July 2012
79 posts
My parents are watching John Stossel. He did a segment on fear mongering in the media and then followed that up with a segment on how the EPA is killing people. by causing unemployment. and when people are unemployed they get unhealthy and die. Regulations are killing us! Oh the humanity!
Cosmic Plainspeak →
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I got bored of whimsy and arm parties so I started a blog where I get all serious and junk.
“Wiccans, Pagans, Jews, Atheists, Muslims are all victims of persecution and oppression in America and yet any right or protection for any of these groups are often used by Christians to claim persecution of themselves. As a Christian in the U.S. I am determined to become more aware of the unearned privileges that I enjoy in hopes that I will be more aware of how my privileges affect those who are not Christian so that I might act more justly in the days to come by being considerate and respectful of those who are not of the Christian faith.”
—Christian Privilege (via azspot)
“The point is this: Douglas Wilson is a liar and an unprincipled hack. And it’s important that we say so, publicly, not because we want to be rude or argumentative or judgmental, but because lying hacks who also happen to be outspokenly Christian are bad advertising. We want as many people as possible who come across Wilson’s work to know that he doesn’t speak for Christians. So it is nauseating, then, to watch that video I linked to the other day and see John Piper praising Douglas Wilson because he “gets the gospel.” No, he doesn’t get it. No, I’ve never read any of his theological books and I don’t need to. If you “get the gospel,” your circle of empathy and moral concern begins to extend beyond white males. Wilson’s not there yet. If you “get the gospel,” you try to stop being a lying hack. Of course, as Christians we all experience our daily failures to get the gospel and truly live it out as we should. But most of us have some awareness of those failures and are trying to do better. It is another thing entirely to proudly publish, and defend for years, works of lies that espouse ideas contrary to the gospel.”
—Confirmed: Douglas Wilson, Slavery Denier
“The freedom to kill, maim, commit wanton acts of violence, and to be anti-social (as well as pathological) without having your actions reflect on your own racial group, is one of the ultimate, if not in fact most potent, examples of White Privilege in post civil rights era America. Instead of a national conversation where we reflect on what has gone wrong with young white men in our society—a group which apparently possesses a high propensity for committing acts of mass violence—James Holmes will be framed as an outlier.”
—What James Holmes and the Colorado Movie Massacre Tell Us About White (Male) Privilege
From the Fig Tree: The Language of Abuse →
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Sometimes, I am not entirely certain that our actions actually do speak louder than our words. Or at least, that the wounds made by either can run anything but equally as deep.
Two days ago, I stumbled upon the response written by Rachel Held Evans to a post made on The Gospel Coalition…
“If you are a so-called job creator in the country, even if the jobs you create are in India or China, you are legally entitled to wonderful things like offshore tax havens…or $77,000 in business deductions for dressage horse competition expenses. Yeah $77,000 tax break to send your horse to the fucking prom. Here’s what Romney doesn’t get. Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse, that’s a little offensive to people, especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.”
—Jon Stewart (via azspot)
