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Old-fashioned Christian Paranoia

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Communists collect children to be re-educated

In honor of last night's passing of healthcare reform by the House of Representatives I offer you a very low resolution version of Ron Ormond's Christian cult classic, If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? now available on Google videos.

If you thought conservative religious paranoia was something new, this movie will assure you it has existed since Jesus wore short pants.

Minister Estus W. Pirkle, of Nashville, Tennessee, narrates.

In my favorite scene (18:49) communists taunt school children to pray to Jesus to bring them some candy. When that fails, glorious leader steps in and delivers the goods. Other scenes illustrate the dangers of sex education and sensitivity training (10.11), debauchery (12:30), Batman hubcaps (14:00), bullet throwing (18:21), work camps (21:00), bad beards (30:35), assault (32:00), christianity is stupid (34:00), lascivious lip licking (41:21), and Pirkle translating a grandmother's ramblings from beyond the grave (47:20).

Cheap special effects abound, beheadings (44:32), chopsticks in ears (23:40), and drunken communist menacings (24:50).

I love this movie and have tried for years to find a good copy, but this will do for now. Ron Ormond rocks.

Pretty in Pink, or Carrie Prejean and the Sound of One Hand Clapping

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Ex-Miss California, Carrie Prejean, has been caught red handed in a sex tape that she herself deemed "disgusting," until she realized she was critiquing her own handiwork.

The video was shopped to TMZ.com but they "decided not to post it because it was so racy."

TMZ.com? Too racy??

Miss Prejean's 15 minutes of fame bedrocked on her pageant rant against same-sex marriage and her promotion of "opposite marriage." From there she was darlingized by the Christian right, always on the prowl for a pretty face. She was all set to appear at The New Jersey Family Policy Council's - Defenders of the Family Awards & Fund Raising Event when her sex tape became public knowledge.

TMZ.com | Prejean -- Family Doesn't Always Come First
TMZ.com | Prejean Sex Tape Triggers Settlement
Towleroad.com | Report: Carrie Prejean Called Her Sex Tape 'Disgusting'...Before Realizing It Was Her

Today in Ridiculous

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:35:00 +0000

Oh God, i LOVE it! Thanks, Unreasonable Faith

Filed under GMAFB:
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state.

A faith-based prison is pushed
The privately run lockup would have only Christians on its staff.

Ask A White Guy About Black People

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Nobody knows the trouble the Mormons have seen, nobody knows but Jay-sus.

Dallin Oaks

Who would have guessed that being "white and delightsome" would fail to protect one from criticism, nay, even oppression, equal to that suffered by Blacks during the Civil Rights era?

Brother Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), spoke to students at Brigham Young University about the backlash against the church's support of Prop 8, California's anti-gay marriage campaign.

These incidents were expressions of outrage against those who disagreed with the gay-rights position and had prevailed in a public contest. As such, these incidents of 'violence and intimidation' are not so much anti-religious as anti-democratic. In their effect they are like the well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South...

Responses to Oaks' comments have been swift and sharp, causing Oaks to backpedal, admitting that the intimidation was not "as serious as what happened in the South."

The LDS church has admitted spending $190,000 in support of Prop 8, though expenses and "compensated staff time" may push that number higher.

On Mormons and the Black

Believe, or we'll kill you

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:43:00 +0000

From AnswersInGenesis.org - whiskey tango foxtrot?

Maybe this video has something to do with it.

- Thanks, Cynical-C

Trust Women

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:24:00 +0000

The man who killed Dr. George Tiller yesterday at his church, as Tiller handed out bulletins to those entering... The man who killed Dr. George Tiller yesterday is the deed to the thought of O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Tony Perkins, Donald Wildmon, James Dobson and all their impotent little wannabes.

This happened in Tiller's church - a Reformation Lutheran church, a "welcoming" church, code for accepting LGBT.

Dr. George Tiller was one of a few doctors offering late-term abortions in the United States. He was known to wear a button that read "Trust Women."

The shooting yesterday reminds me of the gunman who entered the Unitarian church last July killing two and wounding seven. The church, according to the gunman, was a liberal church.

There's no freedom of religion in the U.S., according to the Bible bangers. Either you believe like they do or you're fair game. That's not religion. That's a cult. No, it's not a cult, it's terrorism, and the suspect should be treated as an enemy combatant.

Scott Roeder, named as the suspect in the shooting, typed on the Operation Rescue blog on May 19, 2007,

Bleass everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn’t seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller.

