I want the Witnesses to leave me alone!
March 24, 2008
I can’t stand it anymore! I came home from the store the other day and found my husband standing at the back door talking to a young lady. In the driveway, blocking my way into the garage is a minivan being driven by a young man dressed in a suit. Great, I thought, another one. My husband and I have lived in our new home for less than a month and this is the third time we have had a Witness on our door step. The first thing that I wanted to do was whip the door open and apologize to the girl, maybe tell her that he was visiting for Easter from his group home or something…anything to save her from all of his questions. The poor girl had no idea what she had gotten herself into when she knocked on our door. None of them ever do. She finally left after stuttering a little about Easter and her beliefs. I don’t know if she cried. Maybe she got into the van and they all prayed for our family. Maybe (please please PLEASE) they crossed us off the list of places to stop. Either way, we got noticed, for you see, I am married to a special man. My husband is TJM admin, and the Witnesses will never leave me alone. First I was invited to the memorial service for Jesus, and then they had a meeting of some sort to talk about who was qualified to rule the world. I would have LOVED to go to that one. I can’t remember why this poor girl was here this time. She told him that she had talked to me before, so I guess I am in her precinct. I should go back and read the “Porch Monkeys” article again. When we were first married we lived literally right next to a meeting hall. We would watch those little 6 year olds run into the building carrying their little brief cases. We were there for 4 years and were only visited once. I miss those days. My hubby told me that those “No soliciting” signs don’t work either. Did you know that? They aren’t solicitors. I guess I will just have to let TJM admin keep answering the door! Poor little Witnesses…
Can the Bible be Used to Prove Jesus’ Divinity?
February 5, 2008
Ru laid down the following argument at the forum. Thanks Ru. Read more
Charlie Brown Christmas
December 5, 2007
This is a very simple post. Go to Newsday.com and look under the title of “Bah humbug to puny Christmas tree”. I am sure that I don’t even have to comment on this one, really. I have always heard that it isn’t the size that matters.
A White Christian lashes out
November 26, 2007
This is en excerpt from a blog:
Rapport (A South African Sunday paper) has decided to kneel at the feet of the idol of WHITE AFRIKANER CHRISTENDOM. The very same sacks of filthy white shit who supported APARTHEID. We must bow the knee to these racist scum!?
Fuck white Afrikaner Christians! White Afrikaner Christians suck the shit out of a dead man’s colon!
They clearly don’t know me and my absolute antipathy for white Afrikaans Christians.
I am a white English Christian. A confirmed Anglican. I attend Church regularly.
I am not so insecure in my beliefs, my faith, and my religion that I feel the need to squelch all those whose opinions differ from mine. I don’t require the people I do business with to align their religious and political views with mine. Clearly these cocksuckers do.
I would feel sorry for the poor little insecure white Afrikaans (fuckers) Christians, who feel that they have to organise boycotts over a religio political issue, but WHERE the fuck were you cunts when Apartheid was devastating our country?
Where the FUCK were you cunts THEN?
I’ll tell you WHERE! You were in your little kerkies (churches) praying to dear Jesus to save your white arses from the SWART GEVAAR (Black Danger).
Guess what? He didn’t listen.
Why not?
Because, you insane little bastards, you were praying to SATAN! As you still are, because you have NOT repented your Apartheid sins. Only when you get down on your knees and beg forgiveness for the heresy that Apartheid was, and properly kiss black arse, can you arise forgiven. Until then, you are damned to Hell!
Jesus will say to such people, “Begone from me, you evildoer! I never knew you!”
Those mamparas (dumbasses) will soon discover that the only poephols (assholes) that they are hurting are their own ones. The moment anyone caves to religious morons, is the moment they start their slide into The Abyss.
No surrender to racists.
The above is a quote from the blog of Richard Catto:
http://capetownnews.co.za/2007/11/17/
So South Africa has it’s very own Fred Phelps, in the person of Richard Catto, who preaches hate in the name of Jesus. He is extremely proud of the fact that he is a WHITE ENGLISH CHRISTIAN who hates other white Christians and wants all white Christians out of South Africa.
Mr Catto is a racist who hates whites and is not ashamed to acknowledge it openly in his blog; he is even proud of the fact. He claims allegiance to a religion that has nothing to do with his ideologies. He is intolerant to the point of being a vile pig. He calls himself a liberal but his actions speak louder than his words.
He wrote this to me in a letter: My whole point is this: people must stop fucking with other people.
