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Fundamentalism: Public Enemy Number One

Posted on September 11th, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Dumbass Religions, Faith Based Bigotry, Religious Wingnuts, editorials, hypocrite evangelists.

Six years ago today the world was handed a fresh reminder of the evil that results from the kind of fanatical religious beliefs called Fundamentalism. Although it was Islamic Fundamentalists that used their hatred and intolerance to justify the horrors of September 11, only a few hours passed before Christian Fundamentalists began to cash in on the horror of that day and use it to promote their agenda of intolerance and social injustice.

Pond scum like Pat Robertson and the still-dead Jerry Falwell hastened to blame the proponents of civil rights for women and gay people for the horrors that were actually perpetrated by their cousins that spread hatred in mosques instead of churches. They used this tragedy to increase their cash flow and bolster the idiocy of the fools that follow them because they fail to see the villainy that is always part and parcel of fundamentalist religious dogma.

According to Wiktionary, fundamentalism in the theological context is

A conservative movement in theology among 19th century and 12th century Christians, in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.

Fundamentalist Islamists hate Christians because their brand of stupidity is the One True Religion and no other should be tolerated, while Fundamentalist Christians hate Muslims because their brand of stupidity is the One True Religion and no other should be tolerated.

The lesson that should be learned from 9/11 is very clear and easy to understand. As a species, if we wish to survive, it is long past the time when we should all join together and "Just say NO to Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddies".

Have you ridiculed a religion yet today?

Technorati Tags: terr'ism, fundamentalism, stupidity, 9/11 anniversary, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Osama bin Laden, Al Quaeda, Islam, Christianity, religion, Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy

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Failed Would-Be Lawyer Drops Lawsuit Over Bar Exam

Posted on September 8th, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Comedy, Court Cases, Dumbass Religions, Faith Based Bigotry, Homophobia, Religious Wingnuts, editorials.

A Massachusetts man afflicted with a severe case of Catholicism has dropped his blatantly idiotic lawsuit over the bar exam he failed for refusing to answer a question about gay marriage law because he is a stupid homophobic wanker.

Stephen Dunne bravely refused to answer an evil Satanic bar exam question that referred to the dreadfully scary existence of gay people. He then made the preposterous claim that answering the test question would have violated his Catholic faith and his First Amendment rights, because it would imply his support of gay marriage and parenting.  This man actually intended to be an attorney at law, but he seemed to have a prerequisite that the State of Massachusetts stick its head in the sand along with him and pretend, ever so intensely, that there really are no gay people at all.

Mr Dunne seems to prefer a society in which ancient superstitions are used as the basis for civil law. He apparently requires a social structure in which the most popular religious delusion in the local area is forced into the laws that apply to everyone. Perhaps he might enjoy Saudi Arabia or Iran, in those countries the idiotic religion IS the law.

Technorati Tags: Stephen Dunne, homophobia, Catholic Church, bar exam, Massachusetts, stupid wanker, useless idiot, fucking moron

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Worcester MA Rapist Priest Trial Delayed for 33rd Time

Posted on August 25th, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Court Cases, Dumbass Religions, Faith Based Bigotry, Homophobia, Priest Rape, Religious Fraud, Roman Catholic, child rape, editorials.

A Holy Roman Child Rape Church priest dodged justice for the 33rd time in Worcester, Massachusetts this week by continuing to pretend he is not competent to stand trial. The rapist/child molester/priest, who appeared all feeble and weak in a wheelchair in court, was seen later in the day walking unassisted at a highway rest stop.

Rev. John Szantyr, age 76, claims to be incapacitated, yet he still is able to cast the usual Catholic magic spells at religious services. In the typical shuffle of child molester priests, Szantyr now lives across state lines in Connecticut, but there is no current tally for how many children he may have raped in CT so far. Szantyr, who faces charges he molested an altar boy in Worcester in the mid-1980s, has already been ruled incompetent by a judge, but he just renewed his Connecticut driver's license.

Meanwhile the Holy Roman Altar Boy Church regional corporate accounting center in Worcester continues their vehement opposition to equal civil rights for consenting adult gay couples that do nothing to harm children. They continue to lie about gay people while protecting child molesters.

