I listen to right wing radio on most of my commutes to and from the office each day. I listen to the constant looping of short controversial soundbites from Rev. Jeremiah Wright surrounded by pin-point opinions expressed that it’s their proof that Barack Obama will surely destroy America and the world.
But when it comes to the ridiculous sermons from McCain’s cheerleaders for the end of the world, antisemitism is presented as “biblically correct”, Hitler was only doing god’s work and Hagee is held up as “somebody who obviously loves the Jewish people” as said by a failed weatherman turned self-described “neo-con, theo-con” who likes to use the word “wetback” on his Bay Area conservative talk radio recently.
Though it’s not a stretch to say any of this… the bible has some pretty gnarly language that can be spun to validate whatever insane, violent and murderous theory that anybody can think up. Christians have been doing this for 2000 years, (Crusades anyone?) using the words of the bible to kill, control and defraud the population. Antisemitism is baked into the cake, but that doesn’t make it ok to keep around 2008 years later so you can claim Israel is our strongest ally (in concert with the Conservative world view) and court the Jewish voting block as your base while still condemning their people to the depths of hell. Unless, of course, you’re Hagee and you’re waiting for the world to end.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Americans would finally remember why the our country was founded partly on religious freedom? As our Constitution states in Article VI:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Religious extremism in all forms seems (by a guess) to be on the rise but it’s far from new. When there’s urgent issues and problems to deal with for our future, religion is only part of the problem. So it’s time to re-take religion out of the equation and leave the pastors to preach their garbage in the confines of their holy houses.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Amen brother.