Friday, September 10, 2010

Color Me Shocked...

...that these people think Obama is a dirty little Muslim. 

ThePenguin pontificates:
"I started reading that PDF and wow, it IS disturbing. What's equally disturbing is that our president is one of these people."

and


BlessedInHim blathers:
"wow, always figured he was muslim, what more can be said . . . the majority of the US citizens have been deceived and many choose to be deceived."

Looks like "many" choose, in turn, to be morons.  I mean, what more can be said?

Pot, Kettle, Black

Commenter sharpstick gives us the lowdown on the history of Islam:

"I have a copy of "The Prophet of Doom", it's written by Chris Winn. He spent several years researching Mohammad and uses all of Islam's writings. It is very good, gives you a very good picture of how Islam started and how this "religion" was really about money, sex, and power."

Money, sex, and power?  Where the fuck do I sign up? 

Friday, September 3, 2010

Biblical Misogyny Is Alive and Well

Rapture Ready clears up that pesky confusion about whether or not women should be allowed to minister to others:

"God knew what would happen if women were allowed to teach men and to usurp authority over them. Sure enough, the majority of the cults today were begun by women who have manipulated the scriptures so that they could, without fear of condemnation, rise to positions of authority over men. 

Over the past few decades women have become pastors of churches because of a lackadaisical attitude on the part of the Church, not to mention men’s ignorance of scriptures. So what do we see happening today? The completely erroneous rendering of the truth of the scriptures by those who wish to supplant God’s word."

You hear that ladies?  Now sit down and shut up.

Busted!

There's nothing so inane as the theological in-fighting that occurs on born-again sites.  But this guy...well, he tells it like it is.

Gentlemen,
Your pre-tribulation rapture theory is not holding up according to the Bible. To be caught up in an unaffected scenerio,as you have mentioned, does not hold up either. Noah had to live among the most vile humans and Lot lived among the most viscious homesexuals. We will be forced to endure the 1st 3.5 years of the trib - until the unclean one proclaimes himself in the temple.
Your writers go on and on when the answer is so simple. You cannot talk down the Word. You are actually advancing the proclamation of satan. By advocating the early rapture, you are advancing the satanic 666. The 6th trump, the 6th seal and the 6th vial. satan will then proclaim himself the "instead of Christ" and deceive those with his supernatural controls and beauty. he will deceive the masses with the 1st announced rapture and that is what you are proclaiming.
The true rapture does not happen until 777 - the number of Christ. That will be the 7th trump, the 7th seal and the 7th vial. Those who follow your doctrine will be caught up with satan and be deceived. Busted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Oh snap.

AA is a Fascist Nazi Plot

Via the "Interesting Email" portion of the site:

Hello Sir, Thank you for posting some truths about AA on the Internet. AA is absolute heresy & had it's roots in the totally discredited Moral Re-Armament movement. Which was Fascist in nature. Frank Buchman being at one time an admirer of Adolf Hitler!. Please continue to discredit AA. It should be destroyed. This pseudo religious cult caused me a lot of un-necessary problems in my sober life. thank goodness I'm free of that organization now.

Not gonna lie, that guy sounds like he could use a stiff drink.

The Universe, God, and Stephen Hawking

By now everybody and their brother has read a variation of the "Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God" story.  In his forthcoming book "The Grand Design," Hawking states that gravity, not "god," is to thank for the beginnings of our universe.  And rightly so.  Hawking is one of, if not the most preeminent theoretical physicists in the world and I'm guessing he knows what he's talking about.

But let's not let Hawking have the last word!  Here's a (terrifying) sampling of world opinion, brought to you by the most reliable journalistic news source in the world: Twitter.

Noted advocate for the developmentally disabled KayFromCanada writes:


Award-winning civil engineer Localboy99 makes a funny:


Alt-grammarian and proclaimer of things _JordanLopez_ weighs in:


Memo to hms5599's's parents--probably a good time to have that talk about the birds and the bees:


Christian compassion at its finest:

Why "Really Rapture Ready"?

This site was inspired by the excellent blog "Fundies Say the Darndest Things."  A few years ago someone linked me to the Rapture Ready Forums and I proceeded to 1) laugh my ass off and 2) post a dozen quotes a day from it to my Facebook wall.  This annoyed my friends and cluttered up my FB in an unattractive, fundamentalist sort of way.  I decided to create a space on the internet (one of many, no doubt) dedicated solely to discussing the particular type of "what the fuck?" that gets spouted on a daily basis over at RR.

A tiny disclaimer, if I may.  The vast majority of the people at RR are, I'm sure, well meaning and good people.  But if ever you needed proof of how badly some of our schools have failed some people, or of how a too-large percentage of people in this country can completely insulate themselves in a cocoon of Fox News, church, and talk radio, well, these are your people.  And yes, there are a core group of absolutely off-their-rocker types who deserve to be poked fun of.  And poke fun I will.