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Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity turns to Joseph Smith for some ideas on cost control.

Add comment May 6th, 2012 at 05:14pm Posted by Eli

Wanker Of The Day

Shorter John Boehner to Catholic Church: It is necessary to destroy the safety net in order to save it.

April 19th, 2012 at 07:04am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and Lucy have a lot of issues to work through.

April 15th, 2012 at 02:19pm Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity is worried that science may jeopardize his job security.

April 8th, 2012 at 11:55am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Lucy attempts to stress the importance of communicating clearly.

Maybe if I tilt my head like this?

March 11th, 2012 at 03:57pm Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

The things people will do just to get out of a little crucifixion…

Don’t be sexist?  Are you in any way familiar with my work?

January 29th, 2012 at 01:43pm Posted by Eli

I’m Not Sure They Thought This Through…

From a HuffPo story about how the peculiar Mormon practice of retroactively “baptizing” dead people (often Jews) as Mormons might affect the Florida GOP primary:

Any Mormon may baptize any person posthumously. Church members have performed the ritual on Buddha, Catholic popes, 9/11 hijackers, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Elvis Presley, President Obama’s mother and even reportedly Jesus Christ.

So… That means that it was Mormons who attacked the United States on 9/11.  I can only assume Dubya didn’t know about this, otherwise he might have tried to invade Catholicism.

1 comment January 26th, 2012 at 07:19am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and the gang review some… prototypes.

Actually, sir, the chips… didn’t work with the bag.

October 23rd, 2011 at 11:29am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

A philosopher tries to help Mr. Deity figure out how to define Good.

I’m beginning to worry that Mr. Deity is using the same solution for every problem…

August 28th, 2011 at 04:21pm Posted by Eli

This Just In

Apparently the teabaggers are basically just rebranded Republican theocrats.  If they’re political independents, it’s only because the Republican Party isn’t sufficiently suffused with right-wing religious fanaticism.

But the joke’s on them, because now they’re even less popular than the religious right, and even atheists and Muslims.  Why, they’re even less popular than Obama’s record on the economy, and that’s saying something.

The Tea Party really is the best hope Obama and the Democrats have next year – that they nominate more unelectable crazies like Sharron Angle, Linda McMahon and Christine O’Donnell, and that voters turn against the teabaggers that they elected last year.  Lesser of two evils is pretty much all they have going for them next year, so they’re going to have to be pretty damn lesser to overcome the enthusiasm gap (who could have predicted that the party that strokes its base would get better turnout than the party that kicks theirs?).

1 comment August 18th, 2011 at 08:08am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

This is where it all went wrong.

August 7th, 2011 at 02:38pm Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and his brain trust struggle with the project plan for the Creation.

We can fix it in post.

July 10th, 2011 at 01:20pm Posted by Eli

Because 2000 Years Of Bigotry Can’t Be Wrong

Shorter Pat Buchanan: Prejudice… is good.  Prejudice works.

No, seriously.  And then he goes on to lament how 21st Century America is becoming intolerant of religion.

July 5th, 2011 at 07:47am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity seeks advice on applying the principles of illusion and misdirection to his creation.

Also fossils.

June 5th, 2011 at 01:20pm Posted by Eli

The Rand Dilemma

How can so many good Christian Republicans brag about being admirers of a religion-hating atheist?

Also, where did she stand on Aqua Buddha?

1 comment May 25th, 2011 at 11:21am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and Jesse try to work out how to complete the Holy Trinity.

It’s my favorite cloth, sir.

April 24th, 2011 at 05:21pm Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and John The Baptist discuss free will and the “after party”.

Perhaps not an entirely swell deal.

April 3rd, 2011 at 04:40pm Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Signs or physics?  You make the call.

March 20th, 2011 at 11:25am Posted by Eli

Mitch Daniels Wants GOP To Get Its Priorities Straight

Politico loves Mitch Daniels!  He’s a Serious Grownup who wants Republicans to focus on what’s really important!

[M]uch of the admiration is rooted in the truth-teller’s focus on the looming fiscal iceberg and willingness to tell audiences what they don’t want to hear. Better yet, the candidate pushes aside the divisive social issues that are thought to be non-negotiable with the party bases.

Daniels voiced such an idea fairly explicitly in a much-buzzed-about Weekly Standard profile last summer, calling for a “truce” in the culture wars so the political class can get down to the business of repairing the country’s finances.

In other words, cultural warfare is a waste of time – we need to focus on class warfare instead.

