As kind of expected Amazing Believer's response to my question is underwhelming and actually doesn't address any of the points I raised.
If I'm wrong, I lose nothing. I will have lived a good and moral life. I will die
and there will not be a thought running through my head. I won't have all eternity
to think "Oh I was wrong." I'll be dead.
However, it is a lot worse for the other side if I am right. It means eternity in H
I really wished he would have addressed the point I raised that if he's wrong he wasted a lot of oppertunites after a nebulus promise and false hope AND encouraged others to do so. Convincing others to throw away their only life to me would be morally indefensible, but he seems to have no problem with it because if he's wrong no one will punish him. Selfish. Basically it's coming down to "I hope I'm right and If I'm wrong it doesn't matter who I wind up hurting". I got mine, screw you. I shouldn't be surprised considering he is fine and dandy with his god torturing people for not knowing or not sucking up.
I sent a reply asking him to address the actual points, but I'm not optimistic. I don't hate most Christians and am not all whoohoo anti-religion, but someone degrading and defaming EVERYONE, someone telling you that your loved ones are in hell and it's a good thing is not an opinion to respect. I think everyone should be atheistic when it comes to this disgusting gnostic mysticism cult brand of Christianity. It's anti-Good, Anti-love, anti-compassion, and of course...Anti-Life.
There's this little thing in psychology called projection. basically it's when you 'project' your own personality on others; a sort of egoism if you will where you can't imagine that other people do not think and act like you. Thieves tend to be untrusting for example in popular media. Keeping that in mind, what does this comment from Limbaugh say about him?
On August 21, 2007, Limbaugh claimed that Democrats "want to get us out of Iraq, but they can't wait to get us into Darfur." He continued: "There are two reasons. What color is the skin of the people in Darfur? It's black. And who do the Democrats really need to keep voting for them? If they lose a significant percentage of this voting bloc, they're in trouble." A caller responded, "The black population," to which Limbaugh said, "Right."
Ignoring the racism, the fact that the right (and yes let's face it Limbaugh has the creds and physique to weigh in for the entire political right) claims that the only reason democrats (ie Liberal commie scum) would want to aid in Darfur is due to some sort of selfish gain. That...is baffling to me. i'm not part of the Democratic party but I have done some work for the folks in Darfur around the campus...not once did it ever occur to me that doing so was winning anyone any favors. I was more concerned...you know...with people being hacked apart like hamsters in a blender. or cats in a meat grinder....damn I'm hungry. Back on topic, yeah. What the hell Right? I mean, we all on the left suspect and exaggerate saying you're heartless but really? Is the Right really like this? I don't want to give into a prejudice, but is that really the issue? Is the Right simply unable to empathize and think of anyone else? Is the extend of their sympathy to their own demographic/nation/tea party? That's...both telling and sad if it is the case.
Well, Beck and others have been spreading insane conspiracy theories and theiatrics over the 2010 census (you know the one demanded by the constitution), insisting Obama is going to use it to round up guns or as a directory for snuffing out his detractors. Beck of course has no evidence of it, but since Acorn is involved, clearly sinister matters are at hand. Or would be if Acorn actually did anything illegal. No Acorn had no voting fraud, the huge thing that Beck and Dobbs (the right and left ass cheeks of stupiditdy respectivly), made a big deal about was that employees faked time reports. Yes Employees tried to milk more hours out of Acorn than they actually did, and this to public opinion damsn the organization as a shadowy leftist evil organization that works for Overlord Obama.
Well, fear of the Acorn Assasians and Obama and his Czars starting Pogoms has had it's first casualty. A census worker named Bill Sparkman was killed. hung by his neck, gagged and with FED written on his chest. Police are warning us not to jump to conclusions that it could be an unrelated murder with no connection to Beck and Co's alarmism. I call bullshit. Yes the motive in the mruder may turn out to be different, but damn it if a pro-lifer was found dead, hung with 'Fundy' written on him, there would be NO question in the news that it was a left wing nut. As always we cow tail to the right, least we offend them by insinuiating they're crazy violent nuts. Well, they are crazy nuts, and some of them are sure to be violent. Shooting at the Holocaust museum, right wing nut. All the news went out of their way to insist he wasn't or down play it but he was. Fair and balanced news my ass. Evidence can be damning and not paying attention to that evidence for the sake of 'fairness' is neither fair nor balanced.
So yeah, until proven otherwise I'm going to go with the information I have and say Beck, Hannity, and the Fox News machine are damn fucking responsible for this. This isn't some kid playing GTA and running over a hooker. This is people daily saying "YOUR GONNA DIE THE GOVERNMENT IS EVIL SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE" and then they act surprised when someone goes out and DOES something. I saw this coming, I knew it was only a matter of time before someone took Beck and his nonsense seriously. People like him are a disease, a fucking memetic disease. By all accounts Sparkman was a good guy; an educator, altruistic and patriotic. That he was killed volunteering for his country makes him as much a hero to me as the Iraq vets we are neglecting. He is a casualty in the war for America's soul and sanity and I salute him. And with the same hand I give a one digit salute to Glen Beck, demented piece of trash.
All the alarmism and fear and paranoia being spred by rich wealthy white males reminds me of my favorite line from The Great Gatsby, which I felt summed up the central conflict beautifully
...They were careless people,...—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .
Great Gatsby Chapter 9
Blogs I follow: New Atheist and Sparrowhawk have also commented on this. They're probably more tolerant than I am.
If the right wing is pursueing, (unconsciously I'm sure) an Anti-Life agenda, then Glen Beck is the Desade to Limbaughs Granny Goodness, seeking the allusive unholy grail through sadism and gleeful cruelty.
Salon's Alexander Zaitchik reported, "In his 2003 book, 'Real America,' Beck refers to himself as a borderline schizophrenic." Zaitchik also documented Beck's rise as a broadcaster, which was marked by cruel attacks and "racial hang-ups." According to Zaitchik, after a rival radio host's wife had a miscarriage, " 'Beck called her live on the air and says, "We hear you had a miscarriage," remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. 'When Terry [Kelly, wife of Beck's rival] said, "Yes," Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly, the rival DJ] apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby.' ~Liberal Propaganda Media Matters.
Beck is a horrific person. He is a failure on all regards. I'm not one for moral outrage or moral scares, but this guy disgusts me. He is the embodiment of everything wrong with America, selfish, stupid and PROUD of it, racist, petty, and childish. He is a monster who is rewarded for his failures.
Time for some liberal rage! Grab your commie socialist decoder rings and sing along!
Kurt in the above clip sums it up perfectly well. These people are super villians.
They lack the snappy duds and absurd gimicks but their mentality is taken right out of a jerkass handbook
Cajuns care to be bred and SLAUGHTERED!
It's not about politics. It's about right and wrong. I have to admit it's frustrating how more and more life proves that even the most over the top super villain is well represented by flesh and blood individuals. As brutal and horrific as Norman Osborn or Red Skull or the like are you can find real people like them. In many ways our world is at a disadvantage...our monsters don't have the decency to wear masks.
Most people believe health care reform myths. So nice that good christian folk like Palin and Beck are working so hard to keep people like me and my girlfriend from getting health treatments. Granted it looks like both of us will be starting new careers so we're safe, but I'm not happy just because it looks like I got mine! It is a damn good possibility that Beck and Palin will leave a lasting legacy of shooting down this health care bill. Their impact on the world will be preventing many people from getting treatment they need. The world will be objectively a worse place because they were a part of it. Christianity is claimed to be all about the charity, but this is as far from charity as you can get. This is Anti-Charity, it supports an anti-life agenda and is anti-compassionate.
