neurological dryer lint

as someone who is a follower of Jesus, I'm going to apologize to the planet for us on behalf of Objective. although i don't honestly know if these people can be lumped in with the 'follower of Jesus' category, because honestly, someone following Jesus wouldn't ever see Him put up a website like this.

so in the great Linus Torvalds tradition,
**irritated mode = "Full Blast"**
i think a lot of people read Jack Chick's tracts and anymore they just laugh - poor old man, he's stuck in a past age where reading a tract like this wouldn't make people want to saw his arm off. i pity Jack more than anything else now because he's too stuck in the old way of things. he's unwilling to admit that his tracts are ineffective and pointless. there are maybe a handful of people in the world that they would positively affect. now it's possible my cynical-college-student-gen-x lenses are coloring that perspective. i may be wrong about Jack and his mission, but i doubt i am.

now here we have the Objective folks. why they're calling their mission that, i don't know. maybe it's talking about a goal, not the opposite of 'subjective', either way, it's ironical.

but i'm so unbelieveably offended by this site, it makes me physically sick. these people are doing DAMAGE to the world and to the name of Jesus who they're claiming to herald. i pity them in that who the heck knows what Christ has to say about the things they're printing. fortunately the Messiah is merciful and His intense love can pardon even this trash, just as it pardoned my evil heart. but the issue here is not how bad Jesus will yell at them about this when it's all over. The whole 'love keeping no record of wrongs' thing is a spiffy hookup.

the issue here is what the heck causes the people that create drivel like this to think that it appeals to anyone, and will (1) help any person grow closer to God, or (2) improve the quality of anyone's life. normally I try to defend some mega-Christian™ stuff as beneficial to some, mainly because I'm not all-knowing and don't enjoy pointing fingers, and I can't see all ends, and I know that just because I think something is ridiculous doesn't mean it can't be good for some people. Who knows, maybe Bibleman and bumper stickers have done some good somewhere. i won't promote them but i won't call their peddlers evil and terrible.

maybe it's because i saw this site on Fark and the person who posted the link used the SICK tag. which it is. maybe it's because there's more negative propaganda on this site than positive. maybe it's because i cannot fathom the existence of a person who would WILLINGLY put something like this up for public viewing, and then ADVERTISE it. something about it just makes me absolutely furious.

let's look at some examples of highlights:

http://objective.jesussave.us/kidz.html: kids, avoid the athiests, they have diseases! I do like the Kanga-Jew though. That cracked me up.

http://objective.jesussave.us/zounds.html: Jesus is the only one who rocks! Check out the lyrics to the Wacky Wacky Wicca Chick song. It's the most offensive thing I've read in a while.

http://objective.jesussave.us/pastorscorner.html: let's freak out and start a campaign about HOW MANY FRICKIN NAILS THEY USED ON JESUS, WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE??????

http://objective.jesussave.us/mallmission.html: Objective: Mall Mission. And I quote: "J.C. Penny - The J.C. makes us think of Jesus Christ, thus associating our Lord with the lowest monetary value, the penny (even Judas valued Him at 30 pieces of silver!)." Or how about: "Sears - What the flesh of the damned does in Hell. It also sounds like "seers", Pagan mystics who engaged in occult premonitions." (Renee, you worked there, you must be evil). And the BEST: Next to a picture of Darth Maul: ""Darth Maul": Commercialized symbol of evil whose name sounds like "mall". Coincidence?"

i guess all i can say is that if i ever resemble anything like this, sound like these people, etc... hit me with a brick. i don't ever want to be this out of touch with reality. i'm GOING to judge these people because what they have done is clearly wrong, according to the standards they claim to share with Jesus. i'm going to point the finger. i'm going to say, if you are not a follower of Jesus and this site offends you, let them have it. i would love to try to do the 'loving' thing and instead of criticizing them, educate them. try to explain why they're going to turn more people away from God than towards Him with this stuff. how Jesus was more about acceptance than segregation, that He sought out the athiests instead of telling children to run from them. that He claimed reconciliation with God was simple, more simple than we can imagine, and didn't have any prerequisites like going on a Christian Music Diet.

that we miss the point when we stare at the cross and instead of allowing ourselves to be enveloped in the love we were longing for, the love we were created for, we start counting nails.

but i doubt they'd listen. if i called them up or wrote them a letter, i honestly doubt they'd listen, as the doors of their Christian™ fortress of solitude are probably welded too tightly to allow anything resembling a rational thought inside.

**irritated mode off**

and now i've become a finger-pointer, someone who lays the blame on others. i'm sorry, i don't mean to cause strife, because i can be quite a bit more effective in living my life how i believe it should be lived, than by telling everyone else how wrong they are. i'm sure there are better ways to address things like this. maybe i just leave them alone and hopefully the less people link to their page, the less anyone will ever see it.

if anything else this is just another reason for me to watch what i say and do, and keep myself from (hopefully) ever sounding like these people do to anyone.