Should Menstruating Women Use the Internet?
Recently, the tenor of conversations on Christian message boards and other forums has taken a decidedly crude tone. There is a profound lack of decorum among some people of faith when dealing with difficult topics. We would all be well to be reminded of this passage from Ephesians: “Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving” –Ephesians 5:3-4.
Some people turn to the internet not just to read the news but to interact with others. The growing popularity of message boards and social networking sites like Facebook allows people to express themselves quickly and openly. But this newfound openness can become problematic when one is not fully in control of one’s emotions. For women, this issue is particularly acute.
Have you ever turned on your computer in the morning to find a strange rant in your email box only to have the woman who sent it later apologize for “going off the handle”? Have you ever been stung by a paranoid or irrational accusation made on a social site? Have you ever stumbled on a distastefully graphic post made by a close friend in the dead of night? Is it not difficult to trust that woman again after such hurtful words? Written in an era before computer technology, the Bible speaks much about the contamination a female can spread when suffering through the intense surge of estrogen and mucosal pain during the menstrual cycle. She is considered unclean and many parts of the Old Testament instruct us to avoid contact with her pollution. The Bible makes clear that the menstruating woman poses a danger to those around her because of her physical instability and vengeful nature.
“And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.” –Leviticus 15:19-23, 30.
With the internet, the uncleanness of the woman can spread literally like a virus. Whereas in Biblical times, an unhappy girl would take out her volatility on her household by cooking a poor meal or leaving the laundry unfinished, the connectivity of the web allows the capriciousness of today’s females to be distributed all over the world in milliseconds. One can simply log on to her computer and type out the most vile and hateful comments imaginable. She can post photos she will undoubtedly regret. Unfortunately, many women today couple their web surfing with alcohol and this can result in truly regrettable results. Fortunately, most women do come down from the mental terror of their menstruation period and they almost always feel ashamed of the things they said so angrily online. This is one of the reasons the Facebook site makes it so easy to delete comments and postings. Other sites do not have the technology to do this.
Certainly, men can be equally guilty of posting negative messages online, but fortunately the male body does not have a physical architecture that regularly submits one to such frenzied, erratic psychological states. Studies have shown that women in this predicament are actually undergoing a period of intense mental illness. Modern legal systems even make allowances for the impairment a female suffers during her uteral tyranny.
Christian households should honestly and calmly address this issue. This should not be an opportunity for shouting and fighting, but one of healing and growth. Women must take it upon themselves to regulate their activities to protect their loved ones and their friends online. Husbands need to help guide their wives in this end and fathers surely can instruct their daughters about proper internet etiquette. In another era, parents had “Swear Jars” in their homes to discourage foul language. A similar arrangement could work for families today. Women could be made to place a few dollars in a glass bottle each time they violate these house laws. When a woman’s pocketbook suffers, she surely will take notice. As further enticement, if the sum grows to be large, the men of the house could use to money for something they need, like a television or football tickets. For single women living alone, they could install such a jar and respect it on the honor system. Any monies earned could be donated to a local charity or sent to one’s male siblings. Think of it as a small payment for all the years of fraternal love you knew growing up.
Remember women, forgoing negativity and bad language is one of the sacrifices that God asks of us. To be an adherent Christian, you must be committed to forgoing web usage when you are menstruating. Think of it as a small price to pay for the blessings of a happy, eternal soul.
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Author: Stephenson Billings
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11:23 pm
“Some people turn to the internet not just to read the news but to interact with others.”
And to watch porn.
“For women, this issue is particularly acute.”
You mean for SOME women.
“Written in an era before computer technology, the Bible”
An era LONG before computer technology. In other words, the bible is an archaic text that was written in a time when women were oppressed and that has no relevance to modern society.
“speaks much about the contamination a female can spread when suffering through the intense surge of estrogen and mucosal pain during the menstrual cycle.”
1. Women do not spread “contamination” during the menstrual cycle unless other people come into contact with their menstrual blood. That is all.
