John Fugelsang has an easy 5-step process to determine if you’re a fundamentalist. I like it, I can dance to it, I give it a 42. You might be a fundamentalist if: You believe women are inferior and need to…
Category: Religion
Jesus Wept
Pop quiz: what do you see here first? Ovaries and a uterus? A “holy” couple? Or discrimination, ignorance, and misguided theology?
Be Kind to Beggars, I Beg of Thee
The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some people, however, act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in…
Oh, the Poor Persecuted Christians!
My suburb is one of the most conservative – and lily white – locales in the Twin Cities. Why do I live here? I don’t know. Anyway, it’s a losing battle trying to fight the small-mindedness, fundamentalism, and racism that’s…
Christian? NOT!
If you don’t recall – as many of you self-professed “Christians” don’t – Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. He did, however, list the two greatest commandments: Love God, and Love Your Neighbor as Yourself. I don’t find any ambivalence with that statement. He didn’t say, “Except for gay people.”
Ewwww! Poor people!
The utter hypocrisy of casting out the less fortunate during Christmas – given that Savage has a majority of Christians – floors me.
A Mother Fights Back Against Homophobia
Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people. I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual…
Jindal’s Jihad
If you haven’t heard, the neocons are having Louisiana governor – their next Sarah Palin – Piyush “Bobby” Jindal give the nutjob…I mean, Republican… rebuttal to President Obama’s (I love saying that!) speech tonight. This guy is just as scary…
Those Wacky Mormons!
I’m currently reading a fascinating book called Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer. It uses a brutal double-homicide (mother-child) committed by Mormon fanatics as the catch, but covers the entire history of the…