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February 12, 2007

Shorter Amanda: You know that apology where I said I never meant to offend anyone's religious beliefs?

... JUST KIDDING, you Christofascist godbag fuckers!
Lordy, Mandy. Just take that Sharpie and permanently write "hypocrit extraordinare" across your forehead! And it's amazing in your resignation snit-fit you are again refusing to take responsibility for your own writings!

Even yesterday you just couldn't help but drop a little gratuitous anti-Christian bigotry into a movie review.

The Christian version of the virgin birth is generally interpreted as super-patriarchal, where god is viewed as so powerful he can impregnate without befouling himself by touching a woman, and women are nothing but vessels.
Did Pastor Edwards see that? Did it break his heart after your "sincere" promises to be a good girl?

(h/t Jeff Goldstein)

UPDATE Michelle Malkin has a roundup of reaction

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Posted by Darleen at February 12, 2007 06:11 PM

Comments

So, basically she's saying here that it's all Bill Donohue's fault, along with the mythical vast right wing conspirators. Nevermind that much of the Catholic blogosphere was commenting on her bigotry without any prompting or influence by Donohue -- most of them probably don't even know or care who the heck Bill Donohue is. Never mind that serious Christians on the Left, like these people and this guy, also took offense. Any serious Christian, as opposed to those who worship political agendas or ideologies first and foremost, will have a problem with, say, comparing the Holy Spirit to an ejaculation.

Even shorter Amanda: "And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you f***ing godbags."

Posted by: Susan B. at February 12, 2007 08:02 PM

Yeah, I think it's funny too, that she thinks we're all taking our marching orders from Bill Donohue--who I'd never heard of before all this. Heh. Not to mention I don't remember seeing any right-wing blogger calling for her firing. All I saw was anticipation of her next bout of verbal diarrhea while working for Edwards!

I saw that ridiculous movie review, too, and howled laughing at it because it's probably the ONLY post of hers, except maybe for one-liner posts, that isn't loaded with fuck-fucking-fuckers. It must have been torturous for her, trying to write without swearing! And she still couldn't help being hateful!

Posted by: Beth at February 12, 2007 11:35 PM

Her announcement is both hilarious but apoplexy inducing as well. I'm seriously sick of people like Amanda claiming a sexist conspiracy around every corner. But I guess it would be comforting to scream "victim of teh patriarchy!" anytime you acted up and got called on it. God forbid an adult take personal responsibility for their actions.

Posted by: ratan at February 13, 2007 07:09 AM

Hee, heeee---I just knew Manda-Panda wasn't going to be able to keep her barbaric yawp shut!

Luv ya, Darleen, keep up the good work!

Posted by: TalkinKamel at February 13, 2007 08:21 AM

Criticizing a religious belief is bigotry?

Posted by: Josh at February 13, 2007 09:59 AM

Muslims are on line 1, Brad.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at February 13, 2007 10:11 AM

Josh?

Do please explain how Mandy's quote I have above is mere "criticism" of a religion?

Or how about the one where she has Mary taking Plan B.

And again you're failing to understand that Pastor Edwards, her employer had already told her HE was offended by stuff like that and to knock it off if she wanted to keep her job.

Who is ultimately responsible when an employer has given an employee who has shown up to work drunk a second chance and then discovers a bottle of vodka in the employee's desk one week later??

Posted by: Darleen at February 13, 2007 12:50 PM

Stay on topic, Darleen. I'm not talking about Edwards. I'm talking about bigotry. I don't share your apparent view that religious ideas should somehow be exempt from criticism, including mockery.

Despite his problem with names, Darth Aggie appears to understand where that kind of thinking can lead.

Posted by: Josh at February 13, 2007 01:00 PM

What was said about virgin birth is probably true, at least in part.

This has something to do with the secondary position of women in the ancient church.

Also, stories of the birth of pagan gods had supernatural aspects showing out of the ordinary human birth. Church fathers probably made up the story of the virgin birth while remembering the pagan stories.

