1. David Wood defends his satire of Muhammad and Islam (it looks like this was filmed before Wood's most recent "mockery" which involved the "desecration" of the Quran):
The above is an excerpt, but the complete video is here:
2. I left my own comments regarding Wood's latest "mockery" in Peter's previous post.
CREED:
Bethesda pic.twitter.com/qSgCNk1zi7
— maria viti (@selfdeclaredref) June 2, 2020
EVANGELISM:
I pledge to continue opposing racism & hate. To set aside my implied right to silence, inaction, & comfort, and act to leverage my privilege to make a difference. Join me by nominating 5 others to do the same. @jamesbeck_ATS @JuanCCeledonMD @drtishawang @laxswamy @NitinSeam
— Graham Carlos (@GrahamCarlos) June 4, 2020
TITHING:
Spending my day donating. Join me if you have the means. Any amount counts. Will post links where you can contribute, starting with this one #BLM https://t.co/4af7NG3oNq
— Dylan O'Brien (@dylanobrien) May 31, 2020
WORSHIP:
You weren’t allowed to go to church for the last three months but apparently you could have gotten together for a dance party. Well, as long as you have the right politics of course.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 4, 2020
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SAINTS:
TIME's new cover: Say their names https://t.co/nOM5sqwVkS pic.twitter.com/tgzEcLn2ds
— TIME (@TIME) June 4, 2020
ANTI-SCIENCE:
OUT: COVID-19 is so dangerous that you can't even visit your loved one in the hospital even if they're dying.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 4, 2020
IN: Hospital staff can go outside and applaud protesters, many of who, are walking with without a mask or social distancing.
It's really hard to reconcile those things. https://t.co/SLqCwRGVdw
REPENTANCE:
Such an absolute joke pic.twitter.com/J7MQnUZ3YP
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 4, 2020
APOSTASY:
Matt Yglesias getting redpilled will be a 2020 highlight. https://t.co/UYAA4KnzRI
— neontaster (@neontaster) June 4, 2020
From George Orwell's 1984:
The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak—was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
A Catholic-Protestant meme war kicked off on Facebook when a couple of Catholics initiated it. Paul Manata had glorious responses, as did several other Protestants. In fact, I'd say Paul single-handedly won the war. Cameron Bertuzzi thought Protestants had lost the war...until he saw Paul's responses, then he completely reversed judgment. My contributions are below. NB: This kind of humor won't suit those who are easily offended. So of course I'll start with (probably) the most offensive one.
It's often hard enough to know what to wear each day, but all the more so in a pandemic! What's de rigueur in a plague?
Certainly one needs a mask to protect from breathing in contagions - or out! Yet a mask could take many different shapes and sizes.
Likewise one needs to have sufficient places on one's person to carry or store basic medical supplies. Would that be best realized in outer pockets or inner linings? Would a utility belt work?
We wouldn't wish to limit our range of motion with too much apparel or too many accessories.
No doubt the spectrum of regalia could range from cloaks and capes to more threadbare options.
I'm sure we could continue to multiply issues to address in one's dress. But theory becomes tedious. Let us move onto substance!
Might I offer some of our finest Spring selections:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-toss'd to me!
Have people forgotten that a virus is a living entity?
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) February 26, 2020
As a vegan and humanitarian, I welcome all refugees of any species.
And yes, that includes the coronavirus. #BeKind
Quarantine is just infection shaming. Stop the hate
— Shaun (@DubbleH33lix) February 26, 2020
Agreed. We must respect #COVIDー19's right to life. ✊🏽
— 🌈✊🏾🧕🏿Clunge Fairy ☪️♀️🇻🇪 (@ConceptualMinge) February 26, 2020
But if the pathogen in question should become pregnant and wish to abort the living entity growing inside it then that's an entirely different matter.
MY👏VIRUS👏MY👏CHOICE👏
1. On the one hand, the Catholics railing against Pachamama will accept the Blessed Virgin Mary in her various racial/ethnic forms across various places at various times (e.g. Medjugorje, Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe).
On the other hand, these same Catholics won't accept Pachamama as Our Lady of the Amazon despite the fact that Pachamama is clearly the Blessed Virgin Mary under a different name! Pity the indigenous Amazonians who haven't had much of a break since the Spanish and Portugese made landfall in South America.
Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr.
John Randolph vs. Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln vs. James Shields.
Sam Houston vs. William White.
Andrew Jackson vs. everyone, though most famously Charles Dickinson.
As Americans, we used to have a fine tradition of duels among our political leaders. Regrettably, that no longer exists today.
That's why I propose we bring back dueling among politicians!
It'd help clean the moral morass that is DC. It'd save taxpayers money if politicians eliminated themselves.
At the very least, let's start with a test run: the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates. After all, they've already exchanged heated words, but I'm sure they'd love to exchange more than mere words. And it'd be a benefit for them inasmuch as it'd help narrow their crowded field.
