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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.23.231 |
I've just found that the author of the Anne of Green Gables books also wrote ghost and horror fiction, and that the supernatural features in her work. I've read some of the Anne books and liked them very much but take a look at this article; http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/homemake/lmmont.htm Now I'm not a Christian basher but I'd like to bash this lady, so to speak, on the strength of this. How unpleasant. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts. This old dude is a definite nut. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.113 |
Just had a good old laugh over this this morning - thanks Tony! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Vicious, narrow, bigoted, sickening, reactionary drivel. Claiming a role for Christians as the righteous enemies of democracy and freedom. Everything that militant atheists accuse Christians of being, writers like this believe true Christians should be. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I rather liked Anne of Green Gables, though I've not reread it in 25 years. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 94.194.134.45 |
My evil heart also rejoices in creating tales of wickedness. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.23.231 |
There's a lyricism to the books, a spiritual quality it seems this Mary woman is striving for but cannot see. It's like some folk cannot 'see'. I almost pity her. AOGG is a genuinely sweet series of books, sweetness being almost as difficult as dread to conjure without making a reader feel like puking. BTW Ms Montgomery also wrote a very evocative series of books on writing, the Emily books. Seekers of atmosphere and awe usually go to the supernatural for their fix but I think it's one that can be had from books such as this. This article, truth be told, feels almost like a joke. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
35 years I should have said. That's a true sign of ageing: when you can't do the maths on your own fucking age.  | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.92.55.114 |
Alan wrote: "My evil heart also rejoices in creating tales of wickedness." Amen, brother! Testify! This woman's a twit. Aside from the laundry list of idiocies on display in this "essay" (and I'm using that term liberally), what kind of treacle-head would consider 'Blessed Quietness' a decent name for a website? Now, back to my chamber of fuming brimstone; I've new tales of sin to unleash upon the blessed and the quiet.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.184 |
"Some of the stories are about brutal murders, while others cover the subjects of embezzlers, spirits, drunkards, and thievery...." a.k.a, The Holy Bible. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
"And she doted upon the Egyptian paramours whose members were as big as fdonkey's and who came with the abundance of stallions". Kings 2 chapter something, verse something | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Actually it's Ezekiel 23:20 | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
"Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!" When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number." Kings 2 Chapter 2 verses 23 and 24. That's the Christian way to deal with children insulting your lack of hirsuiteness | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/theworld/breast.htm she gets worse | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Yeah. Right. Deodorant causes cancer. The technical term, I believe, is 'whibble whibble whibble'. The first article... What a sick, cretinous, bigoted, emotionally crippled, vicious fucking nutjob. And those are the essasyist's good qualities. It's Sarah Palin under a pen name, isn't it? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Let's not assume the article is more American than British (I don't mean you did, Simon). Much more drivel of the same sort here: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/index.html | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
You know, I can never actually tell if these articles are genuine or if they're spoofs. And in a way that's the most disturbing thought of all. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.10.207 |
Interesting how these nutty groups, and most churches, religious institutions, etc., never seem to want to castigate, say, the ENTIRE internet, as a hopelessly corrupt den of iniquity.... With a few simple clicks, I can reach "depravities" that boggle the mind; nor could I ever exhaust the amount of "depravities" available, and coming on the web every day. It is, the internet (if you were so minded, and consistent enough to believe this), instant-access "evil." "You can't stop the internet"...? Hardly - you could choose not to have access to it in your life; you don't need it... but I daresay, one will never hear a preacher, a moral leader, etc., attack even tangentially, the evils of THE internet. Because they use it too, drawing funds from it, soliciting new members... perhaps, in their off-time, visiting various chat-rooms to, yeah, um - "preach." The English Puritans 400 years ago were at least consistent: they demanded all the theatres be closed. You couldn't call them hypocrites.... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.69.12.101 |
Oh Lord, Christian Voice are particularly nasty. It really gets on my wick that whenever the media want to interview someone about Christian responses to the media they go to Stephen Green of Christian Voice rather than a Christian commentator/theologan/preacher etc who is not a completely vicious nut job. Sometimes it's like they're not interested in hearing a balanced theological argument so much as they are in poking Green with a stick and making him rant for entertainment value. Pretty sad really. Christian nut jobs aren't indeed restricted to the US. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Jon, Ramsey- I certainly didn't mean to imply the writer was automatically American due to their fundamentalism. (God knows there are objectionable fanatical tossers in every religious denomination and country.) Sarah Palin just sprang to mind as the first example of that particular variety of scumbag. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Mind you. I suppose dragging out Green is a bit like dragging out Dawkins. Now, Dawkins has written some very good books on science and is a good writer overall, he is - however - a bit of a frothing madman when it comes to atheism. Not as entertaining as Christopher - is he going to have a major coronary while ranting about Jesus - Hitchens. |