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You are here: Home / Politics / Religion / All Must Be Well In Tulsa

All Must Be Well In Tulsa

by John Cole|  August 12, 20096:25 pm| 95 Comments

This post is in: Religion, Science & Technology, Clown Shoes, Wingnut Event Horizon, WTF?

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If this is the #1 priority, things must be going pretty well in Tulsa:

Republican mayoral candidate Anna Falling said Tuesday that putting a Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is No. 1 in importance among city issues that include violent crime, budget woes and bumpy streets.

“It’s first,” she said to calls of “hallelujah” at a rally outside the zoo. “If we can’t come to the foundation of faith in this community, those other answers will never come. We need to first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.”

Falling, who has founded several Christian nonprofits and is a former city councilor, also said the next mayor needs to appoint people to city boards, authorities and commissions who will “honor God.”

“We will also look for people who want to characterize the origins of both man and animals in a way that honors Judeo-Christian science that proves God as the creator,” she said.

If I were the zoo director, I would meet them halfway and name the next baby chimps/apes/etc. Adam, Eve, Mary and Joseph.

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  1. 1.

    ironranger

    August 12, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    The lunacy never stops.

  2. 2.

    Duncan Watson

    August 12, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    I love your solution, meeting them halfway indeed.

  3. 3.

    Kid A

    August 12, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    She proves evolution is not happ’in.

  4. 4.

    Balconesfault

    August 12, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey,
    Dark man picks the cotton, White man gets the money.

    Take Me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry;
    Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_MbgheFKxI

  5. 5.

    Jager

    August 12, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    WTF, they already have all that shit in Tulsa! Is she nuts? Where has she been under a rock? And maybe they can buy all the crap from the creation amusement park that just went toes up in Florida, save some money and give the displays a nice new home!

  6. 6.

    General Winfield Stuck

    August 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    I lived in Tulsa for nearly a year back in the 80’s. Doesn’t surprise me a bit they’d want to put Jesus in the Zoo. At all points in the city you can see the giant praying hands icon over at Oral Roberts U. And to the north your always aware of the Killing Fields of The Tulsa Massacre.

    Religion Racism and Creationism. The stuff of Red Amerika.

  7. 7.

    Zifnab

    August 12, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    “If we can’t come to the foundation of faith in this community, those other answers will never come. We need to first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.”

    Yay! He’s starting a cult!

    Seriously, when this guy ends up in a hotel bathroom throat deep in underage gay hookers paid for with city tax dollars, how many of us are going to be surprised?

  8. 8.

    Ron Beasley

    August 12, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    Perhaps the lions at the zoo are hungry!

  9. 9.

    Deborah

    August 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    I think we could have a wee display next to the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. Say, put little Adam and Eve cutouts in with the Tree Frogs.

  10. 10.

    steve s

    August 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Look for the city’s lawsuit insurance premiums to go up 500% next year.

  11. 11.

    steve s

    August 12, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    “Seriously, when this guy ends up in a hotel bathroom throat deep in underage gay hookers paid for with city tax dollars, how many of us are going to be surprised?”

    I’d be pretty surprised to find out she’s a guy. So would her husband.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Judeo-Christian science????

    I wonder if Anna Falling realizes that Jesus was the original single payer plan. Nothing in the Bible about co-pays or deductibles for healing and miracles.

  13. 13.

    Svensker

    August 12, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Yes, the great God of the universe, the being who began all and who encompasses all, the Spirit who is all compassion, all love, enfolding the entirety of creation in his (or her or its) incomprehensible perfect being — that God needs to be honored by the city of Tulsa.

    Uh huh.

    Also, morans.

  14. 14.

    Joshua Norton

    August 12, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    We will also look for people who want to characterize the origins of both man and animals in a way that honors Judeo-Christian science that proves God as the creator

    How dey do dat? They’re going to specifically PROVE it once and for all? By using a book that was written during a time when no one had the slightest clue as to what was going on?

    Maybe they should next build an observatory to re-prove the sun travels around the earth. Also.

  15. 15.