See the cached version as their site is not coming up right now. Operation Rescue was quick to denounce the killing yesterday, issuing a press release at ChristianNewsWire.com. Even in their denouncement they wrote,

Operation Rescue recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.

I hope this attack drives each and every lemming last one of them over the cliff of relevance.

NPR | Suspect jailed in Kansas abortion doctor's killing

Sorry, Tennessee, no antichrist for you

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:23:00 +0000

Ed Hindson, a self-styled expert in end times theology, met with the likeminded last weekend to discuss the antichrist. Though he does not know who it is, he knows who it is not - definitely no liberals, like Nero, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Kennedy, or Khrushchev. Then he added one more:

I've heard people say it's Al Gore - trust me, nobody from Tennessee is going to conquer the world.

Hindson was emphatic that Obama is NOT the antichrist. He added that Obama was a kind of valet to the antichrist.

Why not a cook, or chauffeur? Jeez, how racist!

TheStar.com | Obama not antichrist
Thanks, J-Walk

GQ Releases Rumsfeld's Bible-banging Report Covers

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Remember when our foot-in-mouth president, George Bush, called the war in Iraq a "crusade"? It seems that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld played on Bush's delusions by juxtaposing Bible verses with images of war.

Donald Rumsfeld's top-secret briefings for President Bush, known as the Worldwide Intelligence Update,

was a daily digest of critical military intelligence so classified that it circulated among only a handful of Pentagon leaders and the president; Rumsfeld himself often delivered it, by hand, to the White House. The briefing's cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days' war efforts... (a)nd above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him... To deliver their soul from death.

This is part and parcel dominionist theory, that "society should be governed exclusively by the law of God as codified in the Bible."

- GQ.com | Onward Christian Soldiers, the slideshow
- GQ.com | An He Shall Be Judged, the story

Don't Persecute Me Because of My Faith

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:08:00 +0000

According to TMZ these photos were taken last year when "biblically correct" Carrie Prejean (aka Miss California) was 20.

Apparently she forgot about these as she'd told reporters the previous set of photos were the only (semi)nude photos of her in existence.

Or else she's a liar and a fraud.

Miss Prejean has complained that people are persecuting her because of her faith and her stand against gay marriage.

Thanks, Joe.My.God

Anti-gay Thought and Children

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:47:00 +0000

One of the worst things about the anti-gay movement is the sexualizing of human beings, and especially of children. Heterosexuality is accepted as the norm, homosexuality as a sexual perversion. The "sexual" in "homosexual" is emphasized, understood as activity, whereas in "heterosexual" it's the "hetero" that is emphasized and the "sexual" is waived. Heterosexual children are not viewed by default as sexual beings.

When a person, or a child, comes out as homosexual they are automatically categorized, by those infected with anti-gay thought, as a person characterized by sexual activity. They are viewed in a lascivious light, as might someone working as a pole dancer or Catholic priest.

This is especially harmful with children. Viewing an LGBT child as someone who has crossed over into imagined sexual activity allows some adults to withdraw their respect and protection from that child. This is something I have become acutely aware of as my own 13-year-old son has come out at his middle school.

Many well meaning adults charged with my child's protection look at me through a fog of incomprehension, not understanding why they cannot allow children to be called "faggot" in their classroom, or why they have to report each and every incidence of violence. It's as if they were saying to me, "But your child is gay!"

My son does not have a boyfriend, nor does he want one. He is not there yet. He is a child. He understands that his desire is for his own gender, just as some little girls understand that when they grow up they want to marry someone just like daddy. Coming out as gay, for my son, was not an invitation to be treated like someone "asking for it".

The religious right and social conservatives are making a grave error that may cause the marginalization of their organizations for decades to come. Stripped of their political power and moral authority, all that's left, all the world sees, is the perversion of their ideas - LGBT children as sexualized beings rather than human beings, and the smallness, meanness and cruelty that they preach.

Viewing LGBT children as sexualized beings instead of human beings requires the willing (though perhaps unconcious) act of recategorizing a human being, or human child, as a sexual object. This places the child at risk of being abused by other children and adults for whom the usual social boundaries no longer apply.

If we are talking about sin, recategorizing a human child as a sexual object is a SIN.

