Thursday, August 07, 2008

 

Focus on the Fallacies

Non-sequitur:

"As Obama Fatigue Sets in, Webcast Offers Pro-Family Perspective."

And: What fatigue? FOTF is making crap up again. Oh, wait. They never stopped or slowed down; I just forced myself to ignore 'em for awhile.


False cause (cum hoc ergo propter hoc):

"As marriage declines, church attendance falls."

Is there nothing FOTF won't twist to its own nefarious ends? And it dares pretend it occupies some high ground! Spin is sin, Dr. Dobson, and you can pretend to stay above the fray all you want: But this stuff is going out in your name.

--ER

Comments:
I wonder if their "Pro-Family" webcast will spend any time discussing McCain's adultery?

"Is there nothing FOTF won't twist to its own nefarious ends? "

Clearly that was a rhetorical question. ;)
 
Grrr.
 
:) Deep breaths. In with the good air, out with the bad.

Remember what Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
 
That is a summary of the fundamentalist-versus-Christian liberty struggle within our shared faith, which goes back at least to a certain dream about a big sheet and "unclean" animals.
 
"Decreased Coitus Means Fewer In The Pews On Sunday" Recent decline in sexual activity among Church members has had a direct impact on the level of church attendance in the Sooner State, said a local represenative of Focus on the Familiar, a Ultra-Conservative Christian Evangelical group based in Enid, Oklahoma. The FOTF spokesperson said that it was time that the Christians of the State returned to the basic laws of the Old Testament and had sex on the day before the Sabath so that they would clear headed and sexual spent before they attempted to worship on Sunday.
The Jewish people understood the clear relationship between a good romp on Saturday night and showing up in the pews on Sunday. When asked if theis priciple applied to the unmarried of the church as well, he replied, "Our policy on that is don't ask and don't tell. It is better to be in Church so that you can feel your guilt and ask for forgiveness than it is to burn with lust and not show up on Sunday morning." Screwing and Church attendance it seems go hand in hand.

The spokesperson also said that they would begin to give out free Viagra to any church member over 60 starting in June.
 
It gets even stupider:

Focus on the Family is now asking it's supporters to pray for rain during Obama's outdoor speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention.

http://www.9news.com/news/elections/dnc/article.aspx?storyid=97203&catid=348
 
DrLobo, you should write for something like The Onion for the Church ... Maybe The Door Magazine.
 
Gad. Stuart Shepard is a local-TV weatherman turned FOTF buffoon. Gad again. His "Stoplight" videos would be farcicall if he weren't so earnest and guilelessly a sipper from the Dobson font.
 
Focus on the Family is now asking it's supporters to pray for rain during Obama's outdoor speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention.

In their defense, it was an employee who said that and in that employee's defense, it was only "boyish joking."

But I don't think this fella thought it through. Obama's speech sold out all 75,000 tickets in an hour. The sight of 75,000 cheering, enthusiastic Americans joyously standing in the rain as they rally behind another inspiring Obama speech might just further buffer Obama's rock star appeal. It might give it a Woodstock sortof look to it.

Maybe the Dems could hose down the field and get it all muddy ahead of time, just in case it doesn't rain.
 
"In their defense, it was an employee who said that and in that employee's defense, it was only "boyish joking."

Yeah, I'm not buying that. But it does show how desperate they are.

(This reminds me of the time not too long ago when Pat Robertson was praying for a vacancy in the Supreme Court, which is particularly ghoulish given that they're LIFEtime appointments.)

Anyway, the primary reason I doubt it was a joke is that I've never met a right wing fundie who actually had a sense of humor. ;)
 
Dan, yer a genius.

Barackstock!
 
The Door be Kaput. The Door be Closed Down. I'm a subscriber. They sent me a letter saying they were in a dollar quandry and had to stop for now.
 
Dang. They've been on and off for years.
 
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