Can you say "homoeroticpedophilia"?
Knew you could.
Posted on 11/12/2006 8:36:45 AM PST by Condor 63
And part of the job of a writer in 2006, so it seems, is to comment on evangelicals or “conservative Christians” more generally, the way that many writers in the late ’60s and early ’70s — novelists, poets, cultural critics, anyone whose opinions regularly appeared in print — felt obliged to weigh in on blackness, often with embarrassing results.
In their fictional guise, evangelicals and their kin — fundamentalists, Pentecostals and all manner of weird cultists calling fervently on the name of Jesus — are usually side characters, rarely protagonists, except, of course, in the alternative universe of so-called Christian fiction, where all the protagonists are evangelicals, and in coming-of-age stories in which a youthful protagonist attains enlightenment and leaves faith behind. Sometimes these fictional evangelicals are ominous figures: glassy-eyed pro-lifers hellbent on murdering doctors and bombing abortion clinics, or charismatic psychopaths like the villain in Henning Mankell’s “Before the Frost,” who is mentored by Jim Jones of Jonestown fame. Mostly, though, they are drawn in broadly satiric strokes (see for example the “moaners” of the First Resurrectionist Maritime Assembly for God in Carl Hiaasen’s new novel, “Nature Girl”). Charmless, ignorant, homophobic and either brazenly hypocritical or obnoxiously sincere, they quote Scripture unctuously and have bad sex.
“Darwin,” muses a clueless Pentecostal mother in Kelly Kerney’s novel “Born Again.” “Isn’t that the guy who thinks God is a monkey?”
A reader who moves from the fiction shelf to the stacks of reportage and commentary may experience cognitive dissonance. The evangelical buffoons who populate so many novels these days seem hardly capable of organizing a local witch-burning, yet their nonfictional counterparts are said to be on the verge of turning these United States into a theocracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hm, looks promising.
But it's the NYT, and I've been hurt before.
Then again, decades ago the LAT did an astonishing objective series on how the abortion issue was being reported. So....
Sigh. I'll check it out.
What on earth does the NYT know about Christianity?
Okay, I'm back.
Typical, they choose someone associated with Christianity Astray. After a promising start, his premise is, "Oh, don't worry about us. We're fractured and ineffective. Besides, you really should be a little more tolerant, 'kay?"
The writer also mentions along the way that, of his four children, three did not grow up to be evangelicals. I know you can't charge kids' sins directly to their parents, but it is something to consider.
Maybe he's bucking for House Evangelical.
Not much, I think they gleen everything they know from what ever hollywood produces, which they base on what the NYT knows...
LOL - House Evangelical at the NYT carries about as much weight as the House Hockey Fan does in Alabama....
Which is a subject I know a little about. ;-)
Or even "...good sex..." for that matter???
LOL :):):)
Nancee
If all in religious circles depended on the New York Slimes
they would be like Elton John, no religion.
It seem as though the New York Slimes wants leaders like the Roman Empire once had. Now take Caligula and Nero, these are the leaders of choice for the Slimes.
They, the Slimes cant wait until America is as degenerate as Rome once was, believe me, we aren't that for away from becoming as Rome once was.
I was also thinking of House Conservatives, like George Will. Count on them not to be too challenging, and occasionally to turn on their own.
Can you say "homoeroticpedophilia"?
Knew you could.
Nancee
Fear God and fear all else less.
Having an orgasm when beating on Republicans?
1. In the picture, is this a shadow on his crutch or just wishful thinking?
2- On other thought, it's not a shadow and is caused by the right arm of the guy sitting behind him. His right arm seems to vanish in a black hole.
3- From (2-), when Elton farts, does he soot his briefs? Assuming he wears any, of course!
Dig the last paragraph:
Evidently we still are. But such is life in a pluralistic nation. Even as book after book sounds the alarm about the evangelical menace — coming in January, Chris Hedges’ “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” — conservative evangelical activists are sending out fund-raising letters portraying themselves as a beleaguered remnant. The reality, as usual, is considerably messier.
Chris Hedges is a Timesman, and more representative of the paper, though he goes much further than his colleagues. You can find his essay, "The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism," the "article that no major publication would print" on the Internet.
Not a bad article, but not much sense of Christian conviction coming through, either. Any that he has, he is holding back, so as not to offend his audience.
Also, notice that the NYTimes has to bring in an outsider to write this once-yearly caution against demonizing Evangelicals. God forbid that they should hire a genuinely religious person as their own religion writer, to explain things to their readers on a regular basis.
Nancee
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