Proof Number 4,509,531 that organized religion warps ones brain September 1, 2009
Posted by Evil Bender in Religion, reproductive rights, wingnuts.trackback
If you’d like to be more charitable, you could assume that it’s just Judie Brown’s odious fundamentalism that warps her brain. But you’d be hard pressed to find anything but religious indoctrination that would lead anyone to say anything as stupid and immoral as this:
The entire travesty, from the television cameras to spectacle itself, goes beyond anything I have witnessed in my more than 65 years of life. In fact, while we all thought the appearance of President Barack Obama at the University of Notre Dame was a scandal, the very idea that he offered a eulogy in a basilica, while the real presence of Christ was in the tabernacle, is perhaps the most dastardly thing I have ever seen.
Brown is a rabid fetus-worshiper, so we shouldn’t be surprised that her values are a bit eschew. She seems to honestly believe that the Worst Thing EVAR is that women aren’t forced to give birth. Even so, she’s been around a while, so we might be able to help her come up with some examples of even more dastardly things she’s seen during her “more than 65 years of life.”
Examples abound, so I want your feedback: what’s the most glaring example of a “dastardly thing” in the last 65 years?
I couldn’t read the majority of Brown’s rant. I just couldn’t do it. This part toward the end caught my eye, though:
OH NO SHE DID NOT. Does she really want to talk about suffering and little ones in conjunction with the Catholic Church and potential harm things going on in a Catholic basilica could be causing? Does she REALLY want to go there?
A few of my dear friends are Catholic (or at least were raised Catholic). I feel pretty freaking certain that people like Brown are doing way more to drive people like my friends away from Catholicism than people like Kennedy.
Indeed, I was originally going to make a joke (in absolutely terrible taste, of course) about the fact that the Duggars are expecting their 19th child, but now I’m just too mad. To me at the moment, the most glaring example of a “dastardly thing” from the last 65 years is the fact that people like Brown are out their crying “Won’t somebody think of the children?!” — without doing a fucking thing to help actual children (you know, the ones that got born and all) in crisis out there. Didn’t Christ have a thing about, oh, I don’t know, helping the poor and otherwise disenfranchised? Did I miss the decree that the first commandment is now “Thou shalt honor thy pregnancy above thyself, and thou shalt have no gods before the fetus”? Do these people truly presume that Deutoronomy 5:8 (et al) is referring solely to literal, physical, golden-calf-style idols?
Rrrrrrrr.
Er, that should read, “I was originally going to make a joke . . . about the fact that the Duggars are expecting their 19th child being the most ‘dastardly thing’ I can think of, but now I’m just too mad.” Got ahead of myself there. :)
“The entire travesty…. goes beyond anything I have witnessed in my more than 65 years of life….the very idea that (Obama) offered a eulogy in a basilica, while the real presence of Christ was in the tabernacle, is perhaps the most dastardly thing I have ever seen.”
Let’s see: 65 years….that would stretch back to about 1944.
Obama offering a prayer is worse than the Rwandan Genocide, the murderous Pol Pot regime, Charlie Manson and John Wayne Gacy, the thousands of acts of child molestation perpetrated over the decades under the auspices of a certain religious body, and even the final year or so of the Nazis themselves.
Boy, a prayer can do a lot of damage, huh? Maybe we should all just stop praying for a while and see if that helps things. It’s worth a try, I think.
Yeah, my first thought was a million people hacked apart with machetes in Rwanda.