I'm A Little Bit' Religious Articles And A Little Bit Of WTF!!!!!!

I like being super productive, it is nice. I had appointments today which is always lovely. I also had my fingers(prints) taken so that I could send them to Mulder and Scully, to prove that I could move to Canada. Neat huh?!
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So, when I started writing this post today, I didn't intend for it to be a super downer. It just happened that way. I am also not trying to make it look that religion=rape. You have been warned.

I have a few interesting articles about religion that I found today. So here they are.

"God Bless America". An essay written by Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge for Huffington Post. Is though provoking. She gets to the nitty-gritty about why it is so easily thrown about by politicians and how evangelicals are kind of ruining it for the rest of us.

Please forgive me. No, I don't want to forgive you. There was a study done on how Americans would like more forgiveness but are not quick forgive. "Americans express a near-universal desire for a more loving and unified world," said the "Survey of Love and Forgiveness in American Society," released on Oct. 28.

Here is a another case of people who do not believe in god, not being dickheads about it. I posted an article a few weeks back about how atheist can be part of interfaith discussions without turning into self-righteous douche bags who think that people who have "faith" are retards. Cool!

Kind of a bummer section ahead. Rape and Sexual Assault totally suck ass. However, here are a few WTF! moments having to do with it in the news... and then also an article about how Private Practice did a thoughtful respectful episode tackling the issue.

WTF is wrong with the 5th Circuit!? The situation is, " The former cheerleader and her family are appealing the ruling by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which includes an order to pay the school district’s legal fees on the grounds their suit was far-fetched and frivolous. [...]

H.S., then 16, attended a party in her hometown of Silsbee, Texas, in October 2008. She said she was dragged into a room, thrown onto the floor by several youths and raped by Rakheem Bolton, a star on the school’s football and basketball teams.

Bolton and a teammate were arrested two days later, but were allowed to return to school after a county grand jury declined to indict them. They were later indicted on sexual assault charges, but in the interim came the February 2009 incident on the basketball court.

H.S. joined in leading cheers for the Silsbee High team. But when Bolton went to the foul line, and the cheers included his name, she stepped back, folded her arms and sat down."

Situations like these are beyond fucked up.

I live in Seattle, so this kind of fucked up my day when the original incident happened. A lady crawled onto the roof of the courthouse and threatened suicide. Closed down a fair chunk of downtown because of it. However, given the circumstances, I could see why this lady wanted to die. She was in the middle of a trial where the man who allegedly raped her was representing himself. So she had the supreme displeasure of having to face her attacker while he questioned her. He thinks there should be a mistrial.. I think that if you are accused of a violent crime, you should never represent yourself.

Dear lord people! Stop having sex with kids! This is not ok. 23 child prostitutes, 99 pimps and 885 really fucked up humans have been found/arrested in the last 3 days. I am giving a big thumbs up for the FBI here.

So, with all of this. Let me talk about Private Practice. The link is a review of the show in question. When I watched the cliffhanger the week before.. a knot in my stomach formed. For a week.. I sat there staring at the calender kind of dreading Thursday. When Friday morning came around, I woke up, made a cup of tea, sat with cats and forced myself to watch it. I pretty much almost puked several times. This would be because I am a victim of sexual assault.. and well Charlotte King hurt me by not reporting it. I understand the "I don't want him to have anymore of me" mentality but for fuck sakes, he is going to do it again. Hopefully this week, she gets some sense and reports it, because if she doesn't I might have lost all respect for her as a person, even though she is a character on a show. It also, doesn't help that the rapist is Nicholas Brendan who played Xander Harris on Buffy. Who, as that character was all about putting the hurt on Spike when he tried to rape Buffy.

Gah! Now I am too damn depressed to finish with all of the links I found today. I will just have to save them for tomorrow. Be Safe.