Fundamentalists @ MindSay

OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS YOU PERVERTED FREAKS ARE GOING TO SPLIT HELL WIDE OPEN BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS GOD WANTS YOU TO DO THIS AND BLAH-DEE FUCKIN' BLAH WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK?

You know, maybe one day all you insane fundamentalist fuckers are going to realize that there isn't a single reason to believe in religion other than the fact that someone handed you a book at a young enough age for you to imbibe its message, much less take everything said book says literally, no matter how senseless and insane it is.  Not a single goddamned reason.

Therefore, if a single reason to be take any holy book literally doesn't exist, then WHY THE FUCK do we let these people out on the streets protesting, rather than in psych wards where they belong?  And don't give me that "It's faith based" bullshit either.  If you honestly think that a book that was written by HUMANS, translated GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES, and barely making sense as a coherent whole is the perfect word of God, then YOU ARE DELUSIONAL.  That, or just a complete fucking idiot.  You wanna believe in your god, do it, but don't fucking cram that "God hates this and that" bullshit down my throat when you haven't a shred of evidence to support those claims.

"I have faith that God totally hates the homosexuals and since that's part of my belief system so I should be entitled to do whatever the hell I feel like and use my faith to justify it."  DERR. 

Sorry if this seems too hateful.  I don't want any normal, rationally thinking religious people to get pissed, but holy Christ do fundamentalists piss me off.  How can someone have so much knowledge of something with his head inserted so far up his ass?

Much has been written about the Rev. Ted Haggard scandal, covering such a wide variety of topics as personal hypocrisy, the psychological dangers of being a closeted homosexual, and the rise of Christian mega-churches. But one aspect of the story that I had not previously encountered was the internal infrastructure that allowed Haggard's New Life Church to quickly and efficiently remove him from his ministry.

The New York Times reports that one of the positive steps that Haggard took, when establishing the New Life Church, was to set up a clear and orderly mechanism for guaranteeing the accountability of the Church leadership.

In many ways, Mr. Haggard had sealed his fate ... by establishing a mechanism for accountability in his church that gave a committee of his peers ultimate authority to remove him. Years ago, Mr. Haggard had asked four of his closest friends, all senior pastors of their own churches, to serve as a board of overseers. They had only one function: if Mr. Haggard was ever accused of immoral conduct, they would act as judge and jury.

Mr. Haggard spelled out his system of checks and balances in bylaws that independent churches in the United States and overseas have adopted as a model. “All of our bylaws are really set up to protect our churches from us,” said Mr. Ware, the senior pastor of Victory Church in Westminster, Colo. “The same bylaws Ted wrote were the same laws by which he was dismissed.”

I do not often have kind words to say about the actions of Christian Fundamentalists in the United States, but in this instance they have performed admirably.

With the Democrats winning control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, perhaps now the US Congress will return to its role of oversight of the Executive Branch and bring some long absent accountability to the current administration.