A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!
Name: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Age: 49
Occupation: Lutheran minister
Last Seen: Denver, CO
Awarded For: speaking the truth
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You know, it's no secret that I'm no fan of evangelical Christianity.
Nothing like some douchebag preacher who begs his poor congregation to give him as much money as possible because God told them to. Of course, that money ends up going into tax-free mansions, jet planes, cars, yachts and other things Jesus would have never imagined having.
Since the beginning of time, preachers have warned us about the so-called dangers of pornography. When I was a teen, I attended a youth ministry at a non-denominational church near Traverse City. The youth pastor - who now runs a megachurch of his own - was telling us teens that Jesus told a group of young men that if we looked at women with a lustful heart, it's the equivalent of committing adultery. Plus, we were all put into small groups and we were all handed sheets that asked us some very personal questions. One of them was "how often do you think about sex?" Needless to say, I wanted out of that hellhole of that ministry. The final nail in the coffin was when the church's senior pastor started asking us all to donate $1.7 million to help expand the church. With the problems my father and I were having with that church, there was No Hope that we would be staying there.
Thankfully, there are preachers out there with a brain and an open mind.
In Denver, there's Nadia Bolz-Weber, who is a Lutheran preacher that leads a church she founded called The House For All Sinners and Saints. She's heavily-tattooed and unlike most pastors, she cusses like a sailor. Supposedly, she even named one of her sermons "Listen, Bitches!" Her church even allows their parishioners to sleep in on Sunday since services don't start til 5pm (that's in part since they share their home church with another church that meets at 10am). Her church is open and affirming to the LGBTQ crowd, even having its own "Minister of Fabulousness".
In an interview with the website outinjersey.net, Bolz-Weber said something you wouldn't hear from most pastors. It's something Beavis once said to high hilarity on Beavis and Butt-head: porn is good for you.
That's right! A woman who has probably read The Bible front to back more than most of us and loves Jesus with all of her heart told outinjersey that viewing porn is just fine, especially if it's "ethically sourced porn". In other words, if the porn shows respect to the woman starring in it, it's A-OK. But if it shows the woman getting the crap slapped out of her, well, it might be questionable per God's word.
"There are people who say it’s sexual immorality, but if you take Liberals and Conservatives who show outrage and made a Venn diagram of those who consume pornography, you’d see a huge overlap," said Bolz-Weber. "I’m not going to shame people when they already feel ashamed, If we took shame out of the fact that people like to view erotic imagery, the compulsive behavior around consuming pornography would decrease."
You know what? SHE'S RIGHT! For years, churches have made people guilty for loving sex, especially those single like me. I occasionally go to strip clubs. Does that make me a bad person? Most churches think so and that I'll be going to H-E-double hockey sticks for allowing a young college girl to sit on my face with only a teeny-weeny little G-string separating my mouth and the part of her body where her poop and farts come out. However, I think God gave her a sexy body and if she wants to show it off, let her.
The truth is that the shit that the Religious Reich has spread about porn and strip clubs is quite the same to "Reefer Madness" spreading shit and lies about pot. Most strip clubs don't do business with sex traffickers, they don't tolerate with prostitution and most women who star in porn aren't forced to. Hell, I think most people who are against porn are into porn themselves or even worse.
As for Bolz-Weber, she even announced that she wants people to donate their promise rings to her so she can melt them down to make a vagina. Talk about precious. At least it might even smell better.
In the end, some people REALLY need to check themselves before they wreck themselves.
Age: 49
Occupation: Lutheran minister
Last Seen: Denver, CO
Awarded For: speaking the truth
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You know, it's no secret that I'm no fan of evangelical Christianity.
Nothing like some douchebag preacher who begs his poor congregation to give him as much money as possible because God told them to. Of course, that money ends up going into tax-free mansions, jet planes, cars, yachts and other things Jesus would have never imagined having.
Since the beginning of time, preachers have warned us about the so-called dangers of pornography. When I was a teen, I attended a youth ministry at a non-denominational church near Traverse City. The youth pastor - who now runs a megachurch of his own - was telling us teens that Jesus told a group of young men that if we looked at women with a lustful heart, it's the equivalent of committing adultery. Plus, we were all put into small groups and we were all handed sheets that asked us some very personal questions. One of them was "how often do you think about sex?" Needless to say, I wanted out of that hellhole of that ministry. The final nail in the coffin was when the church's senior pastor started asking us all to donate $1.7 million to help expand the church. With the problems my father and I were having with that church, there was No Hope that we would be staying there.
Thankfully, there are preachers out there with a brain and an open mind.
In Denver, there's Nadia Bolz-Weber, who is a Lutheran preacher that leads a church she founded called The House For All Sinners and Saints. She's heavily-tattooed and unlike most pastors, she cusses like a sailor. Supposedly, she even named one of her sermons "Listen, Bitches!" Her church even allows their parishioners to sleep in on Sunday since services don't start til 5pm (that's in part since they share their home church with another church that meets at 10am). Her church is open and affirming to the LGBTQ crowd, even having its own "Minister of Fabulousness".
In an interview with the website outinjersey.net, Bolz-Weber said something you wouldn't hear from most pastors. It's something Beavis once said to high hilarity on Beavis and Butt-head: porn is good for you.
That's right! A woman who has probably read The Bible front to back more than most of us and loves Jesus with all of her heart told outinjersey that viewing porn is just fine, especially if it's "ethically sourced porn". In other words, if the porn shows respect to the woman starring in it, it's A-OK. But if it shows the woman getting the crap slapped out of her, well, it might be questionable per God's word.
"There are people who say it’s sexual immorality, but if you take Liberals and Conservatives who show outrage and made a Venn diagram of those who consume pornography, you’d see a huge overlap," said Bolz-Weber. "I’m not going to shame people when they already feel ashamed, If we took shame out of the fact that people like to view erotic imagery, the compulsive behavior around consuming pornography would decrease."
You know what? SHE'S RIGHT! For years, churches have made people guilty for loving sex, especially those single like me. I occasionally go to strip clubs. Does that make me a bad person? Most churches think so and that I'll be going to H-E-double hockey sticks for allowing a young college girl to sit on my face with only a teeny-weeny little G-string separating my mouth and the part of her body where her poop and farts come out. However, I think God gave her a sexy body and if she wants to show it off, let her.
The truth is that the shit that the Religious Reich has spread about porn and strip clubs is quite the same to "Reefer Madness" spreading shit and lies about pot. Most strip clubs don't do business with sex traffickers, they don't tolerate with prostitution and most women who star in porn aren't forced to. Hell, I think most people who are against porn are into porn themselves or even worse.
As for Bolz-Weber, she even announced that she wants people to donate their promise rings to her so she can melt them down to make a vagina. Talk about precious. At least it might even smell better.
In the end, some people REALLY need to check themselves before they wreck themselves.
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