So, as of late we here at blogitude.com have not been writing as frequently as we should.  Although I think it might have something to with the fact some of us got caught up in our own lives.  So I will take the first step in order to break the silence.  I have to offer two funny articles: the first on why unothodox Christians would never breed if they truly followed their own ideas  (Yay! No more Temple Baptist Church, School, or Crown College); the second more condom news!

Whack, Unwrap, and Enjoy!

Tip: Thanks to Beth for the links.

While this guy isn’t specifically saying that God Hates, this is the sort of asshat the pisses me off. This guy and the others that infest public events, spouting that God Hates Fags, liberals, republicans, muslims, all pique my ire.

Assuming for a moment that God is real and not some made up fiction used to perpetuate wars and get rich, how can anyone with bad penmanship and poor social skills claim to know the mind of God? Are they really so enlightened to understand their god so well that they can vouch for his complete and utter hatred of a given group of people?

So for all you people who think god hates people, GOD HATES YOU TOO!

     One of the biggest things that sickens me about many “Christian” groups is their propensity to back up their wicked, hateful ideas with obscure Biblical references.

     By now, most everyone in the country has heard something about the so-called “Reverend,” Fred Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist Church — either heard about him personally, or the work he’s done as an Anti-American (”God Hates the USA!”), as an instigator of violence against homosexuals (”God Hates Fags!”), or as an instigator of hatred against Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Roman Catholics, George Bush, Jews, Women, Rye Bread, Israel.  Carpet, and your next door neighbor’s cat.  And Catholics.  And Jews.  And Fruit Roll-ups.
     What self-respecting Christian could possibly follow an asshat like this?  Apparently, up to about 200.  The number frequently changes, mind you, and could be as low as 15.

     The WBC is labeled a Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is rightfully on the Anti-Defamation League watch list.  The group is so hateful, in fact, that even Michael Moore and the Ku Klux Klan have attempted to counter them.

     He and his “faithful followers” have protested the funerals of U.S. Soldiers, and are now turning their vileness towards victims of Virginia Tech shooting:

WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is ‘horrified’ by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming. ‘They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads’ (Eze. 7:18).

Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.

     But in reading the above, what strikes me most is that Phelps claims that God inspired a man to kill our children as punishment for our country’s involved in Iraq.  When I consider the fact that Phelps has repeatedly been anti-Muslim, I find his credibility in this case pretty weak.  But, apparently, anywhere from 14-200 people (discounting Phelps, himself) are able to ignore that little inconsistency…

     And to debunk it a little further…
     Back in the Garden of Eden, Cain became jealous of his brother, Abel, because he felt that God favored Abel.  While they were out in the fields, Cain killed Abel.  Why didn’t God protect Abel?  Was God asleep while this took place?  Was He on vacation?  Of course not.
     God allows us Free Will.  That was the gift of the Forbidden Fruit.

     There is Separation of Church and State in this country.  Religious Freedom is guaranteed by the First Amendment — “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”
     What that Amendment means is that they’re not going to come and shut down Mr. Phelps “Church” because his Religion and Free Speech is protected.  Put simply, they stay out of his domain, so long as he and his followers don’t take action on the garbage they’re preaching…

     “The hell with your flag.  The hell with your fag army, your fag courts, your fag-run government,” says Phelps.  “This is the hypocritical, fag-infested, fag-run United States of America and we’re supposed to respect that fag rag flag?”
     Yes, he is supposed to Respect it.  This Country, and that Flag that it represents, are what gave him the right to spread his filth in the name of Religion.

     I would also have them remember that Government will stay out of their Church’s domain only so much as their Church stays out of the Government’s domain.  With every legal line they cross while spouting their politics and hatred, they become less and less a Church, and more and more a Hate Group who spout Bible Verses.

Tips: Slublog, LissaKay

In this discussion of family, I will tell about a part of mine. Not to tell about my family as much as to tell a story of what this new technology is doing to parts of America.

My sister got a call from my aunt at the law office she works for. My aunt and uncle are in a very rural farm area of Tennessee and he is the pastor of a small Baptist church. If I told you the sort of stuff that goes on in his church you’d think I was making it up. Not snake handling crazy, but, yeah, you’d be freaked out if you went there. This is the uncle who, during a wedding he was officiating, stopped to make an altar call in case anyone wanted to accept Jesus as their Savior first. So, anyway, my aunt calls my sister in a terrible panic. My uncle was in mortal fear that he was going to lose his church. So much so, that he had written a suicide note. She wanted a lawyer to do something.

What that something is, we are still not sure.