January 24th, 2011 at 07:06am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Some cheery talk about Hell with John The Baptist.

Christmassy!

December 19th, 2010 at 12:07pm Posted by Eli

It’s Hard Out Here For A Pope

Ah, life is so tough for Christians these days.  Not only are they the most persecuted religious group in the world according to Pope Benedict, but those mean gay bullies knocked them down and stole their lunch money rainbows.

The straight (but not necessarily Christian people) have tried to retaliate by appropriating civil unions, but it’s just not the same.

December 17th, 2010 at 07:20am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity and Larry discuss the implementation of free will.

Not being able to kill people with our thoughts: Bug or feature?

November 28th, 2010 at 02:13pm Posted by Eli

The Liberation Of Christmas

Looks like the War On Christmas is almost over:

Randy Sharp, director-special projects at the AFA, said that in the past five years the group has seen the percentage of retailers recognizing Christmas in their advertising rise from 20 percent to 80 percent. Just eight retailers are left on the group’s list of “Companies Against Christmas.”

It’s also become more challenging to find a large, national retailer to single out for the group’s annual boycott. This year, Dick’s Sporting Goods, which boasts an online “Holiday Shop,” will be the target of the boycott. The AFA is expected to send an Action Alert to its 2.3 million supporters on Friday morning. That alert will urge shoppers to boycott Dick’s between now and Dec. 25. It also calls for consumers to e-mail President-Chief Operating Officer Joseph Schmidt and then call Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Hennion. The retailer declined to comment. In the past, Target, Sears, Gap and Walmart have been targets.

“We’ve had a complete flip,” Mr. Sharp says. “The politically correct holiday verbiage is going away. Companies are getting the message.”

Indeed, retailers that have found themselves the target of boycotts or media and consumer scrutiny have responded swiftly in recent years. Lowe’s “Family Trees” were renamed “Christmas Trees,” while Walmart’s “Holiday Shop” is now a “Christmas Shop.” Midway through the 2005 holiday season, Target, facing a boycott, announced its advertising messages would become more specific and include references to Christmas. And last year, Gap responded to a boycott by issuing a press release highlighting the use of the phrase “Merry Christmas” in its upcoming Old Navy ads.

Thank goodness, the retailers have finally been freed from the bullying and oppression of the PC police!  Now they can enjoy the same feeling of freedom that the Iraqis felt seven years ago!

November 23rd, 2010 at 11:26am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Luci is decidedly underwhelmed with the roles Mr. Deity has to offer.

November 7th, 2010 at 03:20pm Posted by Eli

Juxtaposition Of The Day

Item 1:

A Defense Department survey of military service members finds that a majority of them would not object to serving alongside openly gay troops, according to multiple people familiar with the findings.

Item 2:

An Air Force Academy survey found that 41 percent of cadets who identified themselves as non-Christian said they were subjected to unwanted proselytizing at least once or twice last year.

Tell me again who it is that’s undermining morale and unit cohesion?

1 comment October 29th, 2010 at 07:59am Posted by Eli

Epic Constitution Fail

Christine O’Donnell, constitutional scholar:

O’Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons’ position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine.

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that “religious doctrine doesn’t belong in our public schools.”

“Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” O’Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O’Donnell asked: “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?”

Wow.  She’s running for United States Senate and she has absolutely no idea what the First Amendment says.  And Republican voters thought she would make a better United States Senator than Mike Castle.

My favorite part:

“You actually audibly heard the crowd gasp,” Widener University political scientist Wesley Leckrone said after the debate….

Of course, if it had been a Tea Party rally, she probably would have gotten a standing ovation… from the same people who say they want to protect the Constitution from Obama and them damn librul Democrats.

1 comment October 19th, 2010 at 11:48am Posted by Eli

You Say You Want A Revolution…

The Orlando Sentinel has a story about David Barton, a Glenn Beck/Tea Party favorite who is an America Fuck Yeah! evangelical who distorts history to claim that the Founders intended the US to be a Christian nation and that the First Amendment was only intended to protect religion from government intervention and not vice versa.  But this is my favorite part:

Wednesday, Barton’s penchant for absolutes was on display. He told his audience that of the 192 members of the United Nation’s, America stood alone as a beacon of stability.

“We’re a very blessed nation,” he said. “We happen to be the only nation that does not average a revolution every 30 to 40 years. Of 192 nations, we’re the only one with that type of stability.”

Asked later about the accuracy of that – after all, Canada and England had pretty stable 20^th Centuries – Barton said he was speaking “figuratively.”