2. Mucosal pain? Are you on crack? The pain felt during menstruation is a muscular pain, not a mucosal pain. The uterus (a muscle) contracts to expel the blood and other tissue. Although there is mucous involved and what is being shed is technically a mucous membrane, there is no “mucosal pain”. The only time there might be mucosal pain is if the menstrual blood somehow irritates the mucous membrane of the vaginal walls as it exits the body. Such a thing happened to me when I first began menstruating, but it’s quite possible that because I was young and had never felt anything in my vagina I was hypersensitive to the sensation. It felt like a burning/stinging but I have since overcome it.
“She is considered unclean”
Well we’re not. Deal with it.
“parts of the Old Testament instruct us to avoid contact with her pollution.”
And we should listen to what an ancient, misogynistic text tells us because…?
“The Bible makes clear that the menstruating woman poses a danger to those around her because of her physical instability and vengeful nature.”
That is called PMDD (more severe form of PMS) and it is treatable. Perhaps you shouldn’t judge until you’ve had the experience of bleeding once a month?
“Fortunately, most women do come down from the mental terror of their menstruation period”
This is common knowledge. It’s called a hormone shift.
“Modern legal systems even make allowances for the impairment a female suffers during her uteral tyranny.”
“Uteral” is not a word, Mr. “Journalist”. Try “uterine” next time.
“the men of the house could use to money for something they need, like a television or football tickets”
Nobody needs a television or football tickets. Perhaps the money would be better spent on feminine hygiene products.
“Any monies earned could be donated to a local charity or sent to one’s male siblings.”
And female siblings? You’re aware that not all women get moody and unpredictable during their periods, right?
“Think of it as a small payment for all the years of fraternal love you knew growing up.”
And what about the women who grew up amid horrible sexual abuse from her brothers and father?
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11:29 pm
Thank you for proving Mr. Billings point, Claire. Thankfully, your “curse” will be over before our Wedding Day.
Great reporting as always, Mr. Billings. Very informative.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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I don’t have my period. I’ve been on continuous (that means I don’t take the placebos and thus don’t menstruate) oral contraceptive pills since age 13 for treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis. If I stop the pill I will not be able to stop bleeding.
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11:40 pm
I would kindly like to ask our visitors not to harass Claire and her biologic history on this article. This is a broad issue, not one that should be used to delve into the personal history of a teenage girl.
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11:48 pm
True that.
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1:46 am
Even though we have our difference, I’m sorry to hear about that Claire.
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2:18 am
Bruce, I did not realize you were a visitor. I thought you were a regular.
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2:18 am
I didn’t realize Claire was a teen either. I will be more patient with her angry rants in the future.
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4:58 am
Good gods.
Reading between the lines and from what we know of cetain male xtians.
Indicates someone’s fantasies about teens.
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12:43 pm
I’ll be 21 in September.
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11:50 pm
You’re .. well an idiot.
That’s the only way I can put that.
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5:48 pm
Mr. Billings and Bruce, by extension: The above article is not supported by any of the ‘scientific studies’ that have apparently taken place. You are an absolute charlatan, Stephenson. By suggesting women pay their husbands for acting like a tyrant, you assume two things, 1. that women act with vicious insanity during their periods, something I’ve never experienced or ever seen myself, and 2. that women are married or living with a man who is misogynistic and controlling enough to collect payment for a woman’s discomfort.
As far as this website goes, I have never, ever, read more close-minded and vicious articles in my life. I am appalled by what some people think is Christianity. Ironic that you bring up tyrants. So not only is this website a cesspool for breeding more hateful thoughts and poisonous ideas, you regular posters seem to regularly attack each other! I am absolutely for religion, as something to be personal and as an enhancement to life. This article and most other articles I’ve read on this website are shockingly reminiscent of Nazi-esque propaganda. I’m sure I’ll be attacked momentarily and good heavens, condemned from this website all together. Fine. But I want to know what happened to good ol’ fashioned just being a good person. If God exists, he/she wouldn’t want you to hate everybody. It must be exhausting, looking for so much evil. Well, I have a research paper to get to, or probably sinning or whatever you think I’m doing. Good for Claire for sticking up for herself and WOMEN EVERYWHERE because you’re a sick, delusional misogynist, Billings. I hope God’s plans don’t include your entrance into the pearly gates.
PS I THINK GAYS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MARRY.
Deal with it.
