Again. You are Missing.The.Point.
What part of “freedom and justice for all” don’t people get? Seems like it’s the “for all” part. I’m am so disheartened every day to learn of the increasing narcissism and myopic self-righteousness of so many people in this country!
And NO! I haven’t even SEEN “Sicko!” yet!!!!!
Here is yet another reason why I totally don’t blame anyone for throwing up their hands in disgust at what passes for “Christian” or “Americans” these days.
Seems that yesterday, for the first time in history, a Hindu cleric was invited to give the opening invocation for the Senate. Now, you would think that in a country founded on separation of church and state and freedom of religious expression this might have happened a while ago. But nope. Yesterday. But no. You would be wrong. In fact the first time a non Judeo-Christian cleric gave the invocation was 1993.
And yesterday the man was interrupted by three protesters (not to mention the hordes of people who were encouraged to write/call their senators to stop it before it happened) screaming that the man and his religious views were “an abomination” and pleading with God to “forgive us” for allowing a heathen to offer such a prayer. (They are quoted as shouting “Lord Jesus, forgive us father…” which only shows just how stupid they are. If they’re as Christian as they claim to be you’d think they’d know that Jesus is the second in the Trinity; separate from The Father and the Spirit. But I guess actual theology has no real bearing on what they believe. It’s just another annoyance to the rest of us.)
The group’s press release includes flamingly uneducated statements as “Not one Senator had the backbone to stand as our Founding Fathers stood. They stood on the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Had these imbeciles not been skipping their high school American History classes, they might have learned that this country was founded specifically to avoid exactly the kind of behavior they themselves were exhibiting.
I won’t link directly to their press release but here’s an interesting take on it that quotes it directly. And here’s the AP story and the Reuter’s story.
I would like to humbly beg forgiveness of chaplain Rajad Zed on the part of all Christians everywhere who don’t have their heads buried up their recognize that we are all children of the Divine and for all Americans who remember that freedom of religious expression means everyone.
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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Under promise. Over deliver. 2007
T-9 days 2007
ode to garden fresh tomatoes 2006
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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Under promise. Over deliver. 2007
T-9 days 2007
ode to garden fresh tomatoes 2006
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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Under promise. Over deliver. 2007
T-9 days 2007
ode to garden fresh tomatoes 2006
July 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Not only that, they weren’t even standing where the founding fathers stood.
July 14th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Um. Why does the Senate have an invocation in the first place?
I’m not sure I’m with you on this one, my friend. Don’t get me wrong, the protesters are total whack-a-moles, but I’m surprised at the weight of the commentary… I see this as a fairly cool thing the Senate finally did that was, over course, interrupted by boneheads.
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July 15th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Rich. Good question. Probably because it was common practice 275 years ago and now it’s just tradition.
I’m not at all disturbed that the senate asked a Hindu cleric to give said invocation. As far as I’m concerned, there should be MORE diversity in who is giving the invocation than there is. I mean come on! Only 2 non-Judeo-Christian clerics in the whole history of the thing??? How many non-Judeo-Christian people are there in the US?
What burns me about the whole thing is the out-right cruelty these protesters exhibited and the plain old illogic of their argument.
Oh well.