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Sometimes All I Can Say Is UGH

Sometimes All I Can Say Is UGH

Last updated on: January 26, 2016 at 8:42 pm by Libby Anne

Sometimes All I Can Say Is UGH 2016-01-26T20:42:21-04:00 Libby Anne

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I’ve had a lot of ugh today, so I thought I’d share some.

Did you hear what Phil Robertson recently said about atheists? I’m not going to quote his entire statements, because frankly, I now wish I hadn’t read them. In essence, he described, in graphic detail, a hypothetical brutal home invasion of an atheist family, complete with the rape of the family’s two daughters, and finished by putting these words in the perpetrators’ mouths:

“Wouldn’t it be something if this [sic] was something wrong with this? But you’re the one who says there is no God, there’s no right, there’s no wrong, so we’re just having fun! We’re sick in the head! Have a nice day.”

If it happened to them, they probably would say, “Something about this just ain’t right.”

$(#&%)($*_@#$&@(#%&@#)(&%

Not believing in a God does not mean not believing in right and wrong. I am becoming seriously ticked off with people like Robertson, who seriously lack imagination. Is it so hard to imagine an ethical system not based on the existence of a supernatural being?!

Robertson is the one who believes in a God who ordered the genocide of entire groups of people, men, women, and children. His God handed female prisoners taken in war over to his followers to be raped (er, taken as concubines). Robertson’s God punished King David for taking a census by killing 70,000 of his people in a plague.

And somehow I’m the one without an ethical system?

Just, ugh.

Did you hear about the young mother who died after childbirth because, as a Jehovah’s Witness, she refused a blood transfusion? I was really struck by this image, in which you can see other Jehovah’s Witnesses describing her choice as inspiring.

Here’s the text:

This is our beautiful spiritual sister named Michelle. She is holding her beautiful baby Emma Marie. This picture is an obvious new mommy picture. It is another beautiful reminder of the miracle of life. It is also a beautiful picture of a loyal servant of Jehovah. Michelle has always wanted a baby and she was so excited when her and her husband found out they were having a baby! I was also very excited for them. I threw them their baby shower and we had such a great time. Well while delivering Emma, Michelle lost a lot of blood. So much so that she needed a blood transfusion. Michelle refused. Even after having a tube inserted in her and her not being able to speak . . . She signed NO BLOOD. Our dear sister despite finally having the baby she’s wanted for such a long time, remained loyal to the end. We read about these stories in our year books and they are so motivating! But my dear friend experienced this first hand . . . And though she is not suffering anymore, she’s left such an impact on so many lives. I can’t wait to tell Emma how faithful, courageous and loyal to Jehovah her mom was at the young age of 28. Revelation 21:4 . . . Something we all are looking forward to.

Notice, too, a comment on the left side of the image: “So sad but yet faith strengthening!” Oh, and also the ones that say “Bravooo” and “Why all the sad comments?” Yeah. Lovely.

Honestly? This just makes me sad. It seems like such a waste. Michelle was an adult and this was her decision, but her life was cut tragically short, and it didn’t have to be like that. Her husband has to be devastated, and her daughter will never know her.

But I think what’s strangest, in this story, is reading the comments of other Jehovah’s Witnesses. I mean, I knew this happened, but I hadn’t seen first hand how other Jehovah’s Witnesses respond when it does. They clearly see her like a martyr, going to her death refusing to deny her faith. Somehow that makes me both sad and angry, all at once.

Oh, have you heard about the Georgia man who planted homemade bombs in a park?

A man who described himself as a “patriot” confessed to placing homemade bombs in a Georgia park to help people realize “that this type of activity could happen anywhere,” according to court documents obtained by TPM on Tuesday.

Michael Conrade Sibley, a resident of Marietta, Ga. was charged last week in a federal court in Atlanta with attempting to damage federal property.

Documents filed in the case said Sibley built improvised explosive devices and left two of them in a backpack on Nov. 4 at the Vickery Creek Park in Georgia.

Oh, and then there’s this tidbit:

He said he purchased a backpack at a garage sale and, according to the documents, wrote the name “Mina Khodari” inside the backpack because he said “it looked foreign.”

Along with the bombs, Sibley put print-outs of the Atlanta Falcons’ schedule as well as public transportation timetables and the locations of Marcus Jewish Centers into the backpack because he thought officials would see those as “soft targets,” the documents said.

Sibley told the agents he also placed a copy of the Quran and a book titled “The Rape of Kuwait” in the bag.

Planting a bomb and framing Muslims . . . really? Really!?

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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