Letter From 2012 In Obama's America

The Christian company Focus on the Family has created a separate company called Focus On The Family Action so that they can use it to lobby politicians legally and without churches affiliated with them losing tax exempt status. Focus On The Family Action recently produced a document entitled "Letter From 2012 In Obama's America" which is a theoretical letter from a Christian in the year 2012 that has been sent back into the past to warn us against voting for Barack Obama in this election. This is hands down the most offensive, least well thought out political attack I have ever had the misfortune of reading in my entire life. If you feel the need to read it before continuing on with this post feel free to do so, but I must apologize in advance for the loss of brain cells you will undoubtedly suffer.

Five out of sixteen pages of this document deals with how the very fabric of reality will unravel and existence itself will implode if we stop persecuting homosexuals and give them equal rights to marry. Seriously, the connections made between homosexual marriage, and well, everything else in this letter are so tenuous and outright ridiculous that absolutely no one with a brain could take this seriously. According to the author of this letter Christian books, talk radio, Christian doctors, private schools, home schooling, and all churches across the nation will cease to exist because of homosexuality. There will also be terrorist attacks on the U.S. and Russia will invade other countries in Europe because of homosexuality. Why do these people hate homosexuals so much? Why do they fear a sexual orientation that is different from theirs? Do they not realize that homosexual couples have absolutely no effect on them whatsoever? If they don't like homosexual marriage, then all they have to do is go ahead and not marry someone of their same gender. Problem solved, issue averted, they can officially get over it. But to mandate that other people can't marry the person they love? That's officially crossing the line into attempting to control other people's lives for religious reasons. How does it hurt a heterosexual couple if a pair of homosexuals get married? It doesn't hurt them at all! I'm a heterosexual man married to a heterosexual woman, and guess what? Our marriage is not in any way impacted by homosexuals wanting to get married. It doesn't hurt us, it doesn't affect us, it doesn't ruin the sanctity of our union, or do any of the other ridiculous things that right wing nut job religious people rant about.

Another half of a page of this letter is focused on how if the U.S. elects Obama as president we will suddenly have hard core pornography showing on all television channels at any time of the day. Besides the obvious issues of how Christians are afraid of sexuality aside, it's beyond obvious how this would never happen, and even if by some weird fluke it did, it certainly wouldn't happen within the next four years. I mean come on, porn on regular T.V. stations? First of all, cable T.V. providers wouldn't display this kind of content on regular channels because they know they can charge more for it by putting it on a higher end package, but secondly there are enough religious people who work for these stations who would throw a fit that it wouldn't ever happen. Then there also happens to be that little organization known as the FCC. Apparently the writer of this letter forgot all about the absurdly massive fine that was leveled because of Janet Jackson's accidental boob shot in the super bowl. Would an agency that charged a fee because of an accidental one second long boob shot really allow full on pornography on television? That's officially gone past absurdity into sheer insanity. This would actually be a bad thing for me, since I don't watch television, and I love porn. Oh yeah, and the person who wrote this also wants people to think that he/she/they don't also love porn. Guess what? They are lying. Every man, woman, and child on this planet masturbates. You do it, I do it, my wife does it, your "innocent" teenage kid does it, the guy down the street does it, the pastor at your local church does it. The sooner that people are willing to accept this fact and move on, the sooner we can get past this whole "be ashamed of our bodies" nonsense that Christianity likes to champion.

There is also a fundamental lack of understanding of our political processes exhibited in this letter. They mention about how it was O.K. for president Bush to fire some district attorneys but how it was wrong for Clinton to do it and how it will be wrong for Obama to do it. These people need to go back to high school and take the Junior year required course on Government. There is no "firing" and "re-hiring" of district attorneys. It is REQUIRED that all Presidents appoint attorneys when they are elected. They can choose to re-appoint those who are still there if they want or they can get rid of all of them and appoint entirely new people. No President in the history of the U.S. whether Republican or Democrat has ever paid attention to all of these appointees. There are too may for it to be feasible. They have cabinet members who take care of these decisions for them based on their platform.

The letter also states that Obama's tax plan would affect middle class people who "saved" their money wisely. Did this writer even watch the presidential debates? Did they read Obama's tax plan? Obama's plan will raise taxes for people who make $250,000 or more PER YEAR. Not people who just happened to have saved that amount or more. If you are making a quarter of a million dollars every year, you are not in the middle class. You are rich and you can afford to shoulder more of the burden, like the people who own Focus on the Family that want to make sure they can keep getting richer.

Shouldn't Christians actively want these doomsday scenarios to occur? If this sort of shit happens won't it bring them one step closer to the "End Times" so that they can all be abducted by aliens, er, I mean Jesus and go to heaven for all time while we poor sinners are left here to fend for ourselves? Seriously, aren't Christians actively working against God's will by voting for a conservative Republican like John Mcain? They should want to have people who disagree with them in public office so that the Antichrist can make a one world government and bring about their mythical Ragnorak, er, Rapture and go to their fairy tale afterlife.

The Global Flood

The Bible story of the global flood that was used as a "re-boot" of humanity because of their wickedness has always held a special place in the hallowed halls of things that really piss me off. Before tearing into the story proper, let’s have a few words on the background of this story. Lots of religious folk, especially among the Baptist and Protestant denominations, believe that people who inhabited the earth in the time frame of the early chapters of the book of Genesis lived for hundreds to thousands of years and had an advanced culture that rivaled our own. How could this be? According to this "theory," there was a massive canopy of water that surrounded the entire planet, either just floating around in the atmosphere or actually outside in space itself. Somehow this canopy of water filtered out the harmful UV rays from the sun, allowing people to enjoy massively long life spans. People who ascribe to this belief will give cryptic statements meant to pique interest by intimating that these people lived in a culture just as advanced as ours where they had mastered things like space travel and advanced engineering.

That particular piece of nonsense aside, the story of the Flood is truly, irrevocably messed up. Let's think about this logically. God creates man. Think about the ramifications of that statement. If God created man, then he also created all of man's feelings, urges, and predispositions. According to the Bible God is also knows all things that have occurred and will occur in the future, as he is omniscient. Put those two thoughts together. God makes man to be the way that God wants him to be, and God also knows exactly how men will react if put into certain situations. So then God decides that man, which he created, has become too violent and needs to be eradicated and started over. What. The. Fuck. God makes man with the predisposition to be violent, and because he can see into the future he knows that men will eventually reach a critical mass of violence that He can't tolerate, yet he goes ahead and punishes them for it anyway? Could someone also please explain to me how murdering every person on the planet is a proper, non-hypocritical, response to people who are too violent? Last time I checked, mass genocide on a world wide scale is about as violent as you can get.

Then there is also the canopy of water theory to take into account. People who believe this theory think that the canopy of water was dropped onto the Earth all at once, which is how the entire surface of the planet was flooded in this story. Remember how we went over that God can see the future? That means that this whole act of worldwide genocide was pre-meditated. God specifically made this canopy of water knowing full well that he was going to utterly wipe out his creation with it later when they pissed Him off for doing what He made them to do. Anyone who doesn't find that to be thoroughly disturbing needs to seek professional psychiatric treatment immediately.