| Xtianfuckwitwatch - parliamentary debate Xtianity and it's discontents. |
[Dec. 6th, 2007|12:27 am] |
Feòrag at Pagan Prattle gives us our new word for the day: Christianophobia. Which was the subject of a full debate of the House of Commons today.
Here's Aunty Beeb on the subject:
' The UK should "celebrate" the role of Christianity in the country's heritage and culture, the government has said.
Community cohesion minister Parmjit Dhanda told MPs the religion had had a "significant impact" in securing people's rights and freedoms.
He was speaking in a Westminster debate over whether there was widespread "Christianophobia" in the UK.
Conservative MP Mark Pritchard (CatNote - the xtianfuckwith who caused the debate to occur) warned the government not to "surrender" the UK's Christian heritage.
Mr Pritchard called the Westminster Hall debate, claiming that the importance of the faith was being undermined by the "politically correct brigade".
He argued that "parties of hate" could step in to fill the gap left by "mainstream" politicians, and "hijack" Christianity to get their messages across. '
(CatNote - 'cos it's not like they've already done that is it?)
' ...Speaking earlier in the debate, Mr Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin, in Shropshire, said Christians should get "full minority rights".
Mr Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin, Shropshire, said Christianity in the UK was being undermined "mostly by stealth", even though 3.2 million people attended church every Sunday.
He added: "Most Christians feel they are not getting a fair hearing
"Many shoppers find it increasingly difficult to buy greeting cards with references to Christ... Advent calendars are extremely hard to find."
He added: "Christ always has been and always will be at the very heart of Christmas. Taking Christ out of Christmas is like serving the Christmas turkey without the stuffing."
Mr Pritchard said the British National Party in Staffordshire was sending out cards showing "the holy family on the front cover", bearing "the words 'heritage, tradition and culture'."
He added: "Is the government prepared to stand by and surrender the nation's Christian traditions to parties of hate?"
Mr Pritchard said it was "time for the dragon of political correctness to be slain". '
So, who's he worried about more - the BNP, the Politically Correct (read Correct as Left...) or the actual threat of Dominionism, which has been steeplejacking churches in the UK since at least the Alpha Course?
Plus, though I can't be bothered to go through Hansard for the full details, I suspect few dissenting voices were heard.
Besides, it's not a phobia of Christianity - for many, it's pure disgust. |
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| Anti-child abuse comics - two views. |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|12:03 am] |
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From Boing:
' The New York Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic church has published a comic book that depicts cute angels warning children never to be alone with an adult (which presumably includes priests). '
Click the link. See the angel flating above the kiddie. Wince involuntarily.
Then, if you want a comic book that actually says something intelligible about child abuse, check out "Another Chance To Get It Right" or "Batman - The Ultimate Evil", both written by Andrew Vachss. |
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| I was thinking about blasphemy |
[Dec. 3rd, 2007|02:53 am] |
...as i so often do - and I tried to come up with an image which would be objectional to all Peoples of the Book, in light of the Teddy-bear Mohammed thing.
My best choice so far is a shark (trayf due to lack of scales), crucified on an inverted cross, also named Mohammed. Let's see if Damian Hurst would exhibit that. In Sudan.
(By the way the results of Name! My! Snail! will be up soon. Thanks for all suggestions. |
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| Slight return - CreashunMacros!!!11!!11eleventy!!1 |
[Nov. 15th, 2007|10:56 pm] |
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Briefly leaving my surgery-induced purdah to share this, which has amused me.
The great blogger and occasional SF writer John Scalzi has made his long-promised trip to critique the Creationist Museum, and see the displays of vegetarian T. Rexes and raptors living in cosmic harmony with Adam and Eve (but not, of course, Steve).. The result was a lot of pics on his Flickr (with added sarcasm), and an essay (on the nature of worshipping bullshit).
And then... he invited readers to take his photos and Macro them.
Results are here.
I am especially fond of the variations on the Cain and Abel diorama and the ones involving Adam, a conveniently placed sheep and a puzzled-looking penguin. |
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - I got your 'sanctity of marriage' *right here*... |
[Oct. 10th, 2007|11:02 pm] |
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Feòrag at Pagan Prattle finds another gem:
"A Motherwell couple are claiming that Strathclyde Police discriminated against them on religious grounds because the force's personnel files have a single field for Married/civil partnership.
'The couple, who have been wed 26 years, told a Glasgow employment tribunal they had deeply held religious beliefs as Christians as to the sanctity of marriage and found the description as married/civil partners offensive causing injury to their feelings as married persons.' "
Oh, the poor little fuckers...
