For lunch, I boiled and fried sweet Italian chicken sausage, and then served it up in a toasted pretzel hot dog bun with some remoulade. Next time, I’ll fry up some onions, and maybe also add relish. And there’ll definitely be a next time, because it turned out delicious.
This is the sort of dish that doesn’t require much skill but depends heavily on the quality of the ingredients. I got my sausages from the meat counter at Whole Foods, and that made all the difference. There really isn’t much of a recipe, past the description, but it got me thinking about a classic bit: Kissing Hank’s Ass.
In case you haven’t heard of it, it’s a satire about Christianity and Pascal’s wager. It came to mind because it concludes with a funny bit in which condiments and buns are used as a metaphor for sex. I’d recommend reading it right now or just watching a video.
Yes, this is atheist activism, something we been seeing a lot of lately. It’s become all too fashionable among the “progressives” of the populist left to not only wear their atheism on a sleeve but to act as vulgar proselytizers more interested in telling people how stupid their beliefs are than changing minds or making things better. I find this counterproductive.
Rather than fighting for atheism, we would all benefit from a culture that is more secular. This means that people are free to hold private religious beliefs, but these are truly private and have no place in public life, particularly not in politics. If you have no better justification for a cause than the fact that your religion tells you to support it, then you have no justification worth listening to.
Likewise, we should treat religious beliefs like genitals: everyone has them, but nobody wants to see yours. If for some reason they do, they can ask, but you’re not free to just whip them out under the assumption that anyone else will find them to be as interesting as you do. Public declarations of religiosity from politicians are particularly disgusting. Worse than chopped hot dogs smothered in sauerkraut.
Hey, I like sauerkraut and hot dogs. I also like the “dish” described at the beginning, altho I’d go with finely diced raw onions.
Agreed on all the rest. When a politician invokes religion, it’s an instant clue that their argument can’t stand on facts alone, and is therefore garbage. It’s also un-American.
The problem, at this point, is that politicians are basically obligated to pay lip service to religion. That’s not my opinion, that’s what all the polls say. Even Bernie had to tone down his obvious atheism.