public funding in some circumstances.

Women in certain classes such as the poor and the indigenous as well as female employees of the federal government, female military personnel and female inmates all suffer from discriminatory laws that restrict their access to abortion services and information due to their respective physical and financial situations.

There’s also the violence that has been directed at organizations and individuals who provide abortion services and information. According to NARAL (PDF), since 1993 seven clinic workers have been murdered. Since 1991 there have been 17 attempted murders. Since 1977, over 4200 hundred acts of violence have been directed at abortion providers.

As you can imagine this violence has taken it’s toll. Over 80 percent of the counties in the United States have no abortion provider. Over 50 percent of the states and the District of Columbia have seen a decline in the number of medical personnel who provide abortion services between 1996 and 2000 alone.

From the PDF linked above (pg. 11 – emphasis added):

In October 1999, abortion provider Stephen Dixon closed down his District of Columbia ob/gyn practice, indicating that threats and harassment by anti-abortion activists had taken their toll. These activists mailed threats to Dixon?s home, placed his photograph on a ?wanted poster,? and listed him on an anti-choice ?Baby Butchers? web site, along with 32 other D.C. physicians and hundreds more across the country. Dixon said he had already stopped providing abortion care due to the stress caused by anti-abortion terrorism. In a letter to his patients, Dixon wrote, ?Sadly, the ongoing threat to my life and my concern for the safety of my loved ones has exacted a heavy toll on me, making it necessary that I discontinue practicing OB-GYN.?

Currently the violence and threats of violence against abortion providers is highly underplayed. We in America have been trained to consider such things to be just another day in the zoo. But what’s the impact of possibly having a human rights organization issuing alerts about the death threats, the arsons, the assaults, the harassment and other such tactics going to have? I think this is what the pro-forced maternity activists fear the most. The emotional impact of a well-respected organization saying “this is wrong dang-nab-it!”

I think this fear is most articulated when you realize why they’re really mad at AI. The “poor little babies” and “victimized women” is just a cover. Nearly every “OMG!!!” article says something about AI not being “neutral” which is code for “not remaining silent on this issue thus ensuring we terrorists have no real opposition and thus can shape the reaction of those who would actively oppose us if they knew what we were really doing”.

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