Uncle Bubba wipes the grease of his juicy hamburger off of his chin with his shirt sleeve; thankful he is in America where a man can eat what he wants, when he wants, how he wants. His giggling jiggling little friend has just stolen a french fry off of his plate.
Well, our holy rulers are in an uproar again because Senator Frist, whom by the way is a doctor, backs stem cell research. Yep, he broke from the pack of Bush disciples with the dangerous practice of open minded education. The religious cowards that hide behind their re-election banners argue that allowing legalized research of stem cell research for the benefit of now living human beings is legalizing the taking of human life. Listening to their argument, I thought it ironic that this comes from the same group of Americans—and please correct me if I am wrong--that overwhelmingly condone sending our younger generation of potential off to kill and be killed in a war in Afghanistan and another war in Iraq.
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In the days before his crucifixion, when Jesus summed up his message for his disciples, he said the way you could tell the righteous from the damned was by whether they’d "fed the hungry, slaked the thirsty, clothed the naked, welcomed the stranger, and visited the prisoner." I don't see any of this behavior in the so-called "Christian Administration" that Bush represents, or his nationalist/blindly patriotic constituents. It's amazing how people are willing to take a hard-line stance on stem cell research, gay marriage and other mundane topics like rock music and sex in video games when there are people dying in Iraq and folks dying of starvation and poverty right here at home.
This is getting pretty ridiculous if you ask me. It seems like these anti-(stem cell/gay/muslim/science/etc.) people are like "OMG, the Bible says it's wrong so lets get vengeance on the perpetrators!" What ever happened to "turn the other cheek," or "judge not lest ye be judged," or perhaps "let ye who is without sin cast the first stone?" I was just reading an article in Harpers Magazine that explained that "Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.” That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture.
If you ask me, America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.
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