{"id":86669,"date":"2023-12-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86669"},"modified":"2023-12-17T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:33:27","slug":"mirthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86669","title":{"rendered":"Mirthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is loading some garage junk into a truck.  He doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE, whjo is walking up the alley writing down the addresses of homes without handicap parking spots.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Uh&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Christian Nationalists can&#8217;t handle freedom of religion!   They&#8217;re having a cow and melting down over a Satan Club at a school!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An After School Satan Club is launching at Chimneyrock Elementary School near Memphis, Tennessee, and conservatives can\u2019t deal with it.<br><br>Like the minister who complained that Satanists are \u201cusing the Constitution against us.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlLeOdzrPk\">https:\/\/t.co\/UlLeOdzrPk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hemantmehta\/status\/1736389011655033094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Huh.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  What do you have to say about that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Other than &#8220;Satanism is a religion in exactly the same way as &#8220;The Onion&#8221; is, only even less funny?   It exists only to mock faith.  Well, to mock Christianity.  It&#8217;s not a worldview. It&#8217;s a running adolescent jape.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  You&#8217;re gonna crrrryyyyyyyyyyyy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  So, if a school had an &#8220;Amos and Andy&#8221; club, or a &#8220;Speedy Gonzales&#8221; club, or an &#8220;Apu&#8221; Club, or a &#8220;Boring Basketball&#8221; club, do you think Blacks, Latinos, Indian-Americans or women might take umbrage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLE is already skipping, literally, down the alley.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is loading some garage junk into a truck. He doesn&#8217;t notice Avery LIBRELLE, whjo is walking up the alley writing down the addresses of homes without handicap parking spots. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh&#8230; LIBRELLE: Christian Nationalists can&#8217;t handle freedom of religion! They&#8217;re having a cow and melting down over a Satan Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,377],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-86669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-the-second-civil-war","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86670,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669\/revisions\/86670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}