The Christian Taliban
Apr. 9th, 2004 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbear(Warning - What follows is a personal opinion of mine which most likely will offend those more devout Christians among my friends list and other readers. However, if anyone in my list seriously believes that which is detailed in the following article is good for this country and good for me as well, then you best 'defriend' me now.)
I had come to view this current administration as the worst thing to happen to this country since 9/11 itself, and I have been following a lot of what this self-righteous lame excuse of an administration has been doing to totally fuck up the U.S. from the inside out. But reading it all so well-summarized in an AlterNet article (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joedecker)really pissed me off tonight. I'm seeing red.
Progress in health and reproductive safety and research that has taken decades to reach current levels is being wiped out not unlike thousand year-old monuments dynamited by Taliban extremists in Afghanistan. Worthless religious dogma and empty ideas are replacing sound scientific practice. History is being rewritten or quietly 'lost'. Stuffing people's heads full of Jesus has become a government sponsored cure-all for whatever problems one might have. Separation of church and state? Not in THIS administration!
Some people need to wake up and smell the fucking anthrax.
You cannot tell me that what is going on over in Iraq is anything less than a holy war with oil as a nice big bonus. It did not take long for some missionaries to start their meddlesome ways over there before they got blown away. Too bad, so sad, kthxbye. Now you can be martyrs. It's the ultimate compliment.
I am sick to death of the persecution complex being foisted upon the public as a whole by far-right crazies and their twisted beliefs. It's gone too far and then some. Their belief system has brought persecution to the forefront as another form of "either you are with us or against us". Not "pro-Christian"? Well, by GOD you must be AGAINST it and for all it stands for. Fuck you. I leave you to your beliefs and respect them up until the point you try to directly or indirectly affect me with them. Then it's time for the gloves to come off. Persecuted? You don't know what it's like. And no, it's not detailed in the almost pornographic bloodfest currently raking in tons of money in the theaters. That's fantasy. That's a guilt trip. That SHOULD be a lesson to not let certain things happen, but it's not taken that way. For the far right wingnut, it's something that happened personally, to them, and those not on their side must suffer. Persecution is their divine sign that they are right and everyone else is wrong. The belief system revolves around it. Without constant signs of real (rare) and/or imagined (mostly) persecution, it would invalidate the foundations of the system.
We constantly hear about 'radical Muslims' being at the root of our current war on terrorism, etc. No one ever mentions the idea of 'radical Christianity' and it's place in this conflict. Think of it this way. Not always does a conflict erupt between extreme opposites. In many cases, it's because the two conflicting parties are too much the same. Opposites at first glance, but often at the core very similar, if not on the same page. Both parties have the same ideals, but are of a different color, polarization, angle, whatever. Factor religion into the arguement, and you can toss all logic out the window. Religion abhors logic and reason. It's faith, after all. Don't question it, because you will no longer be on their side, you will be against them.
The current environment of broad revisions made on ill-defined moral grounds are doing extreme, almost irreparable damage to our society. Religion needs to stay out of government for obvious reasons. America was not founded as a Christian nation. 'In God We Trust' was not on our currency from the beginning, and 'under God' was not a part of the Pledge from the start either. These were added in the mid 1950s after constant urgings by bishops and other religious figures as a swipe at so-called 'Godless Communism'. Any wonder why so many of the far-right look back so longingly at the '50s and wish a return to those ideals? White man in power, women home in the kitchen, McCarthy and his crusades, lots of defense spending. Gun in the holster, God by your side. You know the drill.
I hope that sane people finally wake up and do the right thing and remove these people from power and work to changes things back and for the better. If not, then America will be much like Israel and similar nations where terrorist attacks are almost a daily occurance. The news will be filled with blown up buses, bombed shopping malls and clubs, etc. Extreme government provoking extreme retaliation. From those who are so different. And so much the same.
I had come to view this current administration as the worst thing to happen to this country since 9/11 itself, and I have been following a lot of what this self-righteous lame excuse of an administration has been doing to totally fuck up the U.S. from the inside out. But reading it all so well-summarized in an AlterNet article (thanks
joedecker)really pissed me off tonight. I'm seeing red.Progress in health and reproductive safety and research that has taken decades to reach current levels is being wiped out not unlike thousand year-old monuments dynamited by Taliban extremists in Afghanistan. Worthless religious dogma and empty ideas are replacing sound scientific practice. History is being rewritten or quietly 'lost'. Stuffing people's heads full of Jesus has become a government sponsored cure-all for whatever problems one might have. Separation of church and state? Not in THIS administration!
Some people need to wake up and smell the fucking anthrax.
You cannot tell me that what is going on over in Iraq is anything less than a holy war with oil as a nice big bonus. It did not take long for some missionaries to start their meddlesome ways over there before they got blown away. Too bad, so sad, kthxbye. Now you can be martyrs. It's the ultimate compliment.
I am sick to death of the persecution complex being foisted upon the public as a whole by far-right crazies and their twisted beliefs. It's gone too far and then some. Their belief system has brought persecution to the forefront as another form of "either you are with us or against us". Not "pro-Christian"? Well, by GOD you must be AGAINST it and for all it stands for. Fuck you. I leave you to your beliefs and respect them up until the point you try to directly or indirectly affect me with them. Then it's time for the gloves to come off. Persecuted? You don't know what it's like. And no, it's not detailed in the almost pornographic bloodfest currently raking in tons of money in the theaters. That's fantasy. That's a guilt trip. That SHOULD be a lesson to not let certain things happen, but it's not taken that way. For the far right wingnut, it's something that happened personally, to them, and those not on their side must suffer. Persecution is their divine sign that they are right and everyone else is wrong. The belief system revolves around it. Without constant signs of real (rare) and/or imagined (mostly) persecution, it would invalidate the foundations of the system.
We constantly hear about 'radical Muslims' being at the root of our current war on terrorism, etc. No one ever mentions the idea of 'radical Christianity' and it's place in this conflict. Think of it this way. Not always does a conflict erupt between extreme opposites. In many cases, it's because the two conflicting parties are too much the same. Opposites at first glance, but often at the core very similar, if not on the same page. Both parties have the same ideals, but are of a different color, polarization, angle, whatever. Factor religion into the arguement, and you can toss all logic out the window. Religion abhors logic and reason. It's faith, after all. Don't question it, because you will no longer be on their side, you will be against them.
The current environment of broad revisions made on ill-defined moral grounds are doing extreme, almost irreparable damage to our society. Religion needs to stay out of government for obvious reasons. America was not founded as a Christian nation. 'In God We Trust' was not on our currency from the beginning, and 'under God' was not a part of the Pledge from the start either. These were added in the mid 1950s after constant urgings by bishops and other religious figures as a swipe at so-called 'Godless Communism'. Any wonder why so many of the far-right look back so longingly at the '50s and wish a return to those ideals? White man in power, women home in the kitchen, McCarthy and his crusades, lots of defense spending. Gun in the holster, God by your side. You know the drill.
I hope that sane people finally wake up and do the right thing and remove these people from power and work to changes things back and for the better. If not, then America will be much like Israel and similar nations where terrorist attacks are almost a daily occurance. The news will be filled with blown up buses, bombed shopping malls and clubs, etc. Extreme government provoking extreme retaliation. From those who are so different. And so much the same.