    Blue Raven

    August 12, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Do not the rocks themselves cry out his name? Isn’t that in their holy book somewhere? Why build monuments to a god who told his followers not to pray on temple steps?

  16. 16.

    oliver's neck

    August 12, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    @Brachiator

    “Jesus was the original single payer plan”

    WIN!

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    August 12, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    @Blue Raven: Cause monuments cost money and someone wants to get paid.

  18. 18.

    ironranger

    August 12, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    I don’t know why people, if they have strong faith, would need reminders every step they take to honor God.

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    August 12, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    They want to honor communists in Tulsa?

    And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

    Acts 2:45

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    August 12, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    OT, but any word on Krista’s baby yet?

    Or are we waiting for the Canadian socialist mandated baby sex-change and political indoctrination operation to be completed before making any announcements?

    .

  21. 21.

    JGabriel

    August 12, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    OT, but any word on Krista’s baby yet?

    Or are we waiting for the Canadian sociaIist mandated baby sex-change and political indoctrination operation to be completed before making any announcements?

    .

  22. 22.

    Brick Oven Bill

    August 12, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    I totally agree. If there is one place for creationism to be expressed, it’s the zoo.

  23. 23.

    Rosali

    August 12, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    Such idiocy. Tulsa residents should be demanding a stop to this before the city budget is decimated by legal expenses defending a losing battle.

    When the Dover (PA) School Board tried to put intelligent design in the school curriculum, they got sued and lost and ended up having to pay $1,000,011 in atty’s fees. $1M dollars could pay for books, teachers, or fixing school buildings. What a waste.

  24. 24.

    Complimentary Airsickness Bag

    August 12, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    Can’t we compromise? If you don’t put creationism displays in my zoo, I won’t bring monkeys to your church.

  25. 25.

    joes527

    August 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    @ironranger:

    I don’t know why people, if they have strong faith, would need reminders every step they take to honor God.

    That’s because it isn’t “honouring god”. It is about power.

  26. 26.

    parksideq

    August 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    Sweet Jesus, can these people be raptured(TM) away already? That is, if the Obama Death Panel doesn’t get them first?

  27. 27.

    ironranger

    August 12, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    @Complimentary Airsickness Bag:
    Awesome!

  28. 28.

    Martin

    August 12, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    This is part of Huckabee’s ‘vertical relationship with God’. Basically, as people we’re powerless unless we take care of the spiritual crap first. Don’t worry about your marriage, make things cool with God and the marriage will get sorted out.

    That creationism display at the zoo will totally sort out the problems with the roads. God will be happy and flatten Oklahoma out (even more).

  29. 29.

    JGabriel

    August 12, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Brachiator:

    … Jesus was the original single payer plan. Nothing in the Bible about co-pays or deductibles for healing and miracles.

    Jesus (for whom all times exist as one) believed in Ayn Rand, and was perfectly Galtian in his healing: Jesus only healed people to build his religious brand, and as soon as they put him on a cross, he went Galt and hid away in a cave, saying, “You won’t have Jesus H. Christ to kick around anymore!”

    .

  30. 30.

    ironranger

    August 12, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    @joes527:
    Oh yeah. Just being sarcastic but I would like to hear their answer.

  31. 31.

    Thomas Levenson

    August 12, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    I don’t care if you don’t believe in natural selection. What interests me is does natural selection believe in you?

  32. 32.

    Colette

    August 12, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    I’m cool with it, as long as every plate of spaghetti in Tulsa is also honored as being made in the image of the Creator.

  33. 33.

    Rosali

    August 12, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    In Dover, that was $1M in atty’s fees to plaintiff’s counsel. That’s not including the $$ they spent on their own attorneys.

  34. 34.

    Leelee for Obama

    August 12, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    @parksideq: No, they cannot. you do not understand God’s plan. This is hell for us, and they are our tormentors. Or some such shit.

  35. 35.

    Demo Woman

    August 12, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    In honor of the baby Jesus, pictures of Lily and Tunch would be appropriate.

  36. 36.

    Calouste

    August 12, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Can’t remember a case where Jesus turned down someone for pre-existing conditions either.

