And hooray for Amanda Marcotte. Every day, hooray for Amanda Marcotte. If I have to listen to white people and Christians complain about being "oppressed" once more I'm gonna start shooting.
Oh, and on an even happier note, there are only 84 days until the NHL regular season and the Pittsburgh Penguins home opener on October 7th!
Pittsburgh Penguins Fun Fact: Mario Lemieux is 366 days younger than your Aileen. He also earns about 366 times what I do, probably every day, just for being Mario Lemieux.
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In the writing froup where Paula, Don, Archer, Throckey 'n such like used to hang out we'd get a number of people who took delight in proclaiming that it was their right to NOT have to hear someone pray, and their right to NOT have to have someone say "Bless you" or "I'll pray for you" and so forth in a public place such as a park, or a street corner. One was unhappy because she was enjoying a park with her family (she is/was Wiccan) and a group of Xians set up a big church rally picnic at the ramada nearby and used a PA system and conducted all kinds of bible stuff. It offended her.
I would argue that it was tough shit for her. She had the option to go elsewhere, or to check the schedule of the park before heading there to see who all had rented the ramada, etc.
She didn't like the argument cuz she said, "It's a public park, ergo paid for by tax dollars, ergo a government property, ergo can't have a church on it."
Whatever.
Anyhoo, I'd make the same argument for the pansies who are whining about the billboard: tough shit. If people want to pay to say "Worship Satan" they can do it, and you need to just shut the fuck up and go pray somewhere. Preferably at the park where that specific Wiccan woman is hanging out. 'k?
Anyway. Long way to say "I agree with you," even if I am a Christian.
Wow. I hadn't seen WND in years. Was it that bad when I read it regularly in the early 2000s?
It warms the heart when an offensive message gets vandalized. That billboard in SD or somewhere that puts Obama in between Hitler and Lenin pretty well asks for it. But at some level it surely reflects poorly on the alternate message, revealing mostly ignorance and fear. So, whatever. Humans will never change.
And when the BP crack blows up and wipes out civilization, I'm afraid the religionists will have the advantage. Evolution has proven it.
Anyway, yeah, great rebuttal to the simpering wet-blonde cunt on WND!
There's a need for a fundamental right to Freedom From Speech these days, but I don't think that is the correct application.
Atheists are as big a bunch of losers as Vegans and Religious fundamentalists. Grow a skin people, or abandon your stupidness.
I think the raving nutcase blogger Jill who wrote that a man who slaps around a woman who aborted his spermoid is a big ol' hero was on WND, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, what Gekko said; however, I will complain about religion being in gov't buildings, such as public schools and courthouses (not parks, that's st00pid), and I think it's horribly wrong for religious groups to get tax breaks and then stick their noses in politics. One or the other, assholes.
And I'm not that thrilled with the whiniest of the whiny atheists either, like that one guy who keeps filing suits re the Pledge. DGAF about that ... just don't say "under god" when others do. I figured this out when I was 10, so it's not rocket science.
Re the Obama/Hitler billboard, free speech on that one. I recall a lot of Bush=Hitler stuff in the day.
Funny, I only recall the Bush=simian stuff.
@gekko: those need to be censured as they are insulting to the intelligence of chimps.
Not sure if Throckey is calling us atheists stupid for being atheists.
My whole point was that non-oppressed groups claiming some sort of oppression by co-opting the language of the Civil Rights movement, which was about people who actually WERE oppressed, is patently offensive to me.
Look, I'm a to-the-bone atheist, but one of my best friends is the pastor of a church in Long Island. When I go to his house for a meal, I join hands when he says grace, and I don't feel that my rights are being trampled in the least. If he is offering a prayer to god for peace in the world, and to alleviate the suffering of those in pain, and "all who need you most this day," I am 100% behind those sentiments. These are good things to aspire to, whether you're Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, or atheist.
I believe Jesus existed, I just don't believe he was divine. I think he had a great message. "Love one another." Who can argue with that? It doesn't have to come from some magical unicorn born of a virgin to resonate universally.
The Jesus Message is a great one. (So is the Buddha Message, and no one is claiming that he sprang out of the head of Zeus, either.) It's the people who take it and twist it to their own ends to exclude, divide, and harm, who mystify me.
Right! Christians are not "oppressed" because Target employees wish their customers Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. There is not a "war" on Christmas, which is everywhere in your face starting soon. Omg, how many shopping days left?!???!
Oh, jeezus, we shot our Holiday campaign this week, do you believe it?
And to ward off all the hoodoo that may come my way, I wear a necklace of charms that are: Buddhist compassion mantra, Hand of Fatima, Chinese character for peace, and a teeny-tiny Christian cross. Hey, you never know.
Big-A Atheism is a bit too much of a statement of faith for me, Man. I'm Big-A Agnostic, so I'm like "Are you absolutely sure there's no God?" cause I know what we know, and I'm pretty sure there's nothing precluding the existence of a "divine being". It's just one of those unknowable things that you won't know until you know, and even they you might be mistaken.
I'm wa-a-a-ay too into ambiguity.
But I do believe that God spoke to me and gave me a mission in life, so you know when I accuse you all of being deluded wingnuts, it's from the perspective of a deluded wingnut.
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