OK, first some background:
I live in the buckle of the bible belt; I am an athiest; I work for a local TV station (in a button pushing trained monkey type job).
So for our newscast tonight we have a live shot from a local christian rock festival, they are setting off fireworks (even though this is the FIRST, not the FOURTH of July) and the copy our reporter reads talks about “the true meaning of Independence Day.”
What The Fuck ???
Then, in the same fucking segment of the news we have a story about how Princess Di would have been fourty this week.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT people, the bible doesnt mention Jesus kicking the British out of the new world!!!
And how fucking ignorant a fucking cunt rag do you have to be to go from talking about the “true meaning of Independence Day” to talking about the motherfucking British royal family in five fucking minutes.
Jesus motherfucking Christ on an atomic powered pogo stick you ignorant fuckin’ slut, what is wrong with you!!!
Q: What the FUCK does Jesus have to do with Independence Day???
A: Not a damn thing.
If they want to celebrate Independence Day on Sunday in a gathering of church members because the holiday is Wednesday, that’s fine with me. People observe holidays on a different day than the actual holiday date all the time.
If they want to somehow infer that Jesus won the Revolutionary War for America…well that is just fucking stupid. Sometimes my fellow Christians embarrass the living shit out of me.
grendel72 - two questions…first, is this reporter normally an airhead, or did she just seem stupid this evening? Second - and I’m gonna get flammed for this, but I’m dying to know - does this reporter have blonde hair and/or a poofy hairdo? Just curious…
“Bottle” Redhead and Proud Of It,
Patty
P.S. As for the athiest bit, I feel your pain. I’m a non-believer who grew up in a family where Dad was a decon, Mom a deconess, both sisters were candle lighters and brother played Jesus one Sunday. Kinda makes me think I’m the milkman’s kid.
Marvel, actually the reporter was an older man.
The Producer, who if she didn’t write the copy at least assembled the segment (making her responsible for the proximity of the two stories) is kind of an airhead, but a nice person and generally really competent at her job.
I would not be able to stand all of the sanctimonious crap and would probably have to hurt someone and make myself unpopular.
I am a Christian, but not a fanatic and do not find the need to keep mentioning Christianity in everything nor to keep hitting people over the head (imagery here) with the Bible.
Fanatical Christians annoy the heck out of me.
You would think they would learn, but they don’t, that annoying the krap out of people over how to believe does not get them lots of friends, just fellow fanatics.
I think they stay up nights trying to think of ways to pester everyone with their annoyingly obnoxious form of Christian belief.
Just a guess, but maybe they see Independence Day as a celebration of freedom from religious persecution? But I am in full agreement that a claim of Christianity as the “true meaning”[sup]TM[/sup] is presumptuous and obnoxious.
[sub]I think sparklers would make the baby Jesus smile![/sub]
And just what did he say about Independence Day? Did he actually say Jesus beat the Brits? (well, maybe a lot of our soldiers went off to battle with Jesus in their hearts to kill British soldiers with Jesus in their hearts)
Or was it just to mention that the day is for being grateful for Independence and not just an excuse to have a barbequeue and a day off work?
bahahaha…nice… but uh, this whole thing kinda symbolizes what pisses me off most about “political christians” who would go so far as to say that Christianity played a role in the forming of our union… Okay, so it played a role, but for the most part that role was to show the founding fathers what can go wrong when religion and politics get too close, hence the entire constitution was written without a single reference to “God”, “Jesus”, “Govinda”, or for that matter “Cressletar the Almighty Horned Demon God of Dimension QX3.6”, though the proposed 28th amendment would indeed establish said Demon God as official diety of the nation, and rightfully so
America was originally settled by religious bigots like the Puritans, who got kicked out of every country in europe, so they set off for a new land so they could establish their own country based on their own bigoted dogmas.
Unfortunately for them, the Founding Fathers were all Freemasons and didn’t go for any of that goddam religion crap.
Ben Franklin was a member of the Hellfire Club, where they supposedly performed black masses and wild orgies.
Thomas Jefferson had what would today be a common-law marriage with Sally Heming, his former slave, of mixed ancestry. They both signed the Declaration of Independence.
It seems to me that Independence Day has more to do with interracial S&M bondage .
I don’t know, what the fuck does Jesus have to do with it?
I don’t think babies are familar with much of anything, no matter what period they were born in.
Put me down for “Sparklers would have made baby Jesus smile”.