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Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books " Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.
He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
http://thedevilanddanvojir.blogspot.com
Friday, February 3, 2012 Gerbils, Cell Phones And Bats Up The Butt: The Culture War Heats Up With Diatribes From Another World (2 comments)
From Eddie Long being crowned "king" to a Tennennesse state senator's declaration that its' "virtually impossible to get HIV through heterosexual sex" the culture war is ramping up to ridiculous heights.
Some don't think it's effecting the electorate, but tell that to a bludgeoned cat with "liberal" scrawled across it.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 The Bludgeoning Of Cats: The South's Right Wing Politics Has Never Left Us. But What's Good For Gingrich ... (6 comments)
Last Sunday, an Arkansas state congressional candidate's campaign manager and his family came home and his young daughter discovered a gruesome sight:
someone had bludgeoned their family cat to death and left the word "liberal" scrawled on its side.
During this election year, we may have to ask ourselves -
Is this Southern Politics as usual?
Sunday, January 8, 2012 Tennessee Gets The Call: Slouching Towards Africa, The Lou Engle-Honored State Proudly Touts The Right To Bully (2 comments)
The influence of "prophet" Lou Engle in Tennessee has come to light with the consideration of a new "anti-bullying" law that is really a license for bullies to get away with their taunts as long as they say that they're for religious reasons.
But some people see through the Christian Right First Amendment smoke screen.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Transcending Christmas, Pt 3: Can OWS Help Save The Spirit of Christmas? (1 comments)
Will the OWS help keep the Spirit of Christmas alive?
Don't count on the Christian Right to do it, since they're too busy owning Christmas itself.
UPDATE on Zuccotti Park: it will be closed for Christmas. Figures.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Can We Stop Laughing Now? GOP Hypocrisy Campaign Hits New High With Herman Cain and His Campaign Manager Mark Block (1 comments)
Who's dumber, Herman Cain or his campaign manager, Mark Block? It's hard to tell since Cain hired Block and Block has thrown Cain under the bus so many times you wonder who's side he's on.
The ineptitude goes on and on.
To prove it, the last statement regarding the Ginger White affair has a statement that must have sent Bill Clinton into gales of laughter. To wit: "none of the public's business." LOLOLOL!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 The Right Wing Got A Pariah And The OWS Got A Hero: When The Vatican Shrugged (5 comments)
Now the papacy has hurled itself into today's economic chaos - perhaps siding with the OWS movement. What now? We'll let the Dominionists, the Republicans, and Wall Street scream for a while.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Evangelical Healing Or Sanctified Manslaughter? British Deaths Allegedly Result From Nigerian Preacher's Scam. (1 comments)
The latest Nigerian scam may come in the form of deadly "spiritual advice."
Pastor T.B. Joshua of Nigeria's Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, has claimed to cure AIDS, cancer, various other illnesses (and even dwarfism?).
The problem with his ministry is that it has induced deaths by telling sick people to throw away their medications.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 The Morality Of OWS: U.S. Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas vs. The Christian Right Establishment (9 comments)
What it all boils down to: money vs. morality. And Sgt. Shamar Thomas helped us see it.
Occupy Wall Street gives us an odd sense of deja vu and we may now wonder where our churches stand in all of this: will the Christian Right sidle up to the 1% and progressive churches support the 99%?
You've got that right!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 And The Hate Goes On: Has The Death Of Matthew Shepard REALLY Made A Difference? (4 comments)
Thirteen years ago. Think back to the images of a young man's body hanging on a fence, of people with wide "wings" of white muslin shielding a grieving funeral gathering from Fred Phelps' hate group, and of an addle-brained old congresswoman declaring that the hate crime was a "hoax".
How did Matthew Shepard's death change anything?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 The Curse of Cindy Jacobs: Joining The Latest In Genocide Enablers (9 comments)
So Cindy Javobs is at it again. Ho Hum. The difference is that she is courting "heritage genocide" and thereby ushering in an actual genocide. She's an "enabler"
Monday, August 15, 2011 Ann Coultergeist: Gays Love Me! I'm Their Judy Garland! I'm Delusional! (3 comments)
For one week, the media has been abuzz with GoProud's assignment of Ann Coultergeist to their advisory committee. (honorary chair). So AC has lapped it up and now thinks that all "true gays" love her.
