Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS

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Heh! Those Satanic principles are not real far from the the 7 principles of Unitarian-Universalism (I am UU). No wonder I feel more in common with the Satanists than I do with the Calvinists and similar.

  1. 1st Principle: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
  2. 2nd Principle: Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
  3. 3rd Principle: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
  4. 4th Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
  5. 5th Principle: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
  6. 6th Principle: The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
  7. 7th Principle: Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Of course, we’ve had our UU principles called ‘devil worship’ before.

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The fun story is the one just below it:

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And I thought it was the constitution that gave the Satanic Temple that legal ability.

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Well, that, and the decision by state-level officials that religious groups should be able to put up religious displays at the Capitol.

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Yep, if they hadn’t been so insistent on putting up the Ten Commandments, or a Nativity, or whatever else they wanted to lord over other people with, they wouldn’t be confronted with a display espousing…basic human decency. Which, of course, is terribly offensive to them.

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster guys need to create a display. Come on, fellas, pick up your game!

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The last time they tried, seventeen people walked into the county clerk’s office because they mistook it for an Olive Garden.

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We have a church of Jehovah’s Witnesses who, this summer, started putting up free-standing displays full of brochures and standing around next to them… as people whizzed by, ignoring them.

I always want to tell them they should dress more casually. It’s an outdoor concert, a farmer’s market, a BEACH, for Jehovah’s sake! Take off the long woolen dress and the three-piece “Car Salesman” polyester suit…

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Can you imagine, seventeen people walking in because they mistake it for an Olive Garden, every single day? It might be a movement!

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Wouldn’t that be indecent exposure?

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And that’s what it is, the Alice’s Restaurant Olive Garden Anti-Massacre Movement,
and All you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come’s around on the Guitar.

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Update on the Iowa Capitol Satanic display: a Mississippi man has now caught criminal charges (and a very likely lawsuit) for destroying the display.

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So he traveled from Mississippi to Iowa to bash a display he didn’t like? Looks like the constituents for MS-45 dodged a bullet.

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Pastors, or just slow moving predators grooming their Victims?

Any of you watch the SEAL Stolen Valor guy?? The ex-SEAL who outs phony Ex-seals? Well…one of the common traits of phonies are to be very involved in the church. That way, people are more likely to believe the bullshit. “He wouldn’t lie about that! He’s a Christian! A man of GOD!”

Same shit here. The Christian community in general has a very bad record of dealing with predators. “He wouldn’t do that! He’s a man of GOD!”

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# Southern Baptists settle abuse lawsuit against legendary conservative leader Paul Pressler

Paul Pressler. yeah, fuck that guy.

Conservative Preacher is a great cover for a pedophile.

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I keep waiting and hoping for the Southern Baptist Convention - a damn toxic organization all around - to become as infamous for sexual abuse and coverups as the Roman Catholic Church is. I don’t think there have been as many allegations against Southern Baptist officials as there have been against priests, but when it came to dealing with predatory preachers, Nashville took a page from the Vatican’s book - deny, hide, shuffle around.

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The Catholic clergy abuse scandals were a worldwide issue; Southern Baptists are concentrated in the USA, so I would understand why their shenanigans aren’t getting as much press. Still absolutely infuriating (and, sadly, not the least bit surprising).

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Whenever you’ve got a religion that was founded in support of slavery, you’ve got a problem.

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I didn’t know that, so I did some reading. Ignorance fought, and thank you.

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Not news, but I just watched on Cold Case. Catholic Priest Father John Feit.

Long considered the primary suspect in the rape and murder of Irene Garza in 1960. Garza had went to church to confess her sins before Easter Sunday and was never seen alive again. She body was found floating in a canal 5 days later.

Feit had been arrested weeks before her disappearance after trying to subdue and sexually assault a woman in a different church. She escaped when she bit him hard on the hand and ran.

For this crime, he plead no contest and he was…fined $500.

He was finally arrested for the rape and murder of Garza after a Monk who was counseling him told police, some 40 years later. The Priest that Feit originally reported to initially denied knowing anything about it. When the Monk talked, though so did Father Joseph O’Brien admitted that he had Feit had confessed it to him days after the murder.

In 2002, Tacheny decided he could no longer keep the secret of Feit’s confession. Thinking that the murder had taken place in San Antonio because Feit had trained there, Tacheny called authorities in that city. The investigation into Garza’s death was reopened that year. Texas Rangers investigator Rudy Jaramillo contacted Father Joseph O’Brien, a priest who had worked with Feit at the time of Garza’s death. While O’Brien had told a television program in 2000 that he did not know anything about the murder, he admitted to Jaramillo that Feit had confessed shortly after it had taken place

In the original investigation, the polygraph examiner LIED and said Feit had passed.

Later in 2002, the polygraph examiner who had tested Feit in 1960 said that he questioned the reported results. The initial report said that Feit passed the polygraph, but the report was later edited to say that the results were inconclusive; the examiner felt all along that Feit had failed the test

So, for 40+ years, a Monk, a Priest and a polygraph examiner knew who killed Garza.

Who else, we might ask ourselves??? Well, not the Pope, but the Catholic Church in Texas.

EDINBURG — The Hidalgo County sheriff advised Catholic Church officials in 1960 to hire a private investigator to undermine the investigation into John Feit, the priest suspected of murdering a beauty queen, to avoid a scandal that could rock the church and threaten the chances of John F. Kennedy, the Catholic who was running for president, witnesses testified Tuesday.

I would say FUCK THEM…but most of them are already dead.