Frodology: The Scumbag Cult

Today, I was cruising around one of my favorite websites — Dr. Michael Bisconti’s L.F. Nexus, a vast repository of information on quack psychiatry, the death penalty, home abortion how-to’s, and details about the evilness of the gay agenda — and discovered, prominently displayed in the middle of Header #8 (of 10) a link for “Scumbag Websites”. Always interested in discovering who a Godly gentleman like Dr. Biscotti thinks is a “scumbag” (besides gay people, abortionists, feminists, illegal immigrants, interracial couples, psychiatrists, etc.), I waited for my latest LFNexus-site-induced Grand Mal seizure to subside and clicked on through.

Bisconti explains his Scumbag Websites page:

when it comes to negative commentary, this web page only addresses the websites, not the author(s) of these websites . . . Now, here is the definition of the word “scumbag” from the standard, American dictionary: a dirty or despicable person

Hmm, not a dirty or despicable website, but person. Sounds like Dr. Biscotti IS addressing the authors, eh? And how could he not know that “scumbag” began as slang for a used condom?

Perhaps, while earning his many college degrees, Dr. Biscuits forgot to pick up a Ph.D. (or A.A.S.) in English.

To my surprise, there were only two sites listed. Out of the entire Internet, only two sites!

One, I fully expected: Pharyngula, the atheistic ramblings of ascerbic God-hater PZ Myers. His is merely a “bag candidate”. Not quite a scumbag, but getting there. The second? The far worse (ranked as “Baby Scumbag”) homepage of a little-known cult called “Frodology”.

Their sin?

According to the tragic-looking HTML table on the site (really, Dr. Biscuits, hire someone with taste to do your web design!), the Frodologists “demonstrate ignorance of how college degrees are accredited”.

Um, ok.

I thought it better to condemn the Frodologists for telling bizarre lies — that a silly book of stories written by J.R.R. Tolkien is actually the remnants of an ancient religion in which people worshipped a hairy-footed short person called Frodo, who was a Hobbit.

Yes. They worship a fictional character, who they only know anything about from reading ONE book (broken into three parts), written by a fallible man, with no external references or corroborating historical evidence.

But Dr. Biscotti says they’re scumbags for not knowing how college degrees are accredited.

OK.

Thank you, Dr. Biscotti, for calling our attention to these God-hating monstrosities. We agree that they’re scumbags, but only because they make a mockery of God’s Word through their preaching of feel-good lies!

Perhaps Dr. Bisconti needs to get his priorities in order.

As for the Frodologists? Their current slogan, “Gets Less Funny Everyday!” is certainly apt. Jesus sure ain’t laughing.

Update: Dr. Biscotti has removed all scumbags from his site listing, with the following explanation:

It turns out that we don’t have the time needed to develop and update this page. Part of the problem is that a fair rating of a website is very time-consuming. So, rather than taking a chance on judging one or more previously listed websites too harshly, we’re letting everyone off the hook. We are leaving this page as is (no websites listed) as a reminder that there are websites out there that, in a personal way, range from mildly annoying to infuriating.

Darn. Our stats indicated that we’d made the cut too, if only briefly.

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Jenny Donati is webmistress and co-editor of Secular News Daily. Jenny is an outspoken secularist who believes firmly in the separation of church and state. She demands evidence to support arguments, and holds herself to the same standard. She doesn't write about herself in the third person . . . but there's a first time for everything.

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