{"id":25180,"date":"2015-03-25T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=25180"},"modified":"2016-01-26T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:42:21","slug":"sometimes-all-i-can-say-is-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2015\/03\/sometimes-all-i-can-say-is-ugh.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes All I Can Say Is UGH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve had a lot of ugh<\/em> today, so I thought I\u2019d share some.<\/p>\n

Did you hear what Phil Robertson recently said about atheists<\/a>? I\u2019m not going to quote his entire statements, because frankly, I now wish I hadn\u2019t read them. In essence, he described, in graphic detail, a hypothetical brutal home invasion of an atheist family, complete with the rape of the family\u2019s two daughters, and finished by putting these words in the perpetrators\u2019 mouths:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be something if this [sic<\/em>] was something wrong with this? But you\u2019re the one who says there is no God, there\u2019s no right, there\u2019s no wrong, so we\u2019re just having fun!<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re sick in the head! Have a nice day.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it happened to them, they probably would say, \u201cSomething about this just ain\u2019t right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

$(#&%)($*_@#$&@(#%&@#)(&%<\/p>\n

Not believing in a God does not<\/em> mean not believing in right and wrong. I am becoming seriously ticked off with people like Robertson, who seriously\u00a0lack imagination. Is it so hard<\/em> to imagine an ethical system not based on the existence of a supernatural being?!<\/p>\n

Robertson is the one who believes in a God who ordered the genocide of entire groups of people, men, women, and children. His God handed female prisoners taken in war over to his followers to be raped (er, taken as concubines). Robertson\u2019s God punished King David for taking a census by killing 70,000 of his people in a plague<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And somehow I\u2019m<\/em> the one without an ethical system?<\/p>\n

Just, ugh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Did you hear about the young mother who died after childbirth because, as a Jehovah\u2019s Witness,\u00a0she refused a blood transfusion<\/a>? I was really struck by this image, in which you can see other Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses describing her choice as inspiring.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the text:<\/p>\n

This is our beautiful spiritual sister named Michelle. She is holding her beautiful baby Emma Marie. This picture is an obvious new mommy picture. It is another beautiful reminder of the miracle of life. It is also a beautiful picture of a loyal servant of Jehovah. Michelle has always wanted a baby and she was so excited when her and her husband found out they were having a baby! I was also very excited for them. I threw them their baby shower and we had such a great time. Well while delivering Emma, Michelle lost a lot of blood. So much so that she needed a blood transfusion. Michelle refused. Even after having a tube inserted in her and her not being able to speak . . . She signed NO BLOOD. Our dear sister despite finally having the baby she\u2019s wanted for such a long time, remained loyal to the end. We read about these stories in our year books and they are so motivating! But my dear friend experienced this first hand . . . And though she is not suffering anymore, she\u2019s left such an impact on so many lives. I can\u2019t wait to tell Emma how faithful, courageous and loyal to Jehovah her mom was at the young age of 28. Revelation 21:4 . . . Something we all are looking forward to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice, too, a comment on the left side of the image: \u201cSo sad but yet faith strengthening!\u201d Oh, and also the ones that say \u201cBravooo\u201d and \u201cWhy all the sad comments?\u201d Yeah. Lovely.<\/p>\n

Honestly? This just makes me sad. It seems like such a waste. Michelle was an adult and this was her decision, but her life was cut tragically short, and it didn\u2019t have to be like that. Her husband has to be devastated, and her daughter\u00a0will never know her.<\/p>\n

But I think what\u2019s strangest, in this story, is reading the comments of other Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. I mean, I knew this happened, but I hadn\u2019t seen first hand how other Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u00a0respond when it does. They clearly see her like a martyr, going to her death refusing to deny her faith. Somehow that makes me both sad and angry, all at once.<\/p>\n

Oh, have\u00a0you heard about the Georgia man who planted homemade bombs in a park<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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A man who described himself as a \u201cpatriot\u201d confessed to placing homemade bombs in a Georgia park to help people realize \u201cthat this type of activity could happen anywhere,\u201d according to court documents obtained by TPM on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Conrade Sibley, a resident of Marietta, Ga. was charged last week in a federal court in Atlanta with attempting to damage federal property.<\/p>\n

Documents filed in the case said Sibley built improvised explosive devices and left two of them in a backpack on Nov. 4 at the Vickery Creek Park in Georgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and then there\u2019s this tidbit:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he purchased a backpack at a garage sale and, according to the documents, wrote the name \u201cMina Khodari\u201d inside the backpack because he said \u201cit looked foreign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the bombs, Sibley put print-outs of the Atlanta Falcons\u2019 schedule as well as public transportation timetables and the locations of Marcus Jewish Centers into the backpack because he thought officials would see those as \u201csoft targets,\u201d the documents said.<\/p>\n

Sibley told the agents he also placed a copy of the Quran and a book titled \u201cThe Rape of Kuwait\u201d in the bag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Planting a bomb and framing Muslims . . . really?\u00a0Really!?<\/p>\n

This is why we can\u2019t have nice things.<\/p>\n

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