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What a wonderful collection of morons.
The party of Christian Fundamentalism decided to boo Ron Paul for saying we should treat other nations the way we want to be treated.
"Huh!? Ronny's speakin' them there Jeezus teachin's? Booo!"
This is unbelievably stupid! I don't understand what's going on here. Either these people are disturbingly unaware of the lessons taught be Jesus in the Bible or they're smug enough to think God gave them unbridled dominion over the planet and its people (with permission to do unto them as they wish).
What's worse is that the Golden Rule is one of the simpler and better known of Jesus' teachings. It's not as though we have to be biblical scholars to understand the relevance and meaning of Matthew 7:12. Little children should be familiar with the Golden Rule. Little Sunday school loving children, with their wide eyes, ignorant smiles, snot covered noses, ready to have their susceptible minds filled with Family-Friendly stories from the Bible, should be aware of what the Golden Rule is. Nevertheless, here we have grown adults, most of which are presumably Christian, who opted to boo the moral philosophy of their savior.
Maybe there were just a lot of non-Christians in the audience? However, it's not as though one has to be a Christian to appreciate the Golden Rule (which predates Jesus, anyway). We SHOULD treat other people the way we want to be treated. We don't need a Bible passage to figure this out. It's just a part of...common?...human decency.
These people ARE disturbingly unaware of the lessons taught be Jesus in the Bible.
ReplyDeleteRepublican Christianity is a sick, sad joke. Political Christianity probably always has been.
Politicians want votes, and the ignorant Christian masses have a lot of votes. So as long you really hate the gays, pretend you love babies and profess belief in the AMERICAN way, you're a good Christian man or woman.
It's terrifying as both a citizen and as a Catholic.
Given that above criteria, it's a wonder we haven't had a Mormon president. Their Jesus came to America...
I do however feel compelled to point out that the Golden Rule was meant to apply to interpersonal relations, not international, nevertheless, the concept stands.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure?
DeleteI'm sure it was meant to apply interpersonally. That doesn't mean it should be discounted on the international level though.
DeleteYeah, I've never really understood how the Christian doublethink about political violence came to be.
ReplyDeleteSomehow, at some point, some clever fellow put up a wall in conservative minds that distinguished between torturing/murdering/clusterbombing your neighbor, and torturing/murdering/clusterbombing smelly brown people in another country - ie Terrorists.
Ditto for capital punishment.
I mean, I'm not necessarily against either of those things, but the degree of glibness and comfort in "christians" describing such violence is really disturbing. It's almost as if any hesitation in readiness to commit to unlimited levels of violence in foreign nations is a sign of weakness or softness. Hesitating to push a button on a country is a sign of being a left-wing, treehugging weakling. As opposed to being... you know, human.