Posts Tagged ‘religion’
Posted by Irresponsibility Treasure in Heaven? The Social Psychology of TV Make-Overs The bastard child of reality TV and old-fashioned game shows, TV make-over shows offer ordinary folk the opportunity to – as Extreme Makeover puts it: “change their looks in an effort to transform their lives and destinies.” It’s an offer no right-thinking person [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Among the top Google Books results for “Britney Spears” is something called The Pleasures of Woman: Poems, Sensations, Songs and Stories about the Supernatural Dimensions of Woman. by a psychopath called Scott Ferguson German, PhD [sic]. The Britney connection? A one-page blank verse essay titled ‘Britney Spears Causes Terrorism’. Incredibly, the claim [...]
Posted by Irresponsibilty Apparently Pope Benedict is in a snit because British equality legislation is curtailing Catholic’s sacred prejudices. Tragically the UK’s progressive thinking has “forced the closure of half the Roman Catholic adoption agencies because [of] the law making it illegal to discriminate against gay applicants.” I particularly like the use of the word [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The Christian Right, to paraphrase an old aphorism about Republicans, believes in the right to life “until you’re born” — after that, you’re in God’s hands. Unfortunately, church proved no sanctuary to Dr George Tiller, who Scott Roeder shot in the head at point blank range one Sunday morning as the doctor [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility There is nothing middle class white people like more than an whiff of pagan barbarism. Hindus slaughtering animals as part of a once-every-five-years ritual propitiation of the goddess Gadhimai fits the bill nicely. “Frightened calves galloped around in vain as the men, wearing red bandanas and armbands, pursued them and chopped off [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Some chumpnut Bible-basher is having a Bring Your Gun to Church day because, says Ken Pagano, the MENSA candidate minister behind the idea: “God and guns were part of the foundation of this country”. Everyone knows all the ideas they had back then, like keeping slaves and counting them as three-fifths of [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Should it even count as news when nasty, fascist piece of work Pope Benedict XVI un-excommunicates Holocaust deniers and makes a bishop of a priest who claimed that Hurricane Katrina was God punishing the queers? I think not. Once a Hitler Youth, always a Hitler Youth.<pShare It del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Live [...]
Posted by irresponsibility Jiminy Christmas. Why is it that otherwise intelligent people can’t seem to resist atavistic, knuckleheaded impulses to drag education back into the dark ages? In America idiots with too much power and too little common sense have unleashed the furies of abstinence-only sex education and quote-unquote intelligent design on a bunch of [...]
Posted by irresponsibility I love fundamentalist Christians. One of them, bless her pure-as-the-driven-snow soul, is suing a gallery for featuring a statue of Jesus with a lob on. The outraged party, Emily Mapfuwa harumphed: “This statue served no other purpose than to… denigrate Christ.” Wouldn’t it be more denigrating to suggest Jesus couldn’t get it [...]
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