Jan. 9th, 2009

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Hey, remember Mike Huckabee? You know, the guy who ran for president on a platform of marginalizing anyone who wasn't a conservative Christian, and then went on to have a show on Fox News? Well, apparently somebody does, because his book Do the Right Thing is on the bestseller list. I haven't read the book, and I'm not even totally sure what it's about, but that title reminds me of how annoyed I get at hateful people claiming that they're super-moral, and that they know what's best for everyone else. You know, like the Moral Majority (who, like the Holy Roman Empire, have a name in which every word is false). I think I'm a pretty moral person, but I don't go around bragging about it, because that would pretty much just be opening myself up to charges of hypocrisy. And when people like that screw up, they often screw up big-time. Just consider Ted Haggard's fun with meth and male escorts, Bill O'Reilly's adventures in sexual harassment, John Schmitz's out-of-wedlock children (not to mention his LEGITIMATE daughter having sex with her student), Jimmy Swaggart's love of prostitutes, and so on. Hey, I guess if you're part of a religion that teaches that all sins are equal to God, you might as well go for the big sins, right? Also, I believe it was [livejournal.com profile] rockinlibrarian who proposed that people for whom evangelism reaches the point of obsession are likely to have addictive personalities anyway.

Really, if these people are such devout Christians, shouldn't they know the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:9-14? I don't pretend to be an expert on Jesus, but I have read the Bible, and one message he gives in a slew of different ways is not to judge others. And pride is one of the seven deadly sins, right? So isn't acting like you're the paragon of morality kind of anti-Christian?
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Here's a meme that both [livejournal.com profile] colbyucb and [livejournal.com profile] unclemilo did before me. I'm actually only doing part of it, because the other part wasn't especially relevant to my icons.

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 15
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 15
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: I CAN buy space for more, and I don't. It would be nice to have more icons, but not enough so that I'd be willing to pay money.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Not really a statement per se, but I try to use icons that are at least slightly relevant to either the content or the mood of what I'm saying in a particular post or comment.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Oz
AND THE SECOND MOST: Super Mario Bros.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Polychrome/Victor Columbia Edison. I want them to make little rainbow victrola babies. No, seriously, I've never been one for shipping.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: No.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: I usually just take pictures from the Internets and turn them into icons, with no alterations beyond cutting out the occasional superfluous part. I guess that's making icons in the same sense that microwaving a frozen pot pie is cooking.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: They look all right, for the most part, but they don't exactly show any skill.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Beyond my ability.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

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