Church = Jail time

Alternative sentenceing at it's worst.

It's almost like it doesn't work

We had a minister come by the office today and offer us free rain gauges.  His church had a prayer meeting last month to pray for rain and an end to the drought. He said they'd had 200 or so rain gauges with bible verses on them (mat 7:7 - ask and it shall be given) but they haven't been able to give them away.  Not even to the people in his church who attended the prayer meeting.

I asked if he had one at home.  He said, "no, there hasn't been any need to put one up. Doesn't look like there will be any time soon, either."

He may have been the saddest looking preacher I've ever seen, and I almost feel bad for laughing at him.  If it weren't for the fact that he's a preacher and thereby deserves scorn and ridicule, that is. The slow dawning of comprehension is going to be painful for the south.

Suck it, bitches!

Paging Nehemiah Scudder, your boat is here...

Anyone remember revolt in 2100?  Personally, I've always preferred the cult in Stranger in a Strange Land that was cool with sex drugs and rock and roll as long as it was done under church auspices, but I really think America will head the other (significantly less fun) direction with it's theocracy.

And we are going to have one, it's just a matter of time. And not a very long time, either:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination, has summoned the nation's governors to participate in "The Response," which he calls "a non-denominational, apolitical, Christian prayer service." The assembly, scheduled for August, has elicited indignation from the secular left, who decry the event as an unwarranted mingling of church and state.

It's not just us crazy atheists who are saying this stuff, either. Pastor types are claiming it was god that made Perry governor of Texas, and will likely make him president. (There was nothing about god making Perry's political opponents look like stark raving loons, or act like inept children, maybe it was satan...) These are the people that think god has a cosmic thermostat and is purposely fucking with us to "cause every knee to bow."

"Yesterday morning as I stood in the kitchen the Lord stopped me mid stride and said, "I am going to turn up the heat".  I felt this was not in the context of actual temperatures but in events that will cause pressure.  I also heard him say, "It is not the faithful remnant's attention I am going to get.  I will cause every knee to bow. "  I could see in the spirit that when there is no place else to go even those who do not, or will not, believe will have to come to him.

These are people who report hearing and seeing hallucinations as straight news.  Awesome.

Good Riddance, assholes!

Where am I going with this?  Who the hell knows.  I'm venting, which is really what this whole blog is about, since I'm pretty sure I'm shouting into an echo chamber here.  I'm annoyed that we're not adult enough to elect a fiscal conservative who's not a god botherer, or at the very least, not an in-your-face god botherer. It's like you have to either spend all the money on welfare or send it to the church.  There doesn't seem to be any middle ground.

Fear the Future (17)

You know how our jobs are all going to be taken over by robots, just like what happened to car makers in the 80's?  Now, even the clergy and Elvis impersonators are endangered.

Fear the Future (8)

If we let them marry then what will that do to traditional marriages?  This will be the single issue in the 2016 presidential race.  It's not too early for christian politicians to get on the wrong side of yet another marriage issue...

DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!! Or at least about head high on a typical japanese person.

The Rapture(TM) seems to be good for gay rights

This seems to indicate that since we don't have any christians left, we're going to finally become a civilized nation. (sort of)