As ever, the issue is not what they believe (in the face of overwhelming historical evidence that marriage wasn't a Holy Estate, more a Real Estate transaction - the father essentially selling his daughter to the husband) but how they deal with everyone else who dosn't believe the same thing. If it causes them so much distress to be equated with Civil Partnership *on a fucking form*, how can they possibly cope with the rest of the Heathen Universe? And who will they try to sue over that? |
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| Hot Chicks |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|10:52 pm] |
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How I missed this until now I don't know...
Perhaps the most prolific of Xtianfuckwits is Jack Chick (or at least those who ghostwrote under that name).
Someone has done a set of (mostly) live-action adaptations of seven of his little comic tracts... with hilarious consequences.
Here's the website.
Here's the trailer.
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - the Halo effect |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|01:36 am] |
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This tickles me:
' Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have drawn concern and criticism through their use of an unusual recruiting tool: the immersive and violent video game Halo.
The latest iteration of the immensely popular space epic, Halo 3, was released nearly two weeks ago by Microsoft and has already passed $300 million in sales.
Those buying it must be 17 years old, given it is rated M for mature audiences. But that has not prevented leaders at churches and youth centers across Protestant denominations, including evangelical churches that have cautioned against violent entertainment, from holding heavily attended Halo nights and stocking their centers with multiple game consoles so dozens of teenagers can flock around big-screen televisions and shoot it out.
The alliance of popular culture and evangelism is challenging churches much as bingo games did in the 1960s. And the question fits into a rich debate about how far churches should go to reach young people.
Far from being defensive, church leaders who support Halo — despite its “thou shalt kill” credo — celebrate it as a modern and sometimes singularly effective tool. It is crucial, they say, to reach the elusive audience of boys and young men...
Complicating the debate over the appropriateness of the game as a church recruiting tool are the plot’s apocalyptic and religious overtones. The hero’s chief antagonists belong to the Covenant, a fervent religious group that welcomes the destruction of Earth as the path to their ascension.
Microsoft said Halo 3 was a “space epic” that was not intended to make specific religious references or be more broadly allegorical. Advocates of using the game as a church recruiting tool say the religious overtones are sufficiently cartoonish and largely overlooked by players. '
(CatNote - "the religious overtones are sufficiently cartoonish and largely overlooked". Heh. Sounds like Xtianity, not the Covenant.) |
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| I weary of fuckheads giving my profession such a bad name... |
[Oct. 6th, 2007|12:44 am] |
...especially those like this swine 'exorcists' who raped their subject (already a survivor of rape by her minister father) during the exorcism.
In front of one hundred people.
While 'Satanically possessed' himself.
That's the problem with Dominionists and other Xtian amateurs doing exorcisms on people when they believe the flesh is evil and only the spirit matters... basic safety for the Principal goes right out the fucking window. Often followed by the Principal themselves. |
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - there's a *lot* of the fuckers out there... |
[Oct. 5th, 2007|06:22 pm] |
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The first detailed survey of Pentecostal churches worldwide shows some very scary stuff. As ever, research queen and Dominionism expert ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dogemperor of Dark Christian has the details. It's a long piece, analysing a 130-plus-page statistical study - but the gist (under the cut link) is this:
( Lots of Xtians who hate everyone different and expect the Rapture - worldwide. )
This is why being merely sarcastic about 21st Century Xtianity isn't enough. The Dominionist tendency is growing rapidly, infiltrating less extreme churches and 'steeplejacking' them... controlling governments, media empires and private armies (such as Blackwater). If you're queer, female, or hold any belief other than theirs - you're their declared enemy or, at best, their property.
I don't want to live in that world. Do you?
(As ever, you'll get the best current data - and debate - on the Dominionists at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) dark_christian) |
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - They *doth* protest too much! |
[Sep. 22nd, 2007|11:35 pm] |
Unsurprising, but notable:
' Two scholars funded by the "ex-gay" ministry Exodus reported greatly mixed results this week in the most ambitious study yet on whether faith-based therapy can "cure" homosexuality, days after a counselor in another "ex-gay" program was sentenced on felony charges of sexually attacking his male clients. ' |
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| Slacktivist FTW |
[Sep. 14th, 2007|11:15 pm] |
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Gods I love this man.
For those new to the scene, Slacktivist has been deconstructing the first novel in the Left Behind series, bit by bloody bit. He's actually an evangelical Christian himself - though about as far from a Dominionist as you can get. His analysis has been spot on - theologically, intellectually and literary. Plus he's just damn funny about it.
Today, he really put the boot in:
' It's only eight and a half days after The Event and everything is back to normal. Rayford and Chloe, air traffic and airports, and New York CIty itself. And it's not a post-traumatic "normal" -- people aren't soldiering on, forcing themselves to rebuild a new normal out of the ashes, unmanageable emotions still roiling just below the surface in a world forever changed, forever divided into Before and After. They're simply back to normal, as though The Event never happened, as though there were still 6 billion of us and not, suddenly and inexplicably, only 4 billion.
