Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: The Moral Ideal§357 The metamorphoses of slavery; its disguise in the cloak of religion; its transfiguration through morality.
Since Christianity is one of the great engines of racism and abuse of gays, and since every seminary-educated pastor on earth knows perfectly well that Biblical scholarship comprehensively destroys the traditional narrative, I guess I’m glad their rejection by the mainstream of American thought is taking a toll on them.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: The Moral Ideal§356 Modest, industrious, benevolent and temperate: is that how you would have men? Good men? But such men I can only conceive as slaves, the slaves of the future.
Tourists to Washington, D.C., may want to skip a stroll past the White House, because Franklin Graham believes it is in serious danger of a MAJOR lightning strike.
A lot has changed in three short years! Just three years ago, the President was on record as holding to the biblical definition of marriage. Now he can’t say enough about his support for the LGBT agenda—and right after the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, he had the gall to disgrace the White House by lighting it up with the gay pride rainbow colors to celebrate. This is arrogantly flaunting sinful behavior in the face of Almighty God. My advice? He might want to have some extra lightning rods installed on the roof of the White House.
This puzzles me, frankly. I grant that Franklin Graham is a bona fide Holy Man, and I am merely an abject sink of putrescent wickedness, but, seriously: How is it possible that the Creator Of The Whole Big Universe, He who hurled uncountable billions of stars into orbits thousands of light years from his special garden resting place, can be foiled by a metal rod just a few feet long? Anybody know? Because it seems to me that if He wants to zap one pissant nigra moozlim, He ought to be able to do it anytime He feels like it.
UPDATE: I thought it would be fun to pose that question on Graham’s Facebook posting, just to see how long it lasted, but this is the post I would have been just below:
These people are seriously mentally ill.
Godly yahoos are making headlines here in the Tarheel state.
Shelby, North Carolina, pastor Rit Varriale has decided to raise the so-called Christian flag above the American flag in front of his church.
“If a church already has a flagpole, start flying the flags in that order. If they don’t have a flagpole, go get one, and fly the flags in that order, so any person who drives by their church will see the Christian flag in the highest place and know they are driving by a church that has made the commitment to honor God before anything else.”
Have I ever mentioned that when people take this stuff seriously, they turn Christianity into an antisocial cult? I think so.
As an indication of how pervasive the influence of religion really is throughout the fundamentalist, Southern Baptist south, consider this: In North Carolina it was until very recently unlawful to hunt on Sunday.
Baptists in North Carolina opposed to ending the state’s ban on Sunday hunting got some accommodation in a compromise measure passed by the legislature that prohibits hunting with a firearm between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sundays, hours when most rural congregations gather for Bible study and worship.
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“The Christian Action League appreciates the sensitivity and respect shown by lawmakers in adding this provision,” said Creech, who broke with fellow conservatives in the National Rifle Association to oppose lifting North Carolina’s century-and-a-half ban on Sunday hunting. “Moreover, without such a provision, I am concerned other Sunday laws already on the books that show deference to the churches could be jeopardized.”
Creech, a former Southern Baptist pastor, said many people today view any effort to defend a special observance of the Lord’s Day as old-fashioned, puritanical and impractical in today’s complex economy.
“But the fact is, if we have no concern for setting aside one day a week for special worship and focus on the things of God, we’re not likely to honor the Lord the other six days of the week,” Creech wrote in a commentary. “If we are concerned about using all the days properly, we should also be concerned about using the Lord’s Day right.”
To his very modest credit, Creech is at least honest about his reason for opposing Sunday hunting: He wants to use the coercive power of government to compel everyone to live as though they are devout Christians. And besides, he knows dad will happily duck-out on listening to some ignorant yahoo bellow that he’s no damn good.
Or maybe he just doesn’t want for preachers to be easy to find by men who are carrying guns.
