Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes of this cartoon: This pic was taken from Alt Right sites, and shared round by catholics, with a quotation from JPII slapped on. I am going to hope that they simply weren’t thinking, or are unaware that “saving the west” is a dog-whistle for white supremacy (things l learned in my conservative grad program, not as a raging SJW, btw). Please. Our goal is not to “save the west” but rather to defend ALL life, and... Read more
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats. “When you come to appear before me, who requires of you this trampling of my courts?... Read more
It sounds frustratingly terrible: If the first part of the story allegorizes the Old Testament, this second part allegorizes the New. The husband emerges here as a sort of Christ-figure, and his devotees are exhibiting all of the fanaticism, conflict, and violence that have sometimes dogged Christianity across the ages. Then things get truly weird. During a lull in the chaos, the woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy, and she holds him tight, refusing to allow his father... Read more
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The problem with this argument, much like the lie told by Satan to Jesus in which he quotes Scripture, is that it is a truth told in order to lie, because Satan knows that fish do not bite bare hooks. If you are going to lie you always mix it with truth to make the hook taste good. So yes, God did indeed say, “He will give his angels charge of you,” and “On their hands they will bear you... Read more
Yesterday, we were instructed “It’s too soon! Don’t politicize this tragedy and insult the dead by trying to prevent the next tragedy that will create more dead” by the people who then instantly took advantage of the silence of decent people to bray, as Bill O’Reilly did, that mass murder is the “price of freedom“. Unfortunately for that disgraced sex predator, the Onion, not feeling itself bound by the phony speech codes of the Right Wing Noise Machine, was way... Read more
…who happens to be my god-daughter. Her mom writes: My daughter, Sarah Hughes, was in an accident on Saturday in Helena. She’s back at her dorm and okay, but has some injuries from the airbag, with a possible fracture to her sinus cavity with lots of swelling and some cuts around her lower jaw and lips. I’m going to be like the Canaanite woman and boldly ask if you could help with our GoFundMe tin cup rattle for her as she’s paying... Read more
For Las Vegas and for our demented nation of violence that keeps making sure this happens over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! ¶ If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared. I wait for... Read more
Do not fear him who can kill the body. Fear him who can destroy both body and soul in hell. “This is a pretty long list of what we might rightly call “sexual indiscretions” or “perversities.” So you can imagine all the eyebrow-raising I did while reading post after post lambasting Hefner written by people … who literally … adore … Trump. It just seems like there’s cognitive dissonance going on here. If you believe the objectification and sexualization of... Read more
Nine million kids–a population larger than NYC–lose their CHIP health insurance tomorrow thanks to GOP cruelty and negligence–and the *avid* support of “prolife” Christians. In return for that passionate “prolife” support for cruelty and neglect of poor kids, the GOP will keep funding Planned Parenthood in its new tax package. But Mexico City! Yeah. Personally, I want more than a participation trophy for supporting policies guaranteed to increase demand for abortion. When the same strategies keep losing for thirty years,... Read more
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