American “Christians”, you are NOT being oppressed. Repeat, NOT BEING OPPRESSED.

Here is the latest in a flurry of non-reality-based memes on the subject:

How wrong is it? Let us count the ways:
Number A: they are free to say grace over their meal. Nobody ever said they couldn’t. But the meme falsely implies that they are bravely taking a stand against some mythical oppressor who seeks to stop their prayer. There is, of course, no such oppressor, but that fact matters not at all to the Fundagelicals.
Letter 2: see anybody there pelting these hard-working public servants with atheistic tracts? Nope. Most Americans don’t much care who you pray to, when, how or why.
Thirdly: assuming that the promulgators of this meme consider themselves to be Christians, they should read Rebbe Yeshuah bar Joseph’s words in Matthew:6. You know, the words about not being phony and ostentatious in their prayer.

Odds are, the people depicted had nothing to do with the meme: just people saying grace before a meal. Good on them. It’s their right to do so.

The problem is with the yahoo prostletyzers who are using this ordinary picture to try and enforce their wingnut agendas on the rest of us. This writer wishes they’d spend more time reading their Constitutions and less trying to subvert it.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky

Crazy Parents Kill Their SECOND Child With Faith Healing

Here is story of parents who have now killed two of their own children via “faith healing”. They prayed over 8-month-old Brandon instead of taking him to the doctor, and the poor little kid died.

They did this while being on probation after having done this before. Yes, they prayed another child right into the grave a few years back. They are now the murderers of two innocent children, but are not in jail.

Anybody else, anybody else, who had killed two children would be locked up. But not these two. Because why? Because God told them to do it, that’s why.

This is why we need a strong separation of church and state: so criminals can’t get away with murder by claiming a religious defense. If these two loons had been locked up for life after they killed their 2-year-old son Kent in 2009, they wouldn’t have been able to kill little Brandon last week.

It should make no difference if a parent (or anyone else) is high on Meth or high on Jesus: killing kids is killing kids.

Hopefully, this time, the “justice system” will live up to its name, and lock these two child-abusing scumbuckets up for a hundred years. Or maybe two: one for each of their victims.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky

Do You REALLY Think God Wants Morons for Followers?

Mr. Blunt and Cranky suspects that many religious people think so. At least, when they forward and share things like this:

It is hard to come to any other conclusion. Seriously, people, if God is all-powerful, then there is no way on Earth that we humans could “not allow Him in  schools”; for that  matter, there isn’t any way we could stop Him from going anywhere He wants to go.

Also, God IS “allowed” in schools: prayer has NEVER been outlawed in any school in our nation. What is not allowed is teachers forcing kids to pray in  a certain manner that the kids may not agree with. (You may have heard of this before – it is called “religious freedom”.

God gave us brains so that we may use them. Let’s all do so.

Mr. B & C

Thought for Your Sunday: If God is Omnipotent…

then He would not be barred from school buildings because of the quantity of teacher-led prayers therein: He would be there anyway.

And if God’s love lasts forever, He wouldn’t bail out on us because we failed to tattoo the Ten Commandments on the foreheads of each and every student: He would be there anyway.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky was raised to believe these things, and is sure most other People of the Book were as well. So when he sees stupid T-Shirts like this one:

The Cranky One gets even crankier. Because these people seem to think we mortals can order God about. Like, whaaaaaat? Plus, the shirt-makers did not capitalize  “You”. Idiots.

We are not more powerful than God,  and cannot “allow Him in schools”. Either God is omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal, or He isn’t. You can’t have it both ways.

Mr. B & C