Expect more of this sort of thing.
Fire at Planned Parenthood office in
Washington state intentional, police sayA fire that caused extensive damage at a Planned Parenthood office near Washington State University Friday was intentionally set, authorities said.
Detroit Carjacker Tells Black Bystander, 'You Good, I only Rob White People' http://t.co/1Imzz30zeS
— Detroit Update (@DetroitUpdate) September 7, 2015
Kim Davis may indeed be a victim — but she is most certainly not the victim of religious persecution. She is the victim of theocrats in patriots’ clothing exploiting her as a canary in the coal mine called Theocracy as they continue to see just how far they can go in turning this nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal into “a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler.” [Rev. Susan Russell]
As I have argued for years now, militant fundamentalist Christians are a clear and present danger to the nation. As they become increasingly marginalized and more citizens flee their ugly version of Christianity, the likelihood for violence will increase. [Michael Hamar]
But, of course, Michael is gay and I am unapologetically skeptical, so the Godly folk aren’t going to listen to anything either of us says; we are (dum-da-dum-dum)… others.
What is needed is for moderate Christians — that great bulk of self-identified Christians who have too much sense and decency to allow themselves to be exploited by cynical predators like Mike Huckabee — to step-forward, confront the egregious dishonesties of their Holy Men, and explicitly disavow any association with this nonsense.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
Concluding remarks concerning the criticism of morality§405 To what extent is the self-destruction of morality still a sign of its own strength? We Europeans have within us the blood of those who were ready to die for their faith; we have taken morality frightfully seriously and there is nothing which we have not, at one time, sacrificed to it. On the other hand, our intellectual subtlety has been reached essentially through the vivisection of our consciences. We do not yet know the “whither” towards which we are urging our steps, now that we have departed from the soil of our forebears. But it was on this very soil that we acquired the strength which is now driving us from our homes in search of adventure and it is thanks to that strength that we are now in mid-sea, surrounded by untried possibilities and things undiscovered we can no longer choose, we must be conquerors, now that we have no land in which we feel at home and in which we would want to “survive”. A concealed “Yes” is driving us forward and it is stronger than all our “No’s”. Even our strength no longer bears with us in the old swampy land: we venture out into the open, we attempt the task. The world is still rich and undiscovered and even to perish were better than to be half-men or poisonous men. Our very strength itself urges us to take to the sea; there where all suns have hitherto sunk we know of a new world —
And this ends The Will to Power, at least so far as this Web site is concerned. We’re only about halfway through, but I can find no complete text version on the Web that won’t need more time cleaning/editing it than I’m willing to spend; so that’s that. It is one of Nietzsche’s most popular works, however, and those who are interested in reading the rest ought to be able to walk into any Barnes & Noble store and leave with a copy. Of course, there are good editions available immediately for those of you who have e-readers.
Bryan Fischer takes a phone call from an outraged Godly person who wants to talk about Kim Davis being held in contempt and packed off to jail.
Fischer was not alone it his outrage, as he took a call from a listener who declared that conservatives are tired of “being pushed back to a cliff” and called for “a massive national demonstration of solidarity” with Davis, warning that if ten million people do not come together and “flood Washington, D.C.,” then all will be lost.
“The media belongs to the Antichrist,” the caller said. “We’re at the point now where there must be a massive national upheaval. If we cannot have it, I will predict, I will prophesy to you, there will be blood and it will be massive.”
There is undoubtedly a good deal of bluster on the part of these anonymous callers, but there are surely others, stoked by pastors who knows their influence has been irretrievably lost, who are muttering and cleaning their guns.
Proud of #KimDavis for standing strong for her beliefs. Who's next? Pastors? Photogs? Caterers? Florists? http://t.co/fYxFEng5gH #ImWithKim
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 3, 2015
The recklessness is dumbfounding. The government has no religion — and neither do its agents in the performance of their duties. Is Huckabee truly so ignorant that he doesn’t know that, or is he merely a whore exploiting simpletons?