She has a serious case of ODN (Outright Delusional Narcissism).
Thursday, August 11, 2011 Treating Children Like Horses: Christian Right "Historian" David Barton Gets Violent (4 comments)
David Barton treats children like horses.
Unfortunately, that statement might be more true than anyone would like to think. And it's good news for those fathers who are searching for justification in beating their kids.
But beyond that, Barton's rhetoric has become increasingly violent in his quest for a Christian Only nation.
No wonder Mike Huckabee wants Barton's writings read at gun point!
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Africa's "Gay Question": Ghana Teeters On The Brink Of A Holocaust ...Just Like Uganda (5 comments)
Ghana is poised to go the way of Uganda. How deadly will the final decision be? More deadly than people think!
The prison conditions of Africa are so notoriously bad, that languishing in a prison may equal (or be worse than) death. So does incarceration of gays indicate a holocaust?
Think about it.
Sunday, July 17, 2011 The "Compassion" of Paul Ryan and The Right: "The Poor You Will Always Have With You - We'll See To It" (4 comments)
The Budget, The Debt Ceiling, The Compassion: which of these is missing from the current political scene? Rep. Paul Ryan's definition of "compassion" is off-the-mark: no matter what the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate, PEOPLE will be hurt.
NOW.
They call it INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE. Others call it genocide of the poor and disenfranchised.
Thursday, July 14, 2011 Who REALLY Killed 4-Year-Old Jadon Higgenbotham? (5 comments)
The murder of 4-year-old Jadon Higgenbothan may not hit the headlines like the latest Casey Anthony saga, but it bears looking into all the same -- as to who was REALLY responsible.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Texas Hates (Heathen) America And (Deceived) Oprah: Rick Perry's Prayer-Fest And What It Means To The Rest of America (4 comments)
Texas LOVES Rick Perry, so therefore it hates Catholics, Jews, Muslims, illegal immigrants, Buddhists, gays, feminists,and, of course, OPRAH.
Perry's call to arms against the rest of the wicked country - The Response - is a fearsome group of the Christian Right, excluding all of the above and not apologizing for it.
For a man with Presidential aspirations, this does not bode well for the rest of the country.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 The Most Violent Rhetoric Is Upon Us: An Analysis Of Rev. Lou Sheldon's Latest Rant (5 comments)
Words. Should we wait for them to kill people? Rev. Lou Sheldon's latest diatribe could cause any number of "righteous assassinations" against gay people - but he says he doesn't hate homosexuals - so read the explosive words yourself - and see it analyzed in a "wordle" that makes the point.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Little General Michele Is Skipping Gleefully To The Gallows - And Her Mighty Militiamen May Just Give Her Enough Rope (2 comments)
Michele Bachmann may seem like some deranged Shirley Temple sailing her Good Ship Folly Pop into a hurricane, but who are the guys letting her helm the ship? Some things have been said about Marcy Bachmann, but the others (including media) need closer attention:
Sean Hannity, Tony Perkins, Bryan Fischer, Bradlee Dean, Frank Vetters, Robert Tatreau, Andrew Breitbart are just a few who could be crazier than Bachmann!
Thursday, June 23, 2011 The Political Half-Quit: Sarah Palin Couldn't Do Better Than GRACIE ALLEN (7 comments)
Sarah Palin - the political half-quit - says she is postponing the rest of her magical mystery bus tour across America because of jury duty obligations.
How convenient.
Sorry folks, but she's a quitter.
Compare her "campaign" to Gracie Allen's run for President in 1940. It gave us entertainment and a chance to laugh at ourselves as political animals.
Certainly more than Palin is doing right now.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 June Has Busted Out All Over: With Sex, God, Love, Hate ... And Exploding Right Wing Brains (2 comments)
Hear that popping sound the last three weeks? Right wing brains have been exploding at an alarming rate, make June the month to watch the fireworks - and the bigotry, the righteousness, the viciousness, the overall insanity that is today's Right Wing.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 "You Know They Do It In The Pool, Don't You?" When Gay Rights Become Civil Rights In Hazard, KY (4 comments)
Hazard, KY is not on the list of the world's most romantic places: it doesn't even want PDA (public displays of affection) in their recreational facilities, so you can imagine what happened when two developmentally disabled men were seen being affectionate to each other! The proverbial sh*t hit the fan.