I know I'm repeating this point, but this is insurmountably wrong, and the wrongness of it suffuses every page of Left Behind.
Imagine if, instead of Darby's Rapture, the book had begun with something similar but slightly less world-changing: Instead of all the Real True Christians and the innocent children being instantaneously whisked away to nowhere, leaving their clothing behind in neat little piles, imagine that the clothing had disappeared, leaving behind half a billion born-againers in their birthday suits and simultaneously undressing every child on the planet.
Even if "only" that were what had happened, it would still take a long time before everything was back to normal. A week after the Great Unclothing you still wouldn't be able to take a nice, normal flight to New York. People would be demanding explanations from the government, the media, scientists, academics and Oprah, turning away from the old symbols of authority and seeking new ones who could explain what happened. There would be riots, violent scapegoating, the founding of new religions. If two or three days passed without a credible official explanation supported by plausible evidence, then many would see the G.U. as a sign from God or the gods, interpreting this sign in a multitude of contradictory, but inflexibly urgent, ways. Millions would be paralyzed by the fear that It Might Happen Again, cocooning themselves away in their homes, forming survivalist cells or falling prey to a flourishing wave of hucksterism. There would be violence, upheaval, new laws and lawlessness, revolution. Old institutions would collapse and new ones would arise to replace them. The aftershocks would continue for months and the landscape would be forever altered.
LaHaye and Jenkins claim to describe something exponentially more traumatizing and world-altering. Yet in their story none of this happens. All the old institutions remain intact, the parking garages are cleared and people go on about their business, unchanged and unaffected. Even if you accept the idea of the Rapture and you believe that something like what L&J claim is going to happen someday in the future, you have to conclude that Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have no idea what such an event would really mean. Even for premillennial dispensationalist prophecy believers, in other words, Tim LaHaye is an inept, inadequate and untrustworthy guide. ' |
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - Anglican split gets closer? |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|11:22 pm] |
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Interesting how times change... seems these US bishops are happy to overlook issues of race as long as their African brothers are also homophobes:
"Kenya's Anglican Church has consecrated two US bishops in a move likely to deepen a bitter row over homosexuality.
Bill Murdoch, of Massachusetts, and Bill Atwood, of Texas, will be answerable to the Kenyan Church, although they will serve in the US.
They left the US branch of the Anglican Church - the Episcopal Church - after it consecrated an openly gay bishop. "
Do take a look at the photos of the bishops involved at the link. I can honestly say I'd never get tired of slapping those faces to try and get the smarmy self-satisfaction off.
Of course this is another step to the Anglican congregation splitting right down the middle over the issue of gayness. Amusing how such an august body of religious men (the Anglican Church founded, let us not forget, by Henry VIII solely to get a quickie divorce without going through the Pope) who worship the Prince of Peace and God Who Is Love (who spent most of his adult life hanging around a gang of twelve men...) get so upset over, well, love. And the irony of the English home church being exported to Kenya as the home office is actually quite funny.
But the rising push against gays in Africa is horrible. |
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| 6 Apart kill LJ as blogging tool? |
[Aug. 29th, 2007|11:30 pm] |
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Sooo... innocence_jihad reports that according to the latest 'clarification' from 6A policy wonks (I may have put a wrong vowel in there...), the LJ user is responsible for whatever they link to.
In other words, if an old link in a post you made years ago dies and gets hijacked by pr0n of someone who looks like they might be underaged... you can get banned.
Details here and here.
If this is generally enforced, it basically kills LiveJournal as useful for the majority of blogging.
Oh - and if there was any doubt, there's good evidence that Boldthrough/Strikethrough 2/the latest round of banning was indeed started by associates of Warriors for In No Sence... |
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| Xtianfuckwitwatch - you know, for kids.. |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|10:20 pm] |
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Cynical Sage does it again, with this pisstake deconstruction of the Tales of Glory Xtian doll range, coming to a K-Mart near you real soon. (Well, if you're in the US).
Excerpt:
"And the toys. Oh those wonderful, wonderful toys. First of all, the P31 dolls:
P31 are a new exclusive collection of high-quality dolls, based on the biblical teaching of Proverbs 31. P31 dolls were specifically designed to provide a Bible-based, Christian alternative to other secular toys on the market, and to encourage young girls to pursue biblical womanhood.
