I have not put out any secular posts since the Kim Davis event. However, certain events in the wake of the horrible carnage of 49 patrons of the gay club in Orlando has motivated me to do this blog. Pastor Steven Anderson and Pastor Roger Jimenez decided to use this tragedy to score brownie points for their depraved interpretation of the Bible and go as far to say that the killings were justified because according to them, the victims were sodomites (gays), and according to Steven Anderson, pedophiles. Now, Steven Anderson's assertion is absolutely erroneous. However, according to both of these men, the carnage was justified because in the Old Testament, killing people who engaged in homosexual sex was obligatory. Their main idea of this tragedy "killing all the right people" is very similar to a 1987 episode of Designing Women where Imogene Salinger made the remark that AIDS was "killing all the right people".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5-IErNxuM
Now, I could go into detail about how the Old Testament had a problem with mixing fabrics, eating pork, eating shellfish, etc., but I will leave that to other bloggers to do so if they wish. What I am going to say is that it is time for fundamentalist Christianity to step down off of their high horse as being the pinnacle of morality and being the true form of Christianity. Enough of your leaders have too many times, used horrible tragedies to finger point, blame the victims or blame the leftwingers and say, "Now don't you think it's time to come back to Yahweh and the conservative Christian life?" While the supposed "evil" world reacted with compassion and understanding in times of tragedy, you all love to rub salt into people's wounds, and level condemnation: like Jerry Falwell did the day after 9/11 when he said that the lesbians, gays, feminists, abortionists, secularists, ACLU, and People for the American Way contributed to the 9/ll attacks; like Pat Robertson did in the days after a grievous earthquake ravaged Haiti in 2010 when he claimed that the Haitians had made a pact with the devil for independence, and that is why the Haitians deal with poverty and a devastating earthquake.
Allow me to say that while we don't interpret the Old Testament literally, or wish to follow it literally, we are better off because of it. We are better off not following the writings of desert wandering barbarians who had to kill others in order to somewhat create a somewhat thriving civilization of its own. If we really followed that part of the Bible, feminism would still be a fleeting thought for women. Rape victims would be forced to marry their attackers. Women on their periods would be subject to much indignity as they would have to announce when they are on their rag and as they would have to be avoided. Slavery would still be a practice. Killing someone for being another religion would be condoned. Everyone would be forced to observe the Sabbath under the penalty of death.
Given that many secularists (atheists, agnostics, secular humanists), many other Christians, many Buddhists, etc. have proven to exude more dignity, compassion, and humanity time and time again while you have decided to resort to denigration and promoting escapism, it is time that fundamentalist Christianity realizes that it is not all that and a bag of chips; and it is actually the religion of modern Pharisees whose sepulchres are clean on the outside and filthy on the inside. And if that does not drive the point home, maybe this parody will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk9AFv7W3OQ
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