My brain is being corrupted!

[flewellyn]

Between naamah_darling and ms_daisy_cutter, I'm swearing more, and more floridly, than ever before.

For example: in a recent conversation, I referred to someone as "that walking polyp shat from the colon of a leprotic demon".

In fairness, I was talking about Tim LaHaye, right-wing godbag preacher and author of the "Left Behind" series of toilet paper.

But still...

Comments

[spiderbabyx.livejournal.com]

OMG, I was so mad when those turned out to be about the darn bible. A friend handed me one and said "I think you'd enjoy this" and when I started reading it, I assumed it was some weird horror or fantasy fiction.

Luckily, said friend has since come to her senses and stopped trying to randomly convert me.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

If it was actually GOOD, it might be forgiveable. Like, some people forgive Orson Scott Card some of his asshattery because they think he writes good fiction. (I disagree, mind you; I can think of several writers who surpass his skill, such as Danielle Steele, Dean Koontz, and Laurell K. Hamilton.)

But it's utter tripe.

[spiderbabyx.livejournal.com]

It was kind of interesting since, going into it, I had no idea what was going on since my biblical knowledge is fairly limited, but once it was clear the direction the book was taking, it got really preachy and annoying. You were rooting for the main characters to NOT convert, LOL!

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I used to enjoy taking bad Harlequin romance novels and rewriting them so that the heroine, instead of falling for the muscular and forceful hero who "ravishes" her, presses charges or else stabs him in the chest with a salad fork and then becomes a mercenary.

[mrz80.livejournal.com]

Now THAT's a plot twist I could sign up for.

"Feeling a bit numb down there dear? Well, let's just say those aren't olives in your martini"

[keryddwen.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read one of those books! LOL

[foma44.livejournal.com]

Dude there is a KIDS version of the series! i have it at my library and it gets checked out fairly often. i want to throw it in the trash to prevent that, but that's censorship, albeit for the right reasons...it's completely ridiculous: these kids who don't go to church start noticing that their parents are missing....turns out, they were taken up to heaven, and the non-churchgoing kids are waiting around to be taken to hell or something, so all this wierd apocolyptic shit starts happening, so they decide to try to find and kill the antichrist, who is the president....


yeah.

[keryddwen.livejournal.com]

I hate those books too, and I've never read them. But I have many years put into Barnes & Noble, and though I agree it would be censorship, I wish we didn't carry those evil books. But back in my own Southern Baptist Bible-thumping days, I remember seeing a movie like that, where the "saved" kids and church members go to Heaven at the rapture (lawn mowers were left running, etc.) but the "non-believers" were left wondering what the heck just happened, tried to repent, and were too late. It's a bunch of hooey, and I really HATE that the Christian church tries to convert members with ideas of fear. That is not what Jesus preached, and somebody ought to wake up and smell the coffee and realize just how NON-Biblically-correct their religion has become today. It's pathetic, really.

[keryddwen.livejournal.com]

I think my whole point was that when I was a Bible thumper, that was back in the late 80's. So using media in various forms to scare the pants off of church members is nothing new.

That said, there's an interesting movie called "The Wave" which is based on a real life incident in the 60's (or was it the 70's?). Anyway, this teacher in California runs an experiment with his history students that parallels the brainwashing of the Nazis during pre-WWII Germany (and during the war, too). Similar conclusions can be drawn about religion, our own military, etc. Very thought-provoking movie.

[foma44.livejournal.com]

i agree...as bizaroo as the storylines are, there are a lot of kids' sci-fi type books with equally messed up plots and that part does not bother me at all, i think kids should read whatever they want. i'm more disturbed that adults would try to make a book scary to kids in order to get them to believe in all these religous ideas that they are too young to really understand.

[keryddwen.livejournal.com]

Just like the Nazis with their Hitler Youth..... you have to start the brainwashing early. That way they'll grow up and brainwash their own kids, and so the cycle goes.

[keryddwen.livejournal.com]

Well said.

mmmm, that's good cussin'

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

*takes notes*

"from the colon of a leprotic demon..."

The Rupture...

[capybyra.livejournal.com]

An eagerly awaited event where invisible assailants will repeatedly kick all the xtians in their junk till a hernia ensues- PraiseBob!