Comments on: The more choice you grant, the more responsibly people act

By: Ignotus

Ignotus — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:43:02 +0000

“I wonder how many fundies, in a circle of their own, would admit to favoring slut-stonings”

In the case of Christian Reconstructionists, pretty much all of them. This is an excuse for me to quote a brilliant article:

‘Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical “warfare” is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, “sodomy or homosexuality,” incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the case of women, “unchastity before marriage.”[...]

The Biblically approved methods of execution include burning (at the stake for example), stoning, hanging, and “the sword.” Gary North, the self-described economist of Reconstructionism, prefers stoning because, among other things, stones are cheap, plentiful, and convenient.”‘

That last line is pure gold.

Full article is at http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v08n1/chrisre1.html

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:53:04 +0000

I dunno if it’s just because I was kind of a nerd when I was younger, but I dn’t think “Being an easy target” is a particularly heinous crime.

By: flawedplan

flawedplan — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:09:12 +0000

Marc, I want to talk about Rebecca’s attitude, I didn’t read the whole thread over there, it triggered upset and I’m not gonna subject myself tonight. She called women stupid twice without backing down, these women who put themselves in risky situations are so stupid they should be wearing “rape me kill me throw me in the dumpster” signs because they’re so stupid it makes Rebecca angry.

I lived a self-destructive life til I was in my thirties, and put myself in dangerous situations on a regular basis, and I know a handful of other women like that too. Some survived others didn’t. Stupid? Rebecca isn’t fit to pick the corn out of these women’s turds. Where do they get that, goddamn ignorant sensible yuppie liberals without a fucking shred of insight, because a woman putting herself in dangerous situations is using poor judgment, it’s just common sense! They’re so stooooooopid, it never occurs to these girls that they’re putting themselves in harms way! Such stupidity makes bright, clear-headed girls like Rebecca so damn angry!

Do junkies make her angry? Crack-whores, women who cut themselves, what the fuck is this if not absolute moralizing, scapegoating, and abdicating her responsibility to get a clue before condemning women who surpass her in every way but sheltered privilege?

My God but I’m sick of ingorance concerning motivation.

Because women who live dangerously are stupid you know.

There is no motivation, only senselessness.

I checked her blog, this woman graduated with honors from the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.

I could vomit, I believe I will vomit.

Or, to drive the point home: the social worker is not your friend. If she were, things might turn out different for the women they scorn.

By: Douglas, Friend of Osho

Douglas, Friend of Osho — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:59:01 +0000

If you’re keeping a tally of fundies who’d advocate stoning for adultery, let me kick things off with three, these being certain relations of mine who attend megachurch and seem to think Leviticus is spot on when it comes to homosexuals, yet not to be taken taken seriously when the same punishment for anal sex is to be meted out to those who like a ham and swiss sandwich or lobster thermidor.