Below are just a few choice quotes from emails sent by supposed “Christians” to Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon. It’s soooo refreshing to hear them spew out how they really feel, and their choice of words is exactly what i think Jesus would have said. Oh wait, no they aren’t.

Problem with women like you, you just need a good fucking from a real man! Living in Texas myself, I know you haven’t found that real Texan yet. But once your liberal pro feminist ass gets a real good fucking, you might see the light. Until then, enjoy your battery operated toys b/c most real men wouldn’t want to give you the fucking you deserve b/c the shit that would come out of you ears.

i like the way you trash talk i don’t particularly want to have sex with you but i would like a blow job.

It’s just too bad your mother didn’t abort you. You are nothing more than a filthy mouth slut. I bet a couple of years in Iraq being raped and beaten daily would help you appreciate America a little. Need a plane ticket ?

YOU RACIST WHORE. FAT UGLY BITCH. SUCK MY LONG COCK ASSHOLE I HOPE YOU KIDS NEVER LIVE AND YOUR PARENTS DIE A TRAGIC DEATH YOU ASSHOLE BITCH!
I HOPE YOUR WOMB IS BARREN AND YOUR CAREER PLUMMETS TO HELL YOU BITCH

Some time back, The Red Queen issued a challenge to me, and other progressive-leaning Christians to call the right-wing crazies to the carpet for, well, preaching a false gospel, basically. for behavior that must make Jesus not only weep, but rage.

There’s a community in Atlanta called The Open Door Community. Here’s what they have to say about themselves on their website:

The Open Door Community is a residential community in the Catholic Worker tradition (we’re sometimes called a Protestant Catholic Worker House!). We seek to dismantle racism, sexism and heterosexism, abolish the death penalty, and create the Beloved Community on Earth through a loving relationship with some of the most neglected and outcast of God’s children: the homeless and our sisters and brothers who are in prison.

We serve breakfasts and soup-kitchen lunches, provide showers and changes of clothes, staff a free medical clinic, conduct worship services and meetings for the clarification of thought, and provide a prison ministry, including monthly trips for families to visit loved ones at the Hardwick Prisons in central Georgia. We also advocate on behalf of the oppressed, homeless and prisoners through nonviolent protests, grassroots organization and the publication of our monthly newspaper, Hospitality.

Sometimes when cruising the Internet you trip over something you just cannot ignore. I ran into such a site called Mullets Galore.

Okay, mullets are funny but not the most hilarious thing in the world, but buried in “Mullet Matrimony” is a surprise any bride would want. You have to work for this one by clicking on the arrows at the bottom of the images, but it is worth effort. Hint: its about much more than mullets!!

Scripturally speaking (from the Christian perspective), there is some significance to the birth of the messiah. The children of Israel longed for the day their savior would come, and the announcement of the birth was seen in the stars, such that kings from the east came to pay homage to the savior. Angels in heaven rejoiced and proclaimed the glory of God, bringing the news of the birth to common shephards, so that they may also rejoice. The birth of Christ was the fulfillment of prophecy, and was a demonstration of God’s faithfulness.

But after the fanfare of the birth, there’s not much mention of it again in the scriptures. There’s no moments of reflection or reverence on Jesus’ birthday; New Testament authors don’t suggest creating a holiday as a way to remember the birth. For believers, Christ’s arrival in this world is a rather small part of the work Christ has actually done in their lives. The death and resurrection are far more significant. The scriptures state that Christ died and rose for believers; there is no such statement about the birth.

And yes, it was a virgin birth. The birth of Christ was certainly a miracle (but what birth isn’t?) Incidentally, a virgin komodo dragon gave birth recently, making worldwide news. Should we cull out a holiday for the virgin komodo?

http://www.tmz.com/photos/miss-nevada/114764/

I was invited to that party (okay, I wasn’t), and I decided I had better things to do.

Oh yeah, by the way that’s Miss Nevada in the red. She’s been kindly ask not to compete in the Miss USA pageant.

Don’t people release these pictures AFTER she’s won the crown.

I wonder what part of the competition she was training for that night.

Wonder, my darling cousin, and I were having a bit of a discussion a while back about the responsibility of progressive Christians to call out the lunatic right-wing fringe on their atrocious behavior.

See, I am not a Christian so when I call them the lunatic right wing fringe then I am a heretic who will burn in hell. My opinion does not matter to them cause I’m probably out at night worshipping Satan and sacrificing babies. Wev.

But Wonder is a Christian. And a pretty damn good one at that. There haven’t been enough people like her calling out the crazies. It is that side of Christianity that really needs to call people on this kind of very non-Christian activity. (Bolds mine)

But I can tell you that I get — I don’t think I’m in double digits, but it started at about 10 o’clock last night; after the press conference in the morning, I’ve had nine death threats since about 10 o’clock last night. I usually get about two or three a week. They’re very grotesque, everything from wanting to gas all the Jews in America and send the corpses back to Israel to threatening to blow me up, threatening my house will be blown up, raping my wife, blowing up my house. We’ve had our tires slashed, we’ve had feces and beer bottles thrown at the house, we’ve had dead animals placed on the front door of the house.

