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Jill Stone  |  by medullanoodle.blogspot.com. All rights reserved. 17.07 | 0:19

Just when you start to get your head around it...

You think you know where this is headed, but then right at the last second - schwi-pek! I'm just wondering if the message is actually getting through the gimmick to its intended audience, who I'm going to assume are not rabid, right-wing Clinton haters and/or cigar afficionados.
To the barricades!

Today finds more impassioned pleas on behalf of Mel Gibson to add to yesterday's . And they get more bizarre. Take the , for example (via ):
A balanced and reasonable view would be that if indeed he really does hate Jews, then he deserves respect for his self control when not drunk.



>snip<

I would rather be surrounded by people who hate me in their heart but whose conduct toward me and my property is exemplary than by people who love me in their hearts but who kill my cat, kick my kids, and key my car.

Yeah, these quotes are removed from their original context, but honestly, under what circumstances would these statements make any sense? And what kind of friends does this guy have, who "love [him] in their hearts but kill [his] cat, kick [his] kids, and key [his] car?

" Is he one of those textbook Stockholm Syndrome-type cases?

The rhetorical and logical contortions of the religious right do not fail to entertain.

Summertime, and the livin' is easy More folks like him, please
:
In his six sermons, Mr. Boyd laid out a broad argument that the role of Christians was not to seek “power over” others — by controlling governments, passing legislation or fighting wars. Christians should instead seek to have “power under” others — “winning people’s hearts” by sacrificing for those in need, as Jesus did, Mr.

Boyd said.

“America wasn’t founded as a theocracy,” he said. “America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies.

Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn’t bloody and barbaric. That’s why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.

“I am sorry to tell you,” he continued, “that America is not the light of the world and the hope of the world.

The light of the world and the hope of the world is Jesus Christ.”

Mr. Boyd lambasted the “hypocrisy and pettiness” of Christians who focus on “sexual issues” like homosexuality, abortion or Janet Jackson’s breast-revealing performance at the Super Bowl halftime show.

He said Christians these days were constantly outraged about sex and perceived violations of their rights to display their faith in public.

“Those are the two buttons to push if you want to get Christians to act,” he said. “And those are the two buttons Jesus never pushed.

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