Fear is quite a converter, look at the Great Revival.
Your god approves of the use of fear tactics? Seems rather tyrannical to me.
fear tactics? tyrannical? these guys need to learn a thing or two. Consider former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Sa'id Al-Sahaf's admonition: "God will roast your stomachs in hell!" Or better yet, consider that poor Paki bastard who faces execution for conversion. Conversion between roughly equivalent monotheistic religions, yet! Or what about Akhenaten, the heretic King of the ancient New Kingdom of Egypt, who changed his name from Amenhotep the Fourth to Akhenaten when he decided that Aten was a better god than Ra. What a choad. Of course he alienated and reviled the aristocracy and the preists, who promptly went back to Ra when he "accidentally" died from hanging around too much with that bitch of a wife, Nefertiti. We all know it was Ra who inspired Nefertiti to cause Akenaten's "accident" There's a god you can respect. And didn't Athena spring forth from her mother's womb fully armed? Now that's every male god's hard-on I'd have to image. She can bring home the celestial bacon and fry it up in a pantheon. What a sexy goddess. It's like Statesrights old signature with Ann coulter in neofascist black leather with a riding crop. But Athena's better, she's a dominatrix and a god! Boing! But my favorite god has to be Tonatiuh. That bastard lives for human flesh. Ever noticed those claws on the side of the central figure on the sun stone? (The so-called Aztec Calendar?) Of course, Tonatiuh was no match for Cortez, not really a god but rather only a man, but still one who inspired fear on par with any god. These modern gods--even those whose minions claim that their patrons will roast your stomachs in hell--are really very sensitive and politically correct gods compared to the pantheon of gods that have existed over the millenia.
Still, John, we're getting a little off-tract (if you'll pardon the jeu de mots). You don't judge religious art by the amount of Political Correctness exhibited by the mythological beings contained therein. You judge it on the same merit you'd judge any other literature or art. Art that serves a purpose is deemed so useful, in fact, that governments worldwide have funded art since the dawn of civilization, and ours is no different. For me, that particular brand of art, the Chicks Tract, serves a wonderful purpose for my soul: it makes me laugh. And therefore I maintain a positive opinion of the Chicks Tract.
Keep an open mind, John. Any self-respecting Libertarian should be far too enlightened to buy into the groupthink that demands disdain for Chicks Tracts.
And smile once in a while.
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