Religious fundamentalists being retarded again

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:34 pm

http://myextralife.com/?p=5064

I know it's from the 80's, but this is all at once hillarious and sad at the same time.

The fundamentalists have a habit of taking children's entertainment and waaaaay overanalyzing it. This is especially hypocritical in light of the fact that they are the ones trying to brainwash kids to beleive their fundamentalist beleifs with their programs like Bibleman, the Left Behind films, and Veggie Tales. See Jesus Camp and you'll know what I'm talking about.

I was exposed to some of this sh*t as a kid beleive it or not. Anyone else have any stories or videos like this?

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:18 pm

OH NOES! HE-MAN PROMOTE TEH DEBUL WORSHIP!

Stupid bastards.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:52 pm

*shrugs* Eh. Same old crap. Whenever kids demonstrate an interest in anything other than the Bible, some dumbass will go on TV claiming that it's Satanic and/or trying to brainwash our children into believing/doing unchristian things.

Same old s*** all over again as far as I'm concerned. They were crazy and anal-retentive back in the 80s, and they still are today.

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:46 pm

But, does anyone have any tales of their experiences with that anal-retaniveness?

ANd, to He-MAn's credit, the toyline could be qualified as better than Jesus because nobody has been killed in the name of He-Man.

ArcaneWerewolf · Post by **ArcaneWerewolf** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:38 am

I wish people would stop trying to link things to evil and the devil. Eventually, they're going to start sounding just like the waterboy's mom

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:49 pm

Well, I myself don't disrespect Christianity so much as I disrespect fundimentalism. And that He-Man thing I said, that was a joke.

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:13 pm

She doesn't, but she calls a lot of other things the devil.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:31 am

Various things that the fundamentalists have associated with The Devil:

Pokemon
Dungeons and Dragons
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
The Harry Potter series
The Teletubbies
biology textbooks
Copernicus' proposal that the Earth orbited the Sun
"Sufferegettes" and the rights of women to vote
Every religion except their own (blast those diabolical Hari Krishnas and their long-winded diety names!)
Gays (The Demons of Interior Design)
Hippies (For standing in the way of God's plan to destroy the Earth, I guess)
Other Christians who don't buy into their lunacy (For being deceived by, dub... well... uh... Christ)
The physical universe (how dare God's creation distract us from God!)

Suffice it to say, if you can think of something, the Fundamentalists are in some way against it.

Silverclaw · Post by **Silverclaw** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:28 pm

God, some people are pure idiots

How many of these hard-core christian fundamentalists do you think their is in the US alone? Too much crazy for comfort.

BTW, Raptor Jesus PWNS them

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Jesus

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:56 pm

Haha! God's father links to Chuck Norris.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:11 am

Scott Gardener wrote:Suffice it to say, if you can think of something, the Fundamentalists are in some way against it.

Including C.S. Lewis. You only thought his books were a lot of carefully constructed religious propaganda...

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:13 am

Midnight wrote:
Scott Gardener wrote:Suffice it to say, if you can think of something, the Fundamentalists are in some way against it.
Including C.S. Lewis. You only thought his books were a lot of carefully constructed religious propaganda...

Kennedy went to hell because he trusted in the Roman w****.
Huxley went to hell because he trusted in himself alone and his hybrid Eastern mystic notions.
And, Lewis went to hell because he invented a new god, and he ended his life a Taoist.

Oh, good, I hate this person already. They have that annoying "people who have the wrong religion go to hell" mindset and accuse well-respected authors and one of the few beloved politicians of having gone to hell. Let's see what this asshole has to say next.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:28 am

Scott Gardener wrote:Pokemon
Dungeons and Dragons
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
The Harry Potter series
The Teletubbies
biology textbooks
Copernicus' proposal that the Earth orbited the Sun
"Sufferegettes" and the rights of women to vote
Every religion except their own (blast those diabolical Hari Krishnas and their long-winded diety names!)
Gays (The Demons of Interior Design)
Hippies (For standing in the way of God's plan to destroy the Earth, I guess)
Other Christians who don't buy into their lunacy (For being deceived by, dub... well... uh... Christ)
The physical universe (how dare God's creation distract us from God!)

You can add NASA and the Apollo Program to the list. I forget who, but back then there was some religious nutjob all over the airwaves harping that, if they tried to get into Space, they would breach the boundary between Earth and Heaven (because he said Heaven was a physical place up there in the clouds).

What gets me about religious nutjobs like this is that they only agree that a section of the Bible could be metaphoric after it's been all but obliterated by science. . . But they still insist that everything else is absolute unquestioned truth.

"OK. OK, you were right. The Earth is round and revolves around the Sun. . . But it still took God seven days to make and you're going to Hell if you say otherwise!"

Baphnedia · Post by **Baphnedia** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:21 pm

Z, they are (but when looked at from their perspective, so are we). :p

Kaebora · Post by **Kaebora** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:57 pm

It's all about misinterpretation of the Bible. In the Baptist doctrine I grew up under, the Bible means what it says, and doesn't contain any weird codes to crack and interperate. Jesus spoke in words that the common man could understand and means exactly what he says, so misinterpreting him is near impossible... unless you're a wacky fundamentalist. It's a sad thing that people read one thing, and think it means something else entirely.

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:30 pm

Wait, He-Man had a bunch of half-naked men runnin' around, jumpin' on top of each other, hittin' each other with big, hard instruments, and fundamentalists are worried about the magic an' devil worship?? Hmmm.....

Yes, Bibleman was pretty bad. That's why the works of writers like C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were so good, because they delved into the core of their beliefs, the values and essence that should really attract others to Christianity, instead of going "God, God, God! *whacks kid* No, Billy, God!" An' makin' it so blatantly shallow and awful, like the fundamentalists are doin'.

This is why I ain't gonna be surprized, only amused in a very sick way, when somebody actually does the "Buddy Christ" thing...