Freedom of religion is a cornerstone of what makes the United States so great. According to the Constitution the United States cannot establish a state religion. According to our liberal friends there’s a “separation of church and state.” Greeting cards from the White House that say “Merry Christmas” seem to upset many progressives. As does “God Bless America” and “One Nation Under God.” None of those examples create an establishment of a state religion, unless the state forces people to give up their beliefs at gunpoint and become Methodists or whichever sect or religion the state deems best at the time. The idea comes from a misinterpretation of a letter by Thomas Jefferson, but we must forgive liberals because the Constitution is old and confusing, kind of like the English language.
Liberal confusion aside, we’ve got it pretty good here in the United States. In the Middle East being a Christian is a good way to end up dead. In Alexandria, Egypt an apparent suicide bomber killed 21 Christians. This really isn’t a shocking attack. Christians are being persecuted all over the Middle East. Religious intolerance is a horrible problem throughout much of the world, but what hope is there when Muslums like PressTV’s Hassan Hanizadeh cover the news.
Although, at first glance, the finger is pointed at extremist Wahabi or Salafi groups, it goes without saying that no Muslim, whatever their political leanings may be, will ever commit such an inhumane act.
Attacks on churches in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia can be analyzed in the context of a Zionist scenario aimed at driving a wedge between Muslims and Arab Christians. Since the emergence of Islam, Muslims and Christians in the East have always coexisted peacefully as Islam pays due respect to the freedom of divine faiths — especially Christianity.
Delusion, thy name is Hassan Hanizadeh. Much like how Global Warming alarmists blame every natural weather event on Global Warming, people like Hanizadeh blame the Jews for everything. Before anyone thinks this type of perverse logic cannot happen in the United States, I say think again. It’s already happening. Check out one of the comments from the crazy article.
jeff1/2/2011 11:43:56 PMman really good article it seems like when one looks at the only winner after 9/11 it was israel american and muslims arabs didnt gain a thing, and againwith iraq we know for sure zionists are behind that with scooter libby manipulating intel. to get US to fight iraq thats documented and wolfowitz another jewish traitor to USA. zionist cause all problems and then sit back and watch 2 sides kill each other for their benefit ISRAEL CONTROLS MEDIA in USA zionist are the dirtiest scum in the world.
This guy even brings up Scooter Libby! Ripped from the MSNBC headlines. Highly partisan people are willing to believe anything. One man’s religion is another man’s political viewpoint. There’s a good reason why it’s not a good idea to bring up religion or politics around strangers. It’s because they mean the same thing to certain people. Liberals complain that FOX News controls the media and Muslims blame the Zionists.
I just pulled up a random article from the Cannibal Huffington Post to scour through the comments, always filled with a raft of liberal misinterpretations. This time it’s Justice Scalia’s comments about sex discrimination. Before I hate too much on the people who left comments there was one liberal who actually got it, but he was the exception. There are a lot of vile comments, but here’s one that kind of sums it all up.
This man never met a giant corporation whose interests he’d protect to the ends of the earth, but he’d sooner give up pasta and red wine than admit women are the equal of men and deserve equal treatment under the law.
Making derogatory statements about Italians is fine, but don’t you dare interpret the Constitution correctly! Liberals aren’t the only ones who suffer from political delusion, but they act like they’re immune to it. Paul Krugman’s New York Times op-eds drip with condescension. When a person religiously believes the facts are on their side the only reason the only possible way there could be an opposing viewpoint is some kind of sinister plot (Insert: Neocon, Jew, Zionist, Corporation, Scooter Libby).
Ronald Reagan famously said about progressives, a.k.a., liberals: “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” The most infamous recent example of this willful ignorance is the Left’s reaction to Arizona’s immigration law.
Apparently, no one in the Obama administration has bothered to read Arizona’s law, but they are so heavily invested in their ideology that what they want to believe about the law makes it magically turn into what they believe it is: a racist, fascist excuse for Arizona’s Gestapo-like police to harass and detain anyone with dark skin or an accent.
I know exactly how William Shatner felt in the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". Does anyone else notice that the Obama administration is lying about Arizona's immigration law? Stewardess! There's a creature on the wing!
Every time I hear someone in the Obama administration denounce Arizona’s law – from Obama himself down to people whose job it is to actually know the law, like Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano – I feel like I’m living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. I’m almost as shocked and perplexed as William Shatner was when he saw a creature on the wing of the airplane he was flying on. Is this really happening and does anyone else notice it?
This is just the tip of the wing, however, as the belief in an alternative universe translates to every conceivable issue. Cyclical, historical climate change turns into Armageddon. Babies are no longer babies, but clumps of unorganized tissue that reveal themselves as babies only after they leave the womb. The only way to make airplanes safe from terrorists is not to look for terrorists. And so on and so forth.
My favorite is how progressives turn the First Amendment into something completely different than what it actually says. They believe it calls for the “separation of church and state,” though it says no such thing. It actually reads, in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” That’s funny, the words “separation,” “church,” or “state” refuse to appear in the First Amendment. Maybe they’re hiding elsewhere in the Constitution? Or maybe not.
Despite the conspicuous absence of these words from the Constitution, progressives are constantly shouting down any religious references in the public square based on the Constitution’s supposed prohibition of religious speech through the “separation” clause. No such clause exists and the Amendment clearly states that Congress “shall make no law,” which means, for any progressives reading this, that Congress “shall make no law.” Do I need to repeat the phrase again so it’s clear? Apparently I do, but even if I do repeat it, progressives will still read, “separation of church and state.” It’s exasperating to say the least.
In the same way, progressives read the First Amendment’s free speech clauses as applying only to individuals and the causes they believe in. In other words, if you’re an organization representing the interests of a group of people, you’re not entitled to the same speech rights as an individual. Moreover, if you’re a group progressives distrust and malign, say an evil corporation or a conservative non-profit, you have even fewer rights to free speech, if any.
Progressives fervently believe that the First Amendment applies only to individuals when it’s in their best interests to believe this (see Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission), though the text itself says, rather clearly: “…or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The key phrase here is “of the people”. Note that it does not read, “of the person,” nor does it say, “of the people we agree with who aren’t racist Nazi homophobes like we say they are because they don’t believe in the same foolish notions of creating an earthly Utopia like we do.”
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