Aug 8, 1999

From: "Jimmy Johnson"  jimmyj1@mindspring.com
 

Insane Fundy Cultist Blames Atheism for Everything

Forward by Fredric L. Rice:

I have always been a big fan of Dr. Laura... until, that is, she started
turning even more extremist in her unfortunate religious occultism. Now,
every radio show has some insane comment related to her newfound cultism.
Her credibility after her swap of religious cults has dropped to zero.

The hypocricy and bigotry!

Dr. Laura wants to pretend that atheists are some how immoral or, at the
very least, not moral. Not only does she ignore the fact that nearly all
prison inmates in the United States are Christians, she ignores utterly the
fact that atheists don't do exactly what she does: contrive elaborate and
insane excuses to deny accountability for their actions.

With Dr. Laura we find, like so many other religious zealots, someone who
feels no moral compunction against using deity constructs to justify or
otherwise excuse her behavior.
 
DR. LAURA'S ATHEISM CAUSED NUDITY

By now most of you are familiar with the Dr. Laura Schlessinger saga with
Skeptic magazine, and her resignation from our board of advisors after we
published "THE GOD QUESTION" issue of Skeptic (Vol. 4, #2) because "Science
can only describe what; guess at why; but cannot offer ultimate meaning.
When man's limited intellect has the arrogance to pretend an ability to
analyze God, it's time for me to get off that train."

Get off she did, and not just the skeptic train. As most of you know by now
if you've been watching the news, Dr. Laura's moralizing has made her a
prominent target and now photographs of a naked Dr. Laura can be found at
www.loveclub.com, an internet site specializing in pornography.

The photographs were provided by Bill Ballance, one of the pioneers of talk
radio in the 1960s in Los Angeles, when he was on top (read alpha male) and
Dr. Laura was just breaking into the biz (read lower ranking female), and,
as often happens in such situations for us social, hierarchical primates
(witness Bill and Monica), they had a fling.

So what? No big deal, especially in the 1960s. Except Ballance took
photographs of a naked Laura Schlessinger prancing around an apartment and
on the bed, AND HE KEPT THEM! On the site now are 12 photos (you can see
three for free and have to pay for the rest), but he said this morning that
he has another 200!

Interestingly, Laura initially denied that the photographs were of her.
With photoshop and a computer, it really would be simple to put someone's
head on someone else's body and you would never know the difference. But
then she filed an injunction against Ballance and the internet provider (for
what? Regaining photographs that were not of her?) for copyright (didn't HE
take the photos) and violation of privacy.

Okay, fine. I'm a little sympathetic here on the privacy issue. And in
several interviews I've seen with Ballance he cackles like a dirty old man,
and with a glee in his eye cackles on about how they rolled around in the
sheets like a couple of weazels. But then Laura completely lost any sympathy
I might have had when she retracted her initial denial and explained that
she did have an affair with Ballance, while they were both married (a big
no-no in her current moral paradigm), and then she lied about it (another
big no-no she berates people for daily), but then, in a flash of genius, she
came up with a solution. THAT WAS WHEN SHE WAS AN ATHEIST!

Ah, yes, we atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers routinely have affairs,
get naked, and take nude photos. Right. If I was in such a situation, and I
came out with a statement that this lurid affair happened when I was Jewish,
do you think the JDL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center would remain silent? Is
this not something of a "racist" (in a broad sense) remark on her part?

Shermer
 

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