Musings of a free mind...

The fundamental problem.

Fundamental Christian America strikes again with another instance of logic and reason-defying stupidity.

'Gospel Today' magazine has been pulled from public display from more than 100 Lifeway Christian bookstores in the USA.  "Why?"  You might ask.  Well, it turns out that this month's issue has a picture of 5 female pastors on the front cover.  Obviously this is unacceptable.

The Southern Baptist Convention owns the bookstores and has pulled the magazine from display because female pators are "contrary to what we believe."

I despair at the USA every time religious stories like these rear their ugly head.  It just serves as a reminder of how backwards, judgemental and discriminatory the worlds largest superpower is.

I was under the impression that God loved all as equal?  If that's the case, I'm sure it wouldn't mind a few female preachers.  In fact, I KNOW it wouldn't.  Because, if God exists, it would be very SANE and LOGICAL.  Don't you see?

It's another case of a few male chauvinists at the top who are scared of losing their position of power to women.  This is a man-made issue, not an issue of the divine.

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Confused 'Pro-Lifers'.

I should really stay away from myLot.  I was there again earlier when I ended up debating abortion.  Always a hot topic, huh?

This was no ordinary debate, though.  Normally you get the Pro-Lifers telling you that abortion is the most terrible sin, (these guys are usually Christian, I should add) and then you get the Pro-Choice side of the argument which, well, is self explanatory.

The strange thing about the argument this time around was that the topic of the death penalty got introduced and everything went crazy.  A vast, vast (i'll say that again, VAST) majority of the Pro-Life side of the argument were FOR the death penalty.  Does that make sense to you?  Isn't that contradictory by definition?  Yes.  Yes it is.  How can you be 'PRO' life, and in the same instance, 'PRO' death?

They argued that an aborted foetus has done nothing wrong and so deserves to live, whereas a criminal has (probably) done something horrible and thus deserves to die.  Fair point, but couldn't you also argue that the criminal is a human being who, despite their crime, has the capacity to feel, think and experience emotion.  A foetus without a central nervous system cannot experience pain and certainly cannot think and experience emotions.

If you're willing to put another feeling, thinking human being to death, regardless of who they are, you should also be willing to allow a feeling, thinking woman the right to choose how a pregnancy will affect her life.

You're missing the point...

I was browsing EntreCard earlier today, primarily to generate some advertising credits for myself, but also because it's a great way to view other blogs and see what other people are writing about.  It was during this search that I stumbled across Lime Alexander, a blog by another EntreCard user.

They had written an article yesterday complaining about a Vodafone advert on Australian TV whereby a man folds up his possessions in order for ease of transportation.  At the end of the advert he folds up his sleeping girlfriend and puts her in his pocket.

I fear that Lime Alexander may be written by yet another stern feminist lacking the area of the brain that supplies us with a sense of humour.  The author seemed genuinely upset, claiming that the advert managed to be sexist and offensive, although they did concede that Vodafone may not have intended this.  (After all, there is a small chance that the Vodafone advertising team were thinking about ADVERTISING at the time of production, rather than the need to be sexist.)  The author also says that because he folded up his girlfriend last, it implies that she was the least important of his 'possessions'.

No!  They're not being sexist.  It's called humour.  The reasons he folds up his girlfriend last is because it's a comedic device.  Y'know, you save the funny bit for the end?  It's called a punchline.