Just when you think the world can't get any weirder, your good friend in Alaska sends you this to read. Click on the logo to link to the article. Read what the Reverend says and then feel free to reflect on it here. Me? I'm speechless.
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Molly
7/21/2011 07:45:12 am
Simply unbelievable!I can't believe he actually posted that and signed his name to it.
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FrostyAK
7/21/2011 08:24:31 am
The Frontiersman is the same "newspaper" that ran the editorial spelling out to Joe McGinnis (then living next door to $P) that Alaskans can use deadly force against intruders. Hint, hint...
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ginny11
7/21/2011 08:27:58 am
WOW. That's all I've got: WOW.
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Bobcat Logic
7/21/2011 09:01:59 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/
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Viola-Alex
7/21/2011 09:46:19 am
I didn't read all the comments, but the one's I did read were 100% appalled by the editorial. THAT gives me hope about Alaskans-- because I've always had this skeezy, irrational fear that the only people up that far north are only those who run to hide something scary just like the people in the remote cracks of my dear Texas.
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Up
7/21/2011 09:47:47 am
The "editorial" is horrific, but I did enjoy the comments. I spewed soda on my monitor over Burger King God.
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7/21/2011 09:55:02 am
If the Bible had been this country's code of law we would still have slavery and women would still be subservient to men. Imagine what things people like him would have done to our society if there was no separation of church and state!
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7/21/2011 10:15:03 am
I know, Ginny, it's difficult to say much beyond WOW.
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FrostyAK
7/21/2011 10:44:38 am
"I'm amazed there aren't more comments to his article. Perhaps people feel it's not worthy of their time and energy."
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The other jk
7/21/2011 10:53:37 am
So this guy says that he's never had a woman come to him complaining about her husband forcing himself on her. Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
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Ferry Fey
7/21/2011 02:17:33 pm
FrostyAK, a lot of us had heat indexes over 100 degrees today, and we don't have much energy.
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SLQ
7/21/2011 04:04:31 pm
Agreed. Not much to say beyond "Wow!" It's amazing anyone would say that in public, much less in print. And a man of the cloth.
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Rationalist
7/21/2011 05:11:49 pm
I especially enjoyed the comment by the guy who said "I can't speak for all marriages, but my wife likes it when I make the final decision when we disagree."
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nenagh
7/21/2011 08:26:46 pm
Unbelievable... Talk about the dark ages..
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Jeff
7/21/2011 10:37:24 pm
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jeanette
7/22/2011 01:55:57 am
Incredible, frightening ignorance.
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Why don't these "Christians" ever write about other things in the Bible? Like sharing - loving your neighbors like yourself - and the concept that souls are neither male/female, or master/slave? If you're going to pick and choose, why not choose something that makes you look less like a sadist?
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7/22/2011 03:31:31 am
That's an excellent point, V ictoria. It's never the positive stuff that they feel the need to share.
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FrostyAK
7/22/2011 05:15:30 am
Here's the Frontiersman's half-assed editorial to explain why they printed the piece by Hamman.
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DebinOH
7/22/2011 05:20:17 am
I have to laugh that he thinks it is the heathens who are horrible people. Good god I wish all these nitwits would move somewhere else (preferably outer space). It is horrifying that a woman could not say she was raped because there wasn't a witness.
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mistah charley, ph.d.
7/22/2011 06:03:18 am
Coincidentally, today, July 22, is the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, called by St. Augustine "the apostle to the apostles" - she was the first one to see the risen Christ. Her prominence in the recently discovered Gnostic gospels has helped spark a re-examination of her role, and the role of the feminine principle in the early Church. While few contemporary devotees would go so far as Dan Brown, whose novel suggests she and Jesus had children whose descendants are alive today, it is clear that her role has been minimized by patriarchal authority throughout church history. See the Wikipedia article on Mary Magdalene for more.
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viola-alex
7/22/2011 08:03:16 am
Thank you for that, Mistah Charley. A true antidote to the pastor's poison.
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Ivyfree
7/22/2011 11:50:55 pm
I wonder why no woman ever complained to him about spousal rape? /sarcasm
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dt
7/23/2011 12:28:37 am
I, too, am speechless.
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Conscious at last!
7/24/2011 08:53:49 am
Yeah, and the irony is that these are precisely the folks who reject the idea that humans and apes had a common ancestor!!!!
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