I'll just leave this here...
Continuing the trend of taking something from the mainstream and "christianizing" it, I give you these preppy white boys rapping about hugging from the side to prevent any kind of accidental alignment of the genitalia...
As ever, with something so cringe inducing, so unlikely to attract favourable opinion, so laughable, comments and ratings have been disabled.
...why is it that christians have to create their own christian versions of popular websites?
I'm sure there's loads, but just a few I've come across recently:-
- christianchirp [Twitter clone]
- christianspaces [MySpace clone]
- christslist [Craig's List clone]
Who knew it was possible to create something that looked even more low-fi than Craig's List?
This might seem like an overly simplified point, but surely if the majority of people in this country wanted god and jebus injected into everything they did, if they wanted this stuff taught in science class and wanted it infecting our politics, surely these popular websites would be christian in nature in the first place. It would be the secularists running off to create their own, non-religious versions.
Why aren't these websites theist in nature in the first place? Because there isn't a viable market for it, the fundies are quite rightly in a small minority, but are, unfortunately, very vocal.
As I've stated many times, I could not care less what people believe, just so long as they keep it where it belongs. I'm quite happy for them to create their own poor imitations of other websites, it's entirely their right and if they ever came up with something original themselves I'm sure the secular world would steal it in a heart beat, only making it good in the process. Someone give me a shout if that ever happens!!
But they need to understand it for what it is; their world view is rejected by the majority time and time again. Therefore they have no place attempting to dictate political policy or educational policy in public schools. So go away fundies, no one likes you.
This was going to be a post about the perpetual fucktard Bill O'Reilly, but I got distracted along the way and it's now about a reviewer on amazon.com called 'Gen. JC Christian, patriot', who is infinitely more entertaining.
Just sticking with Billo for a moment, I was going to talk about his most recent "Talking Points" where he bemoaned the "blatant left-wing bias of the American press" because, as he claims, the AP put 11 fact checkers on Sarah Palin's recent tome, but none on Obama's books.
My feeling was that the nature of the books was different, the timing was clearly different and, let's face it, she's developed a reputation for talking horseshit. Some would regard her book as something of a manifesto for a potential Presidential run, but I'd be less concerned about that as there's plenty of time to dig into all that. Personally, I venture that the best reason to check out her claims would be purely for the lulz.
Anyhow, I've not read any of the books in question, so I figured I'd check out the premise behind the books from publishers and critics. I started at amazon.com and there I found Gen. JC Christian, patriot's review which I'll partially quote:-
She's had a bit of experience from her pageant days, but has obviously also had some coaching. I'll give her this though, as retarded as her message is, she's more polished at delivering it than Palin was last year.
You've probably seen the clip form Larry King where she threatened to walk off because Larry was being "inappropriate", but it's worth watching the full clip I'll embed at the end, it's got some gems.
Before I go on, when I saw the clip myself on the Daily Show, I couldn't wait to find out what Larry had said that she would find inappropriate. The way I saw it, for some tart who films herself flicking the bean for her boyfriend's enjoyment to find something inappropriate, the old fella in the braces must have come out with some amazing filth!! I was let down on that score quite badly.
Still, it's worth looking at the transcript during the early part of the interview. Larry gave her chance to set the tone for her book and she talked about some double standard nonsense. He then asked her about that question at the beauty pageant and she expressed surprise that this was something still being talked about seven months later. Trust me sweetie, if you fuck off now, we'll stop talking about it.
It occurs to me that christians might feel justified in accusing me of taking shots at them and ignoring the other faiths. To be clear, I find all organized religion equally ridiculous and abhorrent. However, christianity is the one that's in my face and subsequently provides the most lulz. If I ever move to the middle east, that would change.
But I hate to discriminate, so I made this....
It's OK folks, mystery solved:-
The historian and researcher at the secret Vatican archive said she has found the words "Jesus Nazarene" on the shroud, proving it was the linen cloth which was wrapped around Christ's body.
It's got his name on it, it must be jebus!! Yup, I'm convinced, there's no other explanation. That's a piece of cloth that was laid over the dead body of our savior and then he rose from the dead, but is coming back to save us and also destroy the world at the same time. It's all true, all of it. Hey, you can't make this shit up, it's got his fucking name on it!!
