I wasn't going to post today, but who can resist a chance to rant!

[thistlechaser]

Busy day. Wrote/moved/edited/fixed tons of code over on the new MUSH, with tons left to do. I'm so messed up: I'm happiest when I'm not just busy, but when I have a whole sea of work ahead of me! Unless it's job-work, then I'm just a big ol' slacker.

Link spotted on kalin_nestar's LJ: More than 900 evangelical Christians from 40 states gathered in Fort Lauderdale last week -- to celebrate their agenda's advance and to see how they can become "more effective agents of moral renewal in American culture," as a press release put it.

I know I keep asking the same questions every time something like this comes up, but: Why does one group assume their morals are the "right" ones? Or heck, that they're even in the right religion or believing in the right god? You want to live by your morals/beliefs, fine and dandy, but how dare you assume that what you believe should be what everyone else does!

I love this quote:

Evangelical Christians believe that a growing number of Americans are rejecting the "1960s counterculture" and are ready to return to a "Judeo-Christian moral consensus."

If the 60s counterculture was still going strong, would we have Bush in office? All the hatred we currently have? All the war? No, dear evangelical Christians, this us YOUR doing. Don't try to blame it on the rest of us.

*sigh*

Comments

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

No, dear evangelical Christians, this us YOUR doing. Don't try to blame it on the rest of us.

Sort of foolish to do the exact same thing you're ranting at them for doing, don't you think? ^^ Thank you, but it isn't ONE group's fault for any of this. People in general are the problem and until people in general stop being such assholes to each other, things are gonna stay as shitty as they are.

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

I am a horrible person. The only thing I'm interested in is that so many people are herding into the place at one time. If I was, say, an extremist, they'd be easy pickings. Good grief. (Even the Olympics knew better after Atlanta. Has history taught us nothing?)

...I'll be waiting for the FBI to come for me, now.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

(Even the Olympics knew better after Atlanta. Has history taught us nothing?)

If it had, they wouldn't have wanted to get together in the first place, thus wouldn't need to learn from history to know that it's not totally safe to do so.

:P

[kalin-nestar.livejournal.com]

You want to live by your morals/beliefs, fine and dandy, but how dare you assume that what you believe should be what everyone else does!

I completely agree with you. I hate the notion of tooting my own horn, so to speak, but I guess I've always thought that you were supposed to be tolerant. That maybe what you think isn't good for everyone, and that's ok.
I was married to an aethiest, my current wife is a witch, and my kids are Ba'hai, and my embryo I got going on can be whatever it feels pulled to. I've called myself a Christian in the past, almost my entire life, but now I'm afraid to for fear of being pegged as one of these assholes. I'm not like that. I LOVE my family, and chose them regardless of the differences in our beliefs because they are supposed to be personal. Geeze. What the hell is wrong with people?

Kalin