OK folks, we all had our say about Larry Craig and his coming out party and now it’s time to turn to Larry and tell him we understand why he did it, and that he should be forgiven and helped to get his life back in some semblance of order. If someone doesn’t turn to help him, the man is going to take that long one way trip to oblivion. If the Religious Right really wants to show they are on God’s side then let them and the rest of us tell Larry “man you screwed up big time but you aren’t the first and won’t be the last. Welcome to the human race. Come clean and get on with your life before you hurt your family and yourself any more than you already have. What you have done is far from unforgivable.”
A picture of Larry that appeared on the latest AP story shows a man at the absolute end of his rope with a humungous need for a helping hand. Yes he did some real crap against gay people and was a very outspoken critic of the lifestyle and our fight for acceptance and personal rights. The fact that Craig is homosexual and is so filled with hatred and condemnation of gays illustrates the distance some closeted gays will go to hide their orientation.
The Religious Right claims the moral high ground and maintains that they are on God’s side. Just hold on there a minute, holy rollers. There are many people on God’s side and they don’t condemn others who don’t think as they do. When Jesus preached here on earth, He condemned the money changers, those who were judgmental of others, those who tempted others, those who lied, cheated and stole and those who committed adultery, among other things. However, He did not specifically condemn homosexuality. He was God and was sent as a teacher and Redeemer. If He didn’t condemn homosexuality, why should anyone.
The Religious Right is no more correct than the rest of us and they certainly do not have the right to impose their beliefs as the only true beliefs and make them the laws of the land. That is no different than the Taliban or Al Qaeda; two examples of Right Wing Religious groups who impose their beliefs and practices on the more moderate members of Islam and are wreaking havoc on their religion and the world. We can all see that these groups are not only wrong but dangerous. The common thread that unites all Right Wing Religious groups, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc., is an intense and improper need to be right and impose their beliefs on everyone else.
Larry, the only way you will ever know peace is to come clean. Admit what you are to yourself and those around you. You will not begin to heal until you accept who you are and what you have done to others. It’s amazing how far a confession and apology can go to make things better; much, much better. Good luck and cross over from the dark side and walk in the light of love with those who accept others for who they are and leave the judging to God. Good luck and God bless.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Mother Teresa versus the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is really placing quite a spin on Mother Teresa's lack of faith. They claim that God withheld Himself from her because he wanted to test her love and belief. Come on, guys, for fifty fucking years! That's so much bullshit it isn't worth the time it takes to consider it.
She had a "conversation" with Jesus while riding a train to a hospital in Calcutta because she was sick and exhausted and needed treatment and rest. She was sent to the hospital by her religious order at that time, which was responsible for running a private school for rich girls. The "conversation" was hallucinatory and was the fabrication of a feverish, overworked and overtired mind. Because she thought that the talk with Jesus was real, she suffered for the last fifty years of her life waiting for Jesus or God to talk to her again!
You assholes were more interested in keeping the facade in place than you were in helping the poor lady understand what happened and recover from her delusion. You and your church are a group of despicable and dishonest bastards. You are a bunch of phonies, bent on frightening people into believing that they need you to be saved and accepted by God. What you did to poor Mother Teresa is unforgivable. I doubt that the leaders of your church and most certainly the priests and nuns who violated little children, even believe in God. If you do, you certainly have a strange way of showing it.
Now you are trying to spin Mother Teresa's suffering as some kind of test she was plagued with for fifty years to prove her love and acceptance of God's will. You must have a sick, warped idea of what God is. To you, God must be one hell of a cruel, unkind, uncaring master who views His subjects with disdain and disgust. You can have him. I'll follow my path to a loving. caring God Who, if Mother Teresa dedicated her entire, complete life to His glory and service, would have shown her joy and happiness unbounded and untethered.
She had a "conversation" with Jesus while riding a train to a hospital in Calcutta because she was sick and exhausted and needed treatment and rest. She was sent to the hospital by her religious order at that time, which was responsible for running a private school for rich girls. The "conversation" was hallucinatory and was the fabrication of a feverish, overworked and overtired mind. Because she thought that the talk with Jesus was real, she suffered for the last fifty years of her life waiting for Jesus or God to talk to her again!
You assholes were more interested in keeping the facade in place than you were in helping the poor lady understand what happened and recover from her delusion. You and your church are a group of despicable and dishonest bastards. You are a bunch of phonies, bent on frightening people into believing that they need you to be saved and accepted by God. What you did to poor Mother Teresa is unforgivable. I doubt that the leaders of your church and most certainly the priests and nuns who violated little children, even believe in God. If you do, you certainly have a strange way of showing it.
