...'cause Dick Cheney tells me so...
Again, some months ago, I wrote about a PBS Frontline piece on the use of Biblical language by President Bush. Apparently the sublty of the implication of his speechification style has now been found lacking and, now, it has been confirmed that if you vote for Kerry you will go to hell.
I don't think this puts it clearly enough for me. I want some government or church authority to advise me that I were to vote against a conservative party that I would in fact be Satan walking upon the earth. But, you know, even that is a bit unclear. Maybe what I really want to know is if Kerry is elected whether Christ in Heaven will be dethroned and creation itself be undone. Would this be also true if one were to vote for Bush as President but the Democratic slate on a local level? I think I need that cleared up so I can understand the implications of the vote coming up in a few weeks.
Or perhaps this is more the case, that the casters of stones have their own selves to look after:
Some of the bishops - the shepherds of a church whose hierarchy bungled the molestation and rape of so many young boys by tolerating it, covering it up, enabling it, excusing it and paying hush money - are still debating whether John Kerry should be allowed to receive communion. These bishops are embryo-centric; they are not as concerned with the 1,080 kids killed in a war that the Bush administration launched with lies, or about the lives that could be lost thanks to the president's letting the assault weapons ban lapse, or about all the lives that could be saved and improved with stem cell research.That is a great statement of my understanding of the hypocracy involved. Humans as harp seals - save the nice white coated babies, let the rest end up in pies for all I care. Subservience of all to cuteness, just like the tax collector does.
Comments
Kim - October 17, 2004 10:02 pm
Love your headline, very catchy LOL This election is certainly bringing out the worst in people isn't it? Not to mention making some people look like complete idiots!
SayNay? - October 18, 2004 1:36 am
Or perhaps it is that the Bishops have come to a realization that the Church can not any longer be seen to support a politician like Kerry who calls himself a "devout" Catholic, yet will not allow his private beliefs to inform and guide his public actions - and that silence on this issue, may be misinterpreted as the Church's assent to all Catholics employing this type of division of morality in their lives, which is contrary to the essential tenents of the Church.
BTW, for someone who danes "not to judge" ("...As we are asked by the God who created us, I judge not and do so personally..." see your Town Hall post) this post, esp. the quotation used above ("...a Church enabling...rape and molestation of young boys") seems decidedly anti-Catholic.
Alan - October 18, 2004 8:13 am
I am not judging when reporting on civil judgement you twit. These guys have gone to jail for molesting children - facts.
By the way, I may need you to provide a name as you may be spawning mimics. I don't want this to become a hot bed of nick-names as it is a little boring and poserific.
SayNay? - October 18, 2004 10:32 am
I guess mimickery is the sincerest form of flattery - yet, somehow, in this situation, I am not so flattered. Maybe, for this and other reasons, I should maintain radio silence for a while (as I hear you sigh in agreement).
SayNay? - October 18, 2004 10:34 am
Anyway, you're right, I'm getting a bit tiresome.
Alan - October 18, 2004 10:36 am
Not my intention at all. It does, however, spawn a lack of responsibility that I do not care for.
SayNay? - October 18, 2004 12:20 pm
There is a certain freedom in anonymity, but, again you're right, it is not to be abused. And really, Al, you have to rise above the name-calling ("twit" remark) - save that for the council meetings.
Alan - October 18, 2004 12:26 pm
I was meerly suggesting that you were a bird-watcher, who are called twits and phishers, and perhaps you were distracted by a daydream of a particularly rare warbler. Yea, that is what I was doing.<p>Anonymity must be used where there is a purpose. If there is none, it is confounding the personal nature of the discourse. I am, effectively, inviting you to expose yourself. This need not be by full name as no one I know has ever met "Wayne" or truly know who he is, yet there is at least the illusion of a human there...
And yes, Wanye, I see this coming at me: ;^~
Wayne - October 18, 2004 8:05 pm
Yes, Virginia, there really is a Wayne. Alas, nobody is brave enough to try to capture my enlightening prose, and crisp, clear, correct, intelligent perspective and present it in a way that might imitate mine.
Funny, I have met or seen or know alot about many of the characters who own the sites I ruffle and shake. Yet all claim to not knowing anything about me...maybe I would have been a good spy.
I almost forgot...:^~