Take Your Ritalin Katilunas

Note: This is the post I recovered that was lost last night.

K. over at her blog posted this:

Today, on the 15 minutes I could stand of Meet the Press, we had as our guests...the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Rev. Jim WhatsHisName, the Rev. SoandSo and the Rev. Al Sharpton. What a colleciton of assholes this was. Its a sad panel when Al Sharpton is the voice of reason. In todays world, with literally, world peace hanging in the balance, genocide in Africa, AIDS pandemics, people starving in America, segregation still in Alabama's state constitution, and who do we have on Meet the Press, the Reverand No-Nothing and his posse of do-gooders.

My friend Zorpack, goes on a classic rampage on religion. I won't go that far but I will say this, those Christian moral voters, those judgmental bastards who defy everything that Christ stood for, will turn this country into a theocracy quicker than you can say Amen and we'll all be in for it. How do they not see that they are the same as the Muslim fundamentalists--THEY JUST ARENT AS SUCCESSFUL...well, at least not yet anyway. Our poor founding fathers. These idiots who put 'In God we Trust' on the money in the 50's and 'One nation, under God' in the pledge in the 50's. People, these arguements aren't about America, they are about pushing your religion on the people.

Where do I start with this? First off, I'm reasonably sure they taught you in school about that document they call the Constitution. I'm reasonably sure that at that liberal college you attended they destroyed all intelligent insight into what that great document says and what it stands for. The men who joined together to write it, our "Founding Fathers", decided that yes, in fact the dreaded word God was really not such a bad thing. They founded the country on Judeo-Christian principles. They believed in the separation of church and state but not the full removal of those principles.

Those so-called "judgmental bastards" are allowed to assert their opinions in much the same way that moveon.org and the svelte Mikey Moore are allowed to assert theirs. The major problem is that while Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were justifiably smacked upside the head for the ignorant views they held, Michael Moore was seated next to a former President at the Democratic convention. The whacko right-wingers were relegated to the fringe while the whacko lefties are the mainstream. Look at what happened to Trent Lott over some stupid things he said at a party. It was the Republicans who forced him to the side. Now look at what happens when a Democrat says or does something stupid; nothing, nothing at all. You embrace the most radical in your party and choose not to seek the counsel of your moderates (read Evan Bayh, John Breaux and Joe Lieberman).

As for your other points; let's start with genocide in Africa. The UN has done nothing to alleviate the suffering of these people. Read any of my posts for the last three months and you can see that it has been Bush supporters calling for the intervention of the UN. As for AIDS, George W, Bush has given more money and done more for African suffering than any other US President. Perhaps if people would take a second to realize that AIDS is a preventable disease views may change. Bush has pledged $15-billion dollars to fight this epidemic and has paid half that so far. As for the racism jab, I can only say this; Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Rod Paige, Miguel Estrada, Elaine Chao, Morman Mineta, Alberto Gonzalez...you get the point.

You are being intellectually dishonest by slamming religious people. They believe in a higher power and have the right to do so. Do not compare a Baptist, Methodist, Jew or any other non-Muslim believer to Muslim fundamentalists. While Christians do indeed travel to other lands to "spread the word" they do not do so murdering and killing non-Christians and brand them as infidels. A Judeo-Christian renaissance in this country will not force you to wear a burqa or perform genital mutilation on your pre-teen daughter. To compare the Christian Right to Islam is not only dishonest and unbecoming for a person of your intelligence, it makes you sound like the unhinged idiots over at Democratic Underground or Indymedia.

As for the McDonalds reference, I have no idea how you ended up with that. maybe my cold Republican mind is so filled with hatred against gays, the homeless, women, minorities and the NEA that I don't have enough space to bridge the ideas you laid out.

Note: K. has printed a sort of mea culpa:

ah...don't you love re-reading your angry posts and realizing your anger took over for a second there?but the jist is still the same...the so-called 'moral' voters don't realize that they are turning this country more and more towards a religion-based government. The goverment (sic) has no business commenting on 'sanctity' of anything. McDonalds just being a ridiculous tool to show that anyone can have an opinion on whats damaging...if you believe it, act on it in your own life...but it is not the place of our goverment to legislate it.

Okay, if the government has no right to comment on the sanctity of anything, let's leave abortion to the states. We can all be a true democracy and vote on it. I suspect that it would be overturned rather abruptly.

Update: K. replies.