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2:53 pm
Claire,
You know that this is all just a parody don’t you. Google ‘ChristWire’ and find out…
♥
Paul
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3:26 pm
Sometimes I’m not so sure. However, as I’ve said many times now, it’s equally disturbing if it’s really satire because it shows that some people have incredibly sick senses of humor.
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11:34 pm
nice to see you back
I hope Claire Bear reads this a few times. Life is different for every woman. She needs to remember that 5% of all women post naked pictures of themselves in their e-mail. Hopefully she can avoid doing that because of her Mens struating ..
Claire Bear needs a Swear Jar !!
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11:38 pm
Yeah, except that I don’t take naked photos of myself nor do I menstruate.
And try to come up with something more original that Claire Bear. Or are you not capable of it?
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5:00 am
@Claire:
I think these males are using their pent up sexual frustrations and hoping to find those females and teens who do post naked photos of themselves.
That’s Abrahamic desert religion for people. Obsessed with sex.
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11:52 pm
Amen brother. This is good. If a woman is not online on Facebook it means she’s on the rag and I shouldn’t be calling her anyway.
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12:16 am
Men don’t suffer from that mental illness because we were made in God’s image (perfect).
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12:49 am
So you DO believe that only Christian men are perfect and thus are completely faultless, regardless of the fact that it’s total bullshit.
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1:46 am
When it says man in the Bible, it is referring to mankind. You all just read the Bible for your own interpretation. Also, God made us all in his image, but none of us are perfect. Men have a mental illness of having to look at a woman which opens him up to running away with dirty thoughts. Also if women didn’t have this “mental illness” as you call it, you wouldn’t be here. Didn’t think of that, did you?
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10:15 am
I think the bible is referring to men because God created us first (God created women from man’s rib).
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4:11 pm
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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4:12 pm
both male and female were created in God’s image. remember to read your bible well before you start making broad statements
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12:01 am
I still think that we are God’s favorite because he created us first.
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8:05 am
If men were made so perfectly in god’s image (and the bible is referring purely to aesthetic quality), then why are we so biologically similar to various other species of ape?
No, I think the closest interpretation that could even hold the slightest weight is that of god’s image referring to our startling gift of consciousness/conscience.
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8:27 am
Since women were made from Adam’s rib, shouldn’t we also be perfect? Otherwise that suggests that there is a flaw in the creation of men…
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12:44 am
I’m curious, since the Old Testament of the Bible is often referenced so closely (which, is fine. You need examples to prove a point in an argument, after all.) then how does the Writer in question feel about the story of Lot?
You know, the one where Lot’s two daughters get him drunk and have sex with him.
Book of Genesis chapters 11-14 and 19.
It’s funny how a menstrual cycle- a natural biological occurrence, is so dirty and impure, but incest is just fine in that treasured book of yours.
Ah, well, I guess all books have their crazy fanclubs.
Also, maaaajor Kudos to Claire. Virtual high five for saying a lot of the things I wanted to say. Too bad it’s hard to get the message across.
Ps. I’m not currently on my period, but I will be happy to let anyone around me know when I am. Though, personally, I think it is rather sick that you would want to know that information- but hey, I’m not going to knock your fetish, whatever it may be.
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1:18 am
Thank you Minnie. Wasn’t Lot also the same guy who threw his virgin daughters into the street to be gang raped by a massive hoard of men so that he and his precious male houseguest would be spared? That’s even worse than the incest. It’s disturbing on so many levels, yet it’s just fine and dandy for these Christians.
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2:35 am
Um those were not just regular male houseguests, they were ANGELS. If Lots’ daughters had prayed harder to Jesus, maybe they would have been spared.
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4:53 am
Soddom and Gomorrah incident happened before Jesus was born.
I would think that was one of the first records of child abuse.
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2:45 pm
You understand that Jesus wasn’t around in Genesis, right?
This article is so discouraging on so many levels.
I want simply to ask this: Why should we go verbatim by a text written thousands of years ago? As an atheist, a feminist, and an educated woman, I respect your religion. Why can you not respect my femininity and right to live my life – my very natural life – without feeling that it is a “contaminant?”
