a moment of levity, sort of...and ultimately, not at all

["Mike Spindloe" <mike_alstublief>]

>One-third of Americans are evangelical Christians, and many of them 
>perceive
>Democrats as often contemptuous of their faith. And, frankly, they're often
>right. Some evangelicals take revenge by smiting Democratic candidates.
>


Years ago I found this little companion book to "Life's Little Instruction 
Book," called "Life's Little Destruction Book." The title was unfortunate in 
some ways but spot on in others, as the book contained such profound wisdom 
as:

"Never hesitate to make fun of someone's religion, especially if it's a 
really stupid one like Christianity."

We (and I include a substantial number of Canadians as well as people in 
different cultures all over the world in this blanket "we") have a society 
in which fairy-tales are the opiate of the masses, statements in our courts 
are sworn on a work of historical fiction, and too many people have given up 
their responsibility to think for themselves for pathetic reliance on 
nonsensical jargon, such as this:



>
>Regarding the religious right, an evangelical friend of mine
>from high school recently sent me a short note via e-mail
>in response to my words to him for my not voting for Bush.
>Here are his words:
>
>"I still fail to see why you hate the United States and our freedom so
>much.   And why you are so willing to betray our country and all that
>it stands for -- It makes little sense."
>
>He signed off with this:
>
>"God and the soldier we adore, In time
>of danger, not before! The danger
>passed, and all things righted, God is
>forgotten and the soldier slighted."
>


The author of this cannot or does not yet understand that freedom is not a 
right granted by any God or any politicians, but is earned through 
responsible action, tolerance and compassion and indeed must be defined and 
defended against those who would limit it arbitrarily for their own 
purposes.

How is it that leaders throughout the world so often epitomize the 
antithesis of these ideals? Are we truly to be doomed by the blood-lust of 
power?

The men who now lead your country are the most dangerous in the history of 
the planet, not because they are any different psychologically from the 
deluded, deranged pathological tyrants who came before them, but because 
they control devastatingly powerful military technology and have repeatedly 
demonstrated that they are insane enough to use it for whatever measure of 
aggressiveness can vaguely be defined as "defence." How long before they 
drop even that pretext?

And what God decided they were fit to decide who is fit to possess "weapons 
of mass destruction?"

It will be an uphill battle to stop them, but it must be done.

Whew. How, I wish I knew.

Mike

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