Gay rights vs. civil rights is now on the line.
Monday, June 13, 2011 The REAL "Sissy Boys" And What They're Doing To America! (4 comments)
Sissy Boy. The name seems to say it all. Anderson Cooper probed into it last week and it put a serious dent into the armor of the ex-gay movement.
It also guided us in the right direction to find out who the REAL "sissy boys" are: those cowards who demonize people, then claim no responsibility for their words or actions.
Thursday, June 9, 2011 A Victim Of The Masses?: Piers Morgan Gets Ann Coulter To Admit That She's Really Marie Antoinette! (1 comments)
Hail Queen Marie Antoinette!
Actually, it's Queen Ann Coulter of the "let them eat cake" school of politics and social responsibility.
On the Piers Morgan show (CNN), she showed her utter disdain for the bourgeoisie (all liberals, of course) and the "demonic" mob mentality of half the country.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 San Francisco Is Damned!: Will the "Tales of the City" Town Withstand The Coming Onslaught Of Violent Rhetoric? (2 comments)
Tales of The City, the new musical is beautiful for a number of reasons, one of which is that it tears down barriers and replaces them with acceptance and love.
So of course, the Christian Right will demonize it to the enth degree. More importantly, it will step up its vehement and violent rhetoric against the City of San Francisco.
Will it survive the onslaught of hate?
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Wrinkles Cost Money. What The Nation's Elderly Need Now: Facial Spackle And Fake IDs (1 comments)
The next big business: supplying fake IDs - to the elderly. Declaring one's age may become harmful to one's health and well-being.
And along with the fake ID's, another must-have commodity will be lots and lots of make-up (aka facial spackle) to cover up the wrinkles - wrinkles will be an extravagance limited to the wealthy.
OK, maybe it's not an age of senior genocide, but it might be one for the "senior closet."
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Will May 21st Really Herald The End Of The World? We're Sooo Looking Forward To It! (5 comments)
What happens on May 22nd when people people wake up to the fact that nobody's been Raptured? Will old Harold Camping and his loyal followers give up on predicting the End Time? Will there be, like in 1847, a "Great Disappointment?"
No.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 Eating The Chocolate Bunny: No Profound Easter Message Inside (2 comments)
Taking a big bite out of the Easter Bunny's hide isn't really that easy: frivolous, mindless Easter commercialism is something we can't rid ourselves of no matter how hard we try.
Friday, April 22, 2011 A "Demon-Buster" Who Thinks She's A Democrat: Kimberly Daniels Runs For Jacksonville Seat (1 comments)
Kimberly "Halloween Demonic Candy" Daniels has popped on our radar - this time as a candidate for Jacksonville, Florida's city council - AS A DEMOCRAT!!
Doesn't anyone in the local Democratic Party know?
Forget that she's Bishop Harry Jackson's "comrade in arms." She's toxic in her own right!
Saturday, April 16, 2011 Day Of Silence, Day Of Bigotry: Who Are The Victims, Who Are The Bullies? (1 comments)
Today not only marks the dreaded Income Tax deadline, but is also designated as this year's "Day of Silence" in schools across the country. But instead of a day symbolizing confraternity with LGBT students and a rebuke of school bullying, it has come to delineate intolerance and acceptance.
Friday, April 15, 2011 Uganda's "Kill-The-Gays" Pastor Accused Of Extortion, Perjury and Fraud To Push Bill (1 comments)
"Eat Da Poo-Poo" pastor may be in big trouble: his "poster boy" accused him of extortion, bribery and other low dealings in order to get the "kill the gays" bill passed. He talked - to the New York Times, no less.
Whatever the outcome of this story, our own Christian Right may not come out too clean.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 GOOD Brain? BAD Brain, Red Brain Blue Brain?: Scientific Study Shows Gray Matter Differences In Political Views (2 comments)
Red Brain? Blue Brain? Do you have an enlarged anterior cingulate cortex or a larger-than-normal amygdala?
