I Guess There Was a Sale on Fatuous Remarks in Aisle 3

Technically, this is actually a double facepalm.

Of course when I saw this

WARNING: Strong Christian Content, Lot’s of Words

in my reader, I had to click on it. I mean, there's a warning. And words belonging to Lot, apparently.

It's mostly about these children's books I've never heard of, meh, whatever, but then we get this

When a Christian falls or seems to be continually failing morally, that is actually something predicted by the Christian faith. We are the ones who believe in sin and in the universality of sin. Christians do not say that we are perfect; we acknowledge that we are sinners saved by grace. Again, that should not become an excuse, but it is a cold, hard fact. I find it amusing anytime a person who does not believe in the concept of sin points to a Christian who falls and says, in essence, “Gotcha! You are no better than I am. You are nothing but a hypocrite.” In a world with no moral absolutes, no heaven or hell, no sin or righteousness, there can be no hypocrites.

lolwut? Hypocrisy has nothing to do with moral absolutes, heaven, hell, sin or righteousness. Hypocrisy is the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. I don't need to believe in heaven, hell, Cthulu or bathrobes in order to notice when a man claims to be a holy representative of the One True God(tm) gets caught masturbating in a public park. (I also don't need to believe in anything supernatural to know that masturbating to small children is wrong. Just wrong.)

The proper Christian answer is, “You’re right. I am no better than you. I am a hypocrite. May God forgive me by virtue of His grace and by means of the blood of Christ. Please don’t let my failure deter you from knowing Christ.”

Judge me not by my actions, but rather by my words. Because faith without works is dead . . . isn't Bible quoting fun?*

For all you know that “evil” Christian might have been even more evil if he had never decided to follow Christ.

Oh, c'mon. Really? That's where you're going with this? Sure, he's masturbating to small children in a public park, but with Jaysus, he'd be molesting them.

That's so fatuous, so asinine, so . . . You know, every now and then, I'd try to weasel my way out of punishment by pointing out to my parents something worse that my friends were doing. Sure, I got home 2 hours after curfew, but Brooks got sent to juvie for shoplifting small firearms**. Guess how often that worked. That's right, never. Not even once. Because the issue wasn't what Brooks was doing, it was what I had done. Sure, we could all be worse, but that's not the issue at hand, now is it?

It is also true that a really “good” non-Christian might be even better if he decides to follow Christ. Somebody who already has a sense of goodness in his heart, is bound to grow better when he chooses to follow the One who gave the best guidelines for pure living that the world has ever known. In fact, to the person who is fed up with Christian hypocrites, I say, why don’t you become one of us and show us how to do better?

By that logic, I should also go become a skinhead, a child molester, a slave trader, a drug dealer, a murderer and a black market arms dealer. I feel those people are bad and should stop what they're doing, too. Apparently, I should not complain until I've been one. It's going to a hell of a year in hell, kids!

It doesn’t matter how good or bad I seem or how good or bad you seem. What matters is that we are all in need of forgiveness; we are all in need of a Savior. Maybe I need Him more than you, but you still need Him, too. Maybe you need Him more than I, but I still need Him, too.

It is our response to the Savior that determines the direction in which we are heading. You could be the best person in the world and still not merit eternal life and a relationship with God. You could be the worst person in the world and still gain, as God’s gift, eternal life and a relationship with Him.

Neat. I'll go become a skinhead slave trading small arms dealer, but I'll go to heaven just as long as I believe just right. Good to know. It would certainly make my life easier to act any damn way I please without concern for others or ethics or morals.

*I fear that one day I may accidentally disprove the universe and we'll all disappear.

**Not really. Brooks was a good guy and not that kind of trouble at all.

Ouch! No, It Was All Lulz

facepalm, atheism, atheist, christmas, christian, bigotry,

I am the General of an Army of Trolls! Christmas Trolls! This makes my day, though I hope it doesn't obligate me to deliver presents to all the bad little girls and boys, because the sleigh's in the shop and the reindeer seem to have come down with Swine Flu*, so bad timing on that one.

