WileyCoyote
09-13-2006, 10:35 PM
Rosie O'Donnell appeared on the (to borrow a word from O'Reilly) dopey, The View show and said that radical Christians are just as dangerous as radical Muslims. Now many people think that political correctness is exclusively a Liberal thang. But no, liberals and conservatives tend to agree that Christianity is sacred and shall not be compared to evil Islam.
So, I'm thinking, yeah, radical Christians may be just as nasty as radical Muslims, given the opportunity, when it hits me, Duh, they did have the opportunity several centuries ago and guess what they did? Pretty much the same thing that fundamentalist Islam is trying to do right now. And far right Christians are trying to do it now in this country, turn it into a theocracy. And if they succeed, they won't stop with prayer in school (Christian, of course), banning abortion, etc. No, that's when the nasty bits of the Bible come out, all the smiting of thine enemy, stoning (not in the fun way) prostitutes, etc.
So O'Reilly is all upset about this, of course. And he has Democratic strategist, Laura Schwartz on the show. And guess what? Schwartz is also upset, 'cuz Christian political correctness is non-partisan. Every president from any party we've ever had claimed to be Christian, yeah, even the hedonist Clinton. Is it possible to be elected president without the Christian card? Lots of luck, Joe Lieberman.
OK, so O'Reilly is not the only brain-dead, superstitious, cowardly moron on the show. Schwartz is upset that O'Donnell will make the Dems look bad. Actually, I don't like Rosie that much, but I just gained some respect for her. Schwartz seems to think that the rank-and-file Dems should just keep their mouths shut. Why? It is the DEMOCRATIC party, isn't it? Or are the peons supposed to defer to the party royalty, which would be Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, et al? Here I was thinking that it was the Republicans that were the elitists.
Seems each party is allowed to stray a certain distance from the Middle. Anything else is Far Right or Far Left and therefore evil, dangerous, stupid, etc. But I would guess that the Founding Fathers were considered very radical in their time. Good think some people have the courage to step outside of the box.
I shouldn't have to do this, but: Lots of Christians are good, kind, responsible people who are inspired by the wonderful qualities attributed to Jesus. This is not meant to denigrate them in any way. That's why I use "radical" to qualify the fascists.
So, I'm thinking, yeah, radical Christians may be just as nasty as radical Muslims, given the opportunity, when it hits me, Duh, they did have the opportunity several centuries ago and guess what they did? Pretty much the same thing that fundamentalist Islam is trying to do right now. And far right Christians are trying to do it now in this country, turn it into a theocracy. And if they succeed, they won't stop with prayer in school (Christian, of course), banning abortion, etc. No, that's when the nasty bits of the Bible come out, all the smiting of thine enemy, stoning (not in the fun way) prostitutes, etc.
So O'Reilly is all upset about this, of course. And he has Democratic strategist, Laura Schwartz on the show. And guess what? Schwartz is also upset, 'cuz Christian political correctness is non-partisan. Every president from any party we've ever had claimed to be Christian, yeah, even the hedonist Clinton. Is it possible to be elected president without the Christian card? Lots of luck, Joe Lieberman.
OK, so O'Reilly is not the only brain-dead, superstitious, cowardly moron on the show. Schwartz is upset that O'Donnell will make the Dems look bad. Actually, I don't like Rosie that much, but I just gained some respect for her. Schwartz seems to think that the rank-and-file Dems should just keep their mouths shut. Why? It is the DEMOCRATIC party, isn't it? Or are the peons supposed to defer to the party royalty, which would be Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, et al? Here I was thinking that it was the Republicans that were the elitists.
Seems each party is allowed to stray a certain distance from the Middle. Anything else is Far Right or Far Left and therefore evil, dangerous, stupid, etc. But I would guess that the Founding Fathers were considered very radical in their time. Good think some people have the courage to step outside of the box.
I shouldn't have to do this, but: Lots of Christians are good, kind, responsible people who are inspired by the wonderful qualities attributed to Jesus. This is not meant to denigrate them in any way. That's why I use "radical" to qualify the fascists.