A study in London concludes that politics might result from particular parts of the brain being larger and having varying functions: Republicans tend to worry about the unknown, while Democrats have a higher tolerance for the unknown.
No, they haven't studied Michele Bachmann yet.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 Marking 200 For OpEdNews: The Best of Times (Sex With Ducks), The Worst of Times (The Deaver Fetus) (2 comments)
Marking 200 for OpEdNews sounds like a lot, but compared with the prodigious output of most of its progressive writers I feel like I'm just bringing up the rear on the battle.
Anyway, 200 articles does cut a hefty chunk of a writer's life, so sit back, relax and get a whiff of all the false prophets,bloviators, weirdos, heinous politicians and atrocities that I've had to put up with.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 The Fine Print: Beck's Demise Is No Demise ... and No Surprise (4 comments)
SHOCK!!! Glenn Beck's Fox News show has been cancelled! Will the world as we know it be the same?
Yes, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, but the reality is that Beck will be with us much longer than we care to imagine.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 Pat Robertson: As Christians We Must Love ALL of God's Murderous Dictators - Even Laurent Gbagbo! (1 comments)
Cote d'Ivoire has been a stronghold for the Christian Right as long as Laurent Gbagbo has been in power. All of that might change: the new President is Muslim! The travesty that is religion in Cote d'Ivoire is portrayed in its ridiculously huge, ostentatious Bsilica - mocking the poverty of the country.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Rut! Rabbit! Rut! (1 comments)
Bryan Fischer is talking sex again. Ho Hum. This time, he's targeting African American single moms.
Boring.
Saturday, April 2, 2011 Is the Murder of 7 UN Workers Enough For The Likes Of Pastor Terry Jones? (12 comments)
When self-righteousness takes its toll, it is more disastrous than anything "sent by God." Why? Because it could have been avoided.
Pastor Terry Jones knew the consequences of burning a Q'uran: whole nations begged him not to do it. But moral supremacy overcame him and he decided that people were expedient. Yes, this is a polemic, but one that may be necessary.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Sweetwater, TN Infects Rome: Now CATHOLIC BISHOPS Tell HUD To Take A Hike! (1 comments)
The bigotry of Sweetwater, TN has now spread to...Rome! Catholic Bishops are in a tizzy about HUD's non-discriminatory policy regarding sexual orientation. Compassion, it seems, has its limits.
To point out how compassionate other areas of the country (damned liberal ones, of course)have saved lives, I'm proffering my own story as it is.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 The American Family: Sacred or Profane? (1 comments)
Does anyone on the Right actually know what the American Family is? Was it ever the sanitized "Leave It To Beaver" and "Donna Reed" family?
Of course not, but don't tell them that. What they don't realize is that we may have a more beautiful family unit than ever before through its diversity.
So why are they trying to destroy what is the REAL American Family?
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Update on The Sacred And Profane: Sweetwater, Tennessee's War On The American Family (2 comments)
Who's picking on poor, squeaky-clean little Sweetwater, TN and why?
Ms. Victoria Barnes of the Sweetwater Housing Authority has given the U.S. a portrait of bigotry behind bucolic beauty. And while Sweetwater can't say that it's isolated (20 WalMarts surround the town), it is proud of its down-home attitudes towards gays.
Welcome to the Heartland of America!
Thursday, March 24, 2011 Life After St. Liz (3 comments)
Of all the film stars who deserved to be canonized as a saint, Elizabeth Taylor would certainly be one of them.
That might sound blasphemous to some, but that's the way I see it.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 And Some Will Laugh: The Bible "Told Me To Stone The Homo To Death!" (3 comments)
The brutal slaying of an elderly man has people in Darby, PA. shocked - and a little puzzled: what was the motive?
And did the Bible really "tell" John Joe Thomas to kill Murray Seidman by stoning since Murray was a homosexual?
