Just What The World Needs More Of

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Create a Great Funeral Day
Devil's Night
Haunted Refrigerator Night
Zero-Tasking Day
Reformation Sunday (Protestant)
Birthday - President John Adams' Birthday (2nd President) (and one of Amelia's favorites.  Not a very good president, but a bang-up intellectual)
Birthday - Emily Post (Author)

 

Oh, great.

 

It’s like everything stupid has coalesced into one putrid mass of destructive, disastrous idiocy.

 

A few revealing quotes:

 

“Are you ready to be a man? Are you ready to kick ass? Are you ready to grab your sword and say, ‘OK family, I’m going to lead you?’ Buckle up. This is GodMen!” – Christian Comedian Brad Stine psyching men up to take back the patriarchy.

 

Their purpose: to reassert masculinity within a church structure that they say has been weakened by feminization. – I had all sorts of clever things to say about “damn those women and their cry against being unappreciated, insulted, and devalued!”, but I can’t get past the looming Mount Doom that is exactly how much is wrong with the concept of “weakened by feminization.”

 

“No more nice guy, timid and ashamed/ We’ve had enough, cowboy up/ In the power of Jesus name/ Welcome to the battle/ A million men have got your back/ Jump up in the saddle/ Grab a sword, don’t be scared/ Be a man, grow a pair!” – Words to “Grow A Pair,” which may be a rewrite of a marching song from the Crusades.

 

This is what I get for clicking links to Newsweek.

Comments

[wyndfire.livejournal.com]

A story, by me:

I went to a gaming convention not too long ago... the hotel where the con was being held had the poor foresight of also booking a Promise Keepers convention the same weekend. Saturday night, I decided to go over to the hotel's bar and get a drink of the fruity alcoholic kind. In said bar, I was hit on no less than 4 times by men who wore a wedding ring on their finger and a Promise Keepers badge on their shirt.

Hypocrisy, its alive and well!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

You know, if there'd been an unfortunate accident bringing down one of their McChurches while they'd all been in there, I'd have been all for throwing a party for everyone they've ever known to celebrate their return to life. It would have been beautiful. I think their wives and children would have wept tears of joy at knowing they weren't going to be getting controlled, hit and yelled at by some macho prick with a God complex.

Reacting against fear that much is still letting it run their lives, no matter how much they're trying to kill their brains and hearts to make it easier for them to lie to themselves about it.

Nothing says "Love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek" like "MONSTER TRUCK RALLY SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY...!"

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

But the best unintentional quote... The edgy nature of GodMen, which he jokingly described as Promise Keepers on crack, drew him in. “I wanted the real meat,” he said. “They touch on real things here, like masturbation."

Sounds like it was just one big ol' circle jerk to me. I thrill to the thought of a rise in the number of the pitch-fork branch of christo-fascists. Rawr. /sarcasm

[viizou.livejournal.com]

I wonder if these people realize how difficult they're making it for the rest of us to be self-declared Christians? (Obviously not)

Oh well, it's not like it's the first time someone's twisted a religion into something ludicrous. At least this one is darkly humourous.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

gah! *twitch*
It depresses me that there are people out there like that.

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

.....

this makes me very sad

No, actually, it makes me wince.