Mar 27 2006
"they’re loud, they’re obnoxious, they’re disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco."
Beautiful, sunny, early spring day in Vermont today. Blue sky. Jenni didn’t want to go to work today, because a tulip broke through the mud yesterday. With all this beauty, it is hard to imagine the amount of idiocy going on in this nation. Howzabout Christianist teenagers run amok in San Francisco?
Yep, apparently 25,000 young people crawled out of a cave in Texas and made it to the Sodom and Gomorrha of the west coast to protest ‘the virtue terrorism of popular culture’. Led by a man named Ron Luce,who
“wants teens to find Bible-based solutions for the spread of sexually transmitted disease, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide.The villains, Luce said, range from the promiscuity and “sexualization” of young people on MTV and the popular online meeting hub MySpace.com to a corporate culture that spends millions trying to woo the under-21 crowd.
Battle Cry will try to bring them back to God through two days of religious rockers, speakers and the debut of what Luce called a Christian alternative to My Space.com.
“This is more than a spiritual war,” Luce said. “It’s a culture war.”
Religious rockers? Has Stryper gotten back together? Seriously, though, if you’ve ever heard some of that contemporary Christian rock, no wonder these kids are so disturbed. I’ll spare you the rest, just read the article. I wonder how many of those kids snuck off to sample some of the alternative lifestyles that Frisco is famous for.
One of the things Sam Harris brought up in ‘The End of Faith’ was that religious conservatives are not waging their war from a perspective of preventing people from harming others, it’s a war on sin itself. From the ‘End of Faith”, p 159…
“It is no accident that people of faith often want to curtail the private freedoms of others. This impulse has less to do with the history of religion and more to do with its logic, because the very idea of privacy is incompatible with the existence of God. If God sees and knows all things, and remains so provincial a creature as to be scandalized by certain sexual behaviors or states of the breain, then what people do in the privacy of their own homes, though it may not have the slightest implication for their behavior in public, will still be a matter of public concern for people of faith.
A variety of religious notions of wrongdoing can be seen converging here… and these seem to have given many of us the sense that it is ethical to punish people, often severely, for engaging in private behavior that harms no one.”
He mentions further in the text that it is safe to say if a drug were invented that was 100% safe but produced a brief feeling of bliss and epiphany, you can bet it would still be illegal.
I know, the protest was about the alleged evils of mainstream culture. The cons love to harp on the ‘personal responsibilty’ thing all the time, yet somehow seem to forget that no one is forcing them to watch any of this crap, or forcing their kids to put provocative photos on Myspace.com. It’s like they believe they have some God-given right to wholesome media, like every show has to be like ‘7th Heaven’ or ‘Little House on the Prairie’. They don’t have to watch t.v. Or do they? The real crux of the biscuit is that they are just as hooked on the media as everyone else. Combine that with the above-mentioned hatred of sin, and there you go.
FUNNY SIDE NOTE: As I made that wisecrack about Stryper, I went to their link. Apperently, like nail fungus or herpes, they are still around. And they still look like idiots, just without as much hairspray or mascara. Check it out for a good laugh. It’s even funnier than Poison’s web site.
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