Menstruation is not God’s punishment for women. It is not a disease and PMS is not contagious. It is a natural cycle that makes it possible for us to procreate. But I digress. What disturbs me most is that you claim nothing for the woman. We are not a subservient, inferior gender. We deserve the same respect and validity as men. Why, then, should a woman be punished for her biochemistry and a man not be punished for his vast and unnerving generalizations? Should this woman’s “PMS jar” savings not go to victims of spousal abuse instead of things that men “need” like football tickets or a new TV (Which is yet another ridiculous generalization- you realize that not all men are drones who “need” football and new televisions, yes? And you realize that women might enjoy football, too, right?)? Should her savings not go to freeing herself from household abuse and misogyny?
It makes me so sad that in 2011, we can’t live as a functional society because rampant sexism – which is a two-way street – still exists.
This article is absurd and hurtful. I’d rather expect this (and for a moment, thought it might have been) on The Onion. In that light, this would be hilarious. Knowing that this is dead serious makes me unbelievably sad.
And also, I beg your pardon, but I’ve yet to meet one woman who feels even well enough to want to take nude pictures of herself on her period. I’m sorry that you may have known that one-in-a-million woman, but I do not. I am not on my period. I do not fly off the handle when I am on it. I have irritable ticks on my period, just as I do when I’m under stress. Just as MEN do under stress. We are humans. Not unclean animals. The only think irritating me now is knowing that fools genuinely believe this vile rhetoric.
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11:54 pm
Really?
Maybe if you pray a little harder, Jesus will give you actual intelligence.
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1:40 am
Are you serious? This is absurd. I happen to not be on my period and I don’t have PMS either. Your ridiculous generalizations are so unnerving. I like how you completely twisted the words of the Bible to say that a woman’s words are unclean as well. It clearly states that it is the physical uncleanliness, you idiot.
The only time I rant is when it is in response to someone’s idiotic position on something they have no place or education on which to make a statement. I don’t “fly off the handle” or take naked pictures of my self when I am on my period, or when I am not having it for that matter.
Thank you to the above female opinions. Men have no idea what they are talking about on this matter.
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2:14 am
Sometimes I wonder how people can write things like this without thinking what they are saying is totally ridiculous.
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2:20 am
Then you have a beef with GOD because GOD wrote that!
In Jesuses’s time when people spoke PROPER english (like sitteth and toucheth and thou) they also had PROPER morals. Nowadays, women can load their husbands with lead from a pistol and blame it on “the hormones” and the liberals will let them off scott-free!
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I like your style, Joe
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4:02 am
I like your style, Joe
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10:43 am
As opposed to the many centuries of it being okay to beat, rape and kill your wife just because you wanted to and it was your “right” as a man?
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10:44 am
opps, posted in wring place
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10:44 am
As opposed to the many centuries of it being okay to beat, rape and kill your wife just because you wanted to and it was your “right” as a man?
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12:35 pm
God wrote that?
While I can let it slide that God wrote the Bible, God did NOT write this article.
Stephenson Billings did, and you can even add him on facebook (as long as you are not pmsing, of course.)
I definitely do not agree with most of the opinions on here, but I do have to give you props on your appreciation for good Old English.
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8:38 am
I like the “toucheth”- got something on your mind, Joe?
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2:23 am
When the mother of my children goes postal each lunar cycle I find that taking the kids out for dinner helps ease the unbearable drama that she produces for the rest of the family. This is no way to win a conversation when the demon of PMS takes over.
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5:47 am
You actually sicken me. This is so sexist how dare you write about women in such a insensitive way when you have no subjective experience of being a woman? Also Men have hormonal cycles too should they stop using the internet at these times too?
you are the kind of person that makes people not want to believe in God because they do not want to be associated with the likes of bigoted unbelievably stupid people like you. God and Jesus look at you with shame.