Where do I sign up??
Oh, I am curious though.... do you think his Mommy sewed his name in there? How embarrassing!!
[from The Telegraph]
Erm, I guess it's guitar hero for christians. Or something.
Yeah!!! You ROCK, christian!!
Some time ago I went through a phase of listening to christian radio for a couple of months. It gave me an amazing insight into just how batshit crazy these evangelicals can be, but ultimately I had to break away from it for the sake of my own sanity.
I don't know how typical it is, but the station I listened to basically just ran half hour syndicated shows in a regular programme. One of my favourite shows each morning was the Focus on the Family show with the massive, massive fucktard, James Dobson. A man who apparently has a PhD in child psychology, yet believes that homosexuality is a choice and something that can be "cured".
I regularly enjoyed his rages about impending anti-hate speech bills that would prevent his religious ilk preaching their bile and hate towards whichever minority group they think they can get away with. My point being that their anti-gay rhetoric sounds exactly the same as their anti-race and sex equality arguments of the past.
Without a hint of irony, he would demand tolerance towards the christian right wing's desire to be intolerant. Seriously. In his mind, anyone who wishes to shut down bigoted, intolerant bullshit is being intolerant themselves. So presumably we should all have the right to run around saying whatever we like, no matter how vile or dangerous, just so long as it isn't anything derogatory about the christian faith. That would be outrageous, natch.
Anyhoo, I digress. One of the last shows I had the pleasure of listening to was an interview with Carrie Prejean, the pagent girl who captured the headlines for publicly stating her opposition to gay marriage. (As a quick sidebar: for me, nothing she said was particularly controversial. She was asked a question, probably a leading one, and she gave an answer. She didn't try to attack anyone, although I'm not suggesting that prefacing any statement with "no offense" qualifies. But honestly, I could give two shits what she thinks and wonder why anyone would care what a beauty queen thinks about issues of social justice and equality).
I'm of the view, generally speaking, that religious people are either stupid or making money from it. There's probably a fair share who are basically intellectually lazy and if they could be arsed to give it some thought would probably come to the logical conclusion, but the rest are all stupid or lying.
Let's have a look at a lie.
Meet Jimmy Paris:-
I know, cool looking guy, right?
Jimmy's got a website. In fact, he's got a few. I stumbled across Jimmy at his new venture - Christian Chirp - a Twitter like site for christians. I say like Twitter, but it's really very poor. Still, I'm sure a few users signing up for the SMS service starting at just $5 will help him put the resources behind the system to make it work.
Jimmy's got a few other sites. Let's see, there's christianmoney.com and christianinternetincome.com, both of which feature eye raping design, horrible typography, testimonials and pictures of Jimmy with celebrities such as Lou Ferigno. I know, the Incredible Hulk!!! I shit you not!!
I followed his link and ended up at his Twitter page and from there to his blog. The first post I saw was Jimmy ranting about being "Banned From Twitter For Supporting Rush Limbaugh".
It's not new, but it's bothered me for a while and something I just saw on Facebook is prompting this rant. Some stupid poll asking whether the Facebook users believe in evolution or creation drew more than 60% of respondents in favour of creation. That's frustrating enough, but it's not actually my gripe here.
I'm sure these questions are being framed by pro-creationists, but I'm becoming intolerant of evolution being portrayed in polls and suchlike as something one can believe in or not. No people! Evolution is a fact, we know almost beyond all fear of contradiction that complex life on this planet evolved from simple life forms over the course of millions of years. All the evidence across the entire spectrum of biological and geological disciplines collaborates on this and new discoveries continue to add to the body of evidence time after time.
The theory of evolution by means of natural selection is how we explain the process. Yes there are small gaps here and there within the theory, but it's a massive, massive body of work we're talking about here. Sure, there's even been parts of the theory that have been proven wrong and revised over time. That will continue too, that's what science does.
But still, evolution remains a scientific fact. One does not chose to believe or disbelieve facts, they accept or they reject them.
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