Comments on: Your Sunday Fundies http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:49:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: skippy http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1130177 skippy Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:25:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1130177 <p>boy, and i thought i invented the “i heart huckabee” joke!</p> boy, and i thought i invented the “i heart huckabee” joke!

]]> By: borninva http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1130057 borninva Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:22:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1130057 <p>Savannah:</p> <p>I was just desperately hoping people in GA. they were a little more advanced in their thinking, than here in NC. You might as well talk to a 6″ thick brick wall here. It’s all about the hereafter, the rapture, and all the nonsense that goes with it. They are captive zombies for TV preachers whom hustle them out of money monthly for their hate-filled tapes.</p> <p>Yes, they will go like sheep to slaughter election day and vote us in another republican. They think this is a justified god-driven holy war, and they are glad Bush is in charge because he is a born-Again Christian.</p> <p>These people do not follow public policies, it’s whatever a nother ignorant church member tells them. It does not matter here, they will vote in the GOP if they have to eat dirt for the next eight years.</p> <p>Wish I could cheer you, but it’s gloomy down here in Mayberry RFD.</p> Savannah:

I was just desperately hoping people in GA. they were a little more advanced in their thinking, than here in NC. You might as well talk to a 6″ thick brick wall here. It’s all about the hereafter, the rapture, and all the nonsense that goes with it. They are captive zombies for TV preachers whom hustle them out of money monthly for their hate-filled tapes.

Yes, they will go like sheep to slaughter election day and vote us in another republican. They think this is a justified god-driven holy war, and they are glad Bush is in charge because he is a born-Again Christian.

These people do not follow public policies, it’s whatever a nother ignorant church member tells them. It does not matter here, they will vote in the GOP if they have to eat dirt for the next eight years.

Wish I could cheer you, but it’s gloomy down here in Mayberry RFD.

]]> By: phalamir http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129688 phalamir Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:04:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129688 <p>Limbo has never been an official part of RCC doctrine. It was a way to harmonize “You have to be Baptized to go to HEaven” with “God will not send the innocent to Hell”. Various and sundry people have held hte belief and it is a form of “lay doctrine”, in that it is generally accepted as “fact” by many Catholics, but it has never been given an offical role in Church teachings. What Benedict did was jettison a belief that doesn’t actually appear in Church doctrine, but that many treated as such; all he did was clear the RCC cookie cache. I see it as weeding out the “divergent ideas” before the Purge of Paleo-Nazi Pope can begin in ernest</p> Limbo has never been an official part of RCC doctrine. It was a way to harmonize “You have to be Baptized to go to HEaven” with “God will not send the innocent to Hell”. Various and sundry people have held hte belief and it is a form of “lay doctrine”, in that it is generally accepted as “fact” by many Catholics, but it has never been given an offical role in Church teachings. What Benedict did was jettison a belief that doesn’t actually appear in Church doctrine, but that many treated as such; all he did was clear the RCC cookie cache. I see it as weeding out the “divergent ideas” before the Purge of Paleo-Nazi Pope can begin in ernest

]]> By: marshen http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129470 marshen Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:01:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129470 <p>Ever since Huckabee came out of the CNN debate with a bump and seems to be edging up in Iowa polls, Huckabee was a guest on every hourly Fox cable show for days after the debate. As the Rudy/Judy mini-scandal about how her security was paid for while she was still his mistress was brewing, Fox seemed to turn toward Huckabee and away from Rudy.</p> <p>Fox just reported Mitt Romney will give his “Mormon” speech thursday at the Bush library. Aparrently his advisors feel this is the time.</p> Ever since Huckabee came out of the CNN debate with a bump and seems to be edging up in Iowa polls, Huckabee was a guest on every hourly Fox cable show for days after the debate. As the Rudy/Judy mini-scandal about how her security was paid for while she was still his mistress was brewing, Fox seemed to turn toward Huckabee and away from Rudy.

Fox just reported Mitt Romney will give his “Mormon” speech thursday at the Bush library. Aparrently his advisors feel this is the time.

