10
Nov
2009
2009
Right-wing group links gay-rights movement to Islamic terror
This is the religion that claimed persecution while actively annihilating every alternative to itself for a period of better than 15 centuries (and killing millions in the process), the same people who brought you the Crusades, Witch Trials, Forced Conversion, Conquistadors, Anti-Antisemitism and the Reconquista. Do we really believe anything they claim at this point?
Seriously, these people think they are being persecuted because we get to continue to exist.
As someone who was dragged off to church to listen to hate speeches for nearly 20 years, I've yet to find something that leaves me more confused than angry or amused. I mean, I've seen and heard a LOT of nutty drivel. I read the article (it didn't help) and I'm having a truly difficult time understanding how they even arrived at this conclusion, especially with the shaky evidence they're using to back it up. o.0….
I could say the exact same thing about their article, in fact, dammit, will someone please give me a gun?
I sympathize, Ærinndís. The ones I run across always say, "Jesus said we'd be persecuted" and so they seem to believe they are, even when they're the persecutors (the last 17 centuries or so). I guess they have to manufacture a persecutor if one can't be found.
Lol, indeed. Those poor, lost, misguided masochists. :\
Even if the story is untrue, the attitude of the Roman proconsul of Asia, C. Arrius Antoninus, described in Tertullian is no doubt accurate: “You wretches, if you want to die, you have cliffs to leap from and ropes to hang by.” Even today, perhaps particularly today, almost twenty centuries later, one has to sympathize with him.
Tertullian ad scap 5.
Dear God, gods, and the earth I walk on, PLEASE do not let my homophobic anti-Muslim Wingnut father get his hands on this one…*head-desk-thud…thud…thud*
All humor aside, I cannot believe this. Or maybe I don't want to believe this.
Angry people say stupid things…they vent…they have the freedom of speech to do so.
So much for our constitution.
Setting up a homestead in the middle of some arctic tundra some where is looking real good, except that everyone's voice is needed – even my small one. Checking out is not an option.
In the 50's the race riots raged and the protesters whose words are remembered are our immortalized heroes who stood at Selma and died else at gunpoint and at the end of ropes… I know that turning the other cheek is not the answer, but I don't count organized vital resistance that refuses to become the evil that they resist as turning the other cheek.
The black militants became a side note of history, those who were angry and said impulsive things were forgotten.
However, this may not happen this time…Perhaps the Right Wing has learned the lesson all too well – create conspiracy where none exists, tear the constitution into shreds and manipulate impulsive angery into a propaganda machine that fires back into the people who said it in deep frustration.
How will this time be remembered?
I don't know…I really don't know.
Hey Cameron, I know I'm not holding my breath that the Right will see reason…I think they're headed in the opposite direction, honestly, and I think it's up to us to stop a repetition of 1933 Germany.