Axes for Mohammed - Coat-hangers for Christ
OK, Folks!!!
The Uke juices are surging and I’m about to burst. I can hardly stand it.
Over in Afghanistan some deranged man who had once been a Muslim with a mental problem and later become a Christian with a mental problem, is liable to be beheaded for being stupid in a politically incorrect way.
How terrible, people being killed because of backward, superstitious religious crap – nothing new, but still terrible!! And, of course, all the politicians are screaming bloody-murder over the sanctity of life and the stupidity of fundamentalist Neanderthals!!
Well, no. Not really.
Actually, they are screaming about “religious freedom” and “democracy.” Our President (who talks to God and, therefore, should know) says, "It is deeply troubling that a country we helped liberate would hold a person to account because they chose a particular religion over another."
Well, the Afghanis want to execute this man in compliance with THEIR view of religion. Wouldn’t keeping them from beheading the fellow restrict THEIR religious freedom? And, at least in Afghanistan, isn’t their God bigger than “our” God?
Similarly, the democratically determined Afghani constitution supports beheading the stupid guy. Hey! Democracy is on the march!!
If anyone REALLY gives a damn about the man’s life, he should be telling him how stupid Christianity and Islam both are, and that he should 1. “reconvert” to Islam 2. leave that religious-mad country at his first opportunity, and 3. join an atheist support group wherever he ends up.
You won’t, however, hear anything like that from any of the nut-cases presently lamenting the situation. It would never dawn on them because they don’t give a damn about this man, about his life, or even “religious freedom.” Most of the politicians, if the truth were known, don’t give a damn about religion either – Christian or otherwise. It’s all about manipulation and personal advancement to them.
“Religious freedom” in our own religion-mad country means “freedom for the nut-case fundamentalists to impose THEIR view of religion on everyone else here"; and they argue that this “freedom” is “democratically” determined since – as they claim – “America is a Christian country.”
Yeah. These clowns support the “universal principle of freedom," the freedom to deny women the freedom to have an abortion, or even to use contraceptives. And, like their Afghani twins support a religiously-based death sentence; i.e. even if an abortion would save the mother’s life, the mother must die. Like the Ayatollah would say, “It’s God’s will.”
Now, that’s stupid if you ask me; but it’s just good old religious freedom and democracy if you ask them.
It seems to me that the Christian zealots are actually even more deranged than the Muslim crackpots. In Afghanistan, the accused lived his whole life knowing the insane “no-switching” rule but chose to break it (outside Afghanistan); he chose to return to Afghanistan, to announce his “affront” to Allah, and to claim no regrets. He was looking for trouble.
But the American Taliban in this “Christian” country is even worse. They would deny emergency contraception to an innocent woman who is gang-raped. They would force her to bear and raise the progeny of that violence, and if the all-knowing, all-loving, compassionate Christian God of theirs should decide that the precious pregnancy he helped create will, in the process, kill the rape victim - tough shit.
Well, to paraphrase the boy-President: It is deeply troubling that a country which claims to cherish religious freedom would hold a person to account because of a narrow, sectarian interpretation imposed on everyone else by the "religion" of a minority of fundamentalist zealots.
It is even more disturbing that a country which claims to be “the Greatest Nation in the World” would become more agitated over the personal freedom of one mentally confused man in Afghanistan than over the health and personal freedom of millions of women right here at home.
This has nothing to do with the sanctity of life, nothing to do with religious freedom, nothing to do with democracy, nothing to do with God. It is all about establishing an intellectual pogram in preparation for a theocracy - one not that much different from the one in Afghanistan - just bigger.
- Uke Man
The Uke juices are surging and I’m about to burst. I can hardly stand it.
Over in Afghanistan some deranged man who had once been a Muslim with a mental problem and later become a Christian with a mental problem, is liable to be beheaded for being stupid in a politically incorrect way.
How terrible, people being killed because of backward, superstitious religious crap – nothing new, but still terrible!! And, of course, all the politicians are screaming bloody-murder over the sanctity of life and the stupidity of fundamentalist Neanderthals!!
Well, no. Not really.
Actually, they are screaming about “religious freedom” and “democracy.” Our President (who talks to God and, therefore, should know) says, "It is deeply troubling that a country we helped liberate would hold a person to account because they chose a particular religion over another."
Well, the Afghanis want to execute this man in compliance with THEIR view of religion. Wouldn’t keeping them from beheading the fellow restrict THEIR religious freedom? And, at least in Afghanistan, isn’t their God bigger than “our” God?
Similarly, the democratically determined Afghani constitution supports beheading the stupid guy. Hey! Democracy is on the march!!
