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faceless_wondersometimes, when i'm really, really bored, and my train-wreck syndrome needs some serious satisfaction, i read fundies say the darndest things. it's funny, but in that really depressing way that makes you weep for humanity. it's a cesspool of quote after quote from people who pop off at the mouth (or, at the keyboard, as the case may be) about society's ills, hiding behind scraps of some faith that they've likely never thought seriously about or questioned.1
this post just about made my head explode. it was culled from christian forums, and it appears to be some person railing against the idea of voting for moderators on the message boards:
Come on people waky,waky Democracy comes from the devil, There is, no, repeat, no, room in gods house for democracy. Gods house is an army (the army of god) there is no right of voting under any circumstances. God says it, thats the end of it, either get into line or get lost, No army votes for who gets to be in command. God promotes and demotes but he alone makes these deccsions. So as far as this ministry goes god promotes and you tow the line, like it or lump it thats how it is.
To ask for a right of vote on mod's is showing a lack of spiritaul authority and matuirty so why would one want to consider your request, that's in like, of the devil saying, Eve, have you considered this.
I would piont out I am neither a supporter nor have any involvement with this ministry, other than recently signing on as a member.
my criticism here has nothing to do with the content or the ideas reflected. i'm going to stay away from that. but, the grammar! the spelling! the syntax! they're awful!
would it kill you to use spell check? i don't know what browser you are using, but if you use firefox, they've built spell check right in! if you type a word, and you see a red dotted line under it, it means you have probably misspelled it, and you may want to take a second or two to see if it's the word you want, right click your mouse, and replace it with something that is spelled correctly. just a suggestion.
and...apostrophes. use them. correctly. they're an integral part of english grammatical structure. if you are referring to the dwelling of your deity, it is "god's house"--not "gods house." without the apostrophe, it does not make any sense. on the flipside, you do not have a right to vote on "mod's." you elect "mods." you cannot vote on an adjective, you vote on a noun. you can use an adjective to modify a noun, even a noun describing something you are electing, but your preposition there needs an object. an adjective cannot be an object of a preposition.
really, that entire paragraph about voting on board mods is hilariously poorly written. he says, "that's in like, of the devil saying, Eve, have you considered this." i know what this guy is trying to do here. he is attempting to use a simile. but, he is failing miserably. "in like, of?" that's a poor construction, the likes of which i have not seen since fourth round in des moines, 2005, when the wash u mock trial team kept discussing the "if-but" standard of negligence.
finally, the last line of it just blows my mind. he asserts that he is not a supporter of a ministry, that he's not involved in a ministry...but he has recently signed on as a member? did i miss a memorandum somewhere, or does joining a ministry mean that a person supports it and has chosen to become involved in it in some capacity? the writer should get his story straight.
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1 admittedly, this isn't true of all of the quotes that people post on here. as with any bulletin board-type compendium, some of the postings are reasonable, even thoughtful observations and opinions from religious people, which were posted on the boards by militant atheists who have no respect for a person's choice to belong to a faith. it annoys me when such quotes are posted, and deemed funny or heinous. but, in the balance, there are far more thoughtless rants on that site than thoughtful observations...and it's the thoughtless rants that feed my train-wreck syndrome.
this post just about made my head explode. it was culled from christian forums, and it appears to be some person railing against the idea of voting for moderators on the message boards:
Come on people waky,waky Democracy comes from the devil, There is, no, repeat, no, room in gods house for democracy. Gods house is an army (the army of god) there is no right of voting under any circumstances. God says it, thats the end of it, either get into line or get lost, No army votes for who gets to be in command. God promotes and demotes but he alone makes these deccsions. So as far as this ministry goes god promotes and you tow the line, like it or lump it thats how it is.
To ask for a right of vote on mod's is showing a lack of spiritaul authority and matuirty so why would one want to consider your request, that's in like, of the devil saying, Eve, have you considered this.
I would piont out I am neither a supporter nor have any involvement with this ministry, other than recently signing on as a member.
my criticism here has nothing to do with the content or the ideas reflected. i'm going to stay away from that. but, the grammar! the spelling! the syntax! they're awful!
would it kill you to use spell check? i don't know what browser you are using, but if you use firefox, they've built spell check right in! if you type a word, and you see a red dotted line under it, it means you have probably misspelled it, and you may want to take a second or two to see if it's the word you want, right click your mouse, and replace it with something that is spelled correctly. just a suggestion.
and...apostrophes. use them. correctly. they're an integral part of english grammatical structure. if you are referring to the dwelling of your deity, it is "god's house"--not "gods house." without the apostrophe, it does not make any sense. on the flipside, you do not have a right to vote on "mod's." you elect "mods." you cannot vote on an adjective, you vote on a noun. you can use an adjective to modify a noun, even a noun describing something you are electing, but your preposition there needs an object. an adjective cannot be an object of a preposition.
really, that entire paragraph about voting on board mods is hilariously poorly written. he says, "that's in like, of the devil saying, Eve, have you considered this." i know what this guy is trying to do here. he is attempting to use a simile. but, he is failing miserably. "in like, of?" that's a poor construction, the likes of which i have not seen since fourth round in des moines, 2005, when the wash u mock trial team kept discussing the "if-but" standard of negligence.
finally, the last line of it just blows my mind. he asserts that he is not a supporter of a ministry, that he's not involved in a ministry...but he has recently signed on as a member? did i miss a memorandum somewhere, or does joining a ministry mean that a person supports it and has chosen to become involved in it in some capacity? the writer should get his story straight.
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1 admittedly, this isn't true of all of the quotes that people post on here. as with any bulletin board-type compendium, some of the postings are reasonable, even thoughtful observations and opinions from religious people, which were posted on the boards by militant atheists who have no respect for a person's choice to belong to a faith. it annoys me when such quotes are posted, and deemed funny or heinous. but, in the balance, there are far more thoughtless rants on that site than thoughtful observations...and it's the thoughtless rants that feed my train-wreck syndrome.
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Date: 2007-04-20 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-20 09:43 pm (UTC)I saw today that some asshole had spraypainted "Jesus Loves You" on a brand new concrete retaining wall off the interstate in St. Louis. I'd love to ask that person, does vandalism fit into the WWJD philosophy somehow?
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Date: 2007-04-25 05:28 pm (UTC)The bumper sticker was black with white letters, and contained four words:
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
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Date: 2007-04-25 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-20 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-25 05:30 pm (UTC)Sometimes, fundamentalist Christians just make me giggle.