Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!

More on How the Media Covers Extremists [from The Gadflyer]

Sarah Posner does a nice job of summarizing the Alliance Defense Fund’s wacked out “Day of Truth”. According to our pal Alan Sears — remember him? — it’s the people who think gay/lesbian/transgendered people are EVIL who are being silenced. (I guess that Defense of Marriage Act was just something I dreamed, eh? Our government leaders wouldn’t really be trying to make it unconstitutional for gay people to enjoy equal legal rights… would they? Nah… must have been a dream.) The “Day of Truth” is ADF’s pathetic answer to yesterday’s “Day of Silence”.

Ms Posner also discusses how the media have misrepresented ADF (and the equally noxious Focus On Family) as just a regular old “Christian group”. Like they aren’t one of the larger threats to democracy around. You think Jesus would have approved of the crap they pull? I don’t think so. Jesus was about love and acceptance. ADF and Focus On Family are anti-Christian.

Speaking of anti-Christ[ian] stuff…

I watched the first installment of Revelation on TV last night. Fun stuff! I particularly liked how the kid who got hit by lightning wound up hanging from a tree branch! Hey, that’s what she gets for sassing her dad, right? (kidding, kidding)

And, man… Bill Pullman’s put on a few miles since I last saw him battling aliens in Independence Day! Well, as have we all, I guess. Still… Bill looks like maybe he’s been hitting the sauce. You know? He’s got that puffy look.

Anyway. Revelation.

I had a couple of thoughts while watching. First, why would God choose to deliver these incredibly important messages in such unreliable ways?!? Why would you count on some kid who’s on the verge of having her guts sold to the highest bidder? Isn’t that awfully risky? What if they take her apart before the message is delivered? Is it just tough shit for the world?? It seems to me that an omnipotent God would choose a completely fool-proof method of delivering his message AND he wouldn’t play silly games like having the message delivered in Latin for Pete’s sake.