Thursday, September 21, 2006
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SULFUR
I have to admit that I was amused to see that Chavez used the 'devil' line yesterday at the UN. He did not name bush. He only said that the devil was at the same podium the day before and that he could still smell the sulfur.
Come on. If you had been in the audience you would have chuckled too.
Today, Pelosi repudiates Chavez for what he said and did and calls him a thug and a pretender to the mantle of Simon Bolivar.
Well, she has to do that. To do otherwise would give some strength to bush politically.
But, as I understand it, the 'devil' is understood to come in many guises to those who believe in him.
The christists talk about him all the time and have no problem assigning him to all manner of people and activities. For example, present company, me—a homo-commie symp-traitor.
In the reading that I have done about the devil, he actually seems to disguise himself; to come in sheep's clothing. He wants to deceive as well as destroy.
An example of what I mean. If you were going to hide and do your evil thing, what better cover than to wrap yourself in the American flag? You would hide out in the 'enemy's' camp; find someone who has people believing that he is in contact with god himself. A 'good' christian—as opposed to the bad Christians who voted against him.
Or, if you were the devil, you might take another course. Find someone who is doing your work but turns it around to make it look like he is doing good; torture to protect innocent women and children. Or takes from the poor and gives to the rich. Someone who doesn't believe that we are destroying the environment; who puts facts aside to pursue personal 'belief'.
Anyone smell sulfur?
I do.
Chavez may be a thug and a poseur but he has more than a grain of truth in his diatribe. All demagogues do.
All three Faiths of Abraham spawn violence and hypocrisy
Christians and Jews can smugly lecture and chastise Muslims about violence, because followers of Islam are poorer, more oppressed, and thereby forced to defend themselves in cruder fashion. On the other hand, the rich and powerful nations of the west can fund, train, and equip state of the art militaries and intelligence services to do their bidding, by proxy. Likewise, smooth-talking politicians expertly equivocate about acceptable collateral damage to the homes and lives of poor people in other lands. With so many dollars spent, why don’t Muslims and others simply shut up and accept being exploited, oppressed, and massacred for such nobly expressed western ideals?
Those in representative democracies tout their governments as extensions of the citizenry. Accordingly, so are the militaries, intelligence services, corporations and other proxies used to expand and maintain the Judeo-Christian Empire. By extension, the citizens of western nations are much more responsible for the actions of criminals, killers, and torturers paid for and authorized by democratic institutions than people who live in less democratic nations who have much less control over the actions of their leaders.
It is undeniable that the Bush administration, its cohorts, and supporters are mostly Christian. Without the blind support of so many Judeo-Christians, the Bush administration would not now be embroiled in the current struggle to retroactively legalize torture, illegal domestic spying, and other crimes. By US law, hiring a proxy to murder or assault someone is still prosecuted as murder and assault. It is undeniable that the militaries and intelligence services of the west that kill and torture at the behest of democratic representatives are hired proxies of Judeo-Christian citizens.
Regardless of attempts to shift blame, history clearly records the widespread crimes of Christianity. Whether we're talking about the abominations of the Inquisition, Crusades, the greed and genocide of colonizers, slavery in the Americas, or the Bush administration's recent deeds and results, Christianity has always spawned great evil.
So, the next time any Christian, Jew, or Muslim, whether president, prime minister, religious leader or follower decides to chastise others for their failings, stop to consider that the logs in your own eyes have blinded you to the full truth about all three faiths of Abraham. Religion has utterly failed to solve humanity's problems because it is a strong delusion that spawns error and evil instead. The sheep's clothing of duplicitous ideals is an obvious deception used to hide the truth. Nonetheless, the veil is readily pierced by discerning the fruits of their deeds.
Here is Wisdom...
