All posts tagged hate
I'm not always wearing my full habit...
This letter was delivered to a Sikh American family in Sterling, VA. A community very close to where I live. Close to Washington DC. An area with a lot of Muslims, and Arabs and South Asians. An area that is supposed to be tolerant. An area that is filled with many government officials. I can’t help but wonder if someone who works in the government and lives in Sterling wrote that letter.
Islamophobia affects us all. And worst of all, it affects people who are not even Muslim. Although they are not Muslim, they are being targeted because of the way they look. This was meant for us. To anyone who thinks Islamophobia is dead, it’s not.
Dear Letter-Writer, Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul. God knows, you need it.
(Source: indiawest.com, via ladyatheist)
Last night, a Democratic campaign manager in Arkansas arrived home to find his child’s cat murdered, the word ‘LIBERAL’ written on the carcass.
To whoever perpetrated this disgusting and abominable act:
Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul. God knows you need it.
In Christ’s love,
me
"A 14-year-old openly bisexual girl collared Texas Gov. Rick Perry after his town hall here and challenged him to explain the reasoning behind his belief that gays should not serve openly in the military."
Asked what he thought of the governor’s explanation that he “hates the sin” but “loves the sinner,” Todd Green said, “I have always hated that phrase. I think it’s impossible and you show it by action. If you love the sinner, whatever that means, your policy should reflect that I think, but in the end, I don’t understand the logic behind that at all.”
“Hate the sin, but love the sinner” is one of the worst thoughts to come out of Christianity, not only useless but harmful as well.
There is no room in a Christian for hate. Hate is not a virtue. Hate is not a Christian value. Hate is not a family value. Hate harms the hated, and it harms the hater even more. Hate is based on fear, which is not only the opposite of faith, but the rejection of faith.
One of the only two new things that Jesus said was this:
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
He even repeats it: Love one another as I have loved you.
Did Jesus hate sin? No. Sin frustrated Jesus, made Jesus feel pity or sadness. But hate? No way. The love Jesus showed was so complete, so merciful, so infinite and scandalous that it had no room in it for hate. To love one another as Jesus loves us is to try to see each person we encounter as God’s beloved child, to give anything — even our freedom, our bodies, our lives — so that other persons can have life.
This is the yardstick by which Christians should be measured. We are not called to hate sin; rather, we are commanded to love all persons, to love as Jesus loves us, to pray for our enemies, to love those who hate us, to forgive infinitely. You cannot do these things and still have room in your heart for hatred.
So stop hiding behind this deceitful language: it is impossible to hate the sin but love the sinner. Drop the hate. Just love.
(Source: ryking)
I’m guessing the FFA [Florida Family Association] would say that I’m arguing that anyone who criticizes Islamic extremism is a bigot. No: Hating terrorism is not bigoted. Neither is disdaining the persecution of women or minorities by religious fundamentalists.
But what is absolutely bigoted is to decide that there is one group in America that gets treated by different rules. What is blatantly bigoted is to say that there is one group whose members cannot be shown to live mundane, nonthreatening lives without being “balanced” by references to murderers who have the same religion that they do. (Thus a Maine newspaper was browbeaten into apologizing for showing local Muslims peaceably praying on the 9/11 anniversary.) What is systemically bigoted is fighting to make sure that one religion, and one religion only, is never portrayed without an element of menace attaching to it.
All-American Muslim Meets an Un-American Advertising Pullout | Entertainment | TIME.com (via tiffanyb)
You go, Time!
Florida Family Association, Undercover Nun continues to pray for your immortal soul. It’s about time you demonstrated some of that love for all your neighbors that Jesus demands of us.
(via tiffanyb)
Lowe’s pulls ads from ‘All-American Muslim’ after evangelical Christian group threatens boycott.
Sami Elmansoury, who serves on the Immigrant Rights Task Force of the Office of the Borough President of Manhattan, started a petition to Lowe’s. On The Takeaway, he said the petition is asking that the home-improvement company “stand up against the bigots of the anti-Islam/Islamophobia industry.”
Lowe’s announced that they would no longer run their ads on “All-American Muslim” after the Florida Family Association mounted a campaign against the program. “Lowe’s has received a significant amount of communication on this program, from every perspective possible,” the company’s statement said. “Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views.”
(Image: The Amen family from ‘All-American Muslim’ (left to right): Bilal, Suehalia, Adam, Shadia, Jeff McDermott, Lila, Mohsen, Samira Amen-Fawaz, and Ali Fawaz (photo from TLC)
This makes me very, very, very sad. And more than a bit pissed off.
Florida Family Association, Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul. God knows, you need it, you brood of vipers.
Lowe’s? You too, you cowards.
This image was captured today when riot police stormed the Dale Farm travellers armed with batons, shields and firing tasers, despite promises the eviction would be peaceful. This morning’s surprise eviction was reminiscent of a war zone as police in riot gear used sledgehammers to clear the way for the bailiffs.
The clashes left six people injured and resulted in 23 arrests. The entire operation was estimated to have cost 18 million pounds.
And this is why your “gypsy” costumes aren’t cute.
Nor is it cool to use the word gypped to mean cheated. You wouldn’t use the word jewed to mean the same thing, would you?
Actually, if you would, then Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(Source: hex-zero, via missturdle)
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
(Source: revolutionofconsciousness)
What struck me most about this document is just how American it is in every way.
— Jeff Sharlet, an author and expert on right-wing movements in the United States, on reading A European Declaration of Independence by Anders Behring Breivik
This gives me chills. May God have mercy on us all!
(with thanks to @JesusOfNaz316 for the link)
LGBTQ* History You Should Know
(And Probably Never Heard Of)
Alcatraz’s First Prisoner
Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay’s “Rock,” opened as a prison in the 1934. The prison, considered the most intense maximum-security facility in the United States, housed the most “dangerous and incorrigible” criminals in the country. Murderers, mob bosses, serial murderers and enemies of the state were sent to Alcatraz. Also incarcerated at the mighty prison where men who committed the punishable crime of sodomy.
Frank Bolt (pictured above) was Alcatraz’s first inmate, processed on July 1, 1934. Bolt was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of being caught in a homosexual act and received a five-year sentence for acts of sodomy. He would later die at Alcatraz.
-Nine of the first twenty-five prisoners processed and housed at Alcatraz were jailed on charges of sodomy.
Source: The Portable Queer: Homo History p.25-26
Moving to Texas
While there is plenty in this news story about Glenn Beck’s plan to move to the Dallas area that may turn your stomach, only the very last sentence puts real fear in my heart.
Meanwhile, Beck is gearing up for his “Restoring Courage” rally in Israel next month, a sequel to the “Restoring Honor” rally he held in Washington the same time last year.
Glenn Beck? In Israel?!? May God have mercy on us all!