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5:54 am
by this logic does it mean that when men are in a kind of pain that only they can experience and that cause stress and irrationality (say being smashed in the testicles) that they shouldnt use the internet either?
because if thats true I am more than happy to kick you in the balls repeatedly so you cant poison the internet with your stupidity.
offers there just saying…
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6:39 am
you are brilliant! god bless you for all the wisdom you spread *hic*
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7:20 am
I wonder if the person who wrote this article has heard of evolution. Maybe he should try it. The Bible was written by humans thousands of years ago and has no relevance today. This article proves it, because we live in a system now of equality and human rights, which is a good thing. You clearly do not agree with that because you are prejudiced, bigoted and narrow minded. I don’t care what people want to believe. Christ’s teachings as they were are pretty moralistic but if you want to base your life on beliefs that are ancient then enjoy living on your flat world in which the sun revolves around, because i presume you believe that as well
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9:35 am
Please tell me this is just a troll site that exists for the purpose of making Christians (or possibly just men) look completely stupid.
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10:08 am
There has been more harm caused by men and their sex drive and what they do with their sperm than what a woman does.
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10:46 am
If I said that about a woman, you would call me a sexist pig. Is that fair, Jones?
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12:41 pm
Well you don’t see women going out and being serial rapists of men. I’m not saying that women don’t rape – sometimes they do. But there’s no epidemic of women rapists.
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11:21 am
These liberals are always trying to repress men and opress anyone who works hard in life.
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2:53 pm
These liberals, trying to improve the status of disenfranchised humans everywhere. Damn them and their human decency.
How dare you say that a woman doesn’t work hard in life. How dare you assume that motherhood is not taxing and difficult. Is pregnancy not difficult? Is living with a spiteful, hateful human such as yourself not difficult?
And might I also add that liberals and conservatives alike work hard for the betterment of women in the world. The only reason that you assume that it is only the part of liberals is because of America’s bi-partisanship which has torn us apart.
I suggest you educate yourself. Start here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sheryl_wudunn_our_century_s_greatest_injustice.html
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2:37 am
Yepp. Everytime a woman gives birth she comes extremely close to dying. Her heart even stops for a beat or two.
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12:38 pm
Exactly. Historically, who would start war? Men. Who would pay for war? Women and girls.
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12:20 pm
Bravo! You totally punk’d me! Having never heard of your site before (and not doing my homework until AFTER a long Facebook conversation regarding this article) I honestly took this seriously. Whether it was due to exemplary writing or my low regard of the “Christian Right”, or both, I was completely rabid and ready to launch a major campaign against this “Christian” version of Al-Qaeda. LOL Very well done – it didn’t sound far-fetched at all considering what I believed was the source. I’ll be back.
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1:33 pm
Doh! I too was punk’d! I had never been to this site and was directed here by someone on another group with a link to this article. Nicely done gang! Though I gotta tell ya, I am soooo relieved! LOL
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3:29 pm
I don’t find it relieving at all that this is a parody site – it just proves that they have incredibly sick, warped senses of humor.
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8:41 am
I can see your point, but can you see what the article has sparked?- a lively debate on what we really do believe, and given a bit of a slap on the face to those who agreed with it’s message.
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4:19 pm
I love using the puter whenever I’m bleeding out of my cunt. The blood makes nice lube to fist my cunt and then I use the extra blood that leeks out as lube to fist my poopie hole!
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8:30 pm
That was really offensive. You need psychological care.
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12:15 am
“I still think that we are God’s favorite because he created us first.”
Aww, did mommy always tell you how special you were?
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12:22 am
Clairy Bear Honey Bunch,
We are all special because God made us and He loves us.
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12:32 am
“We are all special because God made us and He loves us.”
He loves us? Then why did he flood the earth? Why did he do vile, horrible things to Job, a good person, just to prove a point to Satan? Why does he allow things like war, genocide, and rape to continue?
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12:42 am
Or why does he allow rape to be a misdemeanor in his eyes, and why does he view women to be inferior to men, when both are his creations, or why has man made the claim that God hates his children if they prefer the same sex?
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12:43 am
God works in mysterious ways.
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12:51 am
Couldn’t formulate a rebuttal so you settled for the good ol’ “God works in mysterious ways” crap?
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1:03 am
God is beyond human comprehension.
Mankind and Satan are responsible for all the Evil that happens in the world NOT God.
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1:27 am
God made Satan and Man. Man was made in God’s image. Man can err. Thus, God can err.
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1:07 am
“Mankind and Satan are responsible for all the Evil that happens in the world NOT God.”