I would like to address certain points in blackngoldfan's rant, starting with:

In checking Troll #1's website (I know you're reading this; yes I did.), I found a post about how, despite being an atheist, they still celebrate Christmas. This, my friends, is hypocrisy. Troll #1 (and you know who you are), you CANNOT celebrate Christmas if you are truly an atheist. Your giving of gifts to friends and family is an acknowledgment that the Magi brought gifts to the Christ child, the basis of the gift-giving tradition. This story is told in the Bible, so you must recognize the religious meaning behind Christmas if you engage in gift-giving.

I'm looking at your blog, and it's pretty clear you have a Christmas tree, my dear. That hideous background doesn't celebrate baby Jesus, it's all secular decorations. Where is decorating trees in the Bible? Nowhere. Christmas trees come from a pagan tradition, as do gift giving and caroling, which means you are currently celebrating, and have been for probably your entire life, pagan gods. Good for you, you hellbound heathen.

In the realm of proving my point, it is indeed wrong to say "screw the blacks/jews", and even though Jews choose to be Jewish in the same sense atheists choose to be atheists, we just shouldn't even mention Jews. It's wrong. Mostly because blackngoldfan hates atheists, but feels uncomfortable with the whole Jewish thing.

Troll #2 came running to the defense of Troll #1 saying that the comment about Jews and Blacks was just trying to prove the point that saying "Screw Atheists", as Mr. Balsamico did, is on a par with racial slurs. How anyone can equate someone practicing a godless religion by choice with the God-given color of one's skin still has my brain hurting. Yes, Jews do practice their faith by choice, but after what Jews endured over many generations, I say they're off limits.

Blackngoldfan is unceasingly nasty to atheists, and then wonders why someone wouldn't want to publicly be known as an atheist. *facepalm*

Troll #4 replied to my BOF's comment by basically saying that WE who may agree with Mr. Balsamico are haters. Troll #4 has blocked anyone from viewing their profile. If you're so proud to be an atheist, why hide it?

I repeat, facepalm.

The whole issue these little libs have is that someone dared to stand up to them and say "Screw you!" Their widdle feewings must be hurt, so they're going to whine and whine about how they are the minority and how wrong it is to say such hurtful things. That's all it boils down to. They're young, 20-something Generation-Me members who have been raised in the religion of political correctness and that the only thing that matters is how they feel.

So, you rant like a deranged dingo if someone challenges you, but anti-atheist bigotry is okay and we need to stop whinging? Do you own a mirror, and if so, what do you see when you look in it?

I liked this best, though:

I won't taint my site with your PC comments.

Something that can taint you is something that can stick to you and affect you even if you don't want it to. I love the idea that tolerance could be like that. As if, having viewed a few too many pleas for an end to bigotry, blackngoldfan might wake up one day and be unable to hate those different from her anymore. Utter bullshit, but now it's my Christmas wish.

*Called "American Flu" in the Middle East, according to my Middle Eastern news feed. Also muches lulz.

Objecting for the Sake of Objecting

facepalm, prop 8, stimulus, obama, protest, stupid

picture from sheburns12*

Pearlyscum has some advice for those protesting Democrats/Obama/stimulus. Some of it's not bad, but the this bit of advice is extremely telling:


3. Speakers not prepared for the media - the organizer was asked to name some specific objectionable items in the stimulus. She couldn’t do it. I doubt many of us could.
If you are an organizer, or the “face” of the event - take an hour to prepare. You don’t need to know everything about the stimulus. Just find 2 or 3 things - hard facts - you can point to and credibly say - these are wrong, wasteful spending items. Or, these items grow government, not the economy. It is critical.


If you can't think of one, just one, item in the stimulus you are opposed to, then how do you even know you are opposed to it? These people used valuable hours of their lives, time that could have been spent doing, well, just about anything, to protest a stimulus and they don't even know what it is they are opposed to?


Captain Picard displays my reaction to this in a way words cannot.

*unfortunately, using the source code for blogs from sheburns12's page results in a picture too big to be seen in its entirety on my blog. hence the awkward attribution.