The Religious Right has lost its last marble. Anyone who believes the nonsense that they're dishing out now has got to be completely and utterly brainless. If you're reading this and you think that the positions taken by these fundamentalist wackos make sense, let me be absolutely clear now: you are stupid. You have no brains. You have disabled the organ that allows you to reason.

The Columbia Christians for Life have concluded that Hurricane Katrina was the wrath of God on the city of New Orleans for having abortion clinics. Now if that sounds remotely plausible to you, I should point out that they also claim the radar image of the hurricane resembles a 6-week-old fetus. No, I am not making this up. I wish I were. Note that the radar image does not resemble a 6-week-old fetus, but rather a hurricane.

The Brainless Right has also asserted that gays are to blame for the hurricane. Is this starting to sound familiar? The reasoning goes that a gay event, "Southern Decadence" was planned for Wednesday, August 31 through Labor Day. Ergo, the hurricane's arrival a few days before meant that God was displeased with New Orleans for allowing homosexuals to exist within its city limits.

Yet I note from the Google cache of the meetings and conventions (the main site is down- go figure) for August that the American Association of Zoo Keepers was planning to meet in New Orleans on August 29. How do we know that isn't what God was upset about? Why is it that it hasn't particularly bothered God that Southern Decadence has been held for the last 34 years... he's only just getting irate about it now? Why doesn't he get upset about the countless other gay events in the country and around the world?

The reason is of course quite simple: "God" had nothing to do with hurricane Katrina. See most of us in the species homo sapien have progressed far enough to understand that weather patterns on this planet are caused by variances in temperature, pressure, relative humidity, winds and so-on. We no longer rely upon superstition or religion to explain (or predict) the weather. Unfortunately, there are those in this species who have switched their minds off and stubbornly refuse to use them. It is people who are absolutely and completely senseless who still believe garbage like "God's wrath" being the source of severe weather.

Michael Marcavage, moron and director of the radical fundamentalist death cult known as "Repent America" actually said "this act of God destroyed a wicked city. New Orleans was a city that opened its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. May it never be the same. We must not forget that the citizens of New Orleans tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long."

And here I thought it was a hurricane caused by a low pressure system and strengthened by favorable conditions over the warm water in the Gulf of Mexico that hit New Orleans. I guess I was wrong. I guess it was actually a supernatural entity taking out his vengeance on New Orleans. Because that just makes way more sense.

The real danger here isn't that Moron Marcavage puked forth this arrant nonsense, grossly taking advantage of human suffering, death and destruction for his own political and religious grandstanding. No, the real danger is that there do exist people who are patently stupid enough to hear what he says and believe it to be true without a second thought. (By definition, "thought" would have ruled out this drivel completely.)

My only hope is that as the claims, assertions and aspersions cast by these idiots will continue to grow in absurdity for every future disaster such that eventually they'll be so ridiculous that nobody, no matter how braindead, could possibly do anything but laugh at them.

---Nick

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