This makes me laugh, kind of, in a queasy way.
Actually, it's interesting that they attack the Catholic church, or it would be if there were not a long Protestant tradition of doing so. Of course, it's beyond satire, and even most orthodox religious types won't publicly have anything to do with these people. This is where we start to get into the oh-so-boring battle between theists and atheists, though. Let's not.
Apparently, "Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there."
I look forward to making his acquaintance there then. Apparently there's a party, and you're all invited.
I am a Christian and 100% heterosexual and groups like this really make me want to puke,they are the lowerst form of life and to attack someone after his death shows that their form of Christianity is very different to theirs.God is the only one who judges and I wonder where these guys will end up being sent.
I suppose I personally feel that judgement is a uniquely human activity or trait. This article interests me for a number of reasons. They are extremists, of course, and extremists are always impossible to take seriously if you’re not one of them (except perhaps as a threat/problem). That makes the question of what it is that divides such people from others all the more intriguing. Obviously, they’re not the kind of people I think I’d have fun hanging out with, as my judgemental views above attest, but, as someone who is always attempting to write fiction, I appreciate the challenge of trying to get inside the minds of this kind of person.Actually, I haven’t really been able to so far. I think that any attempt I made to understand them would have to be through the key of a kind of righteous anger, the sense that it’s just you (and a few fellow believers) against the world. I think the closest I have encountered to a sympathetic portrayal of a religious extremist character is John Kennedy Toole’s portrayal of Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_DuncesHowever, it has to be admitted that this is not very close, since Ignatius is essentially an eccentric and a loner, and not given to joining the kind of groups mentioned in the article (and, despite his prejudices, not really that extreme). I also wonder how much of the mainstream is always present in the extreme (and vice versa). It seems to me there must always be some relation. I wrote the above entry just before turning off the computer to have lunch. It was my basic, honest response, before analysis had set in, to the article. The better part of me, I think, strives towards a state of non-divisiveness. This is not always easy. Divisions can be very precious to people (myself included) as part of their identity. I would like to suggest, however, that, wherever we’re going after we die, that’s where those divisions will certainly disappear like the illusions they are.
“The better part of me, I think, strives towards a state of non-divisiveness.”It’s just struck me what a strange, paradoxical sentence that is.