Meanwhile some of the people in Massachusetts continue to take advice about morality from the organization that has a long, well-documented, court-proven history of conspiring to protect child molesters while simultaneously distracting people from the real threat to their families by spreading hatred and lies about gay people. This seems to support the statistical probability that half of the people in any given area have below average intelligence. In other words, there are dumbasses everywhere.

The Catholic Church seems to have a love affair with virginity, from bullshit fairy tales about imaginary Virgin Mothers, to raping innocent 12 year old virgin children. Perhaps celibacy is to priesthood as WMDs are to the Party of Jesus.

Why is it that we never hear of any Catholic priests who are revered for their lifelong virginity? Too many altar boys in cute little white dresses? Why does the Catholic Church continue to allow only men that are not interested in women to become priests? Is denial really just the longest river in Egypt, or is it also a prerequisite for joining the club and learning how to cast the magic Catholic spells (which do nothing at all anyway)?

The Catholic Church has developed their own version of the US military Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Don't ask if your priest is a child molester, and Don't Tell if little Jimmy comes home and says that Father Szantyr forced him to do stuff again.

And it's all tax free, so they don't even have to contribute financially to the prosecution of their own child molesters. Now that's convenient.

Technorati Tags: Worcester MA, Catholic Church, child rape, priest, child molester, Catholicism, hypocrisy, rape, John Szantyr, altar boys

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Merv Griffin Dies in Billion Dollar Closet

Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Dumbass Religions, Faith Based Bigotry, Homophobia, Repugnicans, Roman Catholic, editorials.

Famous US show business billionaire and Palm Springs area resident Merv Griffin died this week, having lived for 82 years in the closet. Griffin was famous as a talk show host and enormously wealthy as a result of his very popular TV game shows.

News of Mr Griffin's death as reported in most media glaringly omitted a very salient fact when presenting biographical details, it made no mention of the fact that he was a gay man. And of course neither did Merv in any public forum, he lived his entire life in the closet. As a youngster Griffin was afflicted with Catholicism.

Mr Griffin never did anything to harm the gay community, he was nothing like the homophobe hypocrite Party of Jesus legislators that spew hatred and lies against gay people during the day, then chase after children at night.

When a newspaper article revealed the fact that Merv had been a gay man the world famous news service Reuters first carried the story, then dropped it, shoving the corpse of one more dead fag back into the closet.

It's a shame that Mr Griffin did not feel empowered to be honest about the very core of his identity. Maybe he was still afflicted with Catholicism as an adult. Of course he was a very wealthy man. In fact he was rich enough to be a Republican, maybe that explains a life of denial and deceit. After all, nobody is more frightened by a gay identity than a gay Republican.

There is a whole subculture here in the Palm Springs area, wealthy gay men that feel it is OK to be gay as long as you don't admit it. It's sort of a self-hating, self-denying, voluntary Don't Ask Don't Tell Republican country club society. I find it almost as creepy as Catholicism. Both cases are based on a deep-rooted denial of reality.

Still, it seems a shame. Take it from someone who lived the first half of his life in a place that was actually meant for storing clothing.

NOTE: the author lives in Palm Springs, CA with his queer husband.

Technorati Tags: Merv Griffin, closet, gay, closeted gay man, Republican, Party of Jesus, Catholicism, denial, death, obituary, Reuters

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Jammed Fax Machine Provokes Mass Hysteria at Massachusetts Bank

Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Rants, Repugnicans, UnFaux News, editorials.

In Ashland, Massachusetts a fax machine at a Bank of America branch jammed while receiving a fax from the Bank of America marketing department. Graphical images of a lighted match and a bomb with a fuse were visible in the partial fax copy received before the jam. Like good victims of the Fox News Network, the bank employees panicked and called the police in the first hysterical over-reaction in a chain of police-involved hysterical reactions.

By the time that someone had managed to clear the paper jam in the fax machine 15 local businesses had been evacuated, including a day care facility with 30 children at a nearby property. How many parents had to leave work early to go pickup their children? How many innocent children were frightened by this hysterical over-reaction by an Action News afflicted idiot? Film at 11!

