{"id":19126,"date":"2025-06-22T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2025-06-22T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:14:05","slug":"going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=19126","title":{"rendered":"Going to Hell in a Handbasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing rumors lately that folks are worried these new pot laws and similar sex marriages are going to be the ruination of society as we know it.\u00a0 Stanwood and Gomorrah.\u00a0 Coming to a sex and drug emporium near you!\u00a0 Probably too late to save em from themselves\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Paul at the Hallelujah Good News Church of the Rock down at the Odd Fellows Hall they rent every Sunday morning was enjoining the congregation after the voters passed the Initiatives of Iniquity to fight the forces of evil unleashed upon us poor South Enders.\u00a0 Cast the first stoned, you ask me, but Pastor Paul didn\u2019t.\u00a0 He read passages from a battered King James to prove his point and God\u2019s, made reference to Babylon and Beelzebub, and practically blistered the varnish off the pulpit.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s hard to watch if you think sin is spreading around you faster than floodwater in New Jersey, but before we get our earmuffs in a bunch, it\u2019s worth remembering us South Enders haven\u2019t turned to pillars of salt yet and this end of the island hasn\u2019t been consumed by an eternal fire of damnation.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been similar sexing and smoking herbs other than nettles since I came here back on the 5th day of Creation.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t say we\u2019re Paragons of Virtue\u00a0 &#8212; well, most of my pals aren\u2019t &#8212; but if we\u2019re on the Road to Perdition, Hell looks more like Elger Bay Mega Mall than it does Dante\u2019s bad dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Folks are a little too lathered up and Pastor Paul isn\u2019t helping much.\u00a0 Truth is, he was all FOR that Holy War we been running for a decade and I\u2019m not talking about the Crusade to put a tollgate between Stanwoodopolis and the island to keep the infidels back where they belong on the Mainland.\u00a0 Pastor Paul would benefit mightily from a bowlful of Two Toke\u2019s Heavenly Blitz, I suspect.\u00a0 Maybe quit worrying about who loves who.\u00a0 Love might not be THE answer, but it\u2019s a start\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing rumors lately that folks are worried these new pot laws and similar sex marriages are going to be the ruination of society as we know it.\u00a0 Stanwood and Gomorrah.\u00a0 Coming to a sex and drug emporium near you!\u00a0 Probably too late to save em from themselves\u2026. Pastor Paul at the Hallelujah Good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[7328,7327,7326],"class_list":["post-19126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-bad-news-from-the-pulpit","tag-sex-drugs-and-everything-else","tag-stanwood-and-gomorrah"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19127,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}