Cory Tucholski Returns!

Sound the alarms and raise the bells!  The Bitch is Back!  Some of my long-term readers might remember Cory Tucholski from Easter of this year.  Here are three old posts to refresh your memories.

The unfortunately-named Christtard never did tell me if I won the Screwball Award or not, nor did he tell me how I and my readers could vote for myself.  Are we too late to vote, Cory Tucholski?

Anyhoo, I’m writing this because Cory Tucholski wrote some tripe regarding my Columbus Day post.  (Go ahead and say his name.  Just do it.  Cory Tuccchhhhholski.  Just like that, with the elongated Hebrew-y ch in the middle.  I know, right?!  It’s so grimy sounding!)

His post was essentially, “I agree that Columbus was a dick but it had nothing to do with my religion!  I’m super cereal!  Don’t blame the Christian who wrote about everything as if he were doing God’s work and wanted to please God in everything he did on his Christianity!  People don’t do that stuff anymore so you can forget that Christians ever did it ever, okay?  Okay???  Serious, guy, it’s not nice!!!  YOU’RE NOT PLAYING NICE!!!! I’m gonna tell teacher on you.“

(My comments after the fold.)

Here were my comments in return:

I mentioned two vile aspects of that Columbus quote that stemmed directly from his Christianity: Slavery and the destruction of cultures by way of “spreading the Gospel”.

The wholesale destruction of cultures in the name of mission work still continues today and is seen as highly virtuous by almost every Christian I have ever met. I can’t even fathom the amount of money (and I can fathom with the best of the fathomers) that Christians spend each year on sending missionaries into the Amazon and into war-torn African nations to bribe the natives and the misplaced into Christianity (and out of their cultural beliefs and practices) with promises of food, technology, peace and eternal life.

Tell me how missionaries today aren’t coercing people into Christianity. They even do it on their home soil! Most homeless shelters in the United States are religious organisations and only allow homeless people to eat their food and sleep in their beds if they attend their church services and listen to their pastors! Tell me how that’s not coercing people into Christianity when the only option for food and shelter for many Americans who have lost their homes is to sit and listen to a pastor tell them that they are going to hell.

You didn’t even mention the slave trade, but I’ll go ahead and address it anyway. I don’t know if by your omission of my point on slavery, you implied that you are in favour of slavery or not, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume that you didn’t read half of what I wrote. The slave trade was not religiously motivated but it was propagated and carried out by churches and elected officials, drawing from verses of the Old and New Testaments that proscribe laws on how to deal with slaves. God apparently condones slavery.

OH MY GOD! I just realised you’re Cory Tucholski! I had so much fun completely obliterating your arguments last time we met online. So good to see you and smack down your arguments again! Have fun with your six readers!

You would think he would have learned the first time. So do I get another chance at the Screwball Award there, ol’ Tuchhh?