  37. 37.

    geg6

    August 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    I’ve about had it with these fucking Christianists. Fuck your god, fuck your son of god, fuck your fucking book, and fuck you, you sanctimonious, hypocritical assholes who are so insecure in your fantastical and juvenile belief system that you have to constantly shove it in the face of rational people and scream about it at the top of your lungs so you won’t actually have to face how bankrupt that belief system really is. /rant

  38. 38.

    Demo Woman

    August 12, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    OT According to the local news a man wearing an Obama tshirt was asked to leave the town hall meeting with Nathan Deal. He wasn’t do anything although he was hoping to be able to ask a question. Oh and he was black.

  39. 39.

    cbear

    August 12, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    “….name the next baby chimps/apes/etc. Adam, Eve, Mary and Joseph.”

    “Solomon, STOP flinging that shit!”
    “Noah, NOAH, for God’s sake will you quit jerking off!”

  40. 40.

    steve s

    August 12, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    I don’t think Dover’s attorney fees were much. The Thomas More Law Center represented them, I think pro-bono, after the city lawyer told them to cut it out because they were going to get boned in court. But it was a very expensive pro-bono, as the lawsuit insurance they had, which would have paid the million bucks, was invalidated when they disregarded the advice of the city attorney.

  41. 41.

    DonkeyKong

    August 12, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Wingnuts……building that bridge to the 12th century!

  42. 42.

    The Crafty Trilobite

    August 12, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    It saddens me that they can’t think of any other way to honor G-d in Tulsa. Like, oh, I dunno, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sponsoring a peace initiative…

    Nowhere in the whole Christian Bible does G-d, Jesus, or even Paul require a civic display. Maybe, just maybe, the “first” Christian priority should be any of the several hundred commands and exhortations that are in their Book?

  43. 43.

    Rosali

    August 12, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Like I told someone when she was bemoaning the lack of Christ in Christmas- If you’re looking to Macy’s for religious affirmations, then maybe your faith isn’t as strong as you think it is.

  44. 44.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    @Blue Raven:

    Do not the rocks themselves cry out his name? Isn’t that in their holy book somewhere?

    Not sure. There’s a pretty cool gospel song based on Revelations Revelations 6:15-17

    No Hiding Place

    No hiding place, down here
    No hiding place
    There’s no hiding place
    Down here
    No hiding place
    And they went to the rock to hide their face
    But the rock cried out
    No hiding place
    There’s no hiding place
    Down here

  45. 45.

    cbear

    August 12, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    I’m actually ok with the proposed Christian creationism display at the zoo. Put it next to the bonobo enclosure.

  46. 46.

    Rosali

    August 12, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    @steve s: Thanks for the extra info.

  47. 47.

    Seebach

    August 12, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    Abandon all hope:

    From Susan Page: “n a survey of 1,000 adults taken Tuesday, 34% say the sometimes heated protests at sessions held by members of Congress have made them more sympathetic to the protesters’ views; 21% say they are less sympathetic.”

    Why bother anymore?

  48. 48.

    steve s

    August 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    @Brachiator: Maybe if one were to run to the river?

  49. 49.

    linda

    August 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    the replay of the toilet paper lady being gutted (buy in a very genteel way) by lawrence odonnell is coming up on hardball. you really have to see it to believe it — the jaw-dropping stupidity of this woman is, well, jaw-dropping.

  50. 50.

    Perry Como

    August 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Jesus never worried about pre-existing conditions.

    Jesus never asked for a co-pay.

    Jesus didn’t never denied anyone health care.

  51. 51.

    Seebach

    August 12, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Holy shit. This woman IS stupid.

  52. 52.

    General Winfield Stuck

    August 12, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    @cbear:

    I’m actually ok with the proposed Christian creationism display at the zoo. Put it next to the bonobo enclosure.

    Absolutely. The least we should do for our caged cousins is give them a laugh.

