but wait there's more

Man,

Just saw some of the vids on Hutaree's (the angry Christian Militia) Youtube page and then went to some wackjob named IlluminatiTV's website.

I realize that the angriest, most unhappy people walking the planet today are religious.

But I can't fault the religions as I'm sure neither Jesus, Muhammed nor Moses would have anything to do with any of them.

So where do they get their wackiness from:

FEAR.

They are afraid. of what? EVERYTHING.

So they point at those of us just going about our lives, straight, gay, in-between, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, whatever...and they scream like Donald Sutherland in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Then they appoint themselves judge, jury and on occasion executioner.

As if God actually gave them that authority.

I suppose on some level I feel pity for them, all that hate, all that anger, all that fear burning inside, but mostly I realize that they are here as an example for the rest of us.

An example of what it is like to waste a life or when they act out, many lives.

These people have no idea what it means to have faith, to be human and especially what it means to be a child of God.

They are lost with no hope of finding the way out.

Labels: christian, Christianity, Conservative, religion, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party, televangelists

A long long time since my last blog. Had a small roll going for a little while but then became kinda sick and tired of the whole internet thing. Blogged then stopped. Was on Facebook, now off. But a couple of recent things had me scratching my head so I figured I'd write them down just so I wouldn't forget them.

1) Oral Roberts finally saw that 900 foot Jesus in the sky.

2) I realized that the 300 bucks or so that I sent the Obama campaign was wasted (at least so far)

3) That the real downfall of this society is going to be white "Christian" people who are going to become a far bigger threat ot the existence of the US in the coming years than any terrorists could ever hope to be.

As for Pastor Roberts, he is finally coming to terms with everything he did down here. I imagine him, like Jacob Marley, bound in chains and lock boxes, looking to haunt Joel Osteen and tell him that preaching prosperity is the road to ruin and damnation. Jesus, like Buddha, was a beggar. He depended on others and made due with what he had.

Mister President...shame on you. You really had a chance to turn things around Karma-wise for the good ol' U.S. Instead you let the bankers go into the Fed and walk away with more than they had in the first place. You're letting the Insurance Companies write the "Healthcare" legislation, and now we're gonna be in it knee deep in Afghanistan for a corrupt regime that wouldn't piss on this country if we were on fire. Unless Karzai could piss gas.

Tea Party? Glenn Beck?

Can you say Beer Hall Putsch? The only thing those guys are missing are the brown shirts and taking time out of their marches to beat the crap out of Jews.

These are the people that frighten me. The ones that think it is within their rights to bring assault weapons to rallies. Listen up folks...the book burnings are not far behind, the same for Krystal Nacht, The Fourth Reich and a new form of The Final Solution.

If you think I am going too far with the Nazi stuff, then you haven;t read your history and you haven't paid enough attention to these nut jobs. But you will. They will make you pay attention.

Happy Holidays,

Labels: Born Again, christian, Glenn Beck, Health care, politics, religion, Tea Baggers, Tea Party

Forgive me Father for I have sinned.

It's been over a year since my last blog here. Why a year? Why return now? Maybe I stopped because I felt compelled to write it and I tend not to do my best work when I feel compelled. Maybe I stopped because I didn't want to be just another cog in the machine. Who knows? But I decided to pick this up again because as a Christian, and a pretty damn good one I want the record to show that I am damn afraid that Sarah Palin could actually be a heartbeat away from a very powerful position. That someone with her religious convictions is incredibly dangerous, far more dangerous that any member of Al-Qaeda could ever possibly hope to become. That if she is allowed to be president, every man, woman and child on this planet will be threatened in a way unlike anything since the ascension of Adolph Hitler to the position of Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

I am a rational, educated person. I do not tend to fear anything, not my death, not the death of my friends or my family. But I fear Sarah Palin. I fear what she stands for, and I fear, not what she says, but what she doesn't say. And you should too.

May God really be with us,

RW

Labels: Born Again, Christianity, Election, Fundamentalist, george w. bush, God, Gospel of Mark, Jesus, McCain, Obama, religion, Sarah Palin, televangelists

What is the nature of man?

I use the term “man” here in the generic sense, meaning for the term to stand for both genders. I am a big fan of the writer/physician/philosopher Walker Percy and just purchased my third (or fourth) copy of a collection of his essays, lectures and letters entitled “Signposts in a Strange Land”.

Over time, I have given the copies away to folks whom I knew would appreciate Walker’s style, sense of humor and viewpoint on life, writing and religion and needed to restock my bookshelf with my own copy.

One of the essays in the book is: “Is a Theory of Man Possible?”

Are we simply another organic creature, one of the thousands that inhabit the earth, or does our possession of certain unique properties among them being; language, abstract thinking, complex tool using, art, and the development of culture, give us a distinction from the rest of the world’s creatures?

I pose this question as a result of the event of the last week. Events that include a scientific panel releasing a report that says the earth is dying, and mankind is responsible. Another notable event was the release of President Bush’s military budget that comes in at around 625 billion dollars or roughly a shade under 25% of the total budget of 2.9 trillion dollars.

Can you imagine the good that this nation could do if we channeled 600 billion dollars to other more positive things than funding the manufacture and execution of weapons and weapon systems? It staggers the mind.

What is the nature of man?

My fundamentalist friends would say that man was created in God’s image, guess what folks? I got a phone call from the boss the other day and she said forget it. We were no more created in her image than Oral Roberts, who God said was madder than a hatter if old Oral thought he saw a 600 foot Jesus.

God told me that she rolled the dice, or in this instance the planets, with a little move we humans like to call the Big Bang and then she stepped back to see how long it would take for us to (in her words) “Screw the pooch.”

She also told me that the fate of ourselves, our planet, our healings (spiritual and physical), and the success of our sports teams are all left up to us. So stop asking her, though she did admit to helping the ’69 Mets just a little, the rest was the Cubs folding, hence their need to wander in the baseball desert for a full generation.

She said that we should stop looking everywhere for proof of her existence, she said if you need proof of something look to science, her existence is based on FAITH.

She said for us not to waste our time or money on prayer cloths from TV preachers, that the “Expositor’s Study Bible” is less of a religious text than Christopher Moore’s book “Lamb”, which was much funnier and far less harmful for us to read.

She said her idea of Heaven was Benny Hinn, Jimmy Swagart, Jerry Falwell, Ron Parsley, Pat Robertson, Creflo Dollar and any preacher from TBN in a van with Joel Osteen behind the wheel in a one-car crash over the edge of some steep cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway.

And finally, she said that the most discouraging thing about us is that regardless of how nice this planet is, regardless of how much she has provided for us, her children, regardless of the existence of things like beauty, love, sunrise, sunset, mountains, babies, fried chicken and chocolate chip cookie dough; we (people that is,) still insists that there is someplace better for us when our time is up here on our big blue ball.

That just makes her sad.

Peace,

RW

Labels: earth, global warming, Joel Osteen, religion