The crisis is something like this. One of the guys who plays in the church band, has a rock and roll band on the side. Nothing like Super Satanic Metal Death stuff, just a decent rock band. And they have a MySpace page. And people are posting comments on this page and using foul language, and saying crude things like “You guys &^%#& rock!” This is happening out there on the Internets.

So, my uncle is in desperation and some sort of legal action must be taken and no one knows what to do and he may just have to kill himself about it. It’s just that desperate a situation.

Really.

     I post this against my better judgement… but I need to. 

     “All families are dysfunctional,” someone told me once.

     But in mine, everyone’s just waiting for the next crisis.  With baited breath, they look forward to the next time they can tear into someone at the drop of a hat, complete with neverending verbal onslaughts, pathetic lies and horrible slanders that would make even Jesus Christ Himself punch them in the mouth.
     Sometimes, those situations graduate from simple character assassination to theft, vandalism, burglary, and assault — on rare occasions, maybe even a vehicular assault or a shooting.

     You can’t defend yourself against it.  You’re automatically “a liar,” and there’s no way around it no matter what you do.
     They attack first, with righteous anger, and never ask a single question — or, at least, will never let you answer anything fully — ignoring the fact that there are two sides to every story.  Most of the time, if everyone would just shut up and think, they might realize maybe something wasn’t right about the situation to begin with.  Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins… All ready to jump on you and split you apart at the seams.  How could it be right?

     “I’ll never love you!”
     “You’re possessed / the Antichrist!”
     “You’ve gone too far this time!”
     “You’ve always been worthless!”
     “I’d hate to be you!”
     “I’ll spend $100,000 to handle you!”
     “I’ll break every bone in your body!”
     “I’ll burn it up with you in it!”

     Most of this is from people who’ve never even been around the situation, have no idea what’s going on, but they’re ready to throw me to the lions for doing one simple thing: I took legal action to relieve myself of one of the worst instigators.

     Like I was told today…
     “You’re selfish!  You never think about anyone but yourself!”
     That might’ve actually made me take pause, had the two of them not come into my home, threatening that I’d better “drop the charges” “or else” a few different things were going to happen.  There aren’t many things more selfish than trying to force someone to bend to your will…
     As for my being self-centered, it would be pretty difficult to find anyone who’d say I didn’t bend over backwards to help people.  Or that I didn’t listen when someone had something on their mind.  It’s hard to imagine I could be like that, and still be “selfish.”
     Besides … Pushing threats and ultimatums down someone’s throat is certainly no way to advance any situation towards resolution.

     Families should stand together, and attempt to resolve things with civility and dignity.  You’d certain expect it to be that way from a bunch of people who claim to be more righteous than the Pope.
     In situations where one person has been wholly unreasonable, attempts at resolution by a family can serve the purpose of quelling some of the insanity, and if not, at least give some insight as to where the problem lies…

     Instead, I have to deal with this blood-thirsty excuse for a family, and put up with the aftermath of a situation created by a person who isn’t taking any responsibility for any part of this situation…. a person who’s been running around to everyone in the family gaining support with a tear and a sob story.
     For my part, I’ve tried not to drop to that level.  It’s none of the family’s damn business, anyway.  The situation doesn’t concern them at all.  It’s just an excuse to do what they typical do: go on a Holy Crusade, and nail someone else to a cross.

     A family like that, who won’t even get my side of the story before they start ripping me apart in that old familiar way, that’s what I got. 

     I’ll tell ya one thing: I don’t need that in my life. 

     I have enough stress.

     It’s a wonder they never realized that maybe that was the reason I’ve moved all over the world and kept my distance from them…

     …and their “religion.”

Here is another repugnant conservative Kristian site trying to bring back the Moral Majority. It’s hard to know where to start with this stuff because it is so ignorant and pathetically stupid. Their list of Gay Bands to avoid and defend your kids from is laughable. I mean, in general, there are a lot of reasons to not listen to these bands, and some sort of gay connection is pretty far down the list. And any mental flyweight retarded enough to be under the influence of these clowns isn’t worth bothering with to begin with. Except that they probably minister to a lot of very young, gullible kids. Kids may be smart as whips, but they don’t know enough to understand that these people are ‘tards. So they become the victim of their abusive “teachings.”

But the real issue here is one that most all gay bashing Kristians have and that is the notion that one becomes gay or decides to be gay and that they can be fixed.

But then, these aren’t people who listen to science, so I don’t know why I am surprised they don’t get it. Chances are, we can create gay people at will by messing with a mother’s hormone levels during pregnancy.

Being someone who actually knows and has talked to many gay people, let me make this very clear. People are born gay. They certainly do not choose it. Nor are they victims of gay sexual abuse.

That is fact.