A certain kind of people like to talk about the "war on Christmas" as if their world-wide popular stolen pagan holiday was somehow being persecuted against, as if Christmas didn't shoot first, as if Christmas wasn't already waging a war against all other holidays and this year escaped the containment of November to invade October. As if Christmas ( Read more... )

You know what's so stupid to me? Whenever stories do this thing where they have someone who's out for revenge decide not to take their revenge because "it won't bring your loved one back." Like... WHAT? NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK! What kind of utter fucking moron goes into revenge thinking that's an option??? What kind of drugs are these writers ( Read more... )

The very idea of Christian anarchists would almost be amusing if it wasn't so monumentally stupid. Oh, you reject all authority except for the giant sky toddler's authority? You fight all tyrants except for the one you've enshrined in your religion? You refuse to lick boots except for the boots of your imaginary genocidal fascist in the sky? Well ( Read more... )

Go watch this video clip from Babylon 5. It's short. Just under 3 minutes.

Then read under the cut for my commentary. (And no, it's not a rickroll. I fucking hate rickrolls.)

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Some idiot: There is left hand path Christianity, you know...

Me: No there isn't. That's a contradiction of terms. Christianity is an authoritarian religion, with God as the authority. Authoritarianism is inherently on the Right side of the political spectrum. Therefore "left-hand path Christianity" is as absurd a statement as "anarchist king."

(Some ( Read more... )

A Tumblr interaction:

themixtrovert:

“i can’t do that because of my religious beliefs”

okay

“you can’t do that because of my religious beliefs”

not okay

therepublicofrapunzel:Morality is not subjective. If the Bible says x is wrong, x is wrong whether you are a Christian or not. You’re not exempt from the truth because you don’t believe it ( Read more... )

Very strange book, quite the bizarre tale, and morally pretty icky. The protagonist, “God,” is plainly evil, narcissistic, genocidal, with the emotional range of a toddler. Which is something that *could *be done well, but nearly every character in the story fawns over him, praising him no matter how evil he is or how much he blunders, something I ( Read more... )

The Christian idea of Heaven terrifies me. It sounds fucking boring. Hanging around for all eternity doing nothing? Terrifying. I'd rather go to Hell. At least Hell would be interesting ( Read more... )

So there's this character. Let's review the facts about this character ( Read more... )

It's weird how people are quick to say "You can't like them, they did x, y, and z problematic things" in one breath, and then call a narcissistic, sociopathic, genocidal God "loving" in the next breath ( Read more... )