Carrie Prejean | Pretty in Pink

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:30:00 +0000

"...behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out."
Numbers 32:23 (King James Version)

Semi-nude photos of Carrie Prejean, aka Miss California, have surfaced. Miss Prejean who is a born again Christian and anti-gay marriage activist, claims the photos were taken when she was a teenager.

Prejean claims the release of the photos was meant to mock her Christian faith. She called the release an attack, intolerant and offensive.

In the photos Prejean is wearing only a pair of pink panties, and her arm covers her nipple. The bottom of her breast is exposed.

US Forces "hunt people for Jesus"

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:37:00 +0000

"...may well be in violation of U.S. Constitution, their professional codes, and regulations in place for all forces in Afghanistan."

They get around it by calling the Bibles they pass out "gifts."

UPDATE: Since the release of the video the chaplains have destroyed the Bibles.

- James Bays, AlJazeera English

Blessed Virgin Mary appears on greasy griddle

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:13:00 +0000

The Blessed Virgin Mary is appearing at the Las Palmas restaurant in Calexico. She's assumed the form of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a stain on the griddle. The miracle has been attracting many visitors including the two Lucha Libre stars - Renegado and Mr. Tempest - above. Mr. Tempest told reporters,

I follow Our Lady of Guadalupe. This is amazing. It's a true miracle.

The griddle has been replaced and is now on display.

- J-Walk Blog | Border Town Miracle
- Unreasonable Faith | It’s a Miracle! Can’t You See and Feel Her?

Stay classy, Florida

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:09:00 +0000

There's problems brewing in the hitch-o-sphere.

The Florida legislature has voted for a new Jesus license plate. When asked if he would veto the bill ordering the new plates, Florida Governor Charlie Crist commented,

"I would not veto those... No, I would not," Crist said. Asked if he has a problem with Jesus on a license plate, Crist responded "I don't. No." On the question of Church and state, Crist argued that "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one" and defended the plates on the basis that "I think it... What's it say? 'In God We Trust' on every single piece of monetary, coins and paper we have? I think it's fine."

The Inquisitr | Florida Governor on Jesus plates: don't like it, don't buy it

More Science from Supermodels

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:46:00 +0000

Paris Hilton on swine flu: "I don't eat that." [pork]

The Week in Christian Crime

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The Cream of the Crop

+ Not guilty plea in youth pastor's molesting arrest
"...a former Salvation Army youth pastor facing child molestation charges involving three teenage girls, 1 of whom is pregnant."

+ 2nd Man Arrested In Disabled Man's Slaying
"Police said Pushia [a Baltimore pastor] organized the crime to collect on a life insurance policy he'd taken out on Wallace [blind], whom he'd met while working at the disabled man's group home."

+ Asheboro Pastor, School Tutor Faces Sex Charges
"A man who serves as a pastor, school tutor and board member of a Boys and Girls club faces [is charged with ] ...statutory rape/sex offense, sex offense with a student and indecent liberties with a child. "

+ Liberty University students surprised by professor's arrest
"A former Liberty University professor remains in jail, accused of sexually assaulting a woman last week." Students in denial

+ Prominent Ark. music minister arrested for indecency with a minor
'David Pierce, who for nearly three decades has been minister of music at the First Baptist Church of Benton, Ark., was arrested April 24 for sexual indecency with a minor, according to officials."

Because I Like My Science from Supermodels

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Kathy Ireland: She's not just a supermodel. According to FOX News, she's a "supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author" and she's speaking out against abortion!

While hawking her latest book, Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity, Ireland spoke out,

My entire life I was pro-choice - who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn't do with her body? But when I was 18, I became a Christian and I dove into the medical books, I dove into science.

As you can see, after diving into science our Christian swimsuit model still has some of it stuck to her butt.

Ix-nay on the Wine-say Lu-fay!

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:55:00 +0000

All the Abrahamic religions are equally ignorant.

JERUSALEM (AP) - The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed 'Mexican' influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and 'we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu,' he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Pigs are nicht nicht in Judaism and Islam, so they cannot be eaten, but I had no idea that piggy banks, piggy back, and pig Latin were all also forbidden.

Scientists are unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identifed first in the United States. They say there is nothing about the virus that makes it 'Mexican' and worry such a label would be stigmatizing.

Thanks, Cynical-C

Impotent Dismay as the Godless Globalist Elites Destroy our Heritage

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Don Larsen, a Springville delegate, offered the resolution, titled Resolution opposing the Hate America anti-Christian Open Borders cabal, and "invisible government" Who's fault is it? Why it's SATAN! And the Ford Foundation. Larsen spoke,

Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, and these people are playing a leading part in it.

