Blog PostsFriends | BlogIn case you thought the Southern Baptists were just racist and homophobic:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/us/southern-baptist-movement-women-pastors.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharewhen religion ruled the world“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”― Ruth Hurmence Green waiting for the chatroom to opennikray its 6AM and a portentious quiet has descended on the room. Nik takes up a defensive position at the snack table, nervously checking that his whoopee cushion was charged and at the ready.nikray then.....he <waited> nikray They often came at dawn. He shifted to a more covered position near the fruit salad and resumed his watch nikray Perhaps they would not come, eliminating the need for room greetings and room greeters entirely today. He accepted that possibility stoically, as he always did. nikray There was no need to think about it. It simply was. It was the whoopee cushion that consumed his thoughts the priest and the chiefA missionary had worked for 5 long years to convert a previously uncontacted tribe in the Amazon but without success. They would come to church for the free food and listen politely, but then return to their heathen ways.Finally he assembled his disinterested flock and angrily threatened them with eternal hellfire and damnation if they didn't accept Jesus as their Savior. After the service the old chief approached him, only to get a proper dressing down from the irate preacher. "You knew nothing of Jesus before I arrived!" he thundered. "And this is the thanks I get!" Finally the chief broke his silence. "Let me ask you, white father, does your god send to this terrible hell everybody who doesn't accept his son? Even people who never heard of him?" "Certainly not," responded the priest. "That would be unfair and unjust. Ours is a just god." "Then why," shouted the chief brandishing his spear threateningly, "did you tell us?" Arundhati Roy on flags"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”On the menuFor the next time you bait s hook |