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Show AllGreat stuff! Thanx, CD for posting it!
I never heard of this woman.
Oh, good- I thought I was the only one!
I never heard of her before this, either. However, people like this are not worth time or effort. People like this, it's not like you can change their opinions -- that would take a miracle. However, the video is quite funny and very true. But I'm sure Maggie thinks that she is quite a virtuous soul. Someone needs to tell her that the original twelve apostles were not chosen because they were paragons of virtue -- because you can't teach paragon of virtue anything.
A helpful chart explaining the consequences of gay marriage:
http://i41.tinypic.com/209m6np.jpg
The video does a great job of exposing how the single-issue fanatical agendas of Amerikkka's theocratic fascism work. It lays bare the typical circular arguments of the Tea Party religious zealots. This cohort claims to care about the unborn, but inexplicably it loses interest after they are born.
They're for capital punishment and for reducing any kind of aid that might relieve suffering or help them advance after birth. Their hypocrisy is breath taking in its magnitude.
There is nothing breathtaking about these people. They are small minded, weak brained fascists with tiny souls. What's breathtaking is the culpability of those who pay any attention to them.
This is offensive saying she won't get into heaven and the author knows what is in God's heart.
Playing devils advocate, if the author said homosexuals wouldn't get into heaven he would be fired from cd.
Abby Zimet is a bigot against Christians
Abby Zimet is a bigot against Christians
Abby Zimet is a bigot against Christians
Don't think the video concluded that she wouldn't get into heaven, eventually, only that she might have to go back and try again to do what she needed to do to get there. What the author does know, apparently better than Maggie, are the fundamental principles of the original "Christian" faith, before the patriarchy got a hold of them .....
If Maggie Gallagher is a paragon of Christianity, perhaps you can understand why some folks might view it with a jaundiced eye .....
Calling yourself a "Christian" doesn't make you one ....
I beleive that this is the core of this cow's mania....that homosexuals are an offense to god, will not get into heaven, of course, and should not be tolerated. these people who obviously intimately know the mind of "god"
Some days it seems that the bonobos got all the rational genes.
Just another small-minded, vicious, ignorant American. We seem to have bumper crop. On the other hand, this seems to be one of the grew industries here and these people seem to be doing quite well -- laughing all the way to the bank on their hatred. On the other hand, this woman has way too much time on her hands. So there is truth to the phrase "idle hands are the work of the devil."
The ignorance of the American people is so great and is in direct proportion to the level of religious belief because christianity as shaped by american culture is hateful, vicious, insane and extremely violent.
In all of my nearly 73 years, I've never heard a description of a heaven that I'd care to end up in, and of all the people I've known personally or otherwise who believe they'll be there one day, none are people I'd want to spend eternity with.
I agree with you. I was raised in the Catholic Church and remember being taught that animals had no souls; therefore, they could not go to heaven. As a child, this upset me greatly, as I pondered the idea of eternity without my animal friends. I've noticed that many churches today support the idea of people being reunited with pets in the "afterlife." I imagine they caved on this notion in order to avoid losing more church members. But then, the Catholic Church still doesn't "permit" birth control, abortion, women becoming priests, etc.
I was shocked that babies who were not baptised would go to hell or perhaps purgatory. As for animals, I preferred the teachings in the song "Old Shep".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9ce27sX1k
Joe
Shad,
We appreciate your discriminating tastes...so tolerant. Fortunately, apparently for all involved, you assure your destiny.
"Two things are certain. The universe is infinite and human stupidity. I'm not certain about the universe."
- Albert Einstein -
The stupidity of the religious mind has no boundaries.
It always astonishes me how some people who claim to live by the Bible don't even know what's in it. And there is a good reason for that. I read all books, including Leviticus, as a teenager. Reading the Bible, for me, was an innoculation against thoughtless acceptance of religion. Genesis and Exodus had good stories, plenty of drama and puzzling family dysfunction. Does traditional family life include the playing tricks on your husband or selling your brother into slavery? Or having concubines. The stories of Dinah and Hagar were particularly problematic from an ethical point of view.
But Leviticus was just plain mean and absurd, a product of micro-managing OCD patriarchs who had to codify their likes and dislikes, their domination over women and make absolutely certain they would never be in the vicinity of menstrual blood, no matter how inconvenient and degrading that would be for women.
Therefore some churches promote laziness when it comes to the Bible. They let their pastors (or priests, or rabbis or Imams et al)pick and choose sections that bolster their own views, give their own interpretations of those passages, and ignore the rest. Orthodox Jews do read the Bible (OT) cover to cover every year. Thus there is a thriving interpretation tradition which relies on the best and worst minds to make sense of it. I prefer to do my own picking and choosing, since some parts are thought provoking and even beautiful.
I have never heard of Maggie Gallagher, but I like the way the little clip gives talking points that we can use to challenge the unthinking use of the term "traditional marriage". A lot of traditional marriages I have seen are no picnic. Not gay marriage, but other things like money, in-laws, infidelity, lack of honesty and respect, incompatible expectations, unwillingness to work on problems, anger and substance abuse, differences over child raising and just plain boredom etc. are what threatens marriages. Using the word "traditional" does nothing to help people build a good relationship. Marriages between gay people will have zero negative effect on man-woman marriages, except perhaps to relieve the minds of parents that their gay son or daughter will not have to spend life alone.
Joe
Forget Heavens Gate, I would like to see a video of this cow getting her fat ass through a common doorway