What I hate most about this is how it fuels the anti Christian rhetoric
In America, being a "Christian" who makes the rest of the world hate Christianity is a cottage industry. Phelps, Falwell, Robertson, Dobson... they're all modern Pharisees. And then they've got folks like O'Reilly pumping his "War on Christmas" because of course, true religion is found in how they greet you at Target when you go to worship the almighty dollar, not in church.
It's particularly bad right now because of the conflation of religion and politics. Our government has fallen to the control of dominionist pharisees and the rest of us were so terrified by 9/11 that we handed everything over to them.
The best grim hope I have is that the pendulum always swings - and that our gov't has built in a peaceful uprising every 2 years and a relatively peaceful revolution every 4...
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Date: 2005-12-14 01:21 am (UTC)In America, being a "Christian" who makes the rest of the world hate Christianity is a cottage industry. Phelps, Falwell, Robertson, Dobson... they're all modern Pharisees. And then they've got folks like O'Reilly pumping his "War on Christmas" because of course, true religion is found in how they greet you at Target when you go to worship the almighty dollar, not in church.
It's particularly bad right now because of the conflation of religion and politics. Our government has fallen to the control of dominionist pharisees and the rest of us were so terrified by 9/11 that we handed everything over to them.
The best grim hope I have is that the pendulum always swings - and that our gov't has built in a peaceful uprising every 2 years and a relatively peaceful revolution every 4...