Godbags
The normalcy of misogyny
No big post here, just an observation. I was looking at Google News (hate the new design, by the way) and noticed an article in Time magazine about Mars Hill Church: Is Hell Dead? One of the batshit pastors at Mars Hill has written a batshit book, and Time is covering it. Mars Hill is [...]
Does anybody really believe that Obama prays?
While we wait to see what new flavor of hell is going to emerge in Egypt, here’s a minor amusement: Obama’s speech before the National Prayer Breakfast. As USA Today reports: Social justice, humility and “to walk closer with God” are President Obama’s daily prayers, he told the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. In a [...]
It’s that special time of year, when we celebrate the birth of the Cosmic Jewish Zombie
I was skimming around the blogs and news sites this evening while waiting to hear if Martha Coakley won in Massauchussets, when this post from Riverdaughter made me snort-laugh. She quoted the following Urban Dictionary definition of Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever [...]
Jimmy Carter should join the Church of Trope
Jimmy Carter was in the news this past week because of an editorial he wrote for the Observer about how godbaggism is used to oppress women. Carter is a lifelong godbag himself, but he left the Baptist Church some time ago when he realized that the dudes running the Southern Baptist Convention weren’t going to [...]
The life of a brave man
UPDATE: Word is leaking out that the suspect apprehended for the murder of Dr. Tiller is a 51-year-old man named Scott Roeder. A dude matching that name and description has a history of right-wingnuttery, including ties to Operation Rescue. I followed the breadcrumb trail from Democratic Underground and found Scott Roeder’s post on the Operation [...]
Kim Gandy defends patriarchy, rejects efforts to combat violence against women
I know I put a provocative title on this post, but I call ‘em like I see ‘em. In her Below The Belt column of February 20, Kim Gandy spends half a sentence mourning the fate of Aasiya Hassan, and then three paragraphs explaining that the husband’s crime had nothing whatsoever to do with his [...]
“God hates divorce” (but he loves a broken jaw)
Originally published at The New Agenda. When Rick Warren was invited to preside at Obama’s Inauguration, I wrote that his selection was an insult to women everywhere. Warren is an antediluvian sexist who believes that women were put on earth to obey their husbands. His Christianity is a front for male supremacy; his biblical “literalism” [...]
Yet another insult to women: Obama chooses a sexist pastor for his Inaugural
(Originally published at The New Agenda.) An almost all-male Cabinet. A speechwriter who thinks sexual assault is funny. A senior advisor who’s on record with his belief that innate inferiority, not discrimination, is what’s keeping women back. And now, with another twist of the knife, President-elect Obama has invited Rick Warren to deliver the invocation [...]
Sorry, I got swallowed by a whale
It was a rough three days, but now I’m back. Covered in stomach juices, it’s true, and far wiser about the digestive tracts of cetaceans than I ever expected to be. By the way, have you ever read the Book of Jonah? Really read it, in modern translation? It’s a comedy. A pretty good one, [...]
The Pope can fly!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperPope! Did you know the Pope was down in Australia on some kind of dinner cruise/reef-snorkeling vacation package thing? I didn’t either. But he’s down there, and yesterday he addressed billions of pilgrims in Sydney, warning them against “the tedium of false idols and the pain of false [...]