]]> By: Blub http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129453 Blub Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:51:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129453 <p>speaking about boxers.. that’s what these people are. Boxers. Like the utterly irrational Chinese “Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement” in the 19th century. Let’s hope that when they finally do try to stage their coup, they’ll have the same confidence in their faith that led the boxers to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the path of police cannon-fire.</p> speaking about boxers.. that’s what these people are. Boxers. Like the utterly irrational Chinese “Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement” in the 19th century. Let’s hope that when they finally do try to stage their coup, they’ll have the same confidence in their faith that led the boxers to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the path of police cannon-fire.

]]> By: aliasofwestgate http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129450 aliasofwestgate Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:50:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129450 <p>There’s reasons even as a kid i looked at those shows with total skepticism. It just didn’t ring true, and now it’s more horrifying as an adult. I can’t believe that some people are so insecure in their own sense of self to let themselves be taken in by these predators. *shudders* It makes me glad of my family’s mixture of anglican and a my dad’s quiet methodist ways. </p> <p>The dissonance of all of it all is scary, and makes me angry all at once.</p> There’s reasons even as a kid i looked at those shows with total skepticism. It just didn’t ring true, and now it’s more horrifying as an adult. I can’t believe that some people are so insecure in their own sense of self to let themselves be taken in by these predators. *shudders* It makes me glad of my family’s mixture of anglican and a my dad’s quiet methodist ways.

The dissonance of all of it all is scary, and makes me angry all at once.

]]> By: eCAHNomics http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129449 eCAHNomics Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:50:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129449 <p>When it comes to the concept of heaven, I’d be very careful about how you talk about it, whether you believe in it or not.</p> <p>My favorite religious event in the past year* is the infallible Pope’s about face on limbo. For those who are not R.C. & not familiar, limbo is where R.C.s believe you go if you were not baptized to remove Original Sin, but have committed no other sins. IIRC, limbo is just like heaven except that you never get to see the face of God. Unlike purgatory, where you can eventually graduate into heaven, you’re stuck in limbo forever.</p> <p>The Pope has now decided that unbapitzed nonsinners go directly to heaven, not passing Go nor collecting $200. Africa’s the reason. Seems like prosteltizing efforts hit a snag there on account of not having enough priests to baptize infants and their parents being put off by the notion that innocent little babies don’t go to heaven if they die. So realpolitk to the rescue. After a very long time (since St. Augustine?) of limbo being the mainstream R.C. doctrine, poof, no more.</p> <p>*Hypocrisy is not unique to religion or democracy, it’s just heavily concentrated there.</p> When it comes to the concept of heaven, I’d be very careful about how you talk about it, whether you believe in it or not.

My favorite religious event in the past year* is the infallible Pope’s about face on limbo. For those who are not R.C. & not familiar, limbo is where R.C.s believe you go if you were not baptized to remove Original Sin, but have committed no other sins. IIRC, limbo is just like heaven except that you never get to see the face of God. Unlike purgatory, where you can eventually graduate into heaven, you’re stuck in limbo forever.

The Pope has now decided that unbapitzed nonsinners go directly to heaven, not passing Go nor collecting $200. Africa’s the reason. Seems like prosteltizing efforts hit a snag there on account of not having enough priests to baptize infants and their parents being put off by the notion that innocent little babies don’t go to heaven if they die. So realpolitk to the rescue. After a very long time (since St. Augustine?) of limbo being the mainstream R.C. doctrine, poof, no more.

*Hypocrisy is not unique to religion or democracy, it’s just heavily concentrated there.

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129442 Marion in Savannah Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:45:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129442 <blockquote><p>Holy Boxers or Holy Briefs, that’s what I wanna hear about.</p> </blockquote> <p>707! The idea that the MittBot 2.0 wears Holy Mormon Underwear is indescribably creepy to me…</p>

Holy Boxers or Holy Briefs, that’s what I wanna hear about.

707! The idea that the MittBot 2.0 wears Holy Mormon Underwear is indescribably creepy to me…

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129437 Mommybrain Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:41:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129437 <p>Hear hear jayt.</p> Hear hear jayt.

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129436 Laura Doty Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:41:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/02/your-sunday-fundies/#comment-1129436 <p>Rats.</p> Rats.

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