Some people REALLY have a hard time dealing with losing. What we're seeing in America is a lot of people who, for whatever reason, didn't want Obama to be our next President really taking their loss hard. You have people hooting about maps this which show the US being mostly red (too bad for them open plains and farm animals can't vote). You have people running out to buy guns. You have parents teaching their children nursery rhymes which include lines like "assassinate Obama". You have schools in Mississippi refusing to allow anyone to mention President-Elect Obama. You have a sign advertising a free public hanging of Obama in Idaho. Of course you had Obama effigies hung at good Christian schools before the election, so it should come as no big surprise people are having trouble with the loss.
For some time now, the Republican party has been the party for Christians. Why, I have no idea since Republicans are for fucking those in need and helping themselves, often at the expense of others, while being avid warmongerers, which isn't what Christians claim their belief system is all about, but I digress. Many church leaders have done what they can to get their flocks to vote Republican, with some who simply violated the prohibition on them and openly endorsed McCain from their pulpits. Well none of their efforts were enough this time. In fact, some failed to even get all of their flocks to vote Republican, and that's got at least one priest really steamed.
Jay Scott Newman, a priest in SC, has become the cracker nazi. Voted for Obama? No cracker for you! Yup, that's right, he said if you voted for Obama, you shouldn't take the cracker until you've done penance for supporting "the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president." Now it seems he can't actually deny anyone a cracker, which must really have him even more steamed. All he can do is suggest that you not get a cracker, well at least until you've sufficiently flagellated yourself, or whatever is the going penance for voting for "the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president." Hopefully penance doesn't include letting him babysit your kid. You know how that usually goes.
2008-11-14
Voted for Obama? No Cracker for you!
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Once again it's Christians leading the way in hate and repression. Never mind that it totally goes against everything Jesus was supposed to stand for. Even back when I was a fundie Christian I never understood why so many of my "brothers and sisters in Christ" acted and thought that way. It's one of the reasons I was so happy to become an atheist.
I'm appalled at the outpouring of hate directed toward Obama in the past 10-12 weeks. "Sore losers" doesn't begin to capture the malice these people harbor. They are bitter, spiteful people who can't tolerate dissent of any kind. It's sad for them, for those who disagree with them and for the country as a whole.
The Bible says many contradictory things. Anyhow, this is hilarious, people need to keep their actions within the confines of the legal justice system or they will go to jail assuming the democrats are okay with jailing people. By the way, I openly congradulate Obama for not being such a bleeding heart liberal when it comes to killing the unborn, can I legally kill my neighbor's cat if it gets in my yard next? Whatever happened to the anarchic Wild West days when people could challenge each other to a dual over a disagreement?
In a previous life when I was competing in Fencing (with the swords, not the selling of stolen goods), I had an instructor say that any state that is a commonwealth (ie - PA, VA and a couple more I think) still has on its books the right to challenge another to a duel. If true, I'd like to challenge some of these haters. ;)
As for as killing the unborn, perhaps these people should be charged for killing, or at least holding hostage, their unborn intellects. Still, in a free country, they can hate all they want and be sour pusses and so on. You'd hope less people would join their ranks, but hatin' is just too appealing to a lot of people.
As far as I'm concerned, any church that does this should lose their tax-exempt status, just as if they were preaching politics from the pulpit. It is a political statement telling people who they can support and who they cannot.
I can't say I'm at all surprised by this kind of ridiculous nonsense though, it just proves, yet again, what kind of children the religious right are.
It becomes a lot less appealing to be a Pastor if you can't tell people who to vote for though. You'd think pastors (like Unions) could still get away with it though, or perhaps by having an unofficial endorsement by sending them to an unofficial online church website or something.
See, I thought guys became priests and pastors for the sex.
No, a pastor gets to tell people what to do and how to run their lives. Becoming a pastor gives them power, they get tithe money, and they get to put together all kinds of church related programs or mission trips, etc.
Pastors probably sleep around with the choir girls too, sure, but I'm not so sure that's an illegal move when those girls are in their late teens or 20's.
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