Where might these types of threats be coming from? How about the scary evangelical wing of our own military.

I read an article a few years back (and I’m sorry I can’t link to it but our library’s search program seems to be screwed at the mo) about how our military is becoming more insular and separate from the population in general. In previous generations there were drafts that brought in a good cross-section of the general population. But without a draft (and mind you I am not a fan of drafting young men and women into wars they may not support) our military is increasingly made up of people who consider themselves apart and above the citizenry they are supposed to protect.

Now add to the already separatist nature of those who chooses to join the military the belief that they are also above anyone who does not share the exact same faith that they do, and the idea that serving god comes before serving country. You now have a massive deadly force of religious soldiers groomed on every front to not respect the basic principles of freedom that our country was founded on, like separation of church and state or religious freedom.

If this kind of behavior is allowed to continue in our military it will not be long before the screaming meamies on the right have a private army to create a military dictatorship here.

So Wonder, and Christians like you, the mission I charge you with is bringing your religious nuts back into line before they destroy the rest of us. You must call them on behavior (like threatening to rape someone’s wife) that Christ would have found abhorable.

I have a fever of 102.8. For those of you who don’t know- anything over 101 in an adult is kinda scary cause our brains to have the expendy power that little kids brains do. So my brain cells may fry but since I got more of them than most people I figure I’m ok.

I gotta bitch about this letter in Salon, and since it’s gonna either be a long ass bitch or an incoherant fever rant, I’m writing it here instead of there.

To paraphrase the original letter- ‘I’m a boomer, I work with gen xers, they’re cynical and I don’t like them, wah fucking wah’.

Alright Boomers- get fucking over yourselves. Seriously and let’s see why us Xer’s might be a little tired of y’all.

Sure you got the civil rights ball rolling, but we’re still fighting to get minority votes counted. Only difference is now you boomers are the ones being the political office holding pissheads.

Sure, you got us reproductive freedoms, but it’s your same damn generation of justices and politicians and religious leaders that are trying to send us girls to the drycleaners for wire hangers.

Sure, because of you interracial marriages are now ok, but bring up gay marriage and even progressive boomers will tell you to drop it so we don’t lose elections. Shhhhhhhhhh- we don’t want too much freedom.

My generation faces lower real wages, higher debt levels, less access to education and healthcare, poor quality schools for our kids and no possible way of affording college for them (If I save 2x my annual income every year for the next 8 years I might have enough money to send the kiddo to 2 years of community college- no shit), and an environment that is quicky going to hell because of the boomer love of the SUV. We have no retirement possibilities. We’re going to be taxed into extinction to support your social security and medicare. Those of us that were lucky enough to be able to afford to buy a house are already looking at massive foreclosures because the economy that most of us have to live in looks a lot less rosy for us than for you. Oh yeah- and you boomers in congress just yanked the bankruptcy rug out from underneath us (though it is good news for the new boyfriend who does bankruptcy law as part of his job- kaching).

So yeah, we’re cynical and we see most of you as greedy hypocritical bastards. Stick that happy daisy in the end of your pipe and smoke it.

If anyone has something to say about punctuation or spelling errors they can smoke that too- 102.8 suckers. I’d like to see you string together something coherent at that temp.

I recently took part in a race discussion on the ‘Newsweek’ blog in relation to Michael Richards’ blowout. Most of the comments were ignorant rants about white people not owing blacks anything and other attempts to deflect white guilt. Then there was this:

Well it’s Carb Fest 06 peeps- and I’m cooking for a crowd and hanging out with some of my favorite people who I only get to see very occasionally, like Ish from Sweden and Rosarita and the Naughty Professor. The four of us scandalized Grand Central Bakery this morning by talking about orgy horror stories. I heard one about a girl who lost her engagement ring and had to ask all the other girls at party to check their no no parts for it.

After a tasty dinner of Eritrean food tonight with the above mentioned trouble causers I will be making the following for your Carb Fest pleasure.

Turkey cooked in an entire bottle of wine
Mashed potatoes with roasted garlic and dill
Smokey green beans
Spinach salad with mandarins, sour cherries and raspberry vinaigrette
Whipped sweet potatoes
Cornbread stuffing with sausage
Baked wild rice pilaf
Cranberry-apricot relish
Blackberry Crumble for dessert

I think that is it. I talked to the vodka fairy and a great big bottle of Kettle One is being delivered to those of us who have been the most naughty and nice this year. So I’ll be slurry drunk by dinner.

Ok- so I skipped Passion of the Christ because it was pretty damn apparent to me that Mel Gibson is a raving lunatic. Besides, unless absudities are pointed out (i/e Monty Python’s Life of Brian or the Meaning of Life) I don’t like religious movies. Sorry Charlston Heston- but I don’t think the bible is the source for the greatest story ever told.

However I do have a great big juicy soft spot for Mayan history and that is a story never told in Americna film. But I have to get over some issues before I can see Apocalypto