To Hell with a handbag
A few minutes ago I made a mistake typing in a URL, and so, instead of MSNBC.com, I wound up on msbc.com, the website of Morningstar Baptist Church. Here’s what I learned both from the home page and this podcast:
- If Hillary Clinton becomes president, we’re going to Hell. (This seems to be meant literally.)
- Hillary is “a jezebel.” (Although it isn’t made clear why.)
- Obama is indeed kin to Osama in some way.
- Giuliani is no better because he’s pro-homosexual.
- Martin Luther King Jr. was “a nut. Check the FBI files.”
- That it used to be a law, an actual law, that you had to bear arms and that maintain your arms in good working order. Evidently, this was a law in the 17th Century. And for proof, we should read the book of Romans. (Which, if I recall, predates firearms.)
- If Hillary gets in, “be prepared to die.”
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August 7th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I’m always fascinated when people like that seem vague and confused, at the same time that they’re trying to tell the rest of us how to live. What interests me the most is when they try to deal with culture. I was watching one of the book programs that runs on CSPAN2 on the weekends. The speaker was a woman who wrote a book about how ‘American and English’ Literature defines ‘our’ Western traditions, and why it is important to teach it, as opposed to all the books being promoted by Marxists and feminists.
The author cited Percy Bysshe Shelley and Geoffrey Chaucer as prime examples of the type of writers she was recommending. Does she know anything about Shelley’s personal life? Is she aware of what some of those folks in The Canterbury Tales were doing?
I’m heartened when other people protest The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter because they believe those books encourage a belief in magic, and then those titles, along with their movie adaptions, appeal to millions. It’s especially pleasing when many of those reading and watching are young.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Just went to Amazon to check on the book I mentioned. It is “The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature” by Elizabeth Kantor and James Adams. She is the editor of The Conservative Book Club. Amazon offers that title for purchase in combination with “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design.” They are both part of a series.
While I don’t begrudge anyone the right to put out titles like those, from reading the information and reader reviews on Amazon it appears that they have one-sided agendas. Of course, I’ve seen liberals do the same thing and that bothers me too.
Anyway, I just started reading “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. Also, recent issues of The Simpsons comic book have been lots of fun, and I’ve been enjoying the heck out of Catwoman, The Spirit and She-Hulk.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:46 am
The thing I envy most about the far-right-wing/fundamentalist thinkers is that they sem to have a much more interesting fantasy life than liberal/progressives do.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
The sad thing is that so many people will just go along with these ideas and not question them or the assumptions they are based on.
When the first Harry Potter book came out I was working with a woman who was a “Christian”. She was railing against the Potter book because it promoted belife in “magic”. I asked where she got this information from, her response was her pastor had told his congration about it. I asked why she didn’t read the book and decide for herself (I had not read the book at the time). Her reply was that she trusted her pastor and did not have any reason to question his pronouncement.
Just another sheep being led by belief not reason.
Paul