If anyone REALLY gives a damn about the man’s life, he should be telling him how stupid Christianity and Islam both are, and that he should 1. “reconvert” to Islam 2. leave that religious-mad country at his first opportunity, and 3. join an atheist support group wherever he ends up.
You won’t, however, hear anything like that from any of the nut-cases presently lamenting the situation. It would never dawn on them because they don’t give a damn about this man, about his life, or even “religious freedom.” Most of the politicians, if the truth were known, don’t give a damn about religion either – Christian or otherwise. It’s all about manipulation and personal advancement to them.
“Religious freedom” in our own religion-mad country means “freedom for the nut-case fundamentalists to impose THEIR view of religion on everyone else here"; and they argue that this “freedom” is “democratically” determined since – as they claim – “America is a Christian country.”
Yeah. These clowns support the “universal principle of freedom," the freedom to deny women the freedom to have an abortion, or even to use contraceptives. And, like their Afghani twins support a religiously-based death sentence; i.e. even if an abortion would save the mother’s life, the mother must die. Like the Ayatollah would say, “It’s God’s will.”
Now, that’s stupid if you ask me; but it’s just good old religious freedom and democracy if you ask them.
It seems to me that the Christian zealots are actually even more deranged than the Muslim crackpots. In Afghanistan, the accused lived his whole life knowing the insane “no-switching” rule but chose to break it (outside Afghanistan); he chose to return to Afghanistan, to announce his “affront” to Allah, and to claim no regrets. He was looking for trouble.
But the American Taliban in this “Christian” country is even worse. They would deny emergency contraception to an innocent woman who is gang-raped. They would force her to bear and raise the progeny of that violence, and if the all-knowing, all-loving, compassionate Christian God of theirs should decide that the precious pregnancy he helped create will, in the process, kill the rape victim - tough shit.
Well, to paraphrase the boy-President: It is deeply troubling that a country which claims to cherish religious freedom would hold a person to account because of a narrow, sectarian interpretation imposed on everyone else by the "religion" of a minority of fundamentalist zealots.
It is even more disturbing that a country which claims to be “the Greatest Nation in the World” would become more agitated over the personal freedom of one mentally confused man in Afghanistan than over the health and personal freedom of millions of women right here at home.
This has nothing to do with the sanctity of life, nothing to do with religious freedom, nothing to do with democracy, nothing to do with God. It is all about establishing an intellectual pogram in preparation for a theocracy - one not that much different from the one in Afghanistan - just bigger.
- Uke Man
2 Comments:
Right on Tom - all that heat from only four short strings, eh? And I get frustrated by a lack of heat from the six I use!
The same folks who agree with hanging or beheading that poor bastard for converting to being a Christian probably agree with the clubbing of seal pups in Canada for their fur coats and in testing cosmetics on animals so people don't get sick.
See - while our nation may have been built on freedom of relegion (or lack of relegion)that's not the way we've been living. Since the "red scare" (what were they afraid of?) the "west" has assumed that athiests are communists (maybe they're right - hell - I don't know - but I suppose I do fit both categories!) so "God fearing" people are the "real Americans" (after all, there are no athiests in foxholes, right?) -
So now we're in a chest-beating match between Christians and Islam (rather curious, but the Jews have been left out of this argument) about who's GOD is BETTEr - well - I've read the Bible and the Quoran and far as I can tell - be you Christian, Jew or Islamic, you're praying to the same God - it's just the PROPHET's name that changes -so - really - they're all the same relegion.
Therefore - now follow me on this - when you kill a Jew as a follower of Islam you're killing your brother. Now, to extend this, when you kill an athiest you're STILL killing your brother SINCE we're all children of a forgiving God - SO - you can't justify ANY killing through the application of relegion SO by extension they're all lying bastards when they talk about killing for their faith -
What it comes down to is they're killing for natural resources and using God as a convenient excuse.
Wow - that was fun - I feel like I just gave birth (which, being a guy, would be a unique experience - but that's for another blog!)
Peace
Steve
So - The Presidential Shrub talks to god - maybe the Judy Blume book was really 'are you there god, it's me George?' - OR this Margaret character is his nightime personna when he and Hastert & The Boys are out on the town -
Ain't the world sad? - heard a story on NPR Tuesday am about a real estate agent in Iraq - he had to ask those he was showing properties to what sect they were so he didn't sell a Shite a place in the SunniBurbs and vice versa - otherwise it would have been death to the new buyers AND the agent -
What a religion can to do a soul is pretty damm sad - as I posted somewhere yesterday, I'm glad I gave up catholocism for lent many MANY years ago -
Free at last...free at last...thank dog I'm free at last!
Boy, would I sure love some peace - but with those at the helm of the good ship Earth, I'm afraid we are doomed -
Phyll
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