THINGS ARE STARTING to get crazy in Tehran. According to the Guardian, one of I Need a Dinner Jacket's chief fart-catchers got busted for sorcery. Yup, sorcery. Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).
Djinns? Well, let the bells ring out and the banners fly, like the genie in the Looney Tunes cartoons, used to say.
We got plenty of devotees of Yahweh ready to pull the same shtick given half a chance at temporal power. "Dr." 'Sweaty' McVety for one.
ReplyDeleteLet us never forget the childcare 'satanic child abuse' witch hunts in the US. If I recall correctly, the same sources behind that panic tried fomenting it up here.
Then there's all the double plus secret 'anointing' of public places going on in the theocratic LARP war against demons, official exorcists, the blasphemy laws recently brought up in Ireland, the Am-Euro exporting of Christian style demon hunting to African nations, etc.
There are small moments of satisfying pushback, as when my friend of naturally pointy ears and fey features got tired of being coyly vamped in a mall by an obvious bait girl for a 'born again' sect, pushed his hair back from his ears and said he was an elf and he had no soul to save. Her horror stricken reaction as she retreated post haste made for a good story at the food court, but it took maybe 30 seconds before someone ruefully added it was a good thing fundies had no real say, or he'd be strung up.
That's the thing that gets me about the evangelicals of any stripe. They talk a good game of mercy and love, but it seems like they universally need to put some heavy boots in to anyone not like them, not to gain paradise, but plain old power through fear.
Wonder what the next four years are going to be like around here...
Good point, Niles ... .if God can go out of His (note gender) way to zap the WTC because of some cross dressers in San Francisco there is all manner of hocus pocus that can be done in Iran.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Catholics did this every Sunday?
ReplyDeleteExcellent point, SQ ! ! ! !
ReplyDeleteI blame the multi-culti.
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