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Joe. My. God.: God Is Our Air Traffic Controller
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Seen on Joe. My. God.:

There's an amusing discussion over at Fark over this letter to a Michigan newspaper:

On the Feb. 8 "60 Minutes" program, we were captivated while viewing the Katie Couric interview of the crew and passengers of Flight 1549. However, we were struck there was not one mention of God, who directs pilots of planes and secures the safety of passengers. We have written CBS and asked them for more realistic programming. Help protect our freedoms. Write CBS about this.

Some of my own favorite responses:
  • "Because he didn't want to talk about how god threw birds at his plane?"
  • "I've seen what happens when you trust God to land a plane. He favors fiery death."
  • God must have been so angry about this, he lost track of that plane over Buffalo.
  • I like to think of it like God doesn't have Tivo. He was watching the Hudson carefully, he threw in some geese to get the show going and then his cell went off because he got a text from Zeus. He turned to read the text (which ended up being a gif of some guy wagging his penis to a Rodney Carrington song) and missed the whole thing. ME DAMNIT! No rewind, no pause, just wait until they show the repeat later in the week.

I learned something today
Mike - Los Angeles
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(This is only tangentially related to Prop 8...)

Many of you know I used to be a member of the LDS church (commonly known as the Mormon church.)

For a period of time, I went through a program designed to help gay Mormons overcome "Same Sex Attraction," also known as SSA. We were told that if we had faith, worked very hard, and believed... that God would help us triumph over our desires and become straight. (Never mind the abysmal success rate of the program, but I digress.)

I just discovered this interesting little nugget on the church's website:

While many Latter-day Saints, through individual effort, the exercise of faith, and reliance upon the enabling power of the Atonement, overcome same-gender attraction in mortality, others may not be free of this challenge in this life.
 
Aha! So let me see if I read this right. You can fight and fight all your life, pray, have faith, do all the right things, but you still might be gay until the day you die!?

I can't believe people actually believe this bullshit.

Blasphemy
Mike - Fuzzbelly sketch
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Kathy Griffin's Jesus remark cut from Emmy show
Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:31PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic Kathy Griffin's "offensive" remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be cut from a pre-taped telecast of the show, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday.

Griffin made the provocative comment on Saturday night as she took the stage of the Shrine Auditorium to collect her Emmy for best reality program for her Bravo channel show "My Life on the D-List."

"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus," an exultant Griffin said, holding up her statuette. "Suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now."

Asked about her speech backstage a short time later, an unrepentant Griffin added, "I hope I offended some people. I didn't want to win the Emmy for nothing."

The speech drew fire from a leading Roman Catholic group, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which condemned Griffin's remarks as "obscene and blasphemous."

"It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, 'Suck it, Muhammad,' there would have been a very different reaction," Catholic league president Bill Donohue said in a statement posted on the group's Web site. He called on TV academy president Dick Askin to denounce Griffin's "hate speech" and on Griffin to apologize.

Full story from Reuters.

I don't even know where to begin.  The guy says "it is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, 'Suck it, Muhammad,' there would have been a very different reaction."  Yeah, someone might've been killed.

My teacher told me I should never tell a lie...
WWMJBD?
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While I'm on a Mormon kick... anyone remember this commercial from the 80's?



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