Wednesday, May 25, 2011

What Planet Do You Live On, and What's the Weather Like There?



[Note: I can't log into blogger using Google Chrome, so I'm stuck using Explorer. Blech! Anyway, I'm used to blogger spellchecking as I write the same way MSWord does, and as far as I can tell, I'm going to have to copy/paste this post into Word, do the spellcheck and then copy/paste it back. Charmingly, running the spellcheck in blogger while in Explorer just highlights the misspelled words, and if I knew how to spell them, I wouldn't have misspelled them in the first place. Anyway, fucking blogger.]








Every now and then, I come across a post from a fundy so removed from reality as I experience it that I have to ask, "What planet do you live on and what's the weather like there?"




Now, I could rip apart every word of this post, I mean, she refers to homosexuals as "sodomites"*, but what made me wonder if the internet now extends to alternate realities was this:




First, God reveals Himself to all mankind. We are all born with a knowledge of
God and a desire to seek and to serve Him. This is why it is so easy to guide a
child into a saving knowledge of God and a life of service to God. This is the
desire God puts into a child. However, the first step one takes down this road
is rejecting God. This is compounded when parents place their children into a
sociological morass called the public school. In the public school, Christ is
only mentioned as a part of a swear word, as a study of mythology or when the
Catholic persecutions are purported to be in the name of Christ (Christ never
encouraged anyone to convert another by force or at the edge of a sword).
Christianity is, in many schools, mocked and ridiculed by the evangelistic
secular humanist and her religion: evolution.



"Sociological morass?" I can't decide if the author, Randy Ross, is referring to all those brown kids rubbing up against his kids' delicate white skin, or maybe all the poor people spreading poor cooties or what. (If you've started with the word "sodomite" I'm just going to ahead and assume that you're a racist as well.) I mean, really, children being expected to interact with other members of society who may be the slightest bit different from them. It's outrageous!




As for Christ only being mentioned as part of a swear word, can you imagine? I can't. I have no idea what, exactly, Randy thinks goes on in public schools, but I can assure you public school teachers are not instructing students in new, blasphemous swear words. Honestly. It's so utterly ridiculous, I can't help but laugh, but I think he may sincerely believe this to be true. He really may believe that if he sent his kids to a public school, they would come home with a spelling list that included "fuck" and "Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ!".




That's what actual people in America actually believe about America. They live right next door to you and they vote.




My work will never be done, will it?







*It's Christian love, baby!




**I'd probably be a bit more successful in life if I channeled my talents into marketable avenues.

9 comments:

  1. I can no longer keep up with the fundy bloggers. They provide me more material than I can possibly blog. I'm having to prioritize and my reading list is still much smaller than yours. I don't know how you do it.

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  2. I won't ask forgiveness for the rant I'm about to post, as I'm obviously not sorry. Instead, I'll simply ask for a little forbearance.

    Yes, the lifestyle of a sodomite is one of the results of God giving up on you.

    You know what, Randy? Go tell that to the fourteen year old boy who waked up from a sexually violent dream, more upset by the fact that he got sexually aroused by a male classmate in the dream than the fact that said classmate sexually assaulted him in that dream.. Tell that to the college senior who's laying in bed and contemplating suicide because he's been told that he's a bad person because he's romantically attracted to other guys and that his only way he can please his God is to repress those feelings for the rest of his life. Tell that to the countless people who put themselves through harmful "ex-gay therapy" because some monster with a pulpit told them that their feelings -- which they've experienced all their lives -- makes them unfit and abominable in God's eyes.

    If you'd actually put down your dusty old book, Randy, and talk to actual LGB people (and QUILTBAG people in general), you'd discover that your little claim there not only doesn't match up to reality, but only serves to alienate and dehumanize those people. Because lots of people were seeking to please and serve God when they realized they had feelings for members of the same sex, some of them exclusively so. And yet, they turned out gay or bisexual even with their devotion to your monstrous god.

    So fuck you, Randy.

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  3. Rant, away, Jarred. I'm only upset in that I wish I had to power to comfort those people you mentioned, not upset at your anger or language.

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  4. Monster with a pulpit! Pulpit Monsters! I'm so going to use that.

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  5. Note: I can't log into blogger using Google Chrome, so I'm stuck using Explorer. Blech! Anyway, I'm used to blogger spellchecking as I write the same way MSWord does, and as far as I can tell, I'm going to have to copy/paste this post into Word, do the spellcheck and then copy/paste it back. Charmingly, running the spellcheck in blogger while in Explorer just highlights the misspelled words, and if I knew how to spell them, I wouldn't have misspelled them in the first place. Anyway, fucking blogger.

    Protip: Write the damn thing in Word from the outset.

    That's what I do. It also means I have a copy of everything, just in case I want to go look/teh internetz eats the post...

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  6. Before I read the post, just thought I’d point out I seem to have figured out and fixed this very problem on my end. Just go to Blogger.com and sign in there, and then it should work okay. It did for me.

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  7. I've discovered that clearing my temporary files allowed me to sign in to Blogger. I use Mozilla Firefox rather than Chrome, but it still might work.

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  8. Jarred;

    please, PLEASE rant away.


    sadly, the people who need to hear you, and LISTEN to you, are too fucking selfish, self-centered and sanctimonious to DO so.
    BUT - some of those people who are suffering might see the rant - and it might help THEM. that's why *I* rant about it [and i'm hetero-cis-gendered] - all those people who need to hear it. who need to know that not everyone - not even the majority anymore! - think that there's "something wrong with them" because there ISN'T anything wrong with them at ALL!!!!!!

    [sorry, PF, for the excessive exclamation marks. but i needed to use them.]

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  9. @PF and Denelian: Thanks. This is a topic close to my heart, as the first two examples of people hurt by this kind of thinking are actually taken from my own life. As such, the fact that people like Randy are out there still causing other people to have the same kind of experiences I endured rather fills me with rage. And I do hope that others who endure such outrageous hurts to find my comments and find some level of comfort in them.

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