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the religious wrong

Bullshit.

Someone posted this article at Debate-It (anonymously). Someone else then agreed with it. I'm fucking outraged about it. Do allow me to enumerate my reasons, if you will.

"For a brief moment, Americans came together against a common enemy. We weren't afraid to call evil by its name or to confront it. We united under G-d."

The hell we did. We united under a common cry for justice, righteousness, and in many many case, vengeance. If you want to believe that the millions of non-Judeo-Christian Americans were not a part of that, fine, but you're deluding yourself.

"America has divided into two factions: those who fight evil and those who do not believe in evil. The dividing line is religion."

Ok, now let me get this straight. There are those who fight what you call "evil". Then there are those who do not believe in evil, who are the counterpart to the first. So those of us who do not believe in evil are therefore not fighting it? Even if we call it by a different name? What arrogance is this? This suggests to me that this person thinks that if you don't believe in it, you're for it, which is utter crap. Even if I'm not prepared to call people or their intentions "evil", I'm not going to allow them impunity. I have a very clear model of right and wrong, thank you very little (wink to Waldon).

The next paragraph is ridiculous. Read it for yourself. You can't "know" the things the author mentions. You can believe it and hold stock in it and all the rest, but "know", you can't.

"They realize that terrorists who smashed airliners into buildings were not provoked by American foreign policy -- the terrorists were seeking death because they were part of a culture that loves death. Deeply religious people knew what America had to do in response: kill those responsible for the terrorism and those who supported them, and prevent the evil from growing."

Whoa. So first of all, America is completely innocent. I know it's "unpatriotic" to think otherwise, but fuck you, I do. Why the U.S.? Why New York? Why the World Trade Center? Why a work day? Seems like the "knowledge" here is something resembling denial.

How deeply religious do you have to be before you are blessed with the blood lust?

"The other faction does not believe in G-d, at least not actively. There is no good, and there is no evil, these people believe." Ah, so I only get to believe something which disagrees with what you know. I understand. And for clarification purposes, what is an inactive belief in god?

"They believe everything is a shade of gray. They think that the terrorists were provoked by American foreign policy in the Middle East." This is a shade of gray? "They think the proper response is appeasement of those who murder Americans." Find me any non-religious person, find me anyone, who thinks that the terrorists should be appeased. "They sully America's moral status in the world by attempting to bribe those who hate us." I don't think our "moral status in the world" is quite what you think it is.

"Right now, it seems those who do not believe in G-d are winning. Our culture celebrates vanity, stupidity and torpidity." By the by, the second sentence does not follow from the first. What our culture, or lack thereof, celebrates, has nothing to do with godlessness "winning" or not.

"Millions watch "The Osbournes" or "The Anna Nicole Smith Show," shows where pathetic wannabe/has-been celebrities mooch for the cameras."

Don't you dare pin Anna Nicole Smith on me, you bigot. I like how the shallow and the vacuous gets blamed on the godless. How does this make any sense? Because we're free to think outside a religious framework, we therefore focus on the inane? No, I'm sorry, I'm betting it would be quite the opposite. I don't watch the Osbournes, and I don't watch the news either; they're both bullshit to me. I'll thank you not to pin your whining about American culture on me.

"Even worse, Americans have been suckered by moral relativism -- the Political Correctness Police dominate our society." If the alternative is moral absolutes, then I'll take the p.c. anytime. Morality is relative. Krishnu forbid this country become one big Judeo-Christian church.

Also, I find it amusing that those who oppose political correctness are the ones who have nothing to gain from it. White straight middle-class Judeo-Christian males, anyone?

"Schools around the country teach students about Islam, promoting it as a "religion of peace" without discussing its more violent adherents." Is it possible to be taught about Christianity without discussing Irish terrorism? Is that the truth about the religion?

"Jerry Falwell said after Sept. 11 that abortionists, feminists, the gays and lesbians who promote homosexuality as a natural lifestyle, the American Civil Liberties Union and all those who try to secularize America (in short, the PC crowd) bear some responsibility for Sept. 11...In the cosmic sense, Falwell was correct. We have tossed G-d from the public schools. We have ignored his morality in favor of subjective man-made values. We cannot expect G-d to maintain his protection of us if we exile him."

That deserves a big fuck you right there. Join me, readers, if it please you: FUCK YOU. To honestly believe that your god withdrew his protection because Americans aspire to treat everyone as equals is nothing short of hatred apologetics (forgive me if I've misrepresented the word). Explaining away discrimination. God forbid, literally, we should accept homosexuals, polytheists, women, and the separation of church and state.

"If those who fight against G-d continue to win, G-d will not defend us. And we will not have the moral courage to defend ourselves." Suddenly the atheists become anti-theists. Paintbrush, what wide strokes you have! Or has it not occurred to you that if you don't believe in god, there is no god to fight? And that my morality is as valid as yours? And that I damn well have the "moral courage" to take you down if you overstep my rights?

Just a few thoughts. Sorry to be angry on a lovely day like today. I'll write some more later on, perhaps.

9:41 a.m. - 2002-09-12

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