- Ignorance Ain't Bliss for the Rest of Us RN by John Cullison
19 y
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Blog: John's Blog
You know, George W. Bush was never genuinely elected to the White House, but he had a lot of support from evangelical Protestants and other Christian groups which helped get him there.
In fact, he still has their support. According to a survey I read last week, 52% of those who identify themselves as fundamentalist Christians still believe that George W. Bush is doing a good job.
No amount of evil performed by the man or his administration is about to sway them, it seems.
At least some of them are coming to realize that the man "isn't doing a good job". That's a euphemism for "destroying the country", but realizing that they helped put him there, fundamentalist Christians aren't too keen on accepting responsibility for their part in this mess.
That's the understatement of the year, by the way.
But even though the dam has cracked a bit, and the realization that George W. Bush is less than he claims (to put it mildly) is beginning to dawn on some of these folks, will they ever take the next step and actually learn from it?
Please, God, please...
The first point I want to make, and rub in the faces of fundamentalist Christians everywhere, is simply this: your own poor judgment led you to support a man who supports, endorses, and allows the torture of children.
When we Americans were screaming about how evil this man was, when we still had a chance to do something about it to prevent it, these people failed to take it upon themselves to police one of their "own", such as he is, and solely because he supported their hatred of gays, or their hatred of women's rights, or whatever other hatred it is that was in vogue at the time.
When we pointed out his lies, they ignored us, because he was "doing God's work", the entirety of which consisted of seeing how far he could push the envelope of turning America into his own personal little dictatorship by squelching the rights of human beings.
And 52% of them still turn a blind eye to the atrocities of this man and his administration.
Are they not their brother's keeper?
The second point I want to make is that the big problem here isn't with their support of George W. Bush, which is wrong for so many reasons by itself, but simply that the same faulty judgment they used to support George W. Bush colors virtually every aspect of their lives, including their faith, and those decisions are just as faulty.
Pretty hefty charge, isn't it? The fact that these folks support George W. Bush does not simply call into question their judgment, but the integrity of their religion, too.
I don't have the threat of God behind me to use to rattle their chains and make them actually think. I am just an individual man who has HAD IT with the destruction of a once great nation and some really great ideas and ideals at the hands of those who think they have the right to dictate to the rest of us, to slay thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and falsely declare such in the name of freedom, and to TORTURE CHILDREN BASED ON A PACK OF LIES -- to name just three transgressions against America and humanity.
The hypothetical examples of why torture is acceptable never actually takes into account the simple fact that NONE OF THE VICTIMS OF TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF THE UNITED STATES has produced a single bit of useful evidence. Which weapons of mass destruction could a prisoner confess to, when we know for a fact that NO SUCH WEAPONS EXISTED, and WE KNEW THIS FOR A FACT BEFORE THE TORTURE BEGAN?!?
Was there some other reason for torturing these children? What possible reason is there for raping fifteen-year-old boys? All their hatred of homosexuality doesn't seem to apply when it's Our Boys doing it to Their Boys, does it?
Which of them has the social conscience to declare that enough is enough and it's time to expel the hypocrisy from among their ranks? And which of them has the insight to realize that not all is right in Christiandom if it continues to deem men like George W. Bush worthy of a position of leadership? Anyone?
I doubt it. After all, Christians believe that eternal torture is what Jesus has waiting for a large number of us (and I stand proudly in this group). What's a little extra physical torture in the here-and-now, eh? Especially for the children... Jesus loved the little children... And tortured them... ?!? And that's what they worship?
I'm done playing Mr. Nice Guy to the hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed chosen while they commit or support atrocity after atrocity in the name of anything that ever meant anything.
Especially Jesus.
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- Well Said , John ! But you know they won't listen by Wrenn
19 y
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They have no ears to hear with.
They have no true compassion within themselves.
They have no knowledge of real love.
It is all just a facade they *play as a charade.
to hide the true nature of their own inner characters.
I can say this, in truth,
because if it really were different,
they would be spearheading a mass onslaught
to get this murdererous genoxide- driven dictator out asap.
but apparently this is not the case
*until the rooster comes to their town* ,
but then it will be too late.
Love to you, John ,
at least you have stood up and spoken.
They will have no one to blame but themselves...
in the long run ..
and the blood of many:
lies on their doorsteps as well...
for the follower, (the supporter),
is just as responsible
as the man they put it that position .
If it were *their kids*
they 'd be appalled...
someday it will be.
Or their grandkids, maybe.
A good pitcher of ice water in their faces,
can 't even wake them up yet,
they so love the *drama* and patriotism
in warfare ..
It is the very foundation of a religion
that spews so called love,
while yet self-righteously wishing hellfire on other
humans who simply dare to disagree with them.
The *good ole boys* mentality carries on ...
So Sad.
Ami Joi Benton
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Wrenn
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- Re: Well Said , John ! But you know they won't listen by John Cullison
19 y
2,185
That's really what I don't get.
I'm not just standing up for Iraqis.
I'm standing up for them, too.
But not at the expense of the Iraqis. Or the Iranians. Or the Islamic. Or the gays. Or any other group, for that matter.
More on this in my next blog entry.
Thanks!
=-John-=
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John Cullison
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- Re: Well Said , John ! But you know they won't listen by popoe
16 y
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Wrennny
When we speak thus our word creates our idea
In other words to speak the truth of now
in such a manner will
continue to make it true
If we create from the future the actual future
then the change is manifested on the astral
which it is
the wall (Berlin) was gone
1 year to the day it fell
on earth on the astral
Let us not
continue to create what is
If we do not like it
Let us come from the future
where the change is already wrought
Does that make any sense?
In the beginning was the Word
adn the Word was creation
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popoe
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- I share your outrage, John by daizy4
19 y
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It's all outrageous and the clearest examples of hypocrisy and evil....
There is nothing this man can do that will open their eyes. Jesus spoke of spiritual blindness, didn't he?
Personally, I am in a place of rage and frustration. I need to do something!!!!!! We need to get him outta there!
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- Re: I share your outrage, John R by John Cullison
19 y
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And the only way to get him out of there is...
Keep putting the truth in people's faces until enough of us demand change.
I don't know what else I can do.
The problem is more fundamental than George W. Bush. He's just the figurehead and puppet-gone-mad.
Why does it have to get to Holocaust proportions before anyone will recognize what's happening? How many Iraqis have to die before it becomes another Holocaust? Between the war and years of sanctions, we have estimates as high as 1.3 million, the majority of them Iraqi children.
On the one hand, I'm supposed to buy into the guilt trip they lay in infomercials about third world children in Christian countries, how I should care about these otherwise unknown children and send in my fifty-nine cents per day or what have you to save a child's life (and believe it or not, once upon a time, I was doing this!), while on the other hand, the same collective group couldn't care less about the children in the non-Christian countries.
Hypocrisy? What would Jesus think?
Matthew Chapter 5
43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?
47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so?
I don't get it. Are these words too vague and non-specific for Christians to understand? Do they ignore this brilliant bit of wisdom because there aren't any "publicans" around any more? [But there are! See IRS.] And, of course, the irony of being "Re-PUBLICANS" totally escapes them, I know. "Publicans again". nyuk nyuk nyuk
We could have Heaven on Earth, and yet they sit around and wait for Jesus to return, slay the rest of us, and hand the Earth over to them with Him as their King. In the meantime, Earth is Hell for far too large a portion of the population, and they don't merely do nothing about it, they actively contribute to its being that way.
And Jesus is going to reward them for it?!? ARGH!
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