For those of you who don't know. the latter verses of Proverbs 31 contain an old Hebrew acrostic poem of "The Wife of Noble Character" which describes a woman who the author envisions as the ideal wife. Let's look at one of dolls, shall we:
Abigail stands 18 inches tall, has beautiful brown eyes, long red hair, and a contemporary outfit. Abigail comes with an accessory kit, containing a Bible lesson (based on Proverbs 31:20), two cookie-cutters, a cookie recipe, and a list of exciting activities. The activities are sure to be tons of fun for any young girl! It is our prayer that the Lord would use these dolls as a means to encourage the girls of today to become Proverbs 31 women of tomorrow! For ages 3+
Dear God! Those dark, soulless eyes! It has taken the form of a human in order to deceive us. We must kill it quickly.
Bratz dolls have misshapen heads and give off a creepy "child prostitute"-vibe. P31 dolls, on the other hand, have misshapen heads and give off a creepy "corn-cult compound child-bride of the damned"-vibe. If these dolls are based off of a poem describing an ideal wife, why are the dolls crafted to resemble pre-pubescent children? I mean, it's not like you have to give them a rack or anything, just change the face a bit, make the head smaller, and proportion the arms and legs to the torso a bit differently. Proverbs may not contain a poem describing a husband of noble character, but if it did, I doubt it would contain the phrase "raging pederast". Seriously, I know people married a lot younger back in ancient Israel, but they at least waited until the girl was able to freaking menstruate." |
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| Camo Bibles |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|12:18 am] |
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Because nothing says how much you love the Prince of Peace than pattern-disruption military materials wrapped around your holy book.
Also available in pink camo for girls.
I wish this was a fucking joke. |
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| Cossacks and Prairie Muffins (and the Endless) |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|09:36 pm] |
Just back from the road trip and bloody knackered.
But I had to share this one...
The great Fred Clark aka Slacktivist discusses an important question:
"If you believe that every human being has the right to self determination, then how do you cope with people who claim not to want that right?"
He makes especial note of the 'Concerned Women of America'. This bunch of pitiful conditioned Stepford wives, in the earlier/related form of 'Concerned Mothers of America', led to one of my favourite stories:
Long ago, when I was living in Edinburgh and Neil Gaiman was still writing Sandman, we had occasional chats - at conventions, pub meets and eventually by phone. Neil was quizzing everyone connected with magic in fandom he could find as background for the book, and we got along OK. He'd occasionally phone me at 4am my time, 'cos he knew I'd be up.
One night he rang with a note of pure joy and pride in his voice... because the Concerned Mothers of America had written him a letter of complaint and he just had to tell someone. (Specifically the complaint was that he had 'positive images' of transexuals in his comic. Bad boy.)
He framed the letter. So much for their power.
Namedropping over... and so to bed! |
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| The Unprecedented will turn to Drugs! |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|12:13 am] |
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Cynical Sage unearths Hal Lindsay's comic version of Armageddon, in a piece with the delightful title;
"Things I Learned From Christian Comics: There's a New World Coming - or - It's the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel Nauseous"
The blog title comes from the 2 page spread of the Signs and Portents that will herald... ah, you know! Interestingly, one of them is "The Increase of Pollution!" Another, my personal favourite, is "The Revival of the Dark Occultic Practices of Ancient Babylon!"
Again I suggest - maybe the Xtianfuckwits are almost right about the End Times and the coming Apocalypse. The only detail they got wrong is to think they're the good guys... |
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| A reply to Psycheout |
[Jul. 20th, 2007|07:31 pm] |
So, in response to this and this, I received several comments from an individual calling themselves "Psycheout", the "Senior Political Correspondent" of Blogs For Brownback. These replies were rapidly followed by a pouting little whine of a message, saying, "So no response for me, after I took valuable time out of my life to respond to you? Sometimes I wonder why I bother."
Well Psycheout, I had better things to do in the last day or so. There was some paint that I needed to watch dry, for example.
Here's the thing... the reason it's so hard to distinguish between your site and the alleged spoof "Baptists4Brownback" is that to anyone outside of your narrow little reality-tunnel, they are pretty much indistinguishable. Both express sentiments of woman-hating cowardly hypocrites who Jesus would spit on and whip from the temple if he ever came back. It's just that your site means it - which is almost funny.
Understand this if you can, you sad angry little creature. However hard you push, however much you whine, despite every venal corrupt bit of shenanigans you pull, you will not succeed in dragging the world back into the Middle Ages. You are merely one cell an the arse-end brain of a dying dinosaur, too stupid to realise the head has already died.
So go and support your vile ignorant candidate. Agitate all you like for laws which try to make women less than equal and less than human - which is clearly how you need them to be. Because every act of hate you perpetrate takes you further and further from the compassion and love Jesus Christ embodied. And your desperate need for everyone in the world to agree with you or perish will fail.
Amen. Selah. |
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