I could just be a demonic sleeper agent, spreading disinformation; but surely everyoneâs favorite purportedly magic Jew is the kind of guy who wouldnât get too worried about a ârejectionâ so subtle that the person committing it doesnât even notice, and which occurs in the context of an attempt to ease the suffering of the sick?
If anything, itâs the people obsessing over intricacies of ritual and specific magical apparatus and reagents that look like something out of AD&Dâs Arcane caster system, while the people taking part in a (perhaps overhyped and of limited benefit, I donât know how the numbers break down) charity effort for a fairly nasty illness look like the good âby their works you shall know themâ candidatesâŚ
Are you sure this isnât a Huffing Boing Boing article? Did you actually go out and get Mechanical Turk writers to create this article, @beschizza?
This is the only evil ice bucket incident Iâve heard about: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/09/04/3361411/ohio-police-outraged-at-treatment.html
Reading it made me furious.
I think this is just ordinary cantankerousness rearing its ugly head. Here is the wildly popular thing that EVERYONE is doing, and so by nature there are people who will resist it based on that fact alone. What could possibly be wrong with it? Where thereâs a will, thereâs a way.
Though clearly this screed is a SparkNotes of modern Evangelical insanity, she probably isnât too far off the mark with this Oprah stuff. I would put a conservative amount of money on the bet that when Oprah dies, a religion springs up in her wake, with her as a prophet. I donât know if that means Jesus is necessarily off the throne, or just sharing, and I could give two shits about said throne, but I can see Oprah joining the pantheon. I mean, if Hubs can do it, with the modest profile he hadâŚ
Well the odd part is, she seems to be obsessed with the evils of âritual.â But if sheâs actually a practicing Christian (which is by no means given) then she should have some very important rituals of her own. Something tells me sheâs just a professional outrager.
In Oprahâs defense, I am pretty sure she has personally accomplished more in her short time than one Jesus H. Christ. I mean, she works like 18 hours a day, while that other guy was off vacationing in Middle Eastern version of Arizona.
No defense needed, I meant no offense by my predictions. I agree, sheâs one of the hardest working demigods in the pantheon!
I think when a christian does is in the name of god itâs a rite, not a ritual. (as dictated by god in the good book) though I think by that logic, all rituals are satanicâŚ
So it is written, so it is done.
âin the name of ALS.â The Bible is clear: âYou shall have no other gods before meâ
I just canât get over the âfactâ that a disease (or an organization fighting a disease) is a god. Sure lady, if you say so.
If God didnât want people getting ALS, he wouldnât have invented Lou Gehrig.
Methinks someone be a bit jelly that ALS is getting more filthy lucre than Selena Owens.
Well, yeah, but what if the American Faithful had nailed her to a bit wood at the age of 33? Sheâs knocking on a bit now. Gotta get your miracles in before youâre forty to be deified.
When I think âSatan,â the first things that come to mind are charity and ice.
When I think âSatanâ, I think of this: hot bothered and bedeviled animaniacs
