To Nathan Tamm: FUCK YOU!!!!!!

Sissie letter-writer.

Welcome to Seattle. I think that you will find the local culture and comunity standards to differ significantly from those in rural Kitsap County.

As to your point that letters to the editor do not convey the urgency and persuasive force of acts of violence, that was well known among the Christians durning the Cruisades. They put down their quill pens, rushed to Jerusalem, cut the heads off of Muslems and Jews, loaded the heads into their catapults and pepperd the town with flying severed heads. This had a far more substancial effect on the locals than any letter to the editor of an alternative weekly newspaper.

Perhaps you should consider storming Seattle with your Christian breatheren, and starting your own inquision. I'm certain they would never expect it.

In the mean time, you might want to hurry home and let the pigs out before they ruin the furniture.

"Perhaps this is because offended Christians merely write Letters to the Editor, instead of burning down embassies."

Yeah, except for the occassional abortion clinic or gay bar but those people deserve to die anyway.

Kinda like how Marmaduke is offensive.

Shut the fuck up asshole.

Love,

Jesus

The Stranger ran the Mohammed cartoons despite the risk of a backlash. Obviously, anyone is fair game, even those who burn down embassies or blow up abortion clinics. In short, grow up.

There really isn't anything funnier than someone claiming, with a straight face, that a modern scientific breakthrough is wrong and/or evil because it contradicts the 3000 year old mythology of goat herders. The only thing that could be funnier is how seriously these denoucements are taken by our culture, if it wasn't so deeply terrifying.

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How dare you cast aspersions at this flock's sincere attempt to channel the wisdom of the Prince of Peace. We are all free to worship him in our own way, be it through bible-study, obsession over baked goods with uncanny holy likenesses, or through do-it-yourself stigmata kits. We don't get upset when you ingest our lord or drink his blood, please don't throw a fit when we mock up what his text messages would be like.

Which by the way is assigned reading for the Politics of Religion class at WWU

P.S. Dan gave a great talk

Dear Infrequent:

It is in the nature of religious conservatism to suggest that attitudes and actions should not be subject to change over time. Even as generations and centuries pass, what is right is right.

To suggest that living Christians have evolved in beyond the Crusades, pogroms, Inquisition, Missions to Indians in advance of genocide in the American west, the religious underpinnings of slavery, the KKK, and abortion clinic bombers and assassins.

Of course at each of these times there were other Christians who opposed these things, but that is a different tradion than the tradion that Christianity is unchanging over time.

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If the writer is upset about a little joke about his God then I hope he also calls out other Christians on their own bigotry.

If it turns out that your God is real then those who mock him will go to the lake'o fire. The people being attacked by Christians feel that pain here and now.

Your religion and its particular deity
will get back what they dish out.

and sorry, lola, i stand corrected. it is owner-man. as i am now agreeing with you, please do not kill me as you and your lesbian christian ilk are so inclinded to do.

In the U.S. the first ten amendments to the Constitution trump your ten commandments. Get over it.

You obviously forgot what rag you were reading, dumbass. Go pray to jesus for some common sense, bitch.

Signed,
Bemused reader

Typical beleagured christian bullshit. Sure, they can stomp all over the rights of women, demonize gays, bomb abortion clinics, molest children, and stir up righteous hatred for everyone who isn't like them, but don't make fun of them! It's so un-Christian!

Assholes.

Anyway, maybe Nate's ticked at references to the whole spikes-through-the-hands thing being made in a jocular way? I wonder if he saw Dan Savage's Dec 22, 2005 column then? As a regular Stranger reader, he should have. It's clearly one of the greatest observations on Christianity made this century in an American city's weekly alternative newspaper.

Anyway, I quote:

" I'm presenting a heartwarming selection of how-I-lost-my-virginity horror stories submitted by my readers. What do these stories have to do with Christmas? Well, wasn't Jesus Christ responsible for the most traumatic how-I-lost-my-virginity horror story ever told? Not His deflowering: I mean His mother's. As everyone knows, Mary was a virgin when she conceived and a virgin when she gave birth. This means, of course, that Jesus busted His own mom's hymen, kicking it down like a door on His way into the world. And you thought your first time was traumatic! "

Maybe I'm naive, or nostalgia has clouded my memory, but I don't remember all this whiny Christian victimization when I was young. People either went to church, or they didn't, and that was about the extent of it (and I grew up in Iowa, which is on the fringe of the Bible belt). This widespread Christian persecution mentality seems to be a rather recent thing. Let's hope it's just a passing fad.

Anyway, I like the mention of Jesus' lamb, Karen. That blog is just straight up silliness.

Things that bunch the panties of people like Nathan Tamm are all right with me...