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I just don’t get it. The christianists have all the numbers, all the power, are the accepted moral leaders, and even their more extreme positions are quite surprisingly non-controversial. And yet their propaganda arms continue to cry out that they are being persecuted, oppressed and prevented from merely practicing their religion.

Who is fooled when those who wield all the power cry out that they are powerless?

It’s because the same media machine which cynically decries, laments, and wrings its hands over the “permissiveness” and “moral degeneracy” of our culture is the one which manufactures it, day after day.

They produce some entertainment which glorifies and fetishizes violence, sex, and the synthesis of the two (read: torture-porn). They produce other entertainment which treats lgbt characters as an exotic sideshow of wackiness for the entertainment of straights, while sanitizing it all with a watery message of “tolerance.” They produce yet more entertainment which stingingly lampoons the intolerance and bigotry of the conservative right. They package it all together and inundate our culture with it for the sake of consumerist entertainment.

In the same breath, they dutifully put on their “journalist” hats, rush out into the streets and draw our attention to the terrible nature of their creation, speaking from a position of manufactured moral authority and decrying the very culture they foisted upon us to sell their products.

By cherry-picking their way through the wasteland of their own manufacture, they perpetuate the meme of the Liberal Media.

Look! I’m just like Jesus, nailed to the cross…alright, not actually nailed…and I know this isn’t a cross, it’s a Dell Latitude….okay, try to see this metaphorically….look, just feel sorry for me already, okay?

Like other commenters, I thought that first sentence was a proposal for dealing with Teh Muzlims!!!

Then there’s this:
One thing Cowles can’t be accused of is demonizing political opponents. Even the lesbian couples that are charged by the state with raising kidnapped Christian Children are portrayed as fairly decent folks. [...]
Each character who plays their part in the President’s plot has understandable, even sympathetic motives.

This makes me wonder if the author is actually a paranoid fundy thinking this kind of this is likely to happen. It’s entirely possible that the author wrote a cautionary tale about religious persecution being a double-edged sword with serrated teeth that will snap back and bite you in the ass every time. In other words, the author’s point could be “Better lay off the Muslims, guys, because violent Christian extremists can get your church into just as much trouble.”

Of course, I don’t have the time or inclination to read the thing and find out if I’m right or not, so…

And don’t forget the Magdalene asylums, in Ireland and other places, including the U.S., which served as virtual slave labor camps for teenage girls who had the audacity to become pregnant or get raped.

May I suggest some good ol’ Amazon tagging action?

A flaw I found and the reason I didn’t give The Holy Bible a perfect rating is that the Christian heroes, at times, use “situation ethics.” They lie. For example, there’s this one scene where Peter denies Jesus three times. Real Christians simply don’t do things like that…

Who is fooled when those who wield all the power cry out that they are powerless?

Fox News Viewers. Registered Republican voters. “Moderate” Democrats. Democratic presidential candidates.

Imagine a world where children are taken from their families in order to stop them from turning their children into terrorists.

Operation Peter Pan 2.0

mikey,

founding myths die hard, yo. To the Christers, it’s always 79 A.D.

Tea. Out of nose.

Jake FTW.

Thank you SO much!

Legalize: To whom do I write the check? Does the PCSFM have a web site with PayPal? I hate being the last one on any Bandwagon of Teh Left.

Fundies

except make it so all the Christians are forced to have teh Gheysex, and they all instantly renounce breederism. It’ll be a horror novel!

Don’t let ‘em triumph however. It’ll be a novel of warning.

As for the wingnuts in question…Why do they hate reason and logic so much? Why?

I bet if I wrote a totally farcical novel about Good Christians being subjugated by the gay atheist (or Muslim, or slightly open minded) masses, only to triumph in the end because they were Good and Right, I’d get rich. Sorta like an Inverse Double Guantanamo with a Full Twist. I might be on to something here….

Who is fooled when those who wield all the power cry out that they are powerless?

mikey

That reminds me; I have to renew my membership to my local PCSFM.

Judging from the author’s picture, I don’t think she wrote the book. Rather, I think she found an author who was involved in a car accident on an icy, isolated mountain slope, took the author back to her cabin, and forced him to write this bit of fundy wank for her. And when he tried to escape, she cut off his feet.

It’s true! Here’s the proof:
http://www.amazon.com/Misery-Stephen-King/dp/0450417395/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-5744103-5531166?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185375758&sr=8-3