  53. 53.

    bellatrys

    August 12, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    @DonkeyKong:

    Nah, in the 1100s they were still teaching Augustine, who argued that a) Genesis wasn’t literal in the sense of 6 24-hour days at all, and b) anti-science Christians were a stumbling-block for everybody else; and arguing about the ancient Greek scientists and what to do to reconcile contradictions between what had heretofore believed to be required by religion, and observed natural science (a parallel to debates simultaneously going on, and influencing each other, in Judaism and Islam.) There was a brief floruit before the reactionaries clamped down which produced an awful lot of abstract and even daring speculative thinking about the nature of the universe and the place of thinking beings in it, even if it was ultimately rejected as heretical. Modern-day Xtians would have closed down the School of Paris before it ever got started…

  54. 54.

    Seebach

    August 12, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Toilet paper woman just got 34% of surveyed adults on her side, though.

  55. 55.

    bellatrys

    August 12, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    …Seriously, Albertus Magnus would have been all “WTF is this shit?” if he heard these people, before going back to building his robot TA.

  56. 56.

    Fencedude

    August 12, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Not sure. There’s a pretty cool gospel song based on Revelations Revelations 6:15-17

    And was used in a fantastic scene in Babylon 5

  57. 57.

    winguts to iraq

    August 12, 2009 at 7:33 pm

    fark linked to this today, and had a story with more pictures.

    Cole, make sure you check it out… the most priceless picture from the whole thing:

    Link

    The image in question

    // wishes i could embed images :(

  58. 58.

    shelley matheis

    August 12, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.”

    By acting as bone-headed ignorant and arrogant as we can. He must be so proud.

    Funny. I was rereading Alcott’s ”Little Women” the other day, and always like this line (referring to Beth)

    “Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.”

  59. 59.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 12, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    @winguts to iraq: CHISTianity? LOL, the best signs are the ones where the KEY WORD in the whole thing is misspelled! What a moran. This just made my day. Thanks for the catch.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 12, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Okay, why is the “T” in “CHISTianity” bigger than the “CHIS”? Huh?

  61. 61.

    amorphous

    August 12, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    You know what open thread we need? We need one where the scientists/mathematicians among us who want to can shamelessly link any eprints they wrote or are applicable to their work. I’d love to read what the BJ sciency commentariat is doing.

    Probably not Judeo-Christian science.

  62. 62.

    Fencedude

    August 12, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    @winguts to iraq:

    // wishes i could embed images :(

    We are entirely capable of clicking a link, thank you very much. Embedded images in comment/forum threads are pretty much never a good idea.

    Or do you like goatse/tubgirl?

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: And why was it only that way in my first post but not my second? I totally don’t understand the formatting conventions (but I love it here anyhow.)

  64. 64.

    MobiusKlein

    August 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Candidate, whew.
    At first I read it as the current mayor.

    I can imagine a rival candidate having some guy who got robbed & beaten making a point that crime is a bit more important, and that the scientists can argue about evolution, and the mayor can do the governing.

  65. 65.

    jetan

    August 12, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    For those who don’t live in Tulsa, I wouldn’t be too concerned. Anna Failling is pretty much generally regarded as a psycho even by the generous standards nutjobs enjoy in Oklahoma.

    If you want to see Tulsan brains explode wait until the 50 foot statue of Buddha is constructed here. Not kidding.

  66. 66.

    freelancer

    August 12, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    @winguts to iraq:

    2009 Moran of the Year Candidate!

  67. 67.

    Augustine

    August 12, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    @bellatrys:

    Thanks.

    Though I did smite me some Pelagianites back in the day.

  68. 68.

    Davis X. Machina

    August 12, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    Though I did smite me some Pelagianites back in the day.

    Feh. Some of them probably were only semi-Pelagian. Buncha pussies.

    Now tangling with the Donatists, that was war, man. And the Arians. “Arians, come out to plaaaaaaaaay!”

  69. 69.

    cleek

    August 12, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Judeo-Christian is to science as Reality-Based is to Republicanism

  70. 70.

    JK

    August 12, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    I wonder what the late, great Tony Randall would have said about this story. He was born in Tulsa.

