Thursday, January 22, 2004
Well, I haven't heard from Mark in a couple of days, time to move on.
Today I am issuing a special POWFP award that I may make a permanent feature as well, the Biggest Damn Hypocrite on the Planet Award. (I will really have to create actual awards for these things I guess. :oD)
C-SPAN: Resources Master Directory: State of the Union 2004:
"Activist judges, however, have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people and their elected representatives. On an issue of such great consequence, the people's voice must be heard. If judges insist on forcing their arbitrary will upon the people, the only alternative left to the people would be the constitutional process. Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. "
Who does he think he is talking about activists forcing their arbitrary will on the people?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
HE AND HIS WHOLE NEO-CON DICTATORSHIP DO THAT TO US EVERY DAY!!!!!!!! That is standard operating procedure in the Bush administration!!!! What the bloody hell does he thing ramming through the Medicaid bill by strong-arming a Senator is? How about the entire rollback of almost every environmental protection we have on Friday nights and Holidays??? And what does the will of the people have to do with making a constitutional amendment? WE don't get to vote on it!!! THEY do!!! And if the Medicaid bill is any indication they will have plenty of amunition to extort the conclusion of this vote to their advantage as well!!!!!!! This country is being run by the Texas Mafia and there is only one thing we can do about it...
VOTE THE BASTARD OUT!!!!!!!!Sorry that one just REALLY cheesed me off.
posted by Kimber
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
I did a most bizarre thing this weekend. I apologized, cosmically, to all the christians I have lumped in with the wacos in that particular religious group.
I want to thank Mark for that. It has been an eye opening experience emailing with him. I have learned a lot about myself and my attitudes by reading and writing with him. I have always just glumped christians together and thought of them all as violent, intolerant bigots and glumped pagans together and thought of them as the exact opposite of that. But Mark has shown me that not all pagans have the same core values or hold the same attitudes about the basic tenents of our faith. And because of him, I realize that there are probably more like him. All the pagans I have come in contact and had discussions with have felt the same as I do about our place in the Circle and our responsibility to the Deity, the Earth and all those we share it with. When I look at the words of the Rede: "As ye harm none, do as ye will" I take that to mean "don't harm anyone" which is one of my strongest supports in my pacifism. As it is for all the pagans I have come in contact with. Until now.
Mark has shown me that someone can take an obvious piece of religious teaching and twist it to suit his own purposes. He still hasn't explained what part of "harm none" DOESN'T mean "don't hurt anyone" but according to him there is some wiggle room in there to shoot people in defense of self or others. He is a member of the NRA *shudder* and calls himself a Wiccan. I don't question his path, because it's not my place. If this works for him, fulfills his soul and brings him closer to deity, then more power to him. But I so object to him calling himself a Wiccan.
So here and now, I formally and publicly apologize to any christians I have glumped together with those who slaughter your faith to suit themselves. I was wrong. I have learned something this weekend. I still find the bible to be a violent, intolerant piece of fiction but I now make room for the possibility that there may be some who sift through the crap to find the wisdom in it, just as there are those who sift through the wisdom and find the crap. I have a lot of processing to do on this. I can't change the attitudes of a lifetime overnight. But now I will think before I make snap judgments on someone who calls themselves christian...or wiccan.
posted by Kimber
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