It sure is a shame that so many of his teabagger fans are so eager to spoil our awesome revolution-free streak.  I’m sure it makes him very sad, and he probably urges them to give such talk a rest all the time.

September 17th, 2010 at 07:27am Posted by Eli

Terry Jones Even Worse Than We Thought

Oh. My. God.

Here is a snippet of transcript from CNN on September 10:

MALVEAUX: Hundreds of people in Cologne, Germany, have been watching this story unfold with special interest, because they are members of Jones’ former church.

(…)

HEINZ KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: He was a charismatic leader. I think he was — the preference was very strong for us.

BLACK: Jones’ church, the Christian Community of Cologne, became the focus of their lives. Jones insisted on it, borrowing an infamous Nazi motto.  . . .

H. KOOP: And we worked the whole week, also Sunday and Saturday.

BLACK (on camera): For the church?

ELKA KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: Yes.

H. KOOP: For the church, yes.

E. KOOP: Work made free.

BLACK: Is that what he said?

E. KOOP: Yes.

BLACK: Work makes you free?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

That’s right, Terry Jones adopted the motto of the Dachau concentration camp. In Germany.  But that’s not all:

Outside contact, even with family for weddings and funerals, is prohibited for students who attend the Dove World Outreach Academy in Gainesville. The academy members live on property owned by TS and Company, work in the selling, packing and shipping of furniture and are unpaid.

So not only does Jones think the Dachau motto was just swell, but he has actually convinced parents to pay him to put their kids in an honest-to-God work camp.  This guy truly makes my skin crawl.

September 16th, 2010 at 07:30am Posted by Eli

Selective Lone-Nuttery

Stanley Fish had a nice column in yesterday’s NYT pointing out the cynical inconsistency of right-wing reaction to terrorist attacks, depending on the perpetrator:

In the brief period between the bombing and the emergence of McVeigh, speculation had centered on Arab terrorists and the culture of violence that was said to be woven into the fabric of the religion of Islam.

But when it turned out that a white guy (with the help of a few of his friends) had done it, talk of “culture” suddenly ceased and was replaced by the vocabulary and mantras of individualism: each of us is a single, free agent; blaming something called “culture” was just a way of off-loading responsibility for the deeds we commit; in America, individuals, not groups, act; and individuals, not groups, should be held accountable. McVeigh may have looked like a whole lot of other guys who dressed up in camouflage and carried guns and marched in the woods, but, we were told by the same people who had been mouthing off about Islam earlier, he was just a lone nut, a kook, and generalizations about some “militia” culture alive and flourishing in the heartland were entirely unwarranted.

(…)

It is wrong, we hear, to regard the proposed mosque or community center as an ordinary exercise of free enterprise and freedom of religion by the private owners of a piece of property. It is, rather, a thumb in the eye or a slap in the face of the 9/11 victims and their families, a potential clearinghouse for international terrorist activities, a “victory mosque” memorializing a great triumph of jihad and a monument to the religion in whose name and by whose adherents the dreadful deed was done.

But according to the same folks who oppose the mosque because of what it stands for, Michael Enright’s act doesn’t stand for anything and is certainly not the product of what Time magazine calls a growing “American strain of Islamophobia.” Instead, The New York Post declares, the stabbing is “the act of a disturbed individual who is now in custody,” and across the fold of the page columnist Jonah Goldberg says that “one assault doesn’t a national trend make” and insists that “we shouldn’t let anyone suggest that this criminal reflects anybody but himself.”

The formula is simple and foolproof (although those who deploy it so facilely seem to think we are all fools): If the bad act is committed by a member of a group you wish to demonize, attribute it to a community or a religion and not to the individual. But if the bad act is committed by someone whose profile, interests and agendas are uncomfortably close to your own, detach the malefactor from everything that is going on or is in the air (he came from nowhere) and characterize him as a one-off, non-generalizable, sui generis phenomenon.

How many violent homicidal right-wing crazies do we have to see before we see some conservatives start to admit that maybe, just maybe, that DHS report was right about the dangers of right-wing extremism, not to mention all the provocative teabagger rhetoric about 2nd Amendment remedies and watering the tree of liberty?  Or are murder and incitement okay as long as you pretend that they’re motivated by patriotism?

August 31st, 2010 at 07:48am Posted by Eli

Sunday Mr. Deity Blogging

Mr. Deity may in fact be in need of a green card…

August 29th, 2010 at 01:38pm Posted by Eli