What smells like burning bacon?

Now just James Dobson and Pat Robertson to go!

Please, Lord, take out these two other fuckers and I’ll know You’re for real and praise You!

(Hang on to your Godwins……)

Adolf Hitler.

See, this is what I hate about this automatic deference to religion some people feel compelled to show. People can defend the most appalling ideas imaginable in the name of God – just because an idea’s “religious” doesn’t mean it’s worth respect, and just because someone calls themselves “reverend” doesn’t mean they are.

Okay, I lied. I laughed myself stupid.

mikey, you wuz talkin’ to me? Because FYI I’m a girl cat. Not ‘he’.

Not sure what you were talking about either, to be honest. But then it’s time for my nap.

And let me be the first to say, “None of this would be happening if Jerry Falwell were still alive.�

I guess I haven’t been too hard on Jerry Falwell in the time this blog has been around. He wasn’t that active in the last 3 years, and, as the linked NYT obituary says, “He surprised some critics by becoming more tolerant on gay issues in later years. “

But at his core, he remained through his career precisely what he was at the beginning — a preacher and moralist, a believer in the Bible’s literal truth, with firm beliefs on religious, and social issues rooted in his reading of Scripture that never really changed.

So there was no distinction at all between his view of the political and the spiritual when he wrote in his autobiography: “We are born into a war zone where the forces of God do battle with the forces of evil. Sometimes we get trapped, pinned down in the crossfire. And in the heat of that noisy distracting battle, two voices call out for us to follow. Satan wants to lead us into death. God wants to lead us into life eternal.�

R.I.P.

mikey