Of course, I realize the Democrats are anti-guns. In that case, we could hand each of them an alternate weapon of their choice. For example, it'd seem appropriate to give Warren a tomahawk. Beto a broken alcohol bottle. Kamala Harris already has shooting daggers for eyes. Perhaps a jian or katana for Andrew Yang? Pete Buttigieg might wish to call in a real man to fight in his stead. Marianne Williamson will undoubtedly harness happy thoughts. Bernie can bring a nanny. And Biden? Biden doesn't need a weapon because he's creepy enough on his own, at least as long as he's dueling a female.
If this works out, I don't necessarily have any objections to moving onto Republicans like Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie, John Boehner, James Comey, Bill Weld, etc.
As many know, there's a movement to storm Area 51.
Many Americans demand to know what the government has been hiding all these years. Specifically, many Americans wish to see the alien bodies and alien technology that the government has kept under wraps. Americans have the right to know! The truth is out in there...somewhere!
It'd also be nice to know whether JFK, Elvis, and 2Pac are still alive. And how they escaped from the clutches of Bubba Ho-tep.
However, the US Air Force has issued a stern warning:
What started as a tongue-in-cheek plan by UFO enthusiasts to storm a notoriously secretive U.S. Air Force base to “see them aliens” has turned into a national security issue. The U.S. Air Force has now offered a word of caution to the more than half a million people who said they would be attending the Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us" in September: "[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces," spokeswoman Laura McAndrews told The Washington Post. "The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.” Despite the warning, users are still posting memes theorizing the best way to break into the top-secret facility on the event page, where organizers said, "If we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets."
There's likewise evidence the organizers are in collusion with the Russians due to identical strategies in war: send more people than bullets.
A key problem for people who wish to storm Area 51 is that the US military possesses the Active Denial System (ADS) which emits a non-lethal "heat ray" against targets:
However, I believe there's a perfectly simple and relatively inexpensive way to foil the ADS: people merely need to make sure to cover their entire bodies with body armor consisting of aluminum foil because aluminum foil can deflect these emissions from the ADS. For maximal protection, people should fashion this aluminum foil into the shape of a hat.
Apparently some Christians have started a petition to cancel the tv show Good Omens:
1. I presume these Christians who started a petition to cancel Good Omens are well-intentioned. However, the petition is counterproductive if its aim is to get people not to notice let alone watch the show. If anything, this is going to drum up more viewers.
2. Good Omens is based on a book of the same name written by secular atheists or agnostics Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, though dedicated to "the memory of G. K. Chesterton" with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Both the book and the show are satire. Mostly satire against Catholicism (and/or high church Anglicanism), which is worth satirizing in many respects.
3. However, even as satire against Christianity in general, Good Omens doesn't get Christianity right enough to accurately skewer Christianity. The most obvious example is Good Omens pits good and evil, heaven and hell, and God and the devil against one another as if Christianity is a dualistic religion. Hence, even as satire Good Omens misses its mark if its mark is Christianity. Why get worked up over a work that so widely misses its target?
4. Perhaps some non-Christians believe Christianity truly is what the show depicts Christianity to be. If so, I presume they're most likely naive or ill-informed. I don't know that there's much that can be done for the naive. However, it's a different story for the ill-informed. That is, it's not necessarily a good idea to push to cancel the show, but I would think it's a good idea to use the show as a jumping off point to inform people about true Christianity.
5. It seems to me Good Omens is in the satirical tradition of Horace rather than Juvenal. It's lightly humorous satire that doesn't take itself too seriously. It's absurd by design. I suspect these Christians calling for the show's cancellation are mistaking Good Omens for Juvenalian satire.
6. Not to mention, in our political and sociocultural context (i.e. the US), the push to cancel a show because it doesn't agree with one's beliefs or values smacks of censorship or something like it. Of course, Christians in America would be opposed if secularists tried to petition to ban the Bible or Christian literature - or perhaps even a satirical work against atheism or evolution.
7. In any case, I think a better response might be to laugh off Good Omens as ridiculous fare rather than entertaining it in such a serious or sober manner as to call for its cancellation. After all, Gaiman himself has laughed off the petition, with the assumption that the petition is taking the show more seriously than he is. If the show's creator doesn't take his own show seriously, then why should Christians?
I've sadly spoken to many Muslims. All they knew of the Christian response to their beliefs was either ignorance or mockery. And they were shocked when they discovered there were Christians who knew what they believed and were able to interact with them on a respectful basis and not just simply mock them…I lament the attitude Christians have towards the Muslim people.
I've sadly spoken to many drag queens. All they knew of the Christian response to their beliefs was either ignorance or mockery. And they were shocked when they discovered there were Christians who knew what they believed and were able to interact with them on a respectful basis and not just simply mock them…I lament the attitude Christians have towards the predatory drag queens at public libraries and gay pride parades.
I just watched the section of James White's Dividing Line where he talks about David Wood and Vocab Malone's satirical series "Muhammad's Boom Boom Room". White begins his remarks about Wood and Vocab's series shortly after 1 hour 16 minutes and ends around 1 hour 24 minutes. Respectfully:
