We've been having a good laugh over at Anti-Torture HQ over the freakish vitriol thrown by a handful of fundie RAD cultists -
First off, nothing against devoutly religious people of any stripe, some of them are our strongest supporters, and some of them
are us - there's one survivor story yet to be published where spirituality and memorization of prayers actually helped anchor the child during the worst phases of torture.
(Which makes
Ronald Federici's screed about how we're all godless cripples or whatever the un-fun insane man considers particularly abhorrent even more hilarious. :D)
It's just when
some religious people claim that "God wanted for them to adopt" a child, then
try to give that child away online, then have all their fellow pro-AT fundies hurl froth-laden insults at child abuse survivors, demanding
"What Would Jesus Do?!"* and threatening that 'CHRIST WILL JUDGE US'...
You just have to laugh.
What's doubly awesome is that Arthur Becker-Weidman,
cyber-stalker and Wikipedia wanker extraordinaire, ran to their blogs the second he saw that they were attacking
StopChildTorture.org and giving his blessing.
RESULT! \o/
i.e., it's a real coup whenever wannabe attackers drop the b.s. and show their true colors by ganging up with each other to further whatever crackpot kiddie-trafficking insanity they've got going.
Now if only Ronald Federici would publicly leave his support for these fundie freaks, we'd have a trifecta! Here's hoping.
...Okay, LULz over, time for srs bzness.
Check out
this blog post from a white Western fundie adoptive couple:
“we also have the advantage of understanding our host culture’s worldview and their very deep superstitious beliefs. thus, we were not surprised that sterling was given to us with a jade luck charm – a buddhist charm meant to bring good luck, fortune and protection. we, however, know that this charm is associated with spiritual forces meant to keep people in bondage. thus, we smiled and accepted it as we should, and then later went to the park, broke it, and threw it into the pond, and prayed for our sterling that all spiritual bondage over him would be broken. these spiritual forces are alive and real, and manifest themselves in more obvious ways (but with the same degree of power) than in the west, but we know that the power and grace of the God who created the heavens and the earth is infinitely greater than the forces of evil.”
Holy. Freaking. Cow.
Osolomama breaks it down like so:
It’s been brewing for some time but now appears somewhat official: there is a Christian duty to adopt. Christian evangelicals are being commanded to “be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans close to home and around the world.” Why? Because
The Lord is calling them to that ministry.
and
What better way is there to bring the good news of Christ than to see his unwanted little brothers and sisters placed in families where they’ll be raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? (Adopted for Life, p. 75. See details below.)
and
[God] predestined the path of the child by adoption.
Well, except when
He doesn't, apparently.
When asked if she would give up the 8-year old boy if he were her biological child as opposed to an adopted one, this adoptive mother responds, "I don't know..."
Honestly - in response to all the "WWJD" demands, it's only pretty clear what Jesus
wouldn't do.