Let's face it, fax machines are evil. There can be no denying the deeply evil nature of a fax machine. In fact only clothes hangers and nuclear weapons are more evil than fax machines, although ink-jet printers are mighty damn annoying. But most fax machines do not usually explode because of a paper jam. Most of the time.

I admit there have been a few times I've wanted to pickup a fax machine and throw it with great force against a nearby wall, I hate the fucking things! But this animosity does not translate into fear that easily for me. I've never let a fax machine get the better of me for more than a few minutes.

Recently, in order to protect our property from terr'ists, I contracted with a Chicago area firm to receive faxes for me, convert them to digital images, and then email the image to me here in California. I figure as long as the fax machine is 1700 miles away I don't need to evacuate the property every time some random fax comes in. Hell, I don't even watch Fox News, so I'm probably not nearly as frightened of my own shadow as I should be. In fact I designed and created UnFox News as an antidote to Fox News, it's not a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.

You can fax your comments or send voicemail responses to this blog entry using my 1700 mile away fax machine by calling (815) 642-4707. It won't cause any paper jams and I promise not to panic.

Technorati Tags: mass hysteria, over reaction, Ashland, Bank of America, bomb scare, fax machine, voicemail, Chicago, Fox News, UnFox News, Republican Party

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The Assault on Reason: Our Glorious Christian Leader

Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Ungodly.
Categories: Demoncrats, Repugnicans, Uncategorized, editorials.

Al Gore, the man who won the US Presidential election in November 2000, has finally let loose against Our Glorious Christian Leader, and justifiably he has fired using both barrels.

In his new book The Assault on Reason Gore describes the great harm that has been done to America and the rest of the world by the gang of Neocon Fundamentalist thugs that stole the election 7 years ago.

While he does not explicitly call for the impeachment and prosecution of Our Glorious Christian Leader, Gore does lay out a list of the crimes committed by OGLC and Darth Cheney.

It looks like a wonderful addition to any collection of reality-based reading material. And please remember, Just say NO to Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddies and their self-appointed representatives in Washington!

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, Our Glorious Christian Leader" The Assault on Reason., Books, expose, treason, Repugnican, thugs, neocons

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Wake Up and Make The Coffee

Posted on May 15th, 2007 by Fagnit.
Categories: Rants, editorials.

AlterNet is offering a very well written column by Daniel Lazare which starts out asking "What Makes an Atheist Get Out of Bed in the Morning?" For me, it's the coffee.

Daniel's column goes on to discuss the increased militance in the atheist community, citing 3 authors in particular who all float my boat, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. Each of these men call into question the base assumptions on which religious fallacies are built, although Dennett is clearly the least militant and most detached of the three.

But none of this is necessary for me, an atheist fag, to get out of bed in the morning. If there had never been a single religious delusion in the history of the Universe, I'd still get up around sunrise and make the coffee. I like coffee. I like really good coffee. And I don't need the presence or absence of any preposterous belief systems to make it taste any better.

In all fairness to Mr Lazare he was not asking the question literally, of course. His column really asks us what do atheists have to offer to replace religious afflictions. This seems to assume that something should be offered, like giving a mental patient bipolar disorder so they won't miss their schizophrenia too much.

Religious afflictions are clearly a disorder, a delusional state of mind. The best replacement therapy for delusions is reality. Instead of believing in a promise of 72 virgins that will be awarded as payback for committing mass murder with a passenger plane, people should realize that committing mass murder will only harden the survivors against their killing agenda. There are no magical virgins, no 72 on standby waiting orders from Allah, and no virgin mommies living in the sky.

The correct replacement for religious delusions is reality. We should live in the real world, not imagine that some boogey man wants us to go kill people.

Instead of religion, try standing barefoot in some freshly mowed grass. You don't need grandiose bullshit to live your life, just take the time to smell the coffee, that's all.

Technorati Tags: AlterNet, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Daniel Lazare, coffee, reality, religious afflictions

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