The "Christian/Patriot" Hate Machine

Are you noticing what I'm noticing?
This Country, is slowly reverting to a civil rights era atmosphere right before our very eyes. Muslim cab drivers being stabbed for being...well...Muslim. A Mosque site in Murfreesboro, TN being set on fire for being...well...a mosque.
We're returning to a complete "us vs. them" mentality, and it's all being done by groups of people who are claiming they're "Restoring Honor". People who are constantly telling us what the Founding Fathers would think if they saw the state of America today.

Part of what they're saying is probably true.
That's something that I'll say, that they won't ever say regarding people who think differently than they do.
No sir, they'll be the ones to yell "Nazi" at the "other side" for a contradictory point of view.
Thing is, I think everyone has some valid points of view...if you really open your mind, and listen.

But, there's also a lot of crazy out there too....afterall, people pay real money to see Lady Gaga in concert!!

Eh, on to serious matters.....
This is a flyer...one of many, that are currently posted all around Ground Zero in New York City.

Picture from Reddit.com

"The answer to the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE is to know the life transforming love of Jesus Christ"

Is that what's happening here? Love?

When I think of love, I think of kindness, compassion, caring, and selflessness.

When I think of Jesus Christ, I think of tales of the same...."turning the other cheek", even to the point of torture and subsequent death.

Is that what's happening here with these so-called "Christians"?

Let's take a moment to examine the hosts of the services promoted on the flyer, Live Prayer.com, shall we?
THIS, is their front page....

Picture from Reddit.com

So, as we can see, Barack Obama is "God's Enemy", AND apparently the worst Photoshopper in the World, would have you believe that he used to go to Titty Bars with Adolf Hitler on Friday nights for the 1/2 price wings and $1.50 Miller Lite drafts.

Silly me, I thought God's only REAL enemy was Satan, all this time!
Oh, and that's another thing while we're here...the whole Adolf Hitler thing is TOTALLY fucked out at this point.
It literally has no impact anymore.
Congratulations, "Patriots", you have likened so many people to Adolf Hitler, that Hitler's name has no punch anymore. I miss the days when you would say "That motherfucker is like Hitler!!!" and people would gasp at your assertion!!
By the way, Christians and Patriots, when you're downplaying the leader of The Third Reich like this, it's REALLY disrespectful to Jews who endured a little thing called THE HOLOCAUST at his hands.
But that wasn't a big deal, was it?
I mean soon, I'll probably be....oh I don't know...selling shirts that say "I Am Just Like Adolf Hitler Too!", to completely finish off ANY semblance of meaning that his name could still be retaining.

Don't worry, I won't even get into how not a single American President has come close to Hitler-esqe levels of anything, because it would be completely lost on you.
Besides, you aren't really interested in learning anything anyway, are you?
I mean, that would take all the fun out of the name calling thing that you like to do....in the name of Christ of course!

Because all of this...all this bullshit, and hatred, and judgement...THAT is what Christ was ALL about, right?

I remember when Christ used to make stone carvings of Pontius Pilate hanging out with Lucifer at Hooters....that guy had MAD skills with Adobe Carvoshop.
The only thing that sucked about him, was when he would get drunk and CONSTANTLY be going off about "fags". Every minute was "Is that guy a fag? My father HATES him! Let's kick his ass!".
It was REALLY annoying.

Huh?
Whadda ya mean, Christ never did or said shit like that?
Well, I don't understand, YOU do, and you tell me it's in the name of Christianity???

Maybe I need to check my definition of Christianity....

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Of Nazareth.

Hmm....just as I was thinking, it's based on Jesus' teachings...sooooo if he didn't condone this kind of behavior, and he never did things like what I claimed, why are you acting this way, if you're living your life as he did??

More importantly, why does the "Ground Zero Mosque" need to be "answered"?
Are you in some sort of street gang battle?
A religious war....like a....*GASP*....Jihad?!?!?!?
That can't be...only crazy Muslims engage in things like that.
Why couldn't you have JUST promoted your hour of worship to those who are interested in...well...an hour of worship?
Because that wouldn't have quite enough hate in it, would it? 


On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh committed, what was until September 11, 2001, the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil, when he detonated a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. He was a former U.S. Army Soldier, an Irish Catholic, and a white man.
He killed 168 people and wounded 450 that day.
Many of the dead were children and babies who were located at a day care on the first floor of the building, right near the detonation.

McVeigh issued this statement regarding the loss of life:

"To these people in Oklahoma who have lost a loved one, I'm sorry but it happens every day. You're not the first mother to lose a kid, or the first grandparent to lose a grandson or a granddaughter. It happens every day, somewhere in the world. I'm not going to go into that courtroom, curl into a fetal ball and cry just because the victims want me to do that."

Where were all the "Patriots" then?

I'll tell you where....they were in Tim McVeigh's jail cell: Population - One.
You see, Tim McVeigh did what he did, in the NAME of Patriotism....in the name of a "True America". He felt that the Government's attack on David Koresh's Branch Davidians in Waco, TX, and the Ruby Ridge standoff between the Government and Randy Weaver, were signs of a Government out of control, so he took matters in his own hands.
He wanted to start a revolution that would send America back down the path of what The Founding Fathers intended....to get things back on course again....a sort of "restoring honor" of his own, if you will.

My point in all of this?
My point is, if you aren't careful, the lines can blur quickly, and you can lose sight of what we were all supposed to be about here in America. That YOUR version of the "True America" may not be someone else's. I know mine isn't the same as ole' Timmy's!

It's not about "who has the bigger religious dick".
It's about letting everyone worship the way they please. Freedom from religious persecution!
And it makes no more sense to forbid a mosque from being built blocks away from Ground Zero, than it would to forbid a Catholic Church from being built blocks from the site of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

In every religion, and in every country, there are fringe assholes that will do some REALLY terrible things in the name of what they believe.

There's nothing "honorable" about becoming one of them.
I hope people start realizing that, because it seems things are quickly heading to a bad place.