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Fight at church – then church burns down; Hurrah!

mordantmoments — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:37:38 +0000

Here’s a good one from AP, it speaks for itself:

TAZEWELL, Tenn. (AP) – There was a fist fight at a Claiborne County church and now the building has burned to the ground. Detective Capt. David Honeycutt with the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Office said the fire was being investigated and a look at the fight is a strong element of it. The cause of the fire late Friday or early Saturday hasn’t been determined. Honeycutt said there was no indication of an electrical malfunction.

Edwards Community Missionary Baptist Church was in rural part of the county, near the Union County line.

“That’s God’s house. It’s no place to throw fists, or shoot people, or talk about shooting people, (Ed. I thought that’s exactly what it was for) it’s for blessing the Lord,” the church’s pastor, Rev. Clayborn Gibbons, told WBIR-TV in Knoxville.

The station reported the building had stood for nearly 70 years, but a recent division over who should lead the congregation erupted into fisticuffs on Sept. 30.

Church member David Lovin told the station “it just all broke loose. (Ed: Didn’t he mean “. . .all hell broke loose.”)

Sell the Vatican to feed the poor

mordantmoments — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:48:57 +0000

I’ve just seen Sarah Silverman on Real Time with Bill Maher.

She has come up with the perfect solution for feeding the world’s poor – sell the Vatican. They are worth billions (or whatever is left over from paying hush money to all the sexually assaulted kids).

I think the idea is laudable and we should encourage a groundswell of support for this idea. What a way to go out; with a bang instead of just fading into oblivion, as they are.

And, let’s not forget, most of their money came from the poor, anyway!

‘One nation under god’ painting

mordantmoments — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:41:12 +0000

Jon McNaughton, it seems, has produced his vision of the Constitution – being handed down from jesus (not capitalized because this, too, is a fictional character – per this blog’s policy)

Vision of mental derangement

Isn’t it about time we made mental treatment mandatory for renegade groups who refuse to be dragged into the 21st century?

Of course, it was one of these groups who invented the “Left Behind” series of christian books, etc. Sort of ironic – coming from a group who chose to be ‘left behind’

Nobel Prize for (drum roll . . . ) god

mordantmoments — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:03:04 +0000

Two Americans and an Israeli, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for explaining how the DNA code is translated into life.

Good for them, and humanity – well, except that weirdo bunch over at blog.beliefnet.com

Here is what they say about this feat of great work: -

What strikes me today, however is that scientists who receive these honors win such praise for what they discover, not what they create. Through their cleverness, hard work, and remarkable brilliance, they have asked new questions and devised creative methods to unwrap hidden mysteries in the universe. But their success is detective work, not invention. This year’s award for the explanation of how ribosomes work is notable and certainly deserved. But these scientists discovered wonder that was already there – put there by the Creator! (Their exclamation point)

WTF? Are these people just a bunch of cwazy wabbits?

I am putting the link to this inanity in full here (not as a link) because I want you to savor the full extent of it – I am not encouraging you to go there, just read the url:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/prayerplainandsimple/2009/10/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2009-deserves-praise-to-god.html

‘Prayer plain and simple’ . . . ‘deserves-praise-to-god’?

Bunch of cracker ass crackers.

Beliefnet’s god did not create ribosomes, if he did, why doesn’t it say it the bible; ‘Thou shall not covet thy neighor’s ribosomes’? (unless he meant rhubarb patch, which is something worth coveting.

These guys think they are in Socrates’ cave whereas, in fact, they have their heads up their collective religious ass.

The Christian cross display Challenge

mordantmoments — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:16:26 +0000

A large christian cross has been standing on piece of government-owned Mojave land, which was later transferred to private ownership following a court challenge to its legal presence. The controversy surrounding this icon has gone to the Supreme Court for argument.

From the L.A. Times 10/7/09: “This is a stand-alone cross,” said Peter Eliasberg, the ACLU lawyer. “The cross is the predominant symbol of Christianity,” he said, and it should not be treated as though it is the single, favored religious symbol.

Justice Antonin Scalia took sharp exception to that comment. The cross “is the most common symbol” to honor the war dead, he said, calling it an “outrageous conclusion” to say the cross is limited to honoring only soldiers who were Christians. (My stress)

So Justice Scalia thinks that a cross has no religious significance? Is this the same Justice Scalia who is linked to the far right catholic group, Opus Dei? Shouldn’t he recluse himself form this argument, along with several other Justices?

How can anyone get a fair deal with such a prejudiced bench

This is beyond stupid, and this isn’t funny because Scalia probably believes this was a reasonable statement to make.

There’s first time for everything:

mordantmoments — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:37:28 +0000

My first thing is to tell you what I will do on this blog – and what I will not:

I will seek out stupid material, comments, stories, news and everything else – things which some people believe are reasonable – but are not

I will add my comments about those stupid things

I will probably offend at times

I will encourage people to add their comments and the things they find unbearably inane

I will block material if it is unnecessarily crass (and if you don’t know that word, you shouldn’t be commenting here)

I will not allow flaming (well, not a lot). ‘Witty’ and ‘clean’ are the hallmarks of this blog. Remember, there are times when a swear word can be hilarious.

I will not block a story or comment simply because it offends me personally

I will not be deliberately rude

That’s about it, so let’s get finding something; stupid, inane, moronic, unintelligent, dim, dense, dull, brainless, dim-witted, obtuse, ridiculous, idiotic, frivolous, immature, mindless, or just offensive to the senses of rational people. It shouldn’t take long.