Now you are trying to spin Mother Teresa's suffering as some kind of test she was plagued with for fifty years to prove her love and acceptance of God's will. You must have a sick, warped idea of what God is. To you, God must be one hell of a cruel, unkind, uncaring master who views His subjects with disdain and disgust. You can have him. I'll follow my path to a loving. caring God Who, if Mother Teresa dedicated her entire, complete life to His glory and service, would have shown her joy and happiness unbounded and untethered.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
George W. Bullshit's Reasons To Stay In Iraq
Yesterday, the Shrub made another Iraq speech in which he reiterated the calamitous situation that will arise if we pull out of Iraq before a stable peace is established. Hello?!? A what? Let's take a look at a few points and possibly shovel some of the crap coming out of the White House (which should be renamed the Brown House for obvious reasons).
First, whether we pull out next week or five years from now, there is no chance that by our presence we will establish a stable peace in Iraq. We are the invaders and conquerors of the country; uninvited and mostly unwanted by the groups that have claimed power in the fractured government of Iraq. Shortly after the invasion and occupation, the Iraqi militias, loyal to several religious leaders, pulled together to fight their common enemy, the U.S. military. As time went on, however, the militias began fighting each other because, simply put, that’s what Muslim militias do.
For the thirteen hundred plus years since the death of Mohammed, the various Muslim sects have been fighting each other to establish which group can show a direct lineage to Mohammed. The Muslims feel that whichever sect has direct lineage is the only true sect.. I suspect it is akin to the squabbling among other religions as to who is the one true religion and thereby holds the inside track to heavenly salvation.
Fortunately, the vast majority of countries are governed by a political system that is not a theocracy. The exceptions of course are the Vatican and the Islamic countries. The Vatican is not only a theocracy but it is also a dictatorship. This negates the need for fighting to gain the upper hand for a particular group of Catholics. They are all under the control of the Pope and authority is not questioned.
In a simple theocracy, nationalism is virtually meaningless. The people of Iraq don’t identify as Iraqis first then as members of the various Islamic sects that make up their religious society. It is the other way around. They are Sunnis or Shiites or whatever first and Iraqi citizens only because they are identifying where they live. They will, and do, fight constantly over which sect is the true sect.
If we were to pull out of Iraq in January, 2008 or January, 2012 there would be just as much bloodshed from in-fighting between the various Muslim sects. It isn’t going to matter. In addition, Al Qaeda won’t come storming in to take control of the country, because the existing Muslim groups do not want another Muslim group to take control in their territory. Besides, there is no love lost between the Iraqis and Al Qaeda. The bullshit about fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq instead of over here is completely without merit. They were not there when Saddam was in control and they are there sparsely now and only because of the U.S. military presence. Their numbers and influence are very low.
First, whether we pull out next week or five years from now, there is no chance that by our presence we will establish a stable peace in Iraq. We are the invaders and conquerors of the country; uninvited and mostly unwanted by the groups that have claimed power in the fractured government of Iraq. Shortly after the invasion and occupation, the Iraqi militias, loyal to several religious leaders, pulled together to fight their common enemy, the U.S. military. As time went on, however, the militias began fighting each other because, simply put, that’s what Muslim militias do.
For the thirteen hundred plus years since the death of Mohammed, the various Muslim sects have been fighting each other to establish which group can show a direct lineage to Mohammed. The Muslims feel that whichever sect has direct lineage is the only true sect.. I suspect it is akin to the squabbling among other religions as to who is the one true religion and thereby holds the inside track to heavenly salvation.
Fortunately, the vast majority of countries are governed by a political system that is not a theocracy. The exceptions of course are the Vatican and the Islamic countries. The Vatican is not only a theocracy but it is also a dictatorship. This negates the need for fighting to gain the upper hand for a particular group of Catholics. They are all under the control of the Pope and authority is not questioned.
In a simple theocracy, nationalism is virtually meaningless. The people of Iraq don’t identify as Iraqis first then as members of the various Islamic sects that make up their religious society. It is the other way around. They are Sunnis or Shiites or whatever first and Iraqi citizens only because they are identifying where they live. They will, and do, fight constantly over which sect is the true sect.
