Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

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Pope sparks abortion controversy in Brazil
Excommunication mooted for lawmakers
One million Catholics expected at open air mass
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thursday May 10, 2007
The Guardian

Pope Benedict XVI touched down in the world's biggest Roman Catholic country yesterday hoping to help reverse a 20-year exodus to Brazil's reborn evangelical churches, but immediately created controversy when he appeared to suggest that legislators who support laws allowing abortions should be excommunicated.

-Man, when do I get to oppress up against some women like that?!

Bloggin For Da Man? Not Me...

Just thought I'd get this out there...As a recovering Catholic, I'm with Hairy Fish Nuts on the utter banality of the papacy.  If that statement isn't enough to prevent me from being hired by a presidential campaign then this post has got to do it.

Oh, and I started the whole "Vampire Pope" thing too back in April 2005...

               

Hey Billy Donohue, is that enough bigotry for ya?

cross-posted at the defeatists!

Third Awakening?

So you don't think all our wars are religious wars?  You don't think the Dear Leader had a war against Islam in mind when he lied us into Iraq?  Take a look:

In his speech at the University of Regensburg on Tuesday, [Pope] Benedict quoted criticism of Islam and the Prophet Mohammad by 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who wrote that everything Mohammad brought was evil and inhuman, "such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

President Bush said yesterday that he senses a 'Third Awakening' of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as 'a confrontation between good and evil.'

And next year ... Iran.  Bet on it.

We're All Gonna Die!!!

What is this wingnut fascination with blowing up the world?  First, there was August 22, 2006 - Islamic religious fanatics said the world would end.  They were sure.

Ooops.

So it's time for the whackjobs to move the goal posts (again).  Christian religious fanatic Overseer Yisrayl Hawkins now sez we're all gonna die on September 11, 2006 - it's nu-ku-lar war (YouTube). Hey, c'mon you heathens, prophesy says so!  Have you defiled your body and your mind at the same time?  Then you're fucked, says Brother Yisrayl.

Wow ... suppose we'll head for the bars tonight.  What's the use of trying?

God Thing Not Working Out So Well

As you are doubtless aware, around 90% of Americans believe in a sky god.  You know, that guy in the white robes that lives in the sky, watches over them, and cares about them?

Unfortunately, the evidence regarding this god thing is piling up, and it ain't good:

On Monday, a man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in the Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure.

Last week, a woman was struck by lightning while praying.

And, despite predictions of riots, vandalism, and the end of the earth, absolutely nothing of consequence happened on 6/06/06 ... unless you count the party in Hell.

Maybe they should try this ...

tags: impeach bush conservative christianity god religion bible

Run Away

Sick and tired of all the death and mayhem caused by the various religions?  Convinced that the Dear Leaker will call his faithful to action and your ass might be next?  Never fear!  Click here to learn exactly where the fundies are concentrated.  If you're not yet ready to leave for Italy or France or New Zealand, maybe you can find a quiet corner of the U.S. in which to hide when the bullets start flying in the culture wars! (brought to you by Bu$hCo).  Click map to enlarge.

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Why Does the 8th Circuit Hate America?

DE VALLS BLUFF, Ark. - A federal appeals court has sided with a former teacher who complained about prayers at a graduation ceremony in an eastern Arkansas school district.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled in favor of Steve Warnock in his dispute with the De Valls School District, but didn't grant Warnock's request that the penalties against the district be stiffened.

About time.

UPDATE: The Pine Bluff Commercial seems to have take the article down ... maybe Jeebus made them do it?

graphic: The General
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Another Holy Appearance ...

Who cares about the Virgin Mary appearing on a grilled-cheese sandwich or Jesus on Romanian furniture? The real action is the prophet Mohammad appearing on pet fish in Liverpool.

Wonder if the holy book forbids the traditional pet-fish burial at sea ...

Falwell Breaks Through

Chinese Ban Teletubbies ...
Can U.S. Be Far Behind?

Jerry Falwell [sound] turned out to be right on the money on this one ... now the Chinese have banned the Teletubbies. You remember the Teletubbies, those gay little British dolls, including the incredibly gay Tinky-Winky?

Of course, The Right Rev. Falwell will doubtlessly laud the godless communist Chinese heathens for this courageous move.

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"Honor" Killing

Those Iraqi Hearts and Minds We Want to Win ...

Fatima. Kidnapped by insurgents who said she would be raped if her brother did not quit the police force. He did so. She was returned to her family. But their honor was at stake. Just the possibility that she had been raped condemned her. A cousin shot her (a man who thinks beating his wife with a rubber hose is OK). They could not go for a test ... that would have made the scandal worse. Someone they knew worked at the cemetery, and she was buried in secret.

And when these cases do get to court, there's a distinction between "honor killing" and murder. Usually there's a 6 month sentence, if that. And the Islamic constitution coming into force will make things worse according to Iraqi law experts.

[via NPR; audio available at 7:30 pm EST at above link]
tags: iraq womens' rights honor killing

THOUSANDS IN PAKISTAN BURIED ALIVE - NEED HELP

General Musharraf to Think About Indian Offer of Aid

As reported this morning on BBC radio, heavily-decorated General Pervez Musharraf, with a significant percentage of his population buried alive or otherwise suffering, will have to "think about" whether to take aid from India.

Per Mr. Lehrer:
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
and the Catholics hate the Protestants.
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
and everybody hates the Jews!

UPDATE: PovertyBarn has a post on Pakistan. The Heretik has news links.

UPDATE: NPR reports that Pakistan will now accept Indian offer of aid. Whew.

tags: pervez musharraf religion