RELIGIOUS LUNATIC ROUNDUP

It's oh so appropriate that as I sit here typing this, Frank Zappa's "Dumb All Over" is streaming out through my computer's speakers courtesy of the "Zappa Radio" feature on his website. While I'm not nearly as anti-religious as Zappa was, stories like the ones below seem to continually push me in that direction. On the one hand, I can understand a principled stance on, say, abstinence, or even the power of prayer--I disagree with those points of view, but I can see why some people find them to be reasonable. On the other hand, however, I've really gotten to be quite perplexed by the absolute absurdity that so many Americans seem to be gravitating toward these days.

Read on.

Church plans burial of fetuses from abortion clinic

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

The Roman Catholic church plans to bury the ashes of up to 1,000 aborted fetuses Sunday to mark the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, prompting scathing criticism from family planning groups.

Boulder Abortion Clinic director Dr. Warren Hern, who had no idea the mortuary working with his clinic had been sending ashes to Sacred Heart of Mary Church, said the decision was "a cynical exploitation of private grief for political purposes."

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Kate Horle, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said most of Hern's patients have fetuses with fatal anomalies. His clinic specializes in "late abortion for fetal disorders," according to its Web site.

"These women are devastated," Horle said. "To discover that an entity is essentially taking it upon themselves to create a religious service that may not be acceptable to the family is probably really painful."

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I wonder if the same church is also planning to bury the thousands of unused embryos discarded by fertility clinics every year. Probably not.

Video with SpongeBob alarms Christian group

From Reuters via the Houston Chronicle:

Christian Conservative groups have issued a gay alert warning over a children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites.

The wacky square yellow SpongeBob is one of the stars of a music video due to be sent to 61,000 U.S. schools in March. The makers -- the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity.

But at least two Christian activist groups say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.

"A short step beneath the surface reveals that one of the differences being celebrated is homosexuality," wrote Ed Vitagliano in an article for the American Family Association.

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Yes, that's right: SpongeBob joins Barney, Ernie, and Tinki Winki, his children's TV brethren, in embracing "the love that dare not speak its name." To be honest, gayness makes all these characters much more interesting, but that's just my opinion. I also like to think that Davey and Goliath are gay, too. I'm pretty certain that Rod and Tod Flanders are also pretty swishy, for that matter.

Newspaper shouldn't print Liberal voices

A letter to the editor of California's Ridgecrest Independent, courtesy of Eschaton:

I can't believe the vicious slander of some people who have the nerve to portray or suggest Jesus behaved as a Liberal.

Jesus makes his position very clear. The wisdom of an "eye for an eye" would never occur to a Liberal.

Liberals are always talking about peace at any price, when Jesus said: Do not think I have come to bring peace, but a sword.

Click here to read the rest--it's quite a hoot.

So much for the "prince of peace." What would Jesus do? Why, Jesus would KICK SOME ASS!!! That's the kind of Lord we worship. An ass-kickin' Lord: our God is an awsome God!

Lunacy. All lunacy. I know for a fact there are some rational Christians out there; why do the morons get all the press? Dumb all over, indeed:

It says in the book:
"Burn 'n destroy . . .
'N repent, 'n redeem
'N revenge, 'n deploy
'N rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
'Cause they don't go for what's in the book
'N that makes 'em BAD
So verily we must choppeth them up
And stompeth them down
Or rent a nice French bomb
To poof them out of existence
While leaving their real estate just where we need it
To use again
For temples in which to praise
OUR GOD

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