Let's be honest, a rare thing these days, because most pundits who say, "let's be honest," aren't being honest, except with their own particular bias. My bias is, and I will confess to having one, is that everybody pisses me off equally. I'm as annoyed by ultra-partisan Liberals and condescending Progressives as I am retro-evolutionary Conservatives and latently homophobic and bigoted so-called Tea Baggers.
As for religion...I couldn't be bothered more by religious idiots of every faith and denomination. have a beer, eat a porkchop, put on some jeans,have a lobster-topped burger, dance, masturbate, kiss someone of the opposite sex(a good soul kiss-not some fake peck)tle off the hats and burqas and yarmulkes, tell a dirty joke, and pray when the rest of us do...during sex, when we win the lottery, get slapped in the gonads and when we finally make it to the toilet after a long trip. The rest of the time, no one gives a crap about "YOUR" god. Worship in private, have a holiday, dance in the street, but stop using it as a flag for you to wave, a reason to look down and antagonize everyone else, and as some sick tribal masturbatory reason to abuse the rest of us. It doesn't make you pious, sanctified, it isn't going to get you into Heven first, as if it was A Southwest Airlines flight in which all those in back wouldn't get complimentary peanuts. It makes you a dick, which brings me to the whole 9-11 Mosque issue in New York.
In case you've been in a coma, my condolences. While you were numbed to the world the last several months, a Muslim group decided they would put up a Mosque near Ground Zero, the site of the September 11 Attacks that brought down the World Trade center in New York. The Right Wing, not satisfied with simple Race bating to stir up frightened and paranoid know-nothing White folks (I'm white. I'm white!), moved over into the radicl Islamists are coming to kick your dog and put a burqa on your daughter strategy. sadly, because fat-assed television saturated Americans with a feed me and let me continue being a schlub mentalities are flling for this crap.
Tr8u6th is...THE TRUTH IS, building a Mosque near Ground Zero and dedicating it on 9-11 is a dick move. The Imam, who claims it is all about making connections between Islam and American Idiots, is a liar. he knows it is a dick move, and so do the rest of us.
The thing is, it ain't illegal in American to be a dick. It is annoying, but not a crime. And it certainly ain't illegal to build a Mosque, a church, synagogue, a christian science reading room(lack of caps is on purpose)or a pagan temple any damn place in America they wish. Anyone who says otherwise, like Newt Gingrich and all his pals on the Right, are, let me choose just the right word here, oh yes...they are dicks too!
So, given that, what do the rest of us do, the vast majority of us-Christians, Muslims, reasonable Conservatives and Liberals, blacks, whites, Elvis impersonators-find ourselves burdened by dicks? Tell them. tell them, every chance you get. Tell the idiots on the Right, who want to use this as another way to whip people into an emotional frenzy while they are stealing from your pocket. Ground Zero might be some sort of hallowed place-certainly not religious- but not all the real estate surrounding it, and the idea of hallowed ground is a feeling, and thoroughly in the eye of the beholder. Need an example? Custer's battle ground in Montana is a national monument. The site of the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota, not so much.
That said, Muslims, if theye truly care about building bridges, have to be a little sensitive. By the way there are 167 Japanese restaurants near the hallowed ground of Pearl Harbor. So maybe this is all about something else for the Right.
Tell them all. Tell the Idiots on the Right, and tell the Muslims when they are being foolish and obnoxious, just don't be a dick about it.
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