Carrying My Ashes to the Mountain (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} benkilpatrick) wrote,@ 2008-12-25 01:02:00 |
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I read a letter to the editor recently which referred, not directly, to this country as a Christian nation.
That is an assertion which is, to say the least ... quite interesting.
I read some statistics awhile back, about the percentage of teenage pregnancies that are aborted per country. In this "Christian nation" of ours, it was something like 50%, while in the Netherlands (where they are paid for by the state!), it was around 15%.
Or perhaps this is a "Christian nation" because of the cops who electrocute people with tasers, or simply skip the formalities and gun them down execution-style, without any punishment?
Or perhaps it's because of all of the child-molesting, wife-beating snakes who get up and sing with the rest of the congregation? (I've known of more than a few.)
Or perhaps it's a "Christian nation" because of the half a million dead in Iraq, the other half a million starved or dead from cholera in the 90s (which was, after all, "worth it",) and the who-knows-how-many who die nightly in the fevered dreams of wolves in sheep's clothing who worship power, death and violence?
Nietzsche said it was not their love for man, but their impotence, that stopped them from burning people.
And now that they've cast off the impotence and openly advocate wreathing half of the world - Iran, China, Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia - in a cloud of fire and blood, what should we do? Simply turn our heads and refuse comment?
I think not!
That is an assertion which is, to say the least ... quite interesting.
I read some statistics awhile back, about the percentage of teenage pregnancies that are aborted per country. In this "Christian nation" of ours, it was something like 50%, while in the Netherlands (where they are paid for by the state!), it was around 15%.
Or perhaps this is a "Christian nation" because of the cops who electrocute people with tasers, or simply skip the formalities and gun them down execution-style, without any punishment?
Or perhaps it's because of all of the child-molesting, wife-beating snakes who get up and sing with the rest of the congregation? (I've known of more than a few.)
Or perhaps it's a "Christian nation" because of the half a million dead in Iraq, the other half a million starved or dead from cholera in the 90s (which was, after all, "worth it",) and the who-knows-how-many who die nightly in the fevered dreams of wolves in sheep's clothing who worship power, death and violence?
Nietzsche said it was not their love for man, but their impotence, that stopped them from burning people.
And now that they've cast off the impotence and openly advocate wreathing half of the world - Iran, China, Syria, North Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia - in a cloud of fire and blood, what should we do? Simply turn our heads and refuse comment?
I think not!
