Pandemics are funny!

This was my response to the media’s poor handling of the H1N1 influenza A thing going on right now. I think Randall’s comic sums it up a little better though. Also, this comic would have been much more relevant last Friday.

Jesus told me to hate you.

Religious fundamentalists make me angry. It’s not enough that the religion of Christianity dominates in Western society, but here in the United States, many Christians insist on playing the victim card. Their argument goes something like this:

If hate crime legislation passes, then we could be arrested for expressing our religious beliefs.

What they neglect to add is just what those expressions of religious belief are:

• Christian pharmacists refusing to do their jobs of filling prescriptions in the event the drug they are dispensing conflicts with their religious belief.
• Christian school board members who insist that creationism intelligent design be taught in schools as a legitimate science. (It’s not.)
• Christian politicians who insist that Congress swap out the Bill of Rights with the Ten Commandments.
• Muslim radicals who believe alcohol drinkers should be flogged and gays and lesbians be stoned to death.
• Fundamentalists who raise their children to believe that bullying another child is permissible if they believe that child is gay.

Their bullshit sob stories get played out over and over again, and these religious assholes continue to play the martyr every time a law is passed that gives equal rights or a ruling is made that challenges hate speech. They cry foul and hold up their holy books yelling out, “this is the law we should believe in!”

The people that piss me off are such a tiny minority, and yet they receive so much publicity that you’d think they were the only Christians that existed in America. It’s up to the rest of us to call these assholes on their bullshit.

ellejohara