Excuse my while I rant!

So, I'm in my car driving home from school and the radio is on 1010AM, some Christian talk radio show.  Anyways, this dude starts going off about how big of a deal the news and "media" is making about this whole jihad cartoon thing (Some Danish newspaper had a contest to see who could write the best cartoon about jihad, the 'best' 12 were appeared in there newspaper).

So the dude starts with freedom of speech and how great it is, then starts blasting "liberals." (By the way, in my experience, this is the way these "dudes" always start...with something everyone can agree on and then they spring board into something way out in RIGHT feild)  His problem was the Muslim reaction to these cartoons and how "liberals" were sympathizing with them.  He then lept into the "ignorant mindset" of these Muslims who couldn't take a joke. 

The whole segment was kind of scatter shot.  From there he went into how great the Danish people were during WWII because their ruler at the time King Christian, a christian, wore, as an act of solidarity, the yellow star that the Nazis commanded the Jews to wear.  And because of this a fewer percentage of Danish Jews were killed.  Therefore, we, as ultra conservative Christian Westerners who live in the "Greatest country that God ever created" should start puting Danish flags all over every thing as an act of solidarity with them. 

From there he said that the UN should kick everyone out who sympathizes with these Muslims.

WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!

First, the same ignorant, nontolerant mindset that this dude was talking about in Fundamentalist Muslims is the SAME ignorant, nontolerant mindset that is found in Fundamentalist Christians.  They are the same, only call their deity by a different name.

Second, for a Danish ruler to claim solidarity with Jews 70 years ago was a pretty liberal thing to do.  Need I remind you where Fascism lies on the political spectrum?  And futhermore, why is it ok to sympathize with the Jews and not the Muslims?  What makes the Jews more special than the Muslims?  dispensationalism?  The Jews had their Messiah and they crucified him.  I get so sick of Christians automatically siding with Jews.  They will be judged by the same standard as everyone else on Judgment Day.

Finally, Yeah, lets kick all those who sympathize with these Muslims out of the UN, then they can start their own allience and we can have WWIII.

Currently Listening Flyleaf By Flyleaf see related

I will break into your thoughts
With what's written on my heart
I will break, break

I'm so sick, infected with
Where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss, selfishness
I'm so sick
I'm so sick

If you want more of this
We can push out, sell out, die out
So you'll shut up
And stay sleeping
With my screaming in your itching ears

I'm so sick  (of you)

....Parentheses are mine the rest is Flyleaf...I want to dedicate this to the Tea Party

Currently Reading On Bullshit By Harry G. Frankfurt see related

It's New Year's Eve!!!

So take out your flask and spike your punch and raise them in the air and give a toast to how great you and your crew is.

Wait...Nevermind...Forget what I said.  Literally, forget what I said!!!

Currently Listening Evil Empire By Rage Against the Machine see related

So, yesterday I witnessed something rather ironic.  I was sitting upstairs in the student lounge at Truett.  I was reading an internet article about how Pat Robertson pissed off the entire country of Venezuela by openning his big fat mouth the other day, when a girl I knew came in the lounge.  We were exchanging pleasantries, "How you been?"  "Good, how have you been?" You know that sort of thing.  While we were talking she went over to the Dr. Pepper machine and put her dollar in.  Well, I knew something was wrong with it when the bill acceptor started making the sound of those old dot matrix printers.  After about 2 minutes, the sound stopped.  Her dollar was gone and she had no Dr. Pepper.

Well, about 45 minutes later a different girl went to place her dollar in the machine and found my friend's dollar.  Then she said probably the dumbest thing, "Look a dollar.  The Lord does provide."  All I could think about was how if the tables were turned what would her reaction have been then.  What if that type of theology permeated all of life?  What if, worse yet, if that theology already permeated our lives?  Can something be "from God" if it was taken from someone else who is no less righteous that yourself?