Comments on: More Craziness from the Right http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen Mon, 07 May 2012 01:49:50 -0400 hourly 1 By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1685 Hrafnkell Haraldsson Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:56:10 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1685 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. 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.

]]> By: Cameron http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1686 Cameron Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:42:59 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1686 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* <br /><br />All humor aside, I cannot believe this. Or maybe I don't want to believe this. <br /><br />Angry people say stupid things...they vent...they have the freedom of speech to do so. <br /><br />So much for our constitution. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />The black militants became a side note of history, those who were angry and said impulsive things were forgotten. <br /><br />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.<br /> <br />How will this time be remembered?<br />I don't know...I really don't know. 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.

]]> By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1670 Hrafnkell Haraldsson Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:22:39 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1670 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.<br /><br />Tertullian <i>ad scap</i> 5. 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.

]]> By: Ærinndís Freyjadóttir http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1676 Ærinndís Freyjadóttir Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:18:18 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1676 Lol, indeed. Those poor, lost, misguided masochists. :\ Lol, indeed. Those poor, lost, misguided masochists. :\

]]> By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1666 Hrafnkell Haraldsson Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:33:09 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1666 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. 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.

]]> By: Ærinndís Freyjadóttir http://aheathensday.com/2009/11/more-craziness-from-the-right.html#comment-1669 Ærinndís Freyjadóttir Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:50:03 +0000 http://uncajoe.org/domains/aheathensday.com/?p=1079#comment-1669 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.... <br /><br />I could say the exact same thing about their article, in fact, dammit, will someone please give me a gun? 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?

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