Category: Religion

A long time ago, when Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority were first making news, I went to the local variety store around the corner and had them make me a t-shirt that said ‘Immoral Minority’. I thought it was funny as hell, but my mother asked me to not wear it. Being a good daughter, I didn’t, but I still thought it was funny.

And now, long years later, Falwell has finally passed on. His star was eclipsed in later years by other players on the right-wing stage, but the virulent damage his brand of Christianity has done to the fabric of American society will take a long time to wash away.

I know it’s not “nice” but I can’t find it in me to be the tiniest bit sorry that he’s gone.

Click through to Flickr for the full-sized screenshot.

I was poking through my Sitemeter results tonight and came across yet another person who found my blog via a Google keyword search that included the words “evil” and “Jews”. As I’ve mentioned before, this happens with depressing frequency; several times a week is the normal rate.

What was a little unusual tonight is that the person who did the search was doing it from the domain allentowndiocese.org, which just happens to belong to the Catholic diocese of Allentown, PA.

Nice.

Is it the gently wafting odor of hypocrisy?

We’re heading home for Passover very early tomorrow morning and I need to pack, but I wanted to note a little something in the Bible that seems very appropriate both for the time of year and current events — Leviticus 19:33-34 (NASB translation):

When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

Hat tip: dKos.

And while we’re on the subject of “stupid things people do because of religion”, Shakes had a good one yesterday about a small-town teacher who tried to introduce opera to her students by showing a video about the opera “Faust,” and ran afoul of the local parents. It’s hard to excerpt, but here’s a bit of it. Go read the rest:

How pathetic is this? A children

I’ve seen them, courtesy of Wikipedia and Flickr. They’re not flattering, but they’re not in Der St