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The Chaliceblog <\/a>is currently showing a good reason not to test Discordians on the concept of whether Discordianism is a genuine religion or a parady religion: as if there is a difference.<\/p>\n This was the original post:<\/p>\n Yesterday night, I was organizing the books in our library. I put theCSO’s Discordian books in the fiction section.<\/p>\n He says they are theology.<\/p>\n If you’re not clear on what discordianism is, here’s a decent explanation.<\/p>\n My argument is that Discordianism strikes me as a parody of Catholicism. If “Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf” ran for president to highlight the absurdity of the American political system, then put out a book about politics, I wouldn’t put it in the politics section. So why would I put a book produced by paraody religion in “theology?”<\/p>\n His is that nobody died and put me in charge of deeming what’s a religion and what’s not.<\/p>\n To some degree, this is a stupid argument. He expressed surprise that I was so insistent that Discordianism not be treated as a valid theology and that I became so passionate about the matter. (I may relent and stick it in Philosophy.)<\/p>\n Part of my annoyance was that I had the Discordians confused with the Church of the Subgenius. I read up on the Subgenius Custody Case recently and while I agree with the general sentiment that the mother shouldn’t be penalized in custody matters for her religion, even if her religion is basically a parody. But I agree in the same halfhearted way that I agree with Happy Feminist that in a custody battle between a spousal abuser and a white supremacist, the white supremacist should win.<\/p>\n I’ll kid you not, y’all, the Cleveland Free Times’ description of these Subgenius events this woman was going to depressed the hell out of me. “Whee! Let’s take a guy named Steve and change his name to ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ and parody the ‘Passion of the Christ’ and there need to be dildos! Lots of dildoes! Why? Because Conservative Christians hate that and that inherently makes it worth doing!”<\/p>\n What the fuck is up with that?<\/p>\n It’s like how the first three minutes you spend at LandoverBaptist.com it’s hilarious, and then you realize how much time how many people have to put into that site and how much they have to hate Christians to make a site that extensive that is devoted to making fun of Christianity in the nastiest ways they can think of.<\/p>\n I’m sick enough of YRUU kids telling me all sorts of bitchy things about Christians that they learned from their parents. I can’t imagine the kind of hate the SubGenius woman’s son is picking up, all in the name of “humor.” Because we all know that humor is innocent and fun and NEVER has an undercurrent of nastiness beneath it. I’m not ignoring the relgious freedom aspects, I’m not advocating making these people stop. But I seriously think they need to grow up.<\/p>\n CC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This arrogance this post displayed naturally raised the ire of many Discordians, and for those it didn’t raise the ire of, it simply provided a prime oppurtunity for Lulz. Either way, a shitstorm erupted in the comments section of The Chaliceblog. As a direct result of said shitstorm Chalicechick posted the following remark in the Parody Relgions section of Sites In Focus:<\/p>\n Chalicechick Says: Advice to all bloggers: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t insult the discordians. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just not worth the trouble. The voice of experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There’s a lesson in this somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lust, Groucho:47, 6007 YD The Chaliceblog is currently showing a good reason not to test Discordians on the concept of whether Discordianism is a genuine religion or a parady religion: as if there is a difference. This was the original post: Yesterday night, I was organizing the books in our library. I put theCSO’s Discordian … Continue reading Do Not Test Discordians<\/span>
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