Via Soccernet:

JOHANNESBURG — Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.

David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

“He said, ‘No, I want to watch soccer,’” police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. “That is when the argument came about.

“In that argument, they started assaulting him.”

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

“It appears they banged his head against the wall,” Malefo said. “They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead.”

I’m sure if she’d known there were going to be four goals in that game, she’d have relented. After all, what would Jesus do if someone was keeping Him from watching His favorite gospel show? Ok, He’d probably beat their head against the wall until they died too, but still.

I bet this in the Bible somewhere.

Thank you, and thank your [all-powerful/reasonably-powerful/capricious and emotive] God(s) in advance for making the World Cup what it should be — not completely fucking annoying.

Point the second: The current Christian obsession with getting teenagers not to have sex is the very definition of “Sisyphean.”

Point the third: Abstinance-only education (and the ‘purity’ trope not only fails in every regard, it nets out in more unwanted pregnancies and STDs.

Via openeducation.net:
Therefore, those youngsters who took the virginity pledge were not only just as likely to have intercourse, they ultimately were more likely to take part in sex in an unsafe manner.

^ That would be the boulder rolling back down the hill part.

And to be honest with you, I would probably rather be 14 and pregnant with siphylis than have to sit through this more than once:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw

Note to self: if I plan to make my primary life’s scam that of a right-wing “family values” politician, don’t be a lying stupid hypocrite. Depite the laughably predictable insincerity from a moralist, this California Congressman’s litany of sexual conquest makes better listening than the second hand accounts of gay bathroom sex we’ve grown used to here in ‘Merica.

This one initially scores 8.5 for prurient detail alone, but gets bumped up to 9.0 for the fact he was cheating on one mistress with the other, his wife apparently out of the picture altogether, and both mistresses were also lobbyists.

An Argentine soul-mate? CHILD’S PLAY.

My new #1 Internet Fact™: You don’t cheat on Therese Ziemann if you’re already cheating on your wife with Therese Ziemann.

Because Therese Ziemann will glue your penis to your stomach while your other ladies punch you in the face and laugh.

9.5 for cold-hearted comedy, and the totally unrepentant photo of Therese Ziemann, Ace Penis-Gluer is top-shelf.

“According to Chafee, the recent series of right-wing primary campaigns against centrist Republicans is a major source of weakness for the party, especially given that these campaigns often target lawmakers in blue states where only moderate candidates have a chance in the general election. But even if the more moderate incumbents survive the challenge, they’ll only be weaker against the Democratic candidate later on.”

via the Daily Beast

Current Affairs Lesson #1: Don’t make a land-for-peace deal with the Taliban, and

Current Affairs Lesson #2: Don’t mortgage your party to the Religious Right (the Missouriban).

Tricksy Jesus.

It’s like half church, half after-hours club, half dance scene from a Peanuts made-for-TV special. Tonight on ABC: “Best Get Right With Jesus, Charlie Brown!”

"The latest defendant is Allen Kauffman, 63, who resigned as mayor of Collins and pastor of Temple Lot Church after he was arrested January 11 at home in his small town about 110 miles southeast of Kansas City."

Generally speaking, the more self-righteous the person is, the bigger the skeletons that come out of his closet. It’s funny that Ted Haggard in Colorado got busted buying gay sex, but in the end, who really gives a fuck? It’s two adults having consensual sex . . . granted, for money, but you know . . . whatever. It’s really only even newsworthy because one of the consenting gay men is a giant hypocrite who uses his podium to preach anti-gay rhetoric while giving rim-jobs to his crank dealer behind his congregation’s back.

But this Missouri guy preys on kids. He got busted trying to solicit sex from a 60-year old man posing as a 13-year old girl online. omg lol k im laghing @ him i hope cops beat hm up lol

He’s a scumbag, check. But, adding pathos to all this skeeve, he’s a religious scumbag who tells other people how to live their lives and preaches about morality and "family values."

From the Temple Lot Church website (emphasis mine):

"The (Temple Lot Church) is… the true Church restored in the last days by Christ himself to prepare the world for His final return . . . the Church of Christ posesses true priesthood authority and spiritual gifts given by Christ for the purpose of spreading His Gospel to all ‘kindreds, nations, tongues and people.’"

These are the kinds of dumb rabbit-holes literalist religion sends you down into. So Christ himself gave Chester the Molester "true preisthood authority"? Really? Gee, wouldn’t that would make Jesus a fucking moron?

And is "true priesthood authority" as good as "real ultimate power"? Because if not, I’m OUT, bible boy.

The more of this stuff I hear about, the more I think that the people who are bible-literalist Christians only come in two categories: hiding something, or trying to cover up some personality flaw. Get some therapy, let go of any literal interpretation of metaphor (it’s only going to lead to neurosis), have a glass of wine, some consensual sex (with ADULTS, you freaks) and get on with being limited, human, ignorant and a tiny, tiny speck in an otherwise unimportant part of a massive universe that is 100% without any meaning at all.