A love letter to New Testament Christians everywhere...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

..from today's SF Chronicle....


Where Are The Good Christians?
The fanatics and nutjobs now running the show sure give honest believers a bad name

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, April 6, 2005


...I forget, often, too often, just how many there are but I know they exist in much larger numbers than you might be led to believe by current spiritually embarrassing headlines and I know they are just as, if not more, passionate and healthy and deeply felt in their beliefs than the overpublicized sects of angry and frothing "true believers" screeching into the megaphone of the culture, the ones yanking BushCo's chain and pounding their Bibles and hiding their warped porn fetishes and forcing their way into our lives and laws and bedrooms right now.

They are the decent Christians. They are the calm, morally progressive, compassionate, open-hearted Jesus-loving folk who don't really give a damn for archaic church dogma or pious noise or sanctimonious candlelight vigils, for repressing women or bashing gays or slamming Islam and in fact, turned to Christianity precisely because they believe these things are abhorrent and wrong and, well, anti-Christian.

(snip)

...They're not radical. They're not rabid. They're not full of venom and Rapture and they read books other than the childish Left Behind series and they don't loathe sex or despise other religions or hate their genitalia like Tom DeLay loathes congressional law, and they know full well that Mel Gibson is a rather insane misogynistic blood fetishist who knowingly swiped an illiterate 18th-century stigmatic nun's bizarre and ultraviolent hallucination to use as some sort of dangerous literal truth. Amen.

(snip)

...They do not call themselves the Parent's Television Council or the Right to Life Marauders or the Family Values Coalition or some other dumbly misleading and patently bogus moniker. They are not attempting to cram already gutted public school textbooks with imbecilic "Intelligent Design" BS, nor are they writing uptight letters to the FCC en masse or ranting about nipples or dildos or low-cut jeans on teenage girls while at the same exact moment repressing their own gay fantasies and kiddie-porn collections.


More at http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford -- it's well worth reading.

[Richardo]

1. One nit to pick - that's not the SF Chronicle

Oh, would that it were. That's the mainstream paper. But the SFGate is a weekly alternative, IIRC.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Uh no...

I am a San Franciscan. The SFGate site is the online presence of The San Francisco Chronicle. The alternative weekly you speak of is the SF Weekly. :)

[Richardo]

7. !!!

I had no idea (obviously). Well that puts a whole new light on it, don't it?

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[supernova]

2. I want to have sex with Mark Morford!!

Instead I'll just use smilies. :D

:applause: :yourock: :applause: :yourock: :applause:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. I know how you feel!

He is my dream man. Sigh... :loveya:

[HockeyMom]

3. Why Schiavo case

created such a backlash. President, Congress, Delay, Randall Terry, etc., etc., have no business intruding on every family's life and death decisions. All other "religious" issues (abortion, gays, etc.)may not affect them personally, but dying will affect every single person in this country.

[ewagner]

5. Interesting take by Morford

I've often thought about the fact that the vast majority of Christians quietly reject the ravings of the lunatics and go about their business...they would be good partners in a coalition to overthrough chimp and company....

[proud patriot]

8. Great article

Thanks for posting Hell Hath No Fury :hi:

I hope you are feeling better :hug: