"In G.O.P. We Trust"

"A Bachmann America is one where

self-hating homo's are forced to suppress their

feelings and marry insane harpies!

These are the ideals we have fought to

impose on the unwilling!

This is what America is all about.

(Not really...but it's part of

my master plan.)
Heil Bachmann!"

IN G.O.P. WE TRUST

The Grand Old Party has subverted

the values of Lincoln in favor of the

more selfish interests of money,

control, and conservative 'values'

having nothing ion common with

any aspect of the very religion

they pretend to promote.

Pro-Gun

Anti-Choice

Pro-Death Penalty

Anti-Health Care

Pro-Tax-Free Rich

Anti-Separation of Church & State

Pro-Religious Privilege

Anti-Gay

Pro-Business

Anti-Immigration

Pro-Totalitarianism

Anti-Woman

Pro-Prison

Anti-Social Reform

They just want to replace all of existing

government with a still-authoritative entity

that more accurately reflects their

Nazi-philosophy!

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"Hi, I'm Fictional Baby Jesus--

and if I existed, I would NOT

approve of these clueless, psychotic

mother fuckers or their regime!

Please vote for anyone but

the Republicans come November!"

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Gimme Some of that New Time Religion

"'Kneel before Zod!'
ha ha! Just kidding--I'm only
the most qualified vessel for actually
communicating directly with Zod!"


RELIGION:

The Politics of
controlling what other people
 do with their words, their bodies,
their minds....
lest 'more worthy' people
get offended!

(Halloween gets a whole lot scarier
knowing what's possible
only a few short days later.)

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Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to

How can people who

believe in 'god'

say they hate

masturbation--

calling it a self-pleasuring

waste of time and energy?

Don't they pray all the time?

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Impositions

Religion's stranglehold on American culture is so in depth
that it sneaks into everything, insidiously and effortlessly,
like the evil snake it warns of in the Judeo Bible.


The court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous is nothing
more than a breeding ground for Christian basis and
indoctrination of a whole subset of hurting and scared
people.


Likewise, other 'recovery groups'  such as Celebrate
Recovery are forthright in their efforts to promote their
brand of preachy Christianity as a cure-all from everything
from pornography addiction to alcoholism to 'helping people'
'overcome' homosexuality. (No regulation exists on them.)


There are "Pray Away the Gay" clinics that masquerade as
actual scientific endeavors, blatantly hurting and maiming
thousands (and likely millions since their inception) utilizing
the excessive leeway given to all endeavors of a religious
sort.

What would normally be abhorrent, immoral, and illegal is
given carte blanche when the idea of 'god' is invoked.

Imposition of religion occurs in every corner of American
society, from ball games to classrooms to court rooms, all
while the indoctrinated and privileged 'believers' cry foul
and victim.

(At the local school system I worked at, Bible quotes were
freely plastered in the hallways, every room had a plaque
with a waving flag and an emboldened exertion about the
adding of "One nation, under god" being added to the
Pledge of Allegiance --never mind that it was only added
58 years ago by a bill, and teachers routinely demanded that
children in their classes say a Christian-based prayer with
them before going to lunch.

There were also always ample opportunities for god, Jesus,
and other references to church and its teachings to be brought
up during every story being read, every share, every lesson.
So much for separation of church and state.)

Even our money is tainted with the presumptuous stain of
religious influence.

But the idea of religion being 'legitimized' by supposedly scientific
persons acting within the psychological and health professional
communities, utilizing their training only to proffer their religious
agenda...that's what takes the cake.

It's baloney hiding behind the front of medicine.
It's hocus pocus, superstition, and hooey.

It's personal wish and belief filling in for facts, reason, and
professionalism.

Folks can pretend that religion has meaningful cultural significance
until the cows come home, but it won't make it so. It is a
backwardness that eats away at all progressiveness, culture,
and personal responsibility within society.

You Can Close Your Eyes, But Facts Don't Disappear

“The onus isn't to prove the mythical isn't true,

the onus is to prove the truth isn't mythical.”

~ Steve Fowler

Why the Catholic-Haters?

I stand bewildered at times over the specific hate directed at
practitioners of the Catholic religion, mostly a result of the
whelming evidence finally released in regards to the priest
molestations (rapes) of girls and boys.

(And, as we all know, scandals are always so much more
far reaching than the tip of the iceberg admitted to when
perpetrators are caught.)

The reason for confusion on my behalf is not that the Catholics
don't deserve complete contempt, removal from power, fines,
jail time, and preferably worse; it's that they are far from alone in
their abuses of trust!

Every church in existence is evil in their abuses of young children's
(and vulnerable adults') bodies and minds. The Catholics have
just gotten more press.

All the sick and demented of the world, suppressing their dark
urges in order to win the disdainful fatherly approval of fictional
Yahweh (or whomever) have to have an outlet for their longings,
and children always seem to be the go-to victims. What abusers
can't handle with physical threats and intimidation by size and
authority, they can make up for by twisting the words of the
beloved Bible to stain the children's minds and emotions for a
lifetime.

People working so hard to be considered 'worthy' by an unrealistic
ideal will never be anything but fractured, marginalized, schizo-
phrenic basket cases; is it really any wonder that there are the
number of incidences there are?

Every church views itself and its membership as sacrosanct, and
will do whatevert it takes to protect the name and reputation of
the church and its more 'important' members. So those who are
charismatic or older or revered who do wrong will be forgiven
and even in many cases allowed to continue the abuse, while blind
eyes are turned.

Victims who do speak out are called liars, shunned by church
members, suffer further abuses, are ostracized and bullied
endlessly. They are penalized for being truthful and their spirits
crushed by the other church members; illusion and distortion wins
out over reality every time.

Black churches, white churches, mixed churches...rich churches,
poor churches, middle class churches....city churches, country
churches, progressive and moderate and conservative; belief in
cultish magic thinking is dangerous however you come at it.
It's all the same under the surface.

No, the Baptists and the Methodists and (especially) the smaller,
Pentecostal churches have their fair share of pain and suffering 
that they inflict on the weaker of their flock. Hell, the kids don't
even have a say-so in being there in the first place.

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Understanding the Need

I understand the need that people have

to believe in a supernatural system of

order, of checks and balances,

of promised afterlife

and hurts assuaged.

I fully get that humanity is a

losing proposition and life is difficult

and everyone suffers.

That this world is bitter and harsh

and devastating and cruel.

But the need for an answer

does not cause an answer--

or a solution--to exist.

The man-made addressing of all

our worries and travails

through religion (and a prevailing

essence based on mankind's

nature) is not a reality

simply because people wish it were so.

Certainly there are more questions caused by

the religions of the world and

their failed attempts to make

sense of the chaos of life

than there is any relief brought

forth from them.

I understand.

I wish there was an answer to all the insanity.

I wish there was a magic rainbow and

justice and a place where kindness

prevails and is rewarded.

But I see the belief in those things

for what it is; a child's need for

things to be better than they are.

And I have no more room for

fairy tales, folk lore,

superstition, or bible stories.

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