This weekend took 64 from Hendersonville to Cleveland TN on way back to Macon. There were lots and lots of signs on peoples lawns for only man-woman marriage in Carolina. Problem with voting on issues like that, it is the majority telling the minority what their rights are, and how they can/cannot live within those “gifted” rights. The marriage issue includes a lot of emancipation from family needs, the ability of two people to give power over their bodies and assets to each other in both life and death. Hetereos dont talk about this side of the marriage issue but gays do have to discuss these legal issues even though they dont like to. The legal issues are the most important parts of the marriage issue.
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Awful. Jamiel Terry, openly-gay son of anti-abortion asshat Randall Terry and Georgia resident, died in a car accident near Lilburn, Gwinett County tonight. He came out in an editorial for a newspaper, resulting in his father disowning him.
Oh, and Randall wants to solicit donations for Jamiel’s headstone. According to JoeMyGod, Randall can afford countless anti-abortion ads throughout this country, but he can’t afford a fucking tombstone for his son. PIECE. OF. SHIT.
Timothy Leary once said “Everyone gets the god they deserve”. If “god” can be paraphrased as “highest collective ideal and hope of which we can only fulfill a part before we may realize that it’s someone else’s highest, most contrived ideal and hope and not one’s own”, do we really deserve such an ideal? Do we really need to satisfy the petty desires of an anthropomorphic, personified idea? And can ideas think for themselves?
Ah, imprecatory prayer
"You too Mr.Tucker were sent here by Jesus but I doubt if he has much more use for you here judging from some of your idiot comments . He may call you home just any moment. When I pray tonight,I will tell Him that you and Stewart don’t have any thing left to do here. Don’t bother to pack.They don’t let you take anything with you where you wil be going."
— "klyeb" in a comment posted to Ken Tucker’s Entertainment Weekly blog post on Jon Stewart’s send-off of Glenn Beck.
Anti-Judaism and racism in Egypt’s chaos
If anything, the above incidents within the last few days are exemplary of the casual, provincial anti-Jewish bigotry being exhibited by many of the everyday Egyptians who protest both for and against the current, long-ruling government. It runs deep, and has been punctuated by decades, if not centuries, of both official and non-official solicitations to the scapegoating of the specter of evil, baby-killing, bloodthirsty Zionist monsters.
Furthermore, such public manifestations of bigotry lend credibility to those outside of Egypt who fear the influence of the proscribed Muslim Brotherhood party in the anti-Mubarak movement, but also hold the Mubarak government in a muted ill-regard for decades of authoritarian misrule.
The last two weeks in Egypt, if not the last month in much of North Africa and Western Asia, have offered remote viewers outside of the regions a game-changing view into the desires and lives of the residents who have lived under similar regimes. However, in the midst of the chants for greater democracy, better governance and brighter economic prospects, it would be a grave mistake to ignore the existing religious and ethnic bigotries which run deep and hard in Egyptian society, bigotries which may or may not manifest in a post-Mubarak Egypt, or a post-kleptocratic North Africa and Western Asia.
Comments such as those offered by one anti-Mubarak protester to Agence France Presse – "The Israeli people are like the Egyptian people, we want peace and freedom" – or another who shouted into a camera in Tahrir Square for YouTube – "We will not be silenced! whether you are a Muslim, whether you’re a Christian, whether you’re an atheist, you will demand your goddamn rights!" – might yet offer the hope of cooler heads prevailing in the aftermath of these protests in regards to Egyptian-Israeli relations and the future of interfaith and intermoral relations in Egypt proper.
But these statements, these sentiments, can only go so far in showing the Egyptian people’s long-term collective capability in restraining or suppressing the casual bigotries which have been used in multiple generations in order to repress and suppress the quality of life and mind of themselves and their neighbors.
But these statements, these sentiments, can only go so far in showing the Egyptian people’s long-term collective capability in restraining or suppressing the casual bigotries which have been used in multiple generations in order to repress and suppress the quality of life and mind of themselves and their neighbors.
What am I reading?
Just….ewww…..racism, religious bigotry, illiteracy, malice, theodicy all mixed into one big bag of crap that is resembles my most disturbing imagination about the comment threads and associated community of a FreeRepublic-owned YouTube.
The anti-Sharia amendment, Christian projection and insufficient secularism
Once again. Christian stupidity – nay, Christian malice – manifests itself.
How long will I continue to see Christian cultural anxieties project themselves in insufficiently-"secular" societies like our own? In the political process?
On Ramzi Kyzia’s 2005 writeup on the barrier wall
I can say that I only find some accuracy in the last paragraph of this writeup for CounterPunch, a "left"-wing op-ed site which makes it a point to target Israel as much as possible in a large chunk of its stories.
Continue reading On Ramzi Kyzia’s 2005 writeup on the barrier wall
The Irony of DWOC and the worldwide reaction
How can those opposed to DWOC say that Christianity and Islam are about love, peace and understanding when both doctrines possess a innate belief in Hell and consider all other theologies to be evil, sinful, and worthy of eternal torture post-mortem?
Dove World Outreach has a point about Christianity and Islam…
On Arutz Sheva and pre-Christian religion in the blogosphere
In Firefox, underneath the "Religion" folder, I have the Arutz Sheva/Israel National News live bookmark.
Why do I read it, even though I don’t like that they used to link prominently to JONAH, a Jewish version of NARTH, and that the writing and lexical style of non-editorial news items on the site is closer to your average conservative "blog(osphere)" (with ample amounts of xenophobia)?
Because, first of all, I want to get the raw opinion of religious Israelis on how they perceive both the outside world and their own country, which is often not the same as such opinion which comes from even conservative American Jews, and definitely not the same as conservative pro-Israel Christian Americans. Of course they view their government through exceptionally-critical lenses (even the current Netanyahu coalition cabinet), but they also extol the land in which they live and the orthodox religion which they practice as the best for their people and the land (or at least they don’t extol their religion as being the one true faith of the entire world), probably with far more celebratory output than what they may give their government. It seems that, in the ongoing, slowgoing "reconquest" in the West Bank (that is, to say, that they’re trying to reconquer a cultural homeland through settlement and open religious observance), the writers and editors are seeking for a non- or pre-expulsion Judaism which is anti-cosmopolitan, increasingly rustic and proximatively ignorant of the world outside; such attempts to seek and live a pre-Christian life and community are interesting spectacles to watch.
Second of all, through reading Arutz Sheva alongside newsposts aggregated by HinduCurrents and pagan blogs such as The Wild Hunt and Pagan + Politics, I want to get a glimpse of how the practitioners of non-proselytizing, non-racial, sometimes land-centric religions (Eclectic Neopaganism, Hinduism, Judaism, Humanism, etc.) view their religions and relate to their respective governments and neighboring worships.
