I certaintly don't feel inclined to take defensive sides with other, much younger atheist organizations such as the Rational Response Squad (RRS for short), but upon further browsing some anti-atheist blogs I came across this post on "Atheism Sucks" by one of the Christian jackass blog contributors "IrishFarmer" condemning Kelly O' Connor (the girlfriend of the organization founder Brian Sapient) of her occupation as a stripper. This is just more examples of why Christianity and especially fundamentalism are having negative corosive effects on modern Western society. Yes, Western countries like the United States are all about freedom and expression of speech, but Christianity still thrives on as the major religion of the nation. Christianity is particularly dangerous for being a religion of intolerance and bigotry, especially against sexuality and sexual orientation. And, being that the pro-Christian blog Atheism Sucks is inevitably a fundamentalist blog, they recently made a blog entry on how Kelly's stripperism is somehow "morally" wrong.
I of course have been forced to answer these same objections personally in one of my previous posts where I rebut the criticism stemming from Christian TWebbers (in particular one Frank Walton and JP Holding) concerning my sexual life and the fact that I cheated on my wife as revealed in my book. The fact that Christians point this out as morally objectionable shows their religious prejudice, hypocricy, and downright bigotry towards the freedoms of others. I don't know if the majority of Christians have learned to move on from the Middle Ages, but this is America people. Kelly has her rights to strip, I have my right to cheat on my spouses by watching her strip, and Christians have the freedom to practice their superstitious belief system. If you can't tolerate what the descisions of atheists like me and Kelly are, then you don't understand the values of freedom.
Anyways, this is taken from a "Philadelphia Weekly" article quoting Kelly which Frank Walton and his group of jackals have been making a fuss over:
"People talk about how stripping is degrading; I see it as the exact opposite. When I'm onstage, I'm in power because you can't control yourself. Everyone sells themselves. Whatever it is, you sell a part of yourself that's better than what other people have. I'm just using what I have at my disposal."
Why is it wrong to suggest this? You would only object to this if you were an adhering Christian. Besides that, here in a land of freedom and civil justice (or at least what should be) no one gives a rip about other people's lives. Only religious zealots and their blogs are persistent after people's personal concerns. Little did I know when I wrote my book that I would be getting so hated on for mentioning my marriage crisis with my former wife. But ever since Christians have been making this the headlight of their critique about me (that, and the fact that I reasonably suggested a distinction between "dishonesty" and "deception"). Well, I support Kelly for her strong words and passionate activism against biggoted one-sided criticisms:
Attention haters: I don't care if you call me a lap dancer/stripper/slut/big-tittied bitch or whatever else of which your convoluted Christ-tarded minds can think.
The anger and frustration is easy to comprehend. It is even more frustrating that Christians are up-in-arms against pornographic advertisements and endorsements. Here is IrishFarmer's injected little commentary:
Hopefully the girls over at FreeThinkingTeens are getting this: If they want power, they should sell their body.
Again, what's wrong with a woman's descision to publically expose herself in front of a predominately male audience? What is so horrible about a woman selling her body for sexual use? If Christianity never existed in the first place, no one would be objecting to these things: They are after all a part of the human experience. If Western culture was never influenced by religion in the first place, marriage counselors might in fact, encourage stripping as it increases confidence in the feminine sex. If that doesn't work for your marriage, get a divorce! Why are divorces so terrible? They're terrible only because Christianity makes them that way, but I see no rational reason to resist the natural tendecies of our genes. The USA was intended to give freedom to sex, divorce, and abortion, and Christianity just can't keep up with the times and grow the hell up!
If the Christian God truly exists and he programmed humans with these kind of genetic desires, then God is nothing more than a JERK! If Christians are expecting me to give some reverence to their God, then they can just FORGET IT! I refuse to worship a demanding, self-righteous and all-powerful deity that puts restrictions on sex and its various manifestations. No thanks, "God", I don't need you anymore than I need to juggle chainsaws!
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Thanks for the support. You'd be amazed how many atheists still have the christian hang ups about sexuality.
You have some nerve, John W. Locust!
Yes, Locust! We should evolve past such outdated, misogynistic, Christian notions like loving families for children to grow up in. Instead, the government should raise children, and it should also provide us with free condoms so that we may practice our freedom.
By the way, Brave New World is heaven to me; way better than any Christian notions of such.
Oh, Kelly, we just did a piece on you where you claimed that Richard Dawkins had an extra-marital affair.
Booooo! A Christian!!!!! What is so wrong with affairs? And what is so wrong about lying about them?
I can't believe we have these kinds of hang-ups in our civilized world!
Like, wow Kelly... Like, when's the next lap dance, man?! I'll, like, pay you in blow ma-er, babe!
A problematic notion in nowadays society is that things crop up singularly; we know for a fact that marriage is not just a Christian thing. Looking back at the history of humanity, everyone can scientifically counter the assertions of "God's will" and subservient morality simply by showing how people who've never seem to have had any real link with the cosmological claims of the Old Testament or the culture of the Hebrews actually share quite similar, but overtly differing aspects in their societies.
Marriage and sexual morality is an interesting example; most Christians would be horrified to know that, all over Europe, marriage was a common practice, albeit one solving such simple issues as monogamous affiliations and their context in the community and hereditary rights - much the same with the rest of the world, actually.
It's ironic, though, how people often forget to mention how the Hebrew and Christian traditions make wanton reference not only to slaughter and carnage, but even rape and misogynistic treatment!
Sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of, and one's such profession is equally not a business of others; stripping, in particular, is not even the same as prostitution, and calling a stripper (who also happens to be a sort of performance artist, by the way) a slut, thus trying to degrade the individual with name-calling, is actually quite laughable yet disgusting all the same.
Frankly, people who don't understand the games of power and control instilled in sexual playing and who would never have sexual fun with another human unless married together should keep their mouths shut on the subject.
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