When I lived in LA 10 years ago, the LA Times was a middle of the road newspaper. Now it's moonbat left (guess they had to get in the same groove as the rest of the city). But a broken clock is right twice a day, and I agree with
Three-Star Bigotry, an editorial about LtGen Boykin, the outspoken deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. He likes to wear his right-wing religion on his sleeve while in uniform and has stated in public that the reason radical Islamists hate us is because:
We're a Christian nation … and the enemy is a guy named Satan.
As the LA Times puts it:
The comments would be bad enough from a buck private. From a three-star general whose job includes gathering information for the campaign against Islamic radicals, they are unforgivable. Let Boykin retire and speak out as much as he wants. But do not give others the chance to assume that the general speaks for the Pentagon, the administration and the nation.
Amen. It really ticks me off when people start blaming Satan for everything. Satan did this, Satan did that, Satan made me lose my keys, Satan made you poke that sharp stick in my eye. Alternate theory: people do mean stuff because they are selfish bastards, and can be led to do really mean stuff en masse when led by exceptionally selfish bastards, especially when these exceptionally selfish bastards buy into "my-way-or-the-highway" fundamentalist theology and think God is on their side.
And it
really ticks me off (and embarrasses me as a professional), when fellow military officers decide to start living in an alternate universe where the U.S. of A. is a "Christian nation." The founding fathers had a little spat about that 200+ years ago when they were writing the Constitution. The fundamentalists lost the argument then, and they will lose the argument now.
God gave us freedom when he created us. The freedom to screw up, and the freedom to love Him. Freedom is our natural state. Theocracies, whether courtesy of Moqtada al Sadr or Bob Jones University, take this freedom to screw up away. Who do they think they are, to take away what God intended? In the name of God, no less!
Not in my country. Not in the United States armed services, sworn to protect the Constitution as it is written, not as Christian fundamentalists wish it were written.
The promise of freedom
might win this war. Speaking in crusader-talk and pointing fingers at a guy in a red spandex suit with a pitchfork will only make things worse.
