The Arizona state rep is making jokes about what when on in Boston last night.
Go tweet at him and tell him to shut the fuck upOkay, normally I don’t get political, but this is just thoroughly inappropriate.
(Also he’s from Arkansas, just saying.)
What the fuck
The Boston Marathon was bombed.
There was an explosion at JFK library.
Obama was almost sent poison.
There was a fire and enormous explosion at a Texas fertiliser plant.
MIT is under lock down because a gun man shot and killed a campus officer.
What.
The fuck.
Is going.
On.
Might I add that the gun man at MIT was the Boston bomber
AND HE IS STILL ON THE LOOSE
This is an enormous chain and I’m sorry, but I need to say this:
The laws in the Old Testament were set forth by god as the rules the Hebrews needed to follow in order to be righteous, to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve and to be able to get into Heaven. That is also why they were required to make sacrifices, because it was part of the appeasement for Original Sin.
According to Christian theology, when Jesus came from Heaven, it was for the express purpose of sacrificing himself on the cross so that our sins may be forgiven. His sacrifice was supposed to be the ultimate act that would free us from the former laws and regulations and allow us to enter Heaven by acting in his image. That is why he said “it is finished” when he died on the cross. That is why Christians don’t have to circumcise their sons (god’s covenant with Jacob), that is why they don’t have to perform animal sacrifice, or grow out their forelocks, or follow any of the other laws of Leviticus.
When you quote Leviticus as god’s law and say they are rules we must follow because they are what god or Jesus wants us to do, what you are really saying, as a Christian, is that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was invalid. He died in vain because you believe we are still beholden to the old laws. That is what you, a self-professed good Christian, are saying to your god and his son, that their plan for your salvation wasn’t good enough for you.
So maybe actually read the thing before you start quoting it, because the implications of your actions go a lot deeper than you think.
/An atheist who understands Christian theology better than Bible-thumpers do.
i think I’m in love
Tehmina Durrani | The Woman Behind The Revolution [x]
Tehmina Durrani is a Pakistani author and activist. For 13 years, she was married to Ghulam Mustafa Khar, the former Governor of Punjab and one of the most powerful men in the country during the 70s and 80s. She chronicled her marriage in the 1991 book, My Feudal Lord, where she describes the abuse, torture, rape and humiliation she suffered at the hands of Khar.
She faced criticism not only for speaking out against Khar, but also for staying in the marriage for 13 years and having children with him. Reviews of the book to this day disparage her for not leaving sooner or seeking help or doing more to protect her children, despite Khar commanding tremendous power and influence. On page 156, she writes: “What could the police do? They would admonish Mustafa, but sooner or later I would be alone with him, in a worse predicament than before. My silence was not to protect Mustafa; it was to protect myself.”
In 1997, Ghulam Mustafa Khar’s son, Bilal, married a woman named Fakhra Yunus. She too suffered physical abuse at the hands of her husband and escaped after three years to return to her mother’s home. However, in April 2000, Bilal Khar tracked her down and threw acid in her face while she slept. After being released from the hospital, she returned to Bilal and reached out to Tehmina Durrani for help. Tehmina intervened and took Fakhra into her own house despite facing death threats from the Khar family.
Tehmina Durrani is now the author of several books and an activist for Pakistani women and rights of the poor. Her efforts to help Fakhra were detailed in a 2001 Time Magazine article entitled “The Evil That Men Do” which also contained this iconic graphic photograph of the two of them. Fakhra Younus committed suicide on March 17, 2012 at the age of 33. Bilal Khar was acquitted of all charges.
It’s interesting how women are considered to be incapable of serving effectively in combat while simultaneously being required to practice constant vigilance against violent threats as part of their everyday lives.
I’ve never asked anyone to reblog anything before, and I probably won’t again. But I am now - because this matters.
The Steubenville rape victim, when offered money for her legal expenses or counselling, asked that people donated to a shelter for abused women and…
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Sports Culture should not mean Rape Culture. Sign on to the #EducateCoaches campaign here.
(via sparkamovement)
The boys’ lawyers plan to argue that silence is consent.
The boys’ lawyers plan to argue that silence is consent.
The boys’ lawyers plan to argue that silence is consent.
THE BOY’S LAWYERS PLAN TO ARGUE THAT SILENCE IS CONSENT
For those of you that forgot, nothing but an enthusiastic YES is consent. Nothing but that.
That drugging a minor before a party is a position that is being defended…by moral and ethical adults frustrates me more than I’d like. The idea that what a woman wears (or where she goes) automatically speaks to what sort of social treatment she deserves will probably get them farther in this trial than the ploy would or should in a just world.
oh hELL NO
FUCK
EVERYTHING