It's really quite a rant.

Whereas, traditionals and patriots throughout our country watch in nearly impotent dismay as the godless globalist elites destroy our heritage leaving us without memory of our past and with little hope for our children’s future. Our globlist elites subvert every tradition and ethic that elevates men above beasts. In the United States of America an arrogant godless white elite champions globalization.

Salt Lake City Tribune| Utah County Republicans reject 'Satanic' resolution
Utah GOP | Resolution opposing the Hate America anti-Christian open borders cabal [pdf]

Christians believe Australia exists in the future

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:00 +0000

A prankster at FootBullet.net called the Word of Faith Christian Center to pray about the announcement that President Barack Obama IS a Muslim and was performing the Salaat.

The conversation went a little something like this:

The Mark: You're a day ahead of us.. .do you guys get news before us sometimes?

The Prankster: Uh, yeah...

The Mark: So we'll be hearing about this later? Oh what a tremendous revelation that we were deceived!

The Prankster wrote, "Since it had only just happened in Australia (which is 'in the future'), he prayed a preventative prayer to stop it happening in the United States. "

So sad.

Don't know much about history...

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Over at Donald Wildmon's Mississippi-based American Family Association they're debating the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. One of the brethren responded.

And regarding the open season on Christians, it's coming when this bill passes. Will you care about protecting the Christian "class" then????

Christians are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

- Wikipedia | Equal Protection Clause

Return of the Repressed

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:27:00 +0000

"Yes, this is an actual logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church's Archdiocesan Youth Commission. It even won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles."

Design Archives AIGA

From AfroJacks via Cynical-C.

"If You Don’t Matter To God, We Will Shoot You in the Face"

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:32:00 +0000

From Cynical-C - his title above, in quotes. The PSA was produced by Answers in Genesis. I know they were trying to say that the kid is godless and so no one matters to him, but the message that comes across is that the Christians are going after the godless.

The conservative Christians have had a lot of trouble with their metaphors lately - consider teabagging, 2M4M, and now this. It's not new. There used to be ministries called "Sword of the Lord," "Sowers of Seed," and "Probe." It's the return of the repressed.

Donald Wildmon, "Ve have vays of making you talk."

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:41:00 +0000

April 17, 2009 is the National Day of Silence, which brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Most of the school children involved plan to remain quiet during the day, or even just between classes or during breaks - not exactly a disruptive protest.

Donald Wildmon, of the American Family Association of Tupelo, Mississippi, sees it differently. In his Action Alert he writes,

...call your local school and ascertain whether they officially or passively allow students to observe "Day of Silence."

In other words, will your child's school allow students to not talk throughout the day? Wildmon continues,

Schools do not have to tolerate students remaining silent in class.

Say what? How are you going to force students to talk in class?

The issue of anti-LGBT bullying came home to me this week. Last Tuesday my 13-year-old son, who is gay and out, received a verbal death threat from another student in his science class. The student's parents were called in twice and the student was suspended. The school did not, however, contact us until Friday morning.

This is one of those things that, when you hear it, is like getting slapped. As the school official was talking to me I was numb, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. But over the course of the day the enormity of the event began to sink in.

A hate email was sent to my son last night.

What the FUCK is going on? What kind of parents teach their children to threaten another child with death? Donald Wildmon's Christian parents? And MY child is involved in a what Wildmon calls a

...sinful, unnatural and destructive behavior[?]

What's more sinful, unnatural and destructive than a little Christian boy being taught to murder another boy?

It's more and more difficult for me to write about religion - about how wacky and weird these people are. They are not. They are dangerous and deluded and un-American. And the "good" Christians - those who profess God but also support gays and women - they create an atmosphere where the dangerous behavior of the Bible banging Christians can find purchase. Without the "good" Christians the rest would be left to twist in the wind - the danger of their thoughts and actions stripped bare for all to see and condemn.

More and more I am convinced that the only way to honor any god is to deny him/her. No God would countenance this hateful behavior and would prefer not to be worshipped at all to having his/her nature perverted as it is throughout the world today.

The Rainbow Coalition of Bigots - Take 17

noreply@blogger.com (Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:57:00 +0000

This is an audition tape for a recent ad from the anti-equality National Coalition for Marriage. Eww..., girl, there's a storm coming.

The actors have a hard time choking the words out.

Thanks, Slog.