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sometimes.

like when a Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read regarding a ‘Unique Living Human Being’ that a patient may wish to have surgically removed.

fuckity-fuckless, fucktarded, fuckmongering fuckheads.

(sidenote: the word “fuckheads” spell-checks okay in FireFox 3. whoda fucking thunkit? wow “fucking” spell-checks, too! fuckin-a!)

in related news, according to that same article it appears the anti-abortion crowd is indeed once again going to attempt to shove anti-abortion legislation down our collective throats for the November 4 ballot. which no doubt means we’ll be seeing much more of the over-make-upped (and yet still it’s not enough) fucktarded (literally) hypocrite (who had an abortion herself and somehow apparently managed to dodge her mother’s own coat hanger to boot), Leslee Unruh and her abstinence-only program that won’t even encourage teenagers to dry-hump for Jeebus.

heh. on the other hand, i fucking LOVE living in south dakota.

Some of you know me, some of you don’t. You can learn more about me by picking your way through the rants over at my blog should you be so inclined. Feel free not to.

So, despite my Catholicity I somehow got to blog over here with the Commander. Smell me for a week! Whoo hoo. Finally - I can roll with the cool kids.

Oh… you mean Commander Other is not a cool kid? Maybe I have been duped!

In all seriousness, I can barely keep up with my blog. Plus other bloggers have extended invites to me to blog at their place. I have always come up dry with the guest blogging in general.

Somehow I have an idea for this place. Yes indeed I do! It will be explored in the next two – three posts I write.

That is presuming the Commander lets me stick around and that you all do not pelt me with virtual rocks and garbage.

Disclaimer – I am a practicing Catholic with a very open mind. I would self-define as a very liberal Catholic who would not be welcomed with open arms by that German man with the red shoes.

For the record, I do not find him grandfatherly and I don’t think his visit was a success, not that I paid much attention to it. Beyond that, many of you and I probably disagree beyond that, so let’s not get into right here, ok? In fact I am here to write about pretty much the opposite of Catholicism.

But we are not here to discuss that today.

One last disclaimer. I could care less what you believe in readers. Worship God, a rock, a tree, a pencil sharpener or nothing at all. Flying Spaghetti Monster? No problem Whatever makes you happy. I do want to say, please don’t go hatin’ on me, as I am not hatin’ on you. OK? OK.

More about that at another time.
What I would like to discuss today is based on my reading the words from this study recently:

The survey shows that a significant number of Americans would be reluctant to vote for a well-qualified candidate if he or she were a member of a particular religious group, especially a Muslim (38%). But many more express reservations about voting for a candidate without religion than one with a specific faith (52%). In all, 64% of Americans admit that a candidate’s religion, or lack thereof, could lead them to vote against a well-qualified candidate from their own party.

What kind of f*ckery is that? Holy crap. Let me repeat - direct from the study - what really got me going:

In all, 64% of Americans admit that a candidate’s religion, or lack thereof, could lead them to vote against a well-qualified candidate from their own party.

Excuse me? Oh, I forgot - Atheists just don’t love America. What crap! Frankly, I think the current administration just does not love America. It infuriates me!

The fact that people will not vote for an agnostic or atheist is 100% prejudicial! If someone were qualified but not practicing a faith, 64% of Americans would not vote for them? It shocks and upsets me.

That is so wrong. This just shows the utter superficial inanity that in a majority of Americans. So much for land of the free and all that horseshit.

As for me, me - believer in Jesus and attender of daily mass, I want a qualified candidate. Please. Please. Their gender, race, nationality, faith - it matters not. An intelligent person is just that. Can we have one please?

In addition, I heard this interview with Greg Epstein and the same study comes up. Greg Epstein, in case you did not click into the link, is the Humanist chaplain at Harvard. He is an atheist who works tirelessly to promote the idea that you do not have to worship a diety to be a good human being. More about him in a future post.

Imagine that? I can.

So let’s talk about that for a minute as I think many of you are indeed atheists.

Why do people hate atheists?

Well let us turn back the hands of time to that ancient epoch called the 1950’s. The evil convergence of the Cold War era and Joseph McCarthy were major contributors.

Oh yeah – and the Kennedy family and the Catholic Church. It is true- it must be said. The forces of communism (which if you really read and study Scripture from the early church, was kinda sorta socialista i’m just sayin’…) were of such a paramount evil that they had to be vilified.

You will hear me say a lot about the whole notion of vilification in the next few days, and in all directions.

The idea then was to create non-separating distinctions. This is pretty common in power structures like churches and governments. It is also the use of fear to control thoughts. It sucks.

Then fast forward to Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech in 1983 and you find some evidence of the same thing. Communism bad! Evil! Godless! As if evil is not alive and well in every single religious practice and denomination.

Does it surprise anyone at all that May 1 is Worker Day - equated with Communism and in our fine (ick i taste the throw up in my mouth) nation today we celebrate this day.

As a praying person it makes me ill and deeply uncomfortable.

In the toxic mixing of Communism and Atheism, you all got a very bad rap indeed.

At age 50 and having grown up in the heart of the rhetoric about the evils of communism (we feared it like today’s germs or terrorism is feared) this was the very bottom pit of hell.

Which is just stupid.

So that is it for today. More will follow as we explore the theme of how atheism in this country has become vilified.This will be my theme for the next couple of posts as we explore how atheists have been decried and that apparently many “thinking” Americans still would not want one as president.

To be continued…