Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Are Christians Insane, or Just Damn Stupid?

The more self-respecting of us have probably not delved too far into this whole, Obama-is-a Muslim craze. Apparently, there are some Christians who are insistent that Obama is a Muslim, either because he is black, or maybe because he attended some Muslim school, or because his father was a Muslim--the evidence for any of these points is weak as far as I have been able to find. I don't know what the issue is really, even if he were a Muslim, except that Christians seem to think that they are morally superior to all others. The Christian way seems to be to attack others for anything and everything and accuse them of attacking the Christians even when they are simply trying to live their own lives or do their job.

Anyway, the shrill cries of these mad Christians are nothing more than sensationalistic BS. Take the latest claims by Kim Lehman, one of Iowa’s two national Republican Committee members, she says that Obama himself says he is a Muslim in a speech he gave in Egypt. Of course he said no such thing. He said that he had some experience with living in and around Muslims through his fathers side of the family and through living in more Muslim communities while he was a child in Kenya.
"Lehman said she objected to Obama’s speech because “it just had a sense of embracing or aligning with the Muslims. I don’t know. It was unnecessary the stuff he said. That’s the whole point.”
Really Kim? That's the whole point? I guess Obama stating over and over that he is a Christian and that he

"... believe[s] in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful."
just isn't enough for Kim to believe him. Of course, as far as I am concerned, Obama-the-Christian is no more soothing a thought to me than Obama-the-Muslim, both stupid and silly cults seem to hate other people for being gay, odd, eccentric, different. As far as I am concerned, Christians and Muslims alike are bigots and haters. I guess it's to my benefit that they fight each other!

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