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Tyrror ([info]tehpainfultruth) wrote,
@ 2010-07-29 14:49:00

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Vampires, Jesus, and the memories of Ghandi...
Apparently, after almost an entire week of the stupidest news articles I could possibly imagine, the world has decided to swing completely in the opposite direction and give me a day of peace. As such, I'm going to do something that I'm not entirely certain I should be doing but, whatever, fuck anyone who disagrees with me, it's my blog.

In total opposition to my normal posts, I have decided to write an entire post where the main topic is not, in fact, my urge to punch someone and is -insert gasps of surprise- my praising someone for doing something right.

I suppose I should start this entry off by saying that, in all actuality, I have never read an Anne Rice novel. Not that I hold anything against the woman or her novels, I've just never managed to get around to it due to the massive number of books constantly vying for my attention. With that said, I'm certain that most of you with brains have concluded that today's entry is going to be about Anne Rice (or possibly about vampires, but that makes somewhat less sense).

A little bit of back story; several years ago, Miss Rice made the conversion into Christianity (Just go check out her facebook page, the thing is full of so many bible references that I think she outdoes Jesus himself) and from that point things moved forward rather smoothly, or so the Christian church thought. Yesterday, however, Anne decided that she was going to turn the church on its ear by telling them the one thing they never want to hear...the truth. She did it in the form of a facebook status update which said plainly and powerfully:

"I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of ... Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen,"


And for this, I applaud her. Sometime between then and now she also commented on how the general feeling for why she made this statement was first summed up by someone who will ever be reviered by me, the Mahattma Ghandi when he said:

"I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ..."


As I'm sure everyone on the internet is by now aware of, I am a huge supporter of this comment and to those who would try to say otherwise I simply point to Uganda...yeah, you heard me.

Thankfully, and somewhat surprisingly to me, the status change made by Miss Rice has accumulated over 4000 likes on facebook and not a single negative word, at least that I could see when I checked on it myself. So for once, and likely the only time for a long time to come, I give my applause to someone with fame and prestige for saying something that actually makes sense and telling off the world for being stupid...you've saved me a day of slowly killing my keyboard.

I would like to mention that I'm not suggesting every Christian in the world stop being so, but I AM suggesting that they all take a serious look at the lack of sense their religion has made through the course of the last 2000 years. How about we all take a step back, realize that somewhere along the way things got really fucked up (I mostly blame Caucasian males from medieval England) and then take the religion back to what it was meant to be; a man and his followers telling the world that God loves them and that we should all be nice to one another for a change.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, the following video was recently brought to my attention and I would like to give a quick shout out to Mr. Colbert (who I believe everyone should watch from time to time) and his attempt at making the right-wing idiots out to be exactly what they are...idiots...

Follow the spiders, Harry...

This is Tyrror from TehPainfulTruth and sometimes...the truth hurts...

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[info]bekah_rose
2010-07-30 02:20 am UTC (link)
A few things...

First - Don't bother with anything written by Anne Rice. You will be sorely, sorely disappointed, in anything written after Interview with a Vampire. The majority of her work, is like a badly written piece of fan-fiction, complete with outrageous Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus, who are all powerful and all knowing. Whether they know it or not. Definitely avoid The Mayfaire Chronicles - copious amounts of badly written smut, with a splash of awkward, disjointed plot thrown in to make it publishable. And I'm not even going to touch the whole "Ten year old having sex with a 30+ year old man" problems I came across whilst reading it.

Yes, I commend her for having the balls to stand up and say "Hey, as a religion that preaches universal love for all beings, we're being a bunch of fucking douche-bag hypocrites." but that's about it.

Secondly, the History major in me (especially now I've decided to turn my focus to ancient/early European history), wants to know what Caucasian males from medieval England did, to take the blame for religion being a bunch of head-in-the-sand hypocrites? If you go back far enough, ideas of Christianity originated in Rome/Italy/Middle-Eastern Europe. It was, what we today, call The Romans, who took their new ideologies of faith across the channel, abolishing anything that looked even remotely like a form of natural worship.

Persecution based on orientation/religion/lifestyles began long before the English Medieval period. Primarily in the ages between the 3rd and 5th Centuries (AD). Because, up until around 2nd Century AD, Christianity was considered a Mystery Cult, and something that was frowned upon due to the fact that it did away with people being able to worship and love freely, and turned was the people of the world, at the time, considered a very personal choice, forcing them to deny years and years of private and public worship of the Gods, and focus on one sole identity.

Gone were the days where an army could conquer a nation, but still pay respects to foreign like-deities, that resembled their own, and instead, they were now having to enforce a whole new religion on people who didn't want it/didn't need it.

... I'm gonna shut up now. But, yeah... the History Major in me, especially after having all the information about the Historiography of religion - both organised and natural - shoved down my throat for a semester, is a little up-in-arms over that particular comment.

And thirdly... The Colbert video, was it meant as tongue-in-cheek? If so, very funny... unless he was serious, in which case... not so much?

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[info]tehpainfultruth
2010-07-30 03:30 am UTC (link)
First, good to know that I should never pick up any novels by her, lol

Second, I can completely understand you problem with my comment, however during the course of my Western religions/myths and fables classes it was brought up several times that the religion of Christianity was pretty well fucked in just about every time period it lived through but it is generally held that much of the sexist, racist, and homophobic views of Christianity would have been much easier to wipe from the table in modern times were it not for the "scholars" of medieval England who proceeded to write out long letters in the name of the Christian church which were eventually accepted by the Pre-Catholic church and became doctrine (despite their lack of foundation in the actual basis of the religion).

I completely agree that the problems were there from the get-go, especially after the Christian religion became the "official" religion of the Romans, but up until medieval England there was not much in the way of making it doctrine across ALL of the religion. It was only after the acceptance of such prospects, put forward in written form, to the heads of the church that these anti-moralities became true doctrine which could now be maintained hundreds of years later because of "precedent".

I would, however, like to concede that there are also MANY documents which come from well before that time and I was, very likely, not entirely correct in my assertion of all of the "DWMs" being from England during that time period. I was, instead, meaning to put the blame on what we in the religious studies department lovingly call "DWMs" or "Dead White Men", which have obviously come from just about every region of Europe and nearby areas you can think of and have applied their prejudiced views to any number of religions and moral creeds throughout the course of history.

And thirdly, it was meant as tongue-in-cheek, as most of his comments are...it's kind of his thing.

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