But wasn’t it “god” who chose to flood the earth? I don’t recall that bible story being the work of Satan.
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1:54 am
God sent the flood because the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” – Genesis 6:5
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4:27 am
Wait, there’s a god? Man, you folks are kinda like sheep, huh? I don’t get your construct of reality, mostly because, well, it is racist and sexist? Don’t get me wrong, I think there is a higher order, but man, you guys are off the woot.
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1:18 pm
Some women post unpleasant messages and apologize for them later, but the overwhelming majority of nasty messages are posted by men, and not many of them apologize for it – they just think it’s a matter of “boys will be boys”. Women are often afraid to go out at night because they may be attacked by men. Men rarely have such fears about women. Men commit 85% of violent crime. Maybe the women who commit the other 15% are having their periods, but they still don’t pose the threat to society that men do. Some tiny percentage of women may be dangerous or out of control once a month, but a lot of men seem to be dangerous and out of control all the time. Since they can’t blame their bad behavior on monthly hormone surges, they must be suffering from testosterone poisoning 100% of the time. Until there is a cure, let’s keep them all off the Internet as a precaution. Remember men, forgoing negativity and bad language is one of the sacrifices that God asks of us. To be an adherent Christian, you must be committed to forgoing web usage as long as you are producing male hormones. Think of it as a small price to pay for the blessings of a happy, eternal soul. And a chance for the rest of us to get on with our lives in peace.
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2:28 pm
Is this a joke site?
It kinda sounds like it.
If not, I’m a little worried about religious people accessing the internet.
And in tune with the sweeping generalizations of this articles, I’d have to say ALL religious people should be restricted any internet access.
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4:09 pm
What you fail to realise in your capacious naivety Mr Billings, is that it has been scientifically proven that men undergo a period too; approximately every 20 days the male body goes through changes in body temperature, mood swings etcetera. Though I respect your faith, it is foolish to attempt to apply archaic patriarchal discourses to social media in a contemporary and postmodern society. Some values simply do not translate; though everyone is entitled to an opinion, perhaps it would be wise not to be quite so sexist (women spreading “contamination” for example – and on that note it could be argued a man’s semen does exactly the same, because it comes from the sex organs does that make it ‘unclean’? A tenuous argument at best.) and patronising over an experience you couldn’t possibly begin to narrate accurately. If anything, these poisonous words contradict your base point – are you “going off the handle” by using social media to contaminate others? Christianity should not be used as a medium for sexism and your hegemonic ideologies. The idea of a jar which women should put money in if there is any discontent within the household; statistically men are the largest perpetrators of domestic violence – and yet the money placed in the jar by the women should be spent on something the ‘man’ needs… such an idea is disgusting. Marriage is for the best and the worst of each other, an EQUAL arrangement, by no means are we men perfect and to imply that women’s biological functions cause all of the unrest is both idiotic and unjustified. And as to whether Claire is 14, 21, 45, or 78, what difference does it make? She makes a series of very valid points, which essentially deconstruct your poor argument. For your next piece of investigative journalism, perhaps it would be wise to research your subject properly.
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1:50 pm
It’s scary no one really questions as to Why?
Why would god create life (in its natural as-is state) only then to have a list of how to handle faults or flaws in the grand design and then write them down in a book?
To me it’s clearly obvious that a human (most probably a male) has inserted this statement, due to a fear of blood, or someother kind of fear either in society or association of blood with death.
It’s such a shame this blood and unclean mindset isn’t applied to the dead animals they eat too – thats where it should really come into play and not discrimate something that is a natural process.
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12:32 pm
Is this for real??? It has to be a wind-up. If it isn’t, well all I can say is ‘May your god forgive you’.
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12:32 am
I attended a Christian College. My God-fearing professors educated us that men have “periods” of four to five days every month in which their bodies produce low amount of Testosterone, causing them to be irrational or irritable. Since, in my studies, I know this to be true- would you advise my husband to not use the internet during his “cycles?”
Also, what are your thoughts on chore work around the household? I keep a tidy house and pleasant environment for my children. Should I just rely on prayer to keep my temperament at ease during my cycles?
God Bless
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3:41 am
TROLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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