Civil Commotion

A former pastor takes-up vacation Bible school.

Sadly, many non-Christian (and Christian) parents are way too trusting. If Evangelical neighbor Susie stops by to invite their children to VBS or day camp, many parents quickly say yes. After all, the events are being held at churches, parents think. What harm could possibly come from allowing my children to go? As those of us who follow closely the machinations and shenanigans of Evangelical churches know, churches are NOT safe havens for children and teenagers. I would never advise parents to send their children to churches unattended. The risk is too great, especially now that we know that sexual predators and child abusers are often fine, upstanding church members, pastors, deacons, youth group leaders, and Sunday school teachers.

Gerencser isn’t alone in that assessment. I recently tweeted a link to yet another story of a youth pastor gone bad at the height of the Target brouhaha.

Almost all of us are raised with some sort of vague idea that churches are safe, and church folk are somehow ‘better’ people — more trustworthy, more responsbile, et cetera, et cetera. No. That’s a marketing lie. Stand back and think about the things you have to believe to be a Christian, and it ought to become clear pretty quickly that we’re talking about some of the most screwed-up people in society.

From About the Bible, by Robert G. Ingersoll …

Ministers wonder how I can be wicked enough to attack the Bible.

I will tell them: This book, the Bible, has persecuted, even unto death, the wisest and the best. This book stayed and stopped the onward movement of the human race. This book poisoned the fountains of learning and misdirected the energies of man.

This book is the enemy of freedom, the support of slavery. This book sowed the seeds of hatred in families and nations, fed the flames of war, and impoverished the world. This book is the breastwork of kings and tyrants—the enslaver of women and children. This book has corrupted parliaments and courts. This book has made colleges and universities the teachers of error and the haters of science. This book has filled Christendom with hateful, cruel, ignorant and warring sects. This book taught men to kill their fellows for religion’s sake. This book funded the Inquisition, invented the instruments of torture, built the dungeons in which the good and loving languished, forged the chains that rusted in their flesh, erected the scaffolds whereon they died. This book piled fagots about the feet of the just. This book drove reason from the minds of millions and filled the asylums with the insane.

This book has caused fathers and mothers to shed the blood of their babes. This book was the auction block on which the slave- mother stood when she was sold from her child. This book filled the sails of the slave-trader and made merchandise of human flesh. This book lighted the fires that burned “witches” and “wizards.” This book filled the darkness with ghouls and ghosts, and the bodies of men and women with devils. This book polluted the souls of men with the infamous dogma of eternal pain. This book made credulity the greatest of virtues, and investigation the greatest of crimes. This book filled nations with hermits, monks and nuns—with the pious and the useless. This book placed the ignorant and unclean saint above the philosopher and philanthropist. This book taught man to despise the joys of this life, that he might be happy in another—to waste this world for the sake of the next.

I attack this book because it is the enemy of human liberty—the greatest obstruction across the highway of human progress.

Let me ask the ministers one question: How can you be wicked enough to defend this book?

Well? What about that, Holy Men?

The only ones moaning over fifty gays slaughtered are liberals, idiots and gay lovers.

Walid Shoebat

Years ago, I operated a Web site devoted to clerical crime, PietyInc.com. After 6-months or so, I was getting so many tips daily, and I had so successfully refined the search engine details, that I’d have 150-200 e-mails with story links waiting for me every single morning. I could hardly sleep at night, and could hardly hold down a cup of coffee. This story reminds me of all that.

Noah’s Ark fails the Coast Guard inspection for seaworthiness.

As sane and decent people reel at the carnage visited upon a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the loonies are exulting.

And, of course, the insufferable Steven Anderson has something to say: “The good news is that there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world, because, you know, these homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles. That’s who was a victim here, are a bunch of, just, disgusting homosexuals at a gay bar, okay?”

And on, and on, and on; America’s id is awash in sewage.