Mr Catto, isn’t that exactly what you are doing?
He has so much anger and hatred in him that I believe he is a danger to society. He clearly has a problem with color, as he specifically calls himself WHITE.
As far as I am concerned he is a throwback from evolution; a subhuman.
He is shooting himself in both feet. This is Christianity speaking.
I asked him where he was 20 years ago; when Nelson Mandela was still in jail? During that time I was a card carrying member of Nelson Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress. I risked my freedom for my own sanity and to live with my conscience. During that time the ANC was classified as a Terrorist Organization, today they are the ruling party in South Africa.
Where were you, Mr Catto? You have not answered me.
Lu
Jesus actually committed suicide
October 5, 2007
If Jesus asked Judas to betray him, as this new Judas gospel indicates, doesn’t that mean Jesus basically committed suicide?
My take on this is sociological. One cannot deny the impact of Christianity on world history, and on our current political climate. I’d argue that Christianity has been perverted by the Taliban wing of the religion; every faith has such a wing, and lately, it seems those wings have come to enjoy frightening prominence. Again, however, this is a debate for another time.
But consider this: according to this newly revealed gospel, Jesus asked Judas to betray him so Jesus could leave the physical realm and return to the spiritual realm. This turns on its head the old convention that Judas was a scumbag betrayer, and that Jesus was murdered. Jesus wanted to die, it seems, and went to a trusted friend to help him find that desired death.
Isn’t that suicide by any definition?
Or even worse:
If Jesus, the father and the HS are three gods in one and the father killed Jesus, then in a sense he killed himself as the three are one.
He thus killed himself as well as commit a murder.
The Homophobic Right In America
September 24, 2007
Homophobia is still considered an acceptable prejudice in many parts of this country. Our kids use terms like “fag” and “homo” to put down people they dislike or consider odd or weird. Winking jokes about being gay are still regular elements of mainstream television and movies. Homophobia is a “family values” prejudice.
Interview with Warren the Pastor
July 25, 2007
About a month ago I posted a request for interview questions to ask a local priest. I got the questions, but the priest said no. So I did some searching and I dug up a very helpful Baptist Pastor named Warren. He was a good guy, and was very polite, he answered all my questions candidly and never tried to turn it into a sermon or tell me the error of my ways. He didn’t even hang up on me! (That happened earlier with a different pastor)
So without further a due:
Me: Hello Pastor, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to me.
W: My pleasure. I have no problem talking to atheists, I think Jesus would want me to talk to you. Read more
Interview Questions Needed
June 17, 2007
Next week I’m going away to camp for a month so I may not be posting.
But I am considering interviewing the local Catholic priest, who I know rather well, and I am looking for questions to ask. Please resist the urge to present overly confrontational or disrespectful questions. Actually…go ahead send me those too, I’ll rephrase them but I’ll do my best to ask them.
Post them in the comment section or email them to me at denim_dolly24@yahoo.com .
Baptism and Purgatory
April 25, 2007
I have been thinking a lot about my grandpa’s last wish for me. He wanted me to baptize my two year old daughter. Now, at one point I had told my parents that I would baptize her just to keep the peace, but that I didn’t have the same beliefs that they did and I would basically be lying. The only thing that my mom had to go on was the fact that if something were to happen to my daughter she would be welcome into Heaven. Well, now the Church has decided that there is no more “in limbo”, where children and babies would be if something were to happen and they weren’t baptized before they died. So now that the Church has decided that, does that mean that all of the little souls that were “in limbo” get a free pass into Heaven? Same goes for Purgatory. A few years back it was declared by the same Church that Purgatory no longer exists. Now, I went to a Catholic elementary school where we learned all about Purgatory. It’s where a soul went to repent before going to Heaven. The soul had to be pure, so when a loved one died we were supposed to pray for them and that would help them out of Purgatory and into Heaven. I was a little girl, and in order for me to really process that information I imagined that my prayers were like tokens, and when my loved one got enough tokens then he/she could buy their way out of Purgatory. So, like I told my husband, what happened to all of those souls when the Church decided that there was no more Purgatory. Did they get into Heaven on good behavior? If anyone knows I would be MORE than happy to hear what they have to say. Thanks!
Happy Easter, Here’s Your Quiz!
April 6, 2007
The following will be an untimed, open book test to which I will even give you the references. Please leave your answers in the comments section. Oh, and grab your Bible! Read more
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