  71. 71.

    lotus

    August 12, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    the generous standards nutjobs enjoy in Oklahoma

    I’ll say they’re generous, if Coburn and Inhofe are any indication! (Hang in and take pictures of that, please ma’am or sir, jetan.)

  72. 72.

    Gex

    August 12, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    @geg6: This made my day. It is the cleaned up, calm version of what my reaction is.

  73. 73.

    White House Department of Law (fmrly Jim-Bob)

    August 12, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    16: but Abraham started the original single prayer plan.

  74. 74.

    demimondian

    August 12, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    @Davis X. Machina: Feh. They were all pikers compared to the Gnostics. Now, them…they were serious.

  75. 75.

    Blue Raven

    August 12, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    @Brachiator: I can’t readily dig it up via this cellphone I’m using, but there is a line in an epistle of Paul that is often used to argue that the unsaved should be able to figure out that his god is the creator of all things. It refers to the rocks crying out Jesus’ name. But thanks for the B5 flashback. Loved the show, and that scene was part of why.

  76. 76.

    Comrade Darkness

    August 12, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    We need to first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.

    Falling later said, to spontaneous applause: “And I’d like to introduce my special friend, Jahangeer, the Taliban leader who is consulting for us on this project.”

    The word fucktard was invented for these people. Half the population of Tulsa will be dying of flu and they’ll be arguing how tall the prayer tower atop the mayor’s official residence should be, and whether white marble or stainless steel would be more appropriate.

  77. 77.

    mcd410x

    August 12, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    I’m waiting to see who the first is to go the full Ruby Ridge/David Koresh/Timothy McVeigh … and it’s only Aug. 2009.

  78. 78.

    Comrade Dread

    August 12, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    I have to say, I don’t really understand this. I managed to sit through 14 years of learning evolution theory and it didn’t turn me into an atheist. And that included trips to the Natural History museum and the zoo.

    Granted, being a nominal theistic evolutionist would probably get me excommunicated in some circles, but there you go.

  79. 79.

    bellatrys

    August 12, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    LOL – it’s great to have a place where people can make jokes about things that are actually funny, like obscure heresies, and I”m not the one making them let alone the only one laughing! (Didja hear the one about what the Gnostic said to the guardian angel? –“Let me check my notes”)

  80. 80.

    Molly

    August 12, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    [email protected]bellatrys: makes you miss the REAL old-time religion, no?

    I will be just fine with going to hell as long as I never have to hear any of the Christian Literalists again .

  81. 81.

    JK

    August 12, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.

    Gloria – Patti Smith
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxygqSTO1lQ

  82. 82.

    demimondian

    August 12, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    @Molly: Old time religion.

    I learned that version in Sunday School. It’s better than the original.

  83. 83.

    gbear

    August 12, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Zebras are reactionaries,
    Antelopes are missionaries,
    Pigeons plot in secrecy,
    And hamsters turn on frequently.
    What a gas! You gotta come and see
    At the zoo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlUuQw986Q&feature=related

  84. 84.

    BDeevDad

    August 12, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Don’t these idiots even listen on Sunday? I’m Jewish and I know that Jesus’ big miracles while alive were healing the sick and feeding the hungry while turning the other cheek. It’s as if they are preached to screw the poor, think only of themselves while fighting anyone that disagrees with them an iota.

  85. 85.

    Molly

    August 12, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    @demimondian: “I learned that version in Sunday School. It’s better than the original.”

    I like this version SO much better. :)

    I’m a heathen Episcopalian who believes in gay marriage, that the Bible is a work of mythology and human foibles and restricted to the time it was written. I don’t believe my religion is “true” compared to other faiths, it’s just the one that speaks to me. I don’t think people need a belief in God, and I respect ALL views. I don’t believe in mixing church and state; for both the good of the state AND the church. I believe in evolution and the full support of scientific inquiry. I think all of the money we spend on mega churches would do a heck of a lot more good feeding people…including those non-Christian heathens out there. Therefore, according to many of my Christian brethren, I’m destined for a fiery eternity.

    Oh well. Down the hatch. :)

  86. 86.

    Mike G

    August 12, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    I’m actually ok with the proposed Christian creationism display at the zoo.

