Stonekettle Station - The Boogeyman is Gonna Get You~

[Rainforestgoddess]

http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/01/the-boogeyman-is-gonna-get-you.html

I know it sounds like I’m mocking somebody’s religion. Because I am. I’m mocking it so hard.

I’m mocking the hell out of it. Because it’s stupid. It’s ignorant. It’s a bunch of primitive apemen huddling in their cave, hiding from the storm, watching the tribe’s shaman with wide terrified eyes as he rolls the bones and tells ghost stories about the Angry Thunder God In The Sky and the lightning outside.

Here’s the thing: If the President does or does not choose to meet with a foreign leader to discuss mutual interests, it should be for good reasons. Real ones. Ones that can be articulated to the nation who elected that president and backed up with policy and precedent. This is how our founders intended America to work, they designed a government based on reason and intellect. Nowhere in our founding documents, nowhere in the Constitution, nowhere in law or precedent does it say our foreign policy should be based on Displeased Sky God Makes Angry Boom Boom!

These people keep attempting to insert their idiotic beliefs into my government and every single time they open their mouth it makes me just that much more determined to stop them.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. There is a lot to laugh at in that article.

You know, so long as the guy in the ruby slippers and the funny hat hates all the same people we do, he’s speaking for God.

Sadly, there is also a lot that is not so funny...

The “relationship” they describe is exactly, exactly, like living with an unpredictable control freak prone to fits of rage and violence, the kind where you hide the bruises and make excuses and hope that someday the son of a bitch will stop knocking you around if you can just find a way to please him.

That’s the religion Louie Gohmert believes in.

I’m not saying this is what all Christians believe, but a significant fraction do in varying degrees – particularly evangelical fanatics like Louie Gohmert.

I enjoyed the author's way of writing to make this all sound so freaking ridiculous. Because it is.

[Rainforestgoddess]

3. I really enjoy Jim Wright's blog

He seems to have a good head on his shoulders. And funny. My favourite phrase he uses is "go suck warty donkey balls".

[onager]

2. Ha!!! Thanks. "Cave Good! Fire Bad!"

Did you cross-post this to Religion yet?

[Rainforestgoddess]

4. Not at chance.

The piranhas are always circling in there. *shudder *

[AlbertCat]

5. I don't think Louie Gohmert is worried at all...

.... about god smiting the USA... except when making a "speech".

I bet it never crosses his mind when he lying in bed trying to fall asleep, or commuting from C Street House to the Capital.

Only when he has an audience do these things become important.

[Rainforestgoddess]

6. Probably true

Even more heinous if he's drumming up real fear and hatred in those that do believe his mad rantings.

[AlbertCat]

7. Even more heinous if he's drumming up real fear and hatred

Indeed!