August 23rd, 2006 by Atomictumor
So, Joe Powell found this prayer antenna (because God might not be broadcasting on a strong enough wavelength), and it contains this:
Which, in my mind, is the culmination of every art form ever. This picture just says it all. In fact, I wish I had seen it before finding out about the antenna, because I would have come up with SO MANY theories as to what it was for.
I want to print this thing up as a flyer and distribute it everywhere I go, or maybe as a bumper sticker. Its just too damn good.
Then I continued my morning reading, and moseyed into Netmom’s page, where she was discussing, among other things, a growing tendency among some Baptists to be, well, extremist. We all hear about the Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson wackos (I lump Buchanan into this category), but theres an increasing amount of the rank and file who honestly and truely believe that the country is on a path to damnnation. They site issues like gay marriage, civil rights, abortion, and immigration (?) as proof that America not only doesn’t espouse their values, but is actively trying to deny them from living a holy life.
Then I read today’s chapter of the Jill Carroll story, about the reporter kidnapped in Iraq who was released after weeks of captivity. While harrowing, this is some damn interesting reading, with Jill’s story interlaced with the stories of her colleagues and family, and attempts to find her, etc.
The problem is, its easy to start seeing some serious common threads between the people holding her hostage, these mujaheeden, and these fundamentalist far right Christian speakers. I’ve often said that it would only take an economic depression to turn America into the Christian political equivalent of Iran, and by researching this stuff, it looks like a whole lot of people are ready for that to happen. It should be scary to anybody who isn’t one of them.
Anyway, enjoy the picture.
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:56 am
AT, thanks for the link to the Jill Carroll story. I didn’t know about it. I followed that story, back when she was still a hostage, pretty closely.
I don’t know. To me there’s a world of difference between our fundamentalist right-wingers and the mujaheeden, or any terrorist for that matter. Back in the day, folks thought that an economic depression would send us right over to the communists. It didn’t.
August 23rd, 2006 at 10:47 am
I do love that picture…
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Thanks fer the mention. The image blew me away too. And it is worth it
wading through the other projects of the artist at the link. I kinda thought this
antenna looked like a modern version of the art from the middle ages of
all those saints with shiny aura helmets and godly rays sprouting from their
holy heads.
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
“I’ve often said that it would only take an economic depression to turn America into the Christian political equivalent of Iran, and by researching this stuff, it looks like a whole lot of people are ready for that to happen.”
What an excellent argument for supporting the second amendment.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:10 am
I’ve long since thought it was happening, slowly by surely. Of course, in the end, Puritanism was a big push in the 20’s and 30’s too - things like that just keep revolving in America. But I think this time it could get a lot worse, because religious extremism seems to be getting even more extreme.