Phil Robertson’s Happy Happy Happy Day | Firedoglake

Amazing the difference between what a rich, right wing radical remembers and historical reality

 

Phil Robertson’s Happy Happy Happy Day | Firedoglake.

 

Oh those moderate Christians

No money for a philosophy department…but they spend more on a firing range.

anthonybsusan

It’s a reasonable assumption, I think, to believe that any institution proclaiming a collective concern for the sanctity of human life would make a diligent effort to apply that concern consistently. At Cedarville University, however, that consistency is in serious question. Case in point? The school’s decision to open a $6 million dollar shooting facility on campus to support Chi Sigma Nu, its new marksmanship club. According to Chi Sigma Nu, this facility will host marksmanship classes in addition to a state-of-the-art firing range.

Faculty members have been pressured not to sponsor College Democrats, but Chi Sigma Nu enjoys faculty and staff support in addition to the explicit approval of the university administration. An administration that, allegedly, is so strapped for cash that it found itself forced to scrap its entire philosophy program and fired 29 employees total over the past academic year. An administration that for decades refused…

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When Stupid people say stupid things…

One Mr. Larry Ward states that If blacks had guns, they would have not been slaves.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gun-appreciation-day-leader-if-blacks-had-guns

This ignores the entire history of the slave trade.

It also willfully ignores that fact that blacks did not have handy access to these guns.  Kidnapped onto ships, chained on the voyage, then auctioned off, they had no opportunity to get guns.  Even if the law allowed them to own guns.  Laws in slave states tended to deny black slaves access to guns.

And when blacks did rise up, using guns, as spoken of here

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/11/1435261/pro-gun-advocate-arming-black-people-would-have-prevented-slavery/

they always failed. And the white slave holder, with the law of the day on their side, tended to execute/beat-to-death blacks partaking in these uprisings rather than applaud the blacks desire to be free.

People Like Larry Ward, with their willful ignorance of history and reality, do nothing to help solve the problem of gun proliferation.

Christians and their arguments

Extremist Christians never got over Obama winning in 2008.

And they really don’t like those who don’t follow their extremist views.

Which is why Bryan Fischer is so amusing.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-liberals-have-been-duped-satan

The Devil must be really busy, “leading” all those Liberals astray.

However, according to Christian doctine, all things are from their deity.  And since there are so many more Liberals than there are Theocrats of Fischers faction, perhaps it’s Fischer that is being lead astray.

2 steps forward, 5 steps back

The two steps forward are..

1) John A Davison died. Yup, he’s gone. Over the last few years he has been the lead crank that I followed.
While others have been kind (i.e. PZ Myers), remembering that he supposedly had a mental break in the ’80s with the death of a family member, my experience with him has been uniformly negative. As such, my inclination is less than forgiving. He was a nutter. When given the evidence that he asked for he attacked the one giving the it; he attacked anyone who didn’t accept his delusions as given fact. As such, I am not sad that he’s gone. His family has my sympathy, marginally…as it seems they didn’t get him the help he so desperately needed. They lost someone they loved. But for him, nothing.

2) Davison’s fluffer, Terry Trainor, apparently forgot to pay the bills on tao.invisionzone.com. Yup…it’s gone. Either he realised it was a self-masturbatory site and so not relevant or it’s raison d’etre died (only Terry and Davison seemed to post). In any case, c’est la vie.

Two less sources of stupidity online.

However, as if to make up for this, we have…the state of Louisiana. Yup, Louisiana. Apparently they felt the level of stupidity in reality was getting dangerously low, so they decided to step up.

Criminy.

Louisiana took the world 5 steps back from reality.

Religious nutbars are dragging thsis world down.

The gentle Christians

How is it the “Good book”?

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/06/03/over-100000-public-elementary-school-students-to-get-bible-lessons-on-killing-unbelievers/

The poor oppressed Christians

Here’s some fine Christian charity…

http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/05/30/poisoning-young-minds-of-tomorrow-toddler-sings-aint-no-homo-gonna-make-it-to-heaven/

Tell me again, how are they oppressed?

Sometimes there’s just too much venom in this world

How stupid must one be to want to kill one’s child if they show signs of being gay?  Storify has a page devoted to 100 tweets using the tag #ToMyUnbornChild.

100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child · homophobes · Storify.

With these people “raising” the next generation makes me want to head to the hills.  Unfortunately, these people probably already live these…getting away from people like me.

To those believing in an Interventionist deity

A post from 2007 in another blog states my feelings better than I can.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2007/08/05/someones-lookin/

That gentle respectful right

Andy Breitbart, patron of James “porn boat” O’Keefe and chief propagandist behind the Big web sites, decides to respectfully voice his objection to the Occupy movement…