"Did you hear what Obama said at the prayer breakfast?" the old man asked. I knew he'd go there and I felt a tinge of pride at being correct in my prediction, but it wasn't a big leap. They've all been on a bitchfest about it on Fox "News" & that's all the old man watches.
Jesus, all the president said was people should get off their "high horse." It's not like he said evangelicals think their shit don't stink. No, I think he made his point in a nice, diplomatic fashion. They're all pissin' about Obama mentioning the Crusades, Inquisition and the strange bedfellow relationship between White Southern Christianity & the KKK.
A man tells the truth and they have a cow - an animal considered sacred in Hinduism, a religion I'm sure the good Christian people hate even though the dumb sons of bitches wouldn't know a Hindu from a Muslim from a Sikh. Henry David Thoreau was a 19th century American who gelled Hinduism with his philosophy and theology as fluidly as a veteran bartender mixing drinks - the Harvard Cocktail, Dirty Girl Scout, Rocky Mountain Bullfucker and the like. But what a flipping snob I am to bring up this latte liberal college stuff. Talk like a real American, dammit.
I'm sorry the big tough conservatives have such thin skins they can't take a little honest talk about the historical sins of Christendom. It's okay to talk about how bad Muslims are because ISIL chops people's heads off - but don't put Christian history to scrutiny. Honestly, I'm sure some Crusader, Indian fighter or slave owner must've at some point, chopped someone's head off. I know they did a lot of cutting. Burning people alive - that was another of their methods of social control.
The president wasn't diminishing the horror of ISIL's terrorism. He wasn't saying Muslim good, Christianity bad. He was just pointing out that all religions have taken evil turns in their history. No religion can point fingers and cast the first stone. Right-wingers apply exceptionalism to their religion as they do their nationalism and Obama was just calling them on their bullshit.
Islamic terrorists are torturing and murdering humanitarians, journalists, Christians and women accused of adultery and trying to get education. In America today, we know right-wing Christians as merely being arrogant, hateful and racist - not murderers, just the philosophical and religious heirs of segregationists and people who committed murder. No, Christian radicals in America are not presently stoning women accused of giving fellatio or burning alive people of darker skin tones.
We just know from history that given the power, they would.
