Recently, a rather sneaky whore thought she could pull one over on the spiritually discerning citizens of Bartlett, Tennessee. In the guise of a fitness dance studio, she actually installed stripper poles and began instructing local harlots in the pertinent dark arts!
Fortunately, this hell-hole of debauchery was shut down the other day. Information gained during the operation paints an even more frightening and devious portrait of the spiritual Enemy of Christendom. Inside his viper-pit of sin, it was discovered, no actual stripping took place! In fact, men weren’t even allowed in – and no, it’s not even a dyke club!
I believe that this is the first time in all the 6,000 year history of creation that a strip club has been instituted where nobody stripped and the relevent audience was barred admittence! It’s just more evidence that Christians need to keep on their toes as the ever-escalating war against the Wicked One continues. Come quickly, Lord!
Okay, okay, time for a serious note. I was moved to write due to this and another case, both of which caused a certain amount of outrage among conservative Christians.
The other case was a charity event sponsored by Virgin Mobile and the National Network for Youth. The charity was called strip2clothe and encouraged people to submit non-nude “strip tease” videos of themselves. In return, Virgin would donate clothes to help homeless youths in quantities based on the amount of views they received.
Yeah, I was outraged too, but not the same way they were. I was outraged at the Christians for being outraged over the charity, and for wanting that stripper-pole excerise gym shut down.
Why? Fair question. I agree that encouraging kids to strip (even just part way) and posting the videos on the internet is a very bad idea. I agree that maybe there would be more dignified ways to achieve a healthy BMI than to learn to pole dance.
Abyssal says…
These Christians would rather you have a heart attack than pretend to strip, or see you freeze to death on the street than someone pretend to strip for you!
So if I’m taking the same stance as the Christians, why would I be mad at them? It’s not because of the opinion they formed, ’cause I agree with that. It’s that they acted on their gut reaction and tried to shut those causes down instead of merely giving some well-desrved criticism.
As much as disliked the details of those institutions, I have to question the morality -and that is the issue here- of anyone who would try to shut down a harmless exercise club and a charity event out of sexual prudery (or is it repression?).
I see the actions of these Christians and I get the impression that these people would really rather see women slip into diabetic comas or go morbidly obese than just pretend to strip! And these guys would rather see people freezing to death on the street than have someone post an unsexy video to ’strip2clothe’ them!
This really seems to be the kind of “morality” Christians are pushing these days. I have to say that I don’t see it like they do. Maybe I’m spiritually blind, but I just don’t see how matters of life and death (getting exercise is life and death) and the poor having proper clothing are trumped by prudish sexual standards.
This just forms part of why I find myself constantly being disillusioned with Christianity and it’s so-called “morality.” Take crucifixes for example. It may or not be common knowledge that Jesus was nude on the cross. This was standard Roman practice for crucifixion; the humiliation was part of the torture. But in artistic depictions and religious icons, he’s always wearing something.
Abyssal says…
The average Christian prude is more offended by Jesus Christ’s testicles than his torture!
Isn’t that rewriting the story? I mean, the Bible explicitly says he was stripped first and there was that memorable prophecy fulfilling image of soldiers dividing up his clothes and gambling over his seamless robe. So where did he get the loincloth? Why have Christians tampered with the “Word of God” and have him clothed on the cross? Don’t bother to answer, I think we all know the underlying motivations- prudery and squeamishness about the human body. Pure and simple.
Look, it’s not like I want to see Jesus naked -my pearly gates don’t swing that way- but that he’s not naked on crucifixes and in religious art is very revealing about the skewed priorities of moralizing Christians. Think about it; they have no problem at all portraying their Savior’s torture on every wall in their home- yet his genitals are taboo.
And I’m supposed to take these guys seriously? Prudes that are more offended by Christ’s testicles than his torture? These people, who don’t bat an eye at atrocious violence, but cringe away from the body their own God took upon Himself are going to tell us about morality?
Fine, let them. I just don’t want to hear them bitch when nobody takes them seriously. But what are the chances of that?
August 7, 2008 at 2:24 am |
What was even more amusing was the Catholics who became enraged and issued death threats to PZ Myers for his (promised and actual) abuse of a cracker.
So in the Catholic mind, PEOPLE’S LIVES are less important than their CRACKER.
Okay.
I just wonder why they think their god is so impotent that his Crackerness can’t take care of itself.