The fact is, human flatus contains methane, which is a significant contributor to global warming. Homofecal intercourse weakens the anal sphincter, contributing to the release of greenhouse gases.

If liberals really cared about fighting global warming (instead of just bankrupting the coal industry), they would be celebrating Proposition 8 instead of fighting to have it overturned by activist judges.

You have to understand that Karl Rove injected the seed of his permanent R majority plan into the back of Tony’s, um, mind long ago.

Thank you so much for that mental image. My attorney will contact you shortly.

This was a story about how the U.S.’s obsolete embargo on Cuba denied real aid and reconstruction for months to a nation less than a hundred miles off the coast of Florida, and I haven’t read that story fuckin’ anywhere except the religious press.

I read a pretty good book on the phenomenon you’re talking about, called Jesus & Empire — it’s basically a catalogue of when and where Christianity has been co-opted by the dominant paradigm to support that paradigm, whether or not the result makes any fucking sense whatsoever. The book is INCREDIBLY academic; a professor friend of mine said he was slow to get through it because he had to reread each graf. All the same, it’s a compelling read.

“Mainline” Christian churches tend to do a lot of good overseas work as well — the Baptists especially and the Methodists (my folk) as well. They are not as headline-grabby as FEMA domestically, and no one here gives a fuck about ongoing aid overseas.

Buddhism is a beautiful atheistic religion.

This is one of those cases that illustrate what has been my only single religious axiom of late – that being in the majority almost always turns any religion’s adherents into huge dicks. Even the religions we regard as relatively nice and inoffensive wind up doing hideous shit when they’re in power (c.f. the lamate state in Tibet, Pennsylvania’s treatment of the Indians, et goddamn cetera); there’s just something about presuming the prerogative to completely dominate a society that makes a fucking asshole out of you.

The converse, while not necessarily true, is pretty reliable. Even the religions we get used to being jackassry platforms do pretty decent work when they’re in the minority – evangelicals in Latin America would be the best example close to home, but the phenomenon is similarly powerful across historical and geographic lines.

I didn’t suggest that it did.

Some of my best friends are Episcopalian. I used to be one my own self. I know many actual Christians who walk the walk. Buddhism is a beautiful atheistic religion. Spirituality, compassion, and love for one’s fellow human being do not depend upon a belief in a supreme being. I have always lived in East Tennessee and have been surrounded my entire life by fucktarded snake-handling jackboxes who control the cultural and political zeitgeist of this corner of the world. That is my experience and perspective. Your results apparently vary. We’re all capable of being evil little fuckers.

No, but we had to get up at 3:00 in the morning to release our curses against McCain, and that ain’t no cool groove neither, buddy.

I know none of us like it when poorly-applied labels and stereotypes are thrown at us willy nilly, so I couldn’t let it go unanswered. Parity is a good thing.