Saturday, March 19, 2011 Compassion Without Evangelism: What Japan Needs Vs. What Japan Will Get (2 comments)
Is compassion possible without evangelism? Of course it is. Unfortunately, some people see a chance in disasters to evangelize without restraint. When disaster strikes, God's Ambulance Chasers will always be there.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 Because Gloating For God Is Soooo Good!: Jacobs, Joyner, Pierce and TamtamPam Delight in Japan's Tragedy (1 comments)
How can we apologize to Japan for Cindy Jacobs, Rick Joyner and Chuck Pierce? How? Tell Japan that we don't listen to them? Tell Japan that "they don't represent us"?
These people are an embarrassment enough without having them overtly insult a country that has been stricken by disasters.
Somehow they look like schoolyard bullies kicking the most vulnerable kid after he's fallen down.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 "Send 'em To Siberia" NH Politician Resigns Due To "SLIGHTLY Unfavorable Publicity." (1 comments)
Marty Harty has resigned. Good. But what we should really be asking ourselves from the "Send 'em to Siberia" controversy is what led people to vote for him in the first place? And did the New Hampshire Republican party simple want someone old and (possibly) senile?
Friday, March 4, 2011 Michelle Obama Sends Pedestrians Across the Country To Untimely Deaths! (1 comments)
People have never slammed a First Lady like they have Michelle Obama. Never. So why now? Ask Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Glen Beck and the rest.
Now they've blamed a rise in pedestrian deaths to her fitness campaign.
Great.
Thursday, March 3, 2011 This Is The BIG ONE! It Even Beats Eddie Long!: The Hypocrisy of the Year Award Goes To ... (1 comments)
This one is at the very top of the long list of hypocrites: Pastor Grant Storms, the anti-gay preacher who gathered media attention because he declared the New Orleans gay event, "Southern Decadence" "disgusting" and "nasty" was just arrested for masturbating in a public park - near the playground.
Maybe "Southern Decadence" was just too adult a playground for his lifestyle.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Ciavarella Is Convicted: But The Kids For Cash Scandal Does NOT Come To An End (3 comments)
Corrupt judge Mark Ciavarello has been convicted of racketeering charges - but NOT of the scheme that alerted the Feds to his corruption: "Kids for Cash." See what one mother said when she confronted the crooked judge.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 BE PREPARED! And BEWARE! Of Those Family Values Scoutmasters!! (1 comments)
Who knew? Actually child sexual abuse has been happening for a long time in the revered Boy Scouts of America. The latest rash of arrests and convictions is really nothing new.
Sunday, February 13, 2011 High On Uganda's Hit List, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo Will NOT Go Into Hiding. (1 comments)
Two men were pictured on the front page of the (now) infamous tabloid in Uganda with the slash-headline "Hang them!" One of those men, David Kato is dead.
The other man is still alive. But for how long? He is Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, one of the best friends Uganda's terror-racked LGBT community.
Bishop Senyonjo spoke at his friend's funeral and spoke bravely and truthfully.
People don't like it.
Friday, January 28, 2011 Poor Scott Lively? Poor David Kuto? Poor Uganda? No: Poor America - Our Religious Right Got Just What It Wanted! (7 comments)
The choruses of "We're Not To Blame!" will be ringing in our ears for weeks.
It may be a good thing David Kuto is not alive to hear such calumnies. He died fighting the same people who will be singing them.
Whatever the views about his murder, one thing stands out above all others: America's Religious Right has exported anti-gay sentiment to Africa - vehemently.
And some say - murderously.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Putrid Politics of Jesse Kelly's Super-Ego (2 comments)
So when is Jesse Kelly going to be able to take a shot at Giffords' again? I mean, at her Congressional seat, of course. It depends upon patience, generosity and compassion on the part of Vision 360 a "church planting" group that has hired Kelly as part of its promotion and development team.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Insanity Overload: Why Can't We Just Sit Back And Enjoy It? (1 comments)
If the last three weeks are a portent of things to come this year, then we should all crawl back under the covers. Seriously! The panoply of dimwitted preachers and politicians that came out of the woodwork threatens to destroy our faith in God and humanity: Cindy Jacobs, Michele Bachmann, Wiley Drake, the Southern Baptist Convention, World Net Daily, Rick Joyner, and newcomer Michael Voris, S.T.B. (whatever that is).
