[Aside: What the hell is ‘A penny saved is a penny earned’ supposed to mean. You had to earn the sucker before you can save it. Is it like a friend of mine who keeps telling me what great deals he gets when he spends money on useless stuff because it was so cheap. He would have saved a great more money if he hadn’t bought the stuff at all.]
I don’t see an redeeming social value in organizations that serve no purpose other than legitimizing personal prejudice under the guise of religion. Most of them spend more time on political action that saving souls.
]]>I talked to the preacher a while when he did one of his home visits to my grandmother. He was a sincere and very nice man who truly believed the message of the Beatitudes. Not a very smart man, but most true believers aren’t (just an observation). But that simply won’t be tolerated by today’s Fundie congregations, who want entertainment rather than faith, who want to be told they’re better than others rather than that all men are sinners, who want to be told that it’s okay to be greedy and graspy and hateful rather than told that a true Christian lives a humble and modest life where anything beyond his or her own needs goes towards assisting others. So it goes. “Christian” (with quotes). Bah humbug.
]]>They have been a recurring phenomenon in US history, but earlier versions had the decency to head off to unsettled regions to ‘live their dream’, and usually die trying when reality refused to change for them.
]]>The merging of evangelical religion, corporate propaganda, nationalism and anti-intellectualism has birthed a culture that is deeply, deeply weird, but also very banal. Spreads like dry rot and scares the hell out of me, to be honest.
]]>It is amazing how radical supposed conservatives are.
]]>Clearly the singers and musicians had also spent a lot of time rehearsing. Quite a few people put in quite a lot of effort to serve up this dog’s breakfast. All the reverence and genuine emotion of a TV commercial. It was enough to make you cry, really. Or to turn your stomach. I left early.
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