Shame
Randomly looking through blogs today, I came across this. Specifically, the entry regarding protests at the burial of a Gulf War II soldier by fundamentalist Christians. BASTARDS. I'd like to add at this point that I am myself a Christian; my problem is not with Christianity but this particular group of fundamentalist deadheads. Even if they believe that terrorism and the "war on terror" is a judgement from God on the sinful US, how exactly do they justify invading a funeral and telling someones grieving relatives that God killed that person. I wouldn't have done that to Hiltler's family, not at his funeral. Not because I don't believe him to have been evil, but because just because he was is no reason to punish them by invading their grief. So what makes these people feel that they are justified? Just a bunch of messed-up, credulous, dead-headed, homophobic (note the placard saying "God hates fags") idiots. A quote from Shakespeare suggests itself to me here; "Would that thou wert clean enough to spit upon".
I consider myself fortunate that I live in Britain, a country thankfully free of the "Bible Belt" zealots which plague America. Not all such believers are wrong - most of them are perfectly reasonable, sane people, no doubt - but they contain a small vocal minority who cast shame upon all Christians. Anyone so foolish that they allow their own prejudices, hatred and insecurity to infect the teachings that they follow - whatever those teachings may be - and hence twist and pervert those teachings as they hear them to suit their own agenda, is scum of the lowest order. The person who will not only refuse to alter their views but refuses to even listen to the counterarguments is beneath contempt. I believe I do not do those who took part in that protest an injustice when I say that they are no better than the perpetrators of 9/11. Were they in the same conditions as those terrorists, rather than comfortably at home in the richest country in the world, they would doubtless be the people that our countries have been fighting a war to eradicate. May God forgive them, because there won't be many others who will.
I consider myself fortunate that I live in Britain, a country thankfully free of the "Bible Belt" zealots which plague America. Not all such believers are wrong - most of them are perfectly reasonable, sane people, no doubt - but they contain a small vocal minority who cast shame upon all Christians. Anyone so foolish that they allow their own prejudices, hatred and insecurity to infect the teachings that they follow - whatever those teachings may be - and hence twist and pervert those teachings as they hear them to suit their own agenda, is scum of the lowest order. The person who will not only refuse to alter their views but refuses to even listen to the counterarguments is beneath contempt. I believe I do not do those who took part in that protest an injustice when I say that they are no better than the perpetrators of 9/11. Were they in the same conditions as those terrorists, rather than comfortably at home in the richest country in the world, they would doubtless be the people that our countries have been fighting a war to eradicate. May God forgive them, because there won't be many others who will.
posted by Canis Ex Machina at 4:58 pm
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