Christianity In A P.C.World

                Christianity is increasingly being portrayed as “hate speech,” and this most tolerant of religions is coming under fire from the bizarre combination of secular progressives and Islamic extremists. Sadly, rather than holding fast to its own timeless faith and values, it is rapidly retreating and morphing into a post-modern religion that has as its only real tenets disdain of the successful, wealthy and traditional… and tolerance of everything else. It has been manipulated into acceding to progressive’s desires that it conform to modern man’s wishes and not the other way around. A great religion, founded on a set of  universally beneficial  principles, beliefs and mores’, that could lead one to eternal life because of incomprehensible love and sacrifice, has been browbeaten to the extent that it is now basically reduced to promoting income redistribution and a few other politically-correct causes.

                Swedish pastor Ake Green was arrested and jailed… that’s correct… imprisoned for reading passages from the Bible intimating that homosexuality is a sin. Similar episodes have taken place in Canada...and elsewhere. Why do no Western governments imprison Imams for teaching, albeit ever more stridently, the same thing? The Christian pastors are not in favor of stoning or killing anyone.

                Christianity is generally tolerant and yet is accused of being intolerant by the intolerant. It is mocked and scorned and blasphemed in almost every Hollywood movie and television series, in part because there is never any retribution or push back by Christians. That tolerant thing again.

                Islam, as many preach it today, is insanely intolerant and yet few in the mainstream media strenuously point that out anymore. You see, Christians are easy targets, literally, like the Jews. Hollywood doesn’t mind ridiculing the religion of Christ, because it knows there won’t be any repercussions. It is, however, terrified of insulting “the religion of peace,” as it knows people will die and studios will be blown up.

                It is no surprise that Europe, by almost any meaningful measurement, has been on a downward trajectory for years now, as it is literally losing its faith. America, with the help of a heavy shove by “progressives,” has now headed down that same slope, shedding its own Christian and free market  principles as it, too, descends.

              Where will we end up?

              History shows that when we trade our faith and our freedoms for an ever-growing government’s promise of a politically-correct utopia, it will be nowhere good. It certainly will be far from a Heaven on Earth.

                But it will be one Hell of a ride.

Sticker Shock

                 “You Can’t Hug Your Kids With Nuclear Arms” was a popular progressive bumper sticker back in its day.  Really? You don’t say? The only proper response to that would be “You Can’t Change Your Kid’s Diaper With A Fire Hydrant Either, But That Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t Necessary, Einstein!” 

                This bumper sticker phrase implies that either most who read it don’t actually realize that they can’t hug their kids with nuclear weapons or that they don’t care about  kids as much as the owner of the car bearing the sticker does. Else there would be no need for their ‘wisdom’ to be shared in this broad manner. And this to try to make themselves look and feel superior?

                To me, this is true ‘hate speech’. It insults and denigrates the reader on so many basic levels, while making the purveyor of the message feel holier-than-thou yet actually appear clinically insane.

                Sadly, I just saw one of these stickers on a car the other day. And to think that this prime bumper space could otherwise have been used for truly important and rational messages like “Co-exist”!

                Oh well.

                “Save The Whales”!

 

Bush-Hitler...Obama-Stalin?

                 The use- and abuse- of power as regards speech in this country has progressed far beyond distressing.  First Amendment rights (among others) are nearly completely ignored. The Constitution- and the rule of law- have been tossed out in favor of raw emotion and the will of the politically-correct elite in power, and their sycophants in the media and academia.

                Donald Sterling and other owners of sports franchises are being forced to relinquish their teams,  have their financial health jeopardized and their reputations permanently destroyed because of politically incorrect things they have said. ‘Sticks and stones’?

                It’s hard to keep up with all the threats to free speech of late. This commentator was pulled off the air for this remark, that one suspended for possibly offending this group, and this one boycotted for insensitive statements regarding another group. One can’t use this term, can’t even utter this word, can’t phrase something in this manner. And you sure as hell can’t say Washington ‘Redskins’.

                Fox News should be banned. And talk radio. And we need to shut the f---ing ‘Tea-baggers’ up, that’s for sure. We’ll call it the ‘Fairness Doctrine’. That should do it.

                Funny, the administration doesn’t even know if they- or we- are in a war against ISIS. John Kerry: ‘”we aren’t in a war against….”

Obama: “the Islamic State is neither Islamic or a state.” Yet today the presidential spokesperson claimed “it is a war in the same sense that we are at war with Al Qaeda and the Taliban.”

Yet, they do know, unequivocally, that the Republicans are conducting a ‘war on women’.

And now this. A teacher at McKinley Middle School in Washington, D.C. has given her kids a homework assignment asking them to compare and contrast Adolf Hitler and…George W. Bush. In the form of a Venn diagram, to help form a deep connection between the two. The assignment stated, “now that we have read about two men of power who abused their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their actions. Please refer to your texts.”

Well, let’s see. Hitler murdered over 6 million Jews. Baked ‘em in ovens. ‘W’ wouldn’t even criticize his predecessor after his crew trashed the White House for his arrival. Led us through the shocking, dark days after 9/11. Never demanded that a single Jew- or anybody else for that matter- be baked in an oven.

There are so many getting called out and disciplined- and rightly so for the most part- for these insensitive statements. Yet, they are losing their jobs, their livelihoods, their reputation, etc. They are being fired, suspended, fined, punished, excluded and made to undergo ‘sensitivity training’.

But this teacher who handed out the hate speech and the insane homework assignment? Legal charges?  Hate speech? Nope. Fired? Nope. Suspended? Nope. Fined? Nope. She was instructed to apologize to her students and their parents. All better!

Can you imagine if a teacher had assigned homework that instructed her kids to compare and contrast Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Stalin?! Hmmm? And they are much closer, ideologically speaking, than Bush and Hitler! Obama and Pol-Pot? Idi Amin Dada?