Nothing anti-Catholic about it....

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at February 13, 2007 01:04 PM

Josh

I am on topic. Amanda is fully free to be as anti-Christian as she wants. Hell, she can spew rabid anti-Catholic stuff standing right next to Kleagle Byrd for all I care (along with her occassion forays into anti-Semitism)

Being a bigot is legal.

And Edwards also has every right to demand a certain level of behavior from his employees.

But today, Amanda is running off her mouth that she's a VICTIM and her "resignation" is all everyone else's fault.

Carl

Get off it. Amanda smeared the idea of virgin birth by saying god hates women and thinks of them as empty vessels..while completely ignoring the venerated position that Mary has in the Catholic church.

If you want to argue inconsistencies in any particular theology, knock yerself out. I don't argue how many angels can dance on a head of pin.

I care about behavior and Amanda's has been so bad as to make her self-destructive (getting fired) and make me wonder what is wrong with her brain.

Posted by: Darleen at February 13, 2007 01:19 PM

Darleen, your giddiness seems to have rendered you unable to grasp a rather simple point, so I'll just let you have your moment. Though you you may wish to reconsider your reflexive playing of the anti-semitism card in a dispute in which you're carrying water for William "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity" Donahue.

Posted by: Josh at February 13, 2007 01:38 PM

Also, stories of the birth of pagan gods had supernatural aspects showing out of the ordinary human birth. Church fathers probably made up the story of the virgin birth while remembering the pagan stories.

Sort of like the way you read some nonsense on some website somewhere along the way and never bothered fact-checking it? For instance, "extraordinary birth" =/= virgin birth. I would think that would be obvious, but apparently, it's not. In all the extraordinary births throughout mythology, a god physically impregnated a woman and she was no longer a virgin. If it was "made up by church fathers" as you faithfully believe, we'd see a lot more virgin births in mythology, yet we don't. So if it had been invented, it was long before there even was a Church, much less clergy. In fact, it goes far back into a book Jewish people call the Torah. Oh, and that wasn't copied, either.

I remember reading not too long ago a post from an atheist about how embarrassed he was to be with other atheists because they fail to follow up with that whole "reasoning" and "research" bit. Just one more way in which his point was proved. Remember, kids: ignorance of history and laziness in doing research makes baby Nietzsche cry.

Posted by: Basilisk at February 13, 2007 02:00 PM

Woah, check out the current redirect page on pandagon

http://punk.punkasshost.com/suspended.page/

St. Amanda loves to play the martyr!

Right wingers right now are pretending like sexism has nothing to do with me, which is an argument that works if you think a) men get emails about how they need to suck a dick on a regular basis and b) that there's nothing whatsoever sexist about allowing men to curse but hitting the fainting couch if a woman does.

It is amazing the myths so-called feminists will believe, innit?

Posted by: ratan at February 13, 2007 03:37 PM

Josh, is this your best?:

“Darleen, your giddiness seems to have rendered you unable to grasp a rather simple point, so I'll just let you have your moment. Though you may wish to reconsider your reflexive playing of the anti-semitism card in a dispute in which you're carrying water for William "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity" Donahue.”

Josh, you are a pedantic bore. Why?

Consider this: “so I'll just let you have your moment”

And this: “reconsider your reflexive playing of”

And this: “your giddiness seems to have rendered you unable”

Josh, are you projecting the profs who graded you and/or are you still in school? Your comments are consistently bereft of real life examples or anecdotes that are evidence of a wisdom gained from experience. All of the above show you to be a pretender.

Frankly, you couldn’t carry Darleen’s water for a moment.

Posted by: Hugh at February 13, 2007 05:59 PM

Hugh,

I'm sorry my comments don't fulfill your burning need for pointless anecdotes and irrelevant life stories. Try People magazine.

Posted by: Josh at February 14, 2007 10:17 AM