There was an interesting little tweet…
I’m still confused about what to call those things that people put on the Platform That Used To Be Known As Twitter now that Elon has achieved his life’s ambition and renamed something “X”. Should I be writing: “There was an interesting little X”? Mm, wouldn’t that sound like someone had put a kiss at the end of a message?
Anyway, here’s what Alexandra Marshall tweeted or x-ed or whatever you want to call it.
Now, I could have replied by telling her that I have no interest in her viewing habits. None. Not any of them. Zero. Interest. And I could have said that it’s the height of egocentricity that she thinks that anyone else would either.
Of course I didn’t for three reasons:
- I’m far too nice to try to upset her.
- She would have probably just ignored me, or replied with the fact that nobody’s interested in whether I’m interested her viewing habits or not… which is the sort of fair point that I could only answer by being a hypocrite.
- As Ronni Salt pointed out about Senator Ralph Babble, he’s only tweeting stupid things to get attention because that’s what keeps him in the public eye. Without any sort of profile, we’d forget who he was and he wouldn’t have any chance of being re-elected to the Senate or getting his own show on Sky After Dark like Bernardi and various other politicians who failed to make it in Canberra and now complain about people in Canberra being out of touch because they can no longer touch them… Anyway, I suspect @ellymelly fits into the same category so I decided not to amplify her voice by replying.
Of course, it’s sometimes hard to just let things lie when the person who made the comment is, in fact, either lying or misinformed.
I mean, take all this fuss about the Opening Ceremony and how Christians should be up in arms over the mocking of that famous painting of “The Last Supper”.
While it’s bad manners to mock someone else’s religion, I must say that it does seem like those who are suggesting that Christians are sick of turning the other cheek and should get really, really cross and start punishing people are overlooking one of the central tenets of their own faith which was about forgiveness and love and turning the other cheek. Ok, ok, that was said a couple of thousand years ago and Jesus probably didn’t know how decadent we’d become because nobody was decadent back in the days of the Roman Empire. (I’d mention Sodom and Gomorrah but one shouldn’t look back… Ha, ha there’s a good one for anyone who knows who Lot’s wife was!)
And I could point out that it does seem like some people are treating Da Vinci’s painting of “The Last Supper” as though it’s a holy relic. “This was the only photo taken at the time,” they seem to be suggesting, “and without this we wouldn’t have had proof that Jesus was European in appearance and those silly people who suggest that he was a brown-skinned refugee would have nothing to put them in their place!” Well, even if it were a photo, does not the Bible have the something about not worshipping graven images in the Ten Commandments, that holy document that some US states think should be mandatory in certain public institutions because nothing says freedom like compelling others to place your religious beliefs in a prominent place!
However, I think the most important point was the simple fact that the Opening Ceremony wasn’t anything to do with the Last Supper. It was actually all about Dionysus and celebrating some pagan festival or other. And if the pagans haven’t complained about it, why should the Christians and the politicians?
Yeah, I guess that would be the next thing to complain about. What’s an Ancient Greek festival got to do with the Olympics?
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The carry-on from Christians on this moment in a masssive entertainment, has been enough to make me regret not watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony. The rabid response from the tiny segment of the world’s population that considers itself to be the arbiter of all things from the correct historic world view to what can be permitted in a foreign country’s entertainment, has been even more amusing than the depiction of a Bacchanalia appears to have been.
(I wanted to use the useful abbreviation Xian’s but, like with Xmas, it is just too confusing nowadays.)
I think Celine Dion deserves a Gold !
Hardly surprising that the so-called (or self-called) Christians found something to whinge about wrt the opening ceremony; they are, after all, the western civilisation’s exemplars of the wet blanket sect, toss a Christian against a contemporary phenomenon, and he’ll find something wrong about it and likely quote chapter & verse from the Good Book to reinforce his disapproval.
No sex before marriage! Or better, no sex, period. Dirty business, after all. The Mormons to this day prior to being wedded wear an undergarment that’s meant to suppress sexual imagination… but, in the oft-noted context of utter hypocrisy, they endorse ‘jump-humping’, a form of theatrical but not actual sexual activity, also known as soaking or marinating. Polygamy, too, for those randy males who just can’t get enough once they’re hitched and into the mad prophet’s prognostications.
Temperance societies; always allied to Christian wowsers. Modest clothing, lest those beastly males who cannot control their carnal urges take advantage of young & naive but beautifully alluring females.
A head full of millennial proscriptions as well; Adam and Eve and the magical rib that brought her into being; the 5,000 year lifespan of this planet, the trip to heaven in the afterlife, but only if you’re a Christian… all others consigned to hell and damnation, talking in tongues, snake-wrangling, homophobia, hatred of other religions, war-mongering in the name of the Lord… there’s a long, long list of behaviours that I’m pretty sure JC wouldn’t have gotten his knickers knotted over.
I’ve met a few good Christians, but the weirder ones far out number those in whom rational sanity is core to their belief. Years ago, I was turned away from the house of the man for whom I was best man at his wedding, he had married a fundamentalist woman and they were teachers at a small rural school in South Aust; I arrived at their doorstep with a bottle of wine in hand after the several hours drive north from Adelaide and they refused to let me enter their house. Needless to say, that killed the friendship. Wowsers… what a sad and pathetic bunch.
Mixing up art renditions of Greek myths and Bible stories is so confusing.
And another oppotunity to cry ‘victim”.
hahaha your last sentence is hilarious. Almost as funny as what has women got to do in christianity.ps just got a post: “we put a man on the moon years ago. Why did we stop? We could have had them all there by now?”
Religious “belief” is a serious form of mental illness and its advocates should be treated accordingly
Given the bible was created over thousands of years with different versions, translations, etc., it’s a bit of stretch to have the various churches expect us to believe that it accurately reflects the source material and is gods word. If god is as omnipotent and omnipresent as he/she/it is supposed to be, he/she/it could whisper in the church leaders’ ears and arrange for them all to meet somewhere and address the gathering with corrections to mistakes made in translation and obvious contradictions. He could also update us as to when the world is going to end. Wake up!!! …oh you’re already woke.
As can be witnessed every Easter and Christmas -which perennially seem to be under some sort of threat – Christianity has a real fetish for persecution and martyrdom. In fact it’s one of the tenets of their belief but it’s something shared with all other religions.
Some religions react in extreme physical ways but others seek political influence.
Another coincidence is that Dionysus was known for returning from the dead and turning water into wine.
@ Rossleigh: I was hoping I might be able to get your assistance with a small matter of ”research”.
Our editors, Michael & Carol Taylor, planned a trip to Scotland but got caught in Australia by the COVID restrictions before they could go. Since then, prices have increased as airlines have gouged prices, so now a quiet month of ”research” and rambling has been reduced to about a fortnight.
I have enjoyed years of the objective articles by ”citizen journalists” that are facilitated by AIMN and believe that Michael’s research into the impact of the LABOR change of government in Britain, the impact of climate change on Scottish highlands and the hardcopy sampling of ”the waters” are projects worthy of support from and by the AIMN readership.
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It is always the god botherers who put a wet blanket on anything that looks like it might be fun or entertaining. Not only should there be complete separations of government and religion but also sport and religion. In fact, to speak my mind, save the planet by ending ALL religions before they destroy what is left of our planet.
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