Blasphemies and other Forms of Artistic Expression

Just a bit of Xmas . . .

Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity. Unknown

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.       Anne Lamott

Xian Witch-Doctor Falwell abandoned by Conservative politicians. I'm sure there's a made-for-TV movie in the works for this bum (hell, Rev. Leroy Jenkins had one!!). Conservative politicians avoided the funeral like the plague; I'm guessing that the whippoorwills circling overhead made a few of them nervous. More likely, the Neo-Cons had already sucked the well dry. You wouldn't shed a tear for a used tissue, would you? This bit was on the BBC News site : "However, many leading Republicans decided not to attend the funeral service in a sign that the political influence of the religious right over the party was waning, correspondents say. President George W Bush sent a mid-level aide to represent him." The fact that Bush avoided the funeral was a bit surprising - I'm supposing that Falwell's 'homecoming' was to be the Evangelical event of the year. According to Dave Zweifel of The Capital Times: . . . if Jerry Falwell was the great Christian t...

BBC NEWS | Americas | US evangelist Jerry Falwell dies Good luck! Too bad he waited so long to cash in your ticket, eh? That's OK - there'll be plenty of torment and anguish to spare when your boys Swaggart and Robertson join ya! Hoped 'ya packed some marshmallows!

BBC NEWS | Americas | Storm in US over chocolate Jesus Chocolate Jeezus, Chocolate Jeezus, ridin' on the dashboard of mah car . . . It's finally Happened! The ultimate and definitive connection between the pagan and xian holiday - Chocolate Jesus!! I guess there's no suprise that the Catholics are up in arms about it. I'm sure a little bit of research would turn up an objection from our pal Pat Robertson, too; this crowd's all too predictable. I'm curious if the objection is to the material or the subject matter. Well, since the pope is a former hitler youth (remember the german sermon at the conentration camp!?) and the pedophelia scandals, the Catholics need something to feel righteously and morally superior. The Catholic League, which describes itself as the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organisation, also criticised the timing of the exhibition. "The fact that they chose Holy Week shows this is calculated, and the timing is deliberate,...