    What a great idea, put the cretinists in zoo cages. At least it’ll keep them away from school board meetings.

  87. 87.

    Brachiator

    August 13, 2009 at 12:07 am

    @steve s:

    Maybe if one were to run to the river?

    No hiding place in the mountains
    No hiding place in the waters
    No hiding place
    Down here
    No hiding place
    And they went to the rock to hide their face
    But the rock cried out
    No hiding place
    There’s no hiding place
    Down here

    Fencedude – And was used in a fantastic scene in Babylon 5

    Exactamundo! I recall the creator of B5, J. Michael Straczynski, noting that while he himself was a non-believer, this not prevent him from writing about a universe in which varieties of religion and religious sentiment still exist. This requires much more imagination than is shown by the more closed-minded creationists.

    Calouste — Can’t remember a case where Jesus turned down someone for pre-existing conditions either.

    And that cat Lazarus had the most seriously pre-existing condition imaginable, until the Naz went to town and laid it down, hands on, “Rise up, brother!” and knocked all the stiff out of that previously righteously zombified dude. (with apologies to Lord Buckley).

  88. 88.

    Anne Laurie

    August 13, 2009 at 1:33 am

    Why build monuments to a god who told his followers not to pray on temple steps?

    Great Sky God is angry! He makes the dollar to fall and the jobless rate to rise! Also, drought, swine flu, and oil deposits under the homes of the wrong kind of Middle-Eastern theocrats! Great Sky God demands sacrifice! ! eleventy-one ! !

    This woman and her followers are exactly like Jared Diamond’s proverbial Easter Islanders, cutting down the last tree to build yet another Piety Object. Because making reality-based choices in a straightened economy is hard, but tub-thumping for another Piety Object is easy & comforting.

  89. 89.

    Jager

    August 13, 2009 at 2:07 am

    Molly…you’re a Unitarian!

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    August 13, 2009 at 3:06 am

    @geg6: #37
    I like a rant that’s clear and concise.
    Gets right to the point and makes it with the simplest words.
    Plus I agree with every word so there’s that.

  91. 91.

    Gravenstone

    August 13, 2009 at 7:20 am

    @geg6:

    I’ve about had it with these fucking Christianists. Fuck your god, fuck your son of god, fuck your fucking book, and fuck you, you sanctimonious, hypocritical assholes who are so insecure in your fantastical and juvenile belief system that you have to constantly shove it in the face of rational people and scream about it at the top of your lungs so you won’t actually have to face how bankrupt that belief system really is. /rant

    May I just say, I think I’m in love.

    /swoon

  92. 92.

    grumpy realist

    August 13, 2009 at 8:10 am

    I think we’ve got some good possible bumper stickers up there, if anyone industrious wants to play around with Illustrator and CafePress:

    “Jesus had the original single-payer plan”

    “Jesus never rejected anyone for a ‘pre-existing condition'”

    …etc…

  93. 93.

    Richard Stanczak

    August 13, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Please, tell me that this woman is some kind of lunatic fringe candidate who has no chance of being elected.

    I will pray for the normal citizens of Tulsa and all the children to be saved from the stupid that seems to be infecting their city.

  94. 94.

    oh really

    August 13, 2009 at 11:07 am

    If I were the zoo director, I would meet them halfway and name the next baby chimps/apes/etc. Adam, Eve, Mary and Joseph.

    And the next female ass born in the zoo (or acquired) could be named Anna.

  95. 95.

    PanAmerican

    August 13, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    That Jim Inhofe was once mayor is all you need to know.

    Oklahoma oil production peaked in 1927 and it’s been all downhill since. The oil industry and it’s jobs have moved to Houston (try recruiting gay & minority employees to Tulsa) and aerospace was almost all defense oriented. Boeing spun off whatever work was left to a contractor. The last large scale private sector employer is the American Airlines maintenance base. All the major state and federal employment is in OKC (OU, Tinker AFB). Employment is all in (crap wage) call centers and paper shuffling. Once American leaves the town is fucked.

    The yahoo Baptists should be praying up some jobs.

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