If we were to pull out of Iraq in January, 2008 or January, 2012 there would be just as much bloodshed from in-fighting between the various Muslim sects. It isn’t going to matter. In addition, Al Qaeda won’t come storming in to take control of the country, because the existing Muslim groups do not want another Muslim group to take control in their territory. Besides, there is no love lost between the Iraqis and Al Qaeda. The bullshit about fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq instead of over here is completely without merit. They were not there when Saddam was in control and they are there sparsely now and only because of the U.S. military presence. Their numbers and influence are very low.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Religious Right Republican Cock Sucker - No, Really!
Another one bites the dust! A Religious Right Republican Senator from Idaho was tapping toes with an undercover cop in a Minneapolis men's room and got caught in the act. Larry Craig, a former Representative and now a third term Senator from Idaho, said he plead guilty, why? Because he wanted it over with so he could get back home!
Time out, holy roller, ya don't say I'm guilty because you want the charge to go away! Follow me here now, Larry. If you're innocent, you plead "Not Guilty!" If you did the bad thing that the surprise policeman caught you doing, you plead "Guilty!" You probably got confused because you got caught with your pants down (nooo pun intended!) and panic killed your ability to think. Your holier than thou facade just tore in two like the curtain in the temple at Jerusalem 1,967 years ago on the first Good Friday!
Oh come on, you're not gay? You were not born that way just like the rest of us with that sexual orientation? I must say, if you are gay, you are somewhat of an asshole to hide it by taking on a role of holy man who denounces homosexuals and declares them an abomination to God just so no one will ever suspect someone as conservative as you, as being a homosexual. But Larry, buddy, soliciting sex with strangers in public men's rooms isn't hetero behavior!
Maybe you could come up with an excuse that you were tricked into being gay by, let's see who could we blame? I know, Mark Foley or maybe Ted Haggard! Those two clowns have already lost any future they might have had in politics or the Evangelical church, so you might as well butt fuck them so to speak and further damage their reputations - what's left of them. But I think it's probably too late because I'm certain you lost all of your suck-up points with James Dobson and Doctor Land, so you might as well hang up your halo and your Senate seat and join us other abominations waiting for God to cast us into the deepest fires of hell for choosing to be something He didn't create.
By the way, if you have been sucking weenie in public johns, have you considered being tested for HIV? Oh, not because you're gay; it's not a gay disease. It is, however, one of the deadlier STDs and, believe me, sucking dick in men's rooms throughout the U.S. (and rumor has it you've been doing that for twenty or more years now) with gay prostitutes and other men who you knew nothing about, could leave you very vulnerable to AIDS. Remember the bumper stickers the RNC was giving out after the Republican National Convention in 1988? It said "AIDS. It Kills All The Right People." Not so funny now, is it, Larry?
Time out, holy roller, ya don't say I'm guilty because you want the charge to go away! Follow me here now, Larry. If you're innocent, you plead "Not Guilty!" If you did the bad thing that the surprise policeman caught you doing, you plead "Guilty!" You probably got confused because you got caught with your pants down (nooo pun intended!) and panic killed your ability to think. Your holier than thou facade just tore in two like the curtain in the temple at Jerusalem 1,967 years ago on the first Good Friday!
Oh come on, you're not gay? You were not born that way just like the rest of us with that sexual orientation? I must say, if you are gay, you are somewhat of an asshole to hide it by taking on a role of holy man who denounces homosexuals and declares them an abomination to God just so no one will ever suspect someone as conservative as you, as being a homosexual. But Larry, buddy, soliciting sex with strangers in public men's rooms isn't hetero behavior!
Maybe you could come up with an excuse that you were tricked into being gay by, let's see who could we blame? I know, Mark Foley or maybe Ted Haggard! Those two clowns have already lost any future they might have had in politics or the Evangelical church, so you might as well butt fuck them so to speak and further damage their reputations - what's left of them. But I think it's probably too late because I'm certain you lost all of your suck-up points with James Dobson and Doctor Land, so you might as well hang up your halo and your Senate seat and join us other abominations waiting for God to cast us into the deepest fires of hell for choosing to be something He didn't create.
By the way, if you have been sucking weenie in public johns, have you considered being tested for HIV? Oh, not because you're gay; it's not a gay disease. It is, however, one of the deadlier STDs and, believe me, sucking dick in men's rooms throughout the U.S. (and rumor has it you've been doing that for twenty or more years now) with gay prostitutes and other men who you knew nothing about, could leave you very vulnerable to AIDS. Remember the bumper stickers the RNC was giving out after the Republican National Convention in 1988? It said "AIDS. It Kills All The Right People." Not so funny now, is it, Larry?
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