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They are probably the largest minority in America. Few other minorities can brag of being more than half the population.
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Other than scoff, smirk, and snigger, I have no other reaction to the "poor, persecuted" majority religion of the United States.

By the way, I'm a Quaker, a denomination which has been historically discriminated against and openly persecuted, dispossessed, exiled, tortured and hung by the neck until dead -- BY OTHER CHRISTIANS, the fuckers. (For those of you who haven't already been bored to tears by my repeated suggestion to look up the Boston Martyrs, please look up the Boston Martyrs.)

Recently, because I'm one of those intellectually curious, bleeding-heart social liberals, or something, I happened to look up the Sami people of Scandinavia. (You may know them as the Laplanders, or Lapps. Apparently, it's considered derogatory.) HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Those people have been royally fucked over, their important religious artifacts (rune drums) seized and burned wholesale by authorities, their women force-sterilized, their children snatched from their homes to be wards of the state educated in Lutheran schools. Not that long ago, either. These atrocities were practiced right through most of the 20th Century! By Swedes! By Norwegians! By Finns!

The article in Wikipedia totally shredded my respect for Scandinavians and their supposed reputation for social justice.
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I'm just waiting for all these Christian business owners to do the sensible thing and go out of business - because after all, people might be using their purchases in non-Christian ways!

That bag of flour might be used to bake a gay teenager a beautiful birthday cake, instead of wheatpasting posters about hating gays. That Mary Kay makeup might be used by a drag queen! And the cucumber, oh my!

So, realistically they need to only sell to card-carrying Christians, but only the denominations they approve of; or go out of business so that they can avoid contact with improper people. I vote for the latter.
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Klingenschmitt is as rabid in his anti-gay remarks as any member of the Westboro Baptist group, and makes as much sense; he was discharged from the Navy for purposefully disobeying his commanding officers' orders NOT to show up at LGBT events in uniform and preach at the top of his lungs about Jeezuss and the day of judgment. Barton has been discredited as an historian so many times it's almost not worth noting, yet he's a darling of the Right. Between the two of them, it's difficult to choose which I'd rather see wearing a permanent ball gag.
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The irony of course being, that, when people who believe in the same deity represent the overwhelming majority of the population, it's more than likely that, if any persecuting is in fact being done, it's probably on the order of one Christian persecuting another.

Which reminds me of a Joke:

"I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: "Stop. Don't do it."

"Why shouldn't I?" he asked.

"Well, there's so much to live for!"

"Like what?"

"Are you religious?"

He said: "Yes."

I said: "Me too. Are you Christian or Buddhist?"

"Christian."

"Me too. Are you Catholic or Protestant?"

"Protestant."

"Me too. Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"

"Baptist."

"Wow. Me too. Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"

"Baptist Church of God."

"Me too. Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"

"Reformed Baptist Church of God."

"Me too. Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?"

He said: "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915."

I said: "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off."
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Because baking a cake is an ordeal equal to dying on a cross.

And your latter day Christian martyrs can't even be bothered to bake the fucking cake.

Or undergo the ordeal of being sued. That's right, was it Saint Paul or Saint Peter who said, "Please hang me to a cross, it's preferable to forcing me to bake pastry, or be sued!"

Our 2014 Christian martyrs are real pantywaists.
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@2: If you want to preserve any sense of respect for other Western nations, I'd recommend you not Google Indian residential schools or the Stolen Generations either.
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And we have in our own backyard the Mars Hill Church! If this B.S. isn't enough for people to retreat into their own personal beliefs, I don't know what to say. Stay home, pray or meditate, do volunteer work, quit worshipping the $ and don't let your church (if you have one) tell you that you're going to hell if you don't follow the rules.
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David Barton is one of the few people that I felt somehow got a pass for spouting obvious bullshit when he visited Jon Stewart at the Daily Show. I was astounded that Stewart didn't rip him apart on lie after lie that was making me shout at my monitor. I haven't been able to stand the fucker (Barton) ever since.
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They need to look up the definition of "minority" along with the definition of "bullying". But the logic and facts are antithetical to most of these types.

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