Ideas and Revolution

I must be in a mood because feel like being offensive today. I seen this image on the Human Rights of America blog the other day and feel like sharing…

On the blog a image with the words “Keep Your Religion Out Of My Bedroom” was just above it but I am speaking about this in broader terms here.

Now first off I am not really saying Jesus is a Nazi but that the radical Christian Conservative movement in this country very much is “fascist like” when they try to inject their religious beliefs into our political system. What ever happened to the concept of separation of church and state? I get real worried when I read comments on other blogs were someone states we should make laws based on or follow “a Bible value system”. I guess we would have to pick and choose what values since many in the Bible are part of nobodies value system. I also always found it odd that Jesus lived in a time and place where slavery was a part of life but he never specify condemned it. OK, enough of the Bible nonsense…

Last year I read the excellent book “Kingdom Coming” by Buffalo native Michelle Goldberg which really opened my eyes on the Christian Nationalism movement. She actually traveled across the country meeting the people of this movement and going to their churches. I highly recommend her book. Sure people have the right to believe what they wish but a real concern is when they indoctrinate their children with this garbage. Watch the documentary Jesus Camp and it will make you sick. When your church starts using the words “we are fighting a war” and you are “a army of soldiers” be afraid.

Of course religion has infected the current Presidential race. John McCain, in breaking news finally has rejected the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee (video of this wacko on a previous post of mine) and also now his “spiritual adviser” Pastor Rod Parsley who recently called Islam a “conspiracy of spiritual evil”. The media is acting like these kind of comments from Mr. Parsley are something new. Sigh…

Earlier in the campaign a comment from Mitt Romney really disturbed me in which he said -”Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom…”. While religion does require freedom the opposite certainly is not true. I am no less free because I bow to no man made religion but thanks.

What I am really trying to say here is can religious people keep their faith in their bedroom, please?

I hope the author of the Human Rights of America blog comments here and lets me know where he found the above image or if he designed it himself.

While I encourage discussion from all sides, any Christians who decide they want to comment with less then “Christian words” on this post keep in mind this blog is not a free for all. Please refer to my About page and read the rules of conduct for this blog.

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It seems “Big media” , Hillary supports, and the right wingers will not let the Reverend Wright controversy (no not “scandal”) die even after Barack Obama’s speech in which he denounced some of Wright’s inflammatory comments (again) and addressed race relations in our country.

I think the main problem besides the inherent racism that is fueling the controversy, most people have not heard the whole sermons of Rev. Wright but only the short clips which are out of context that has been provided by the media

Here is a couple of good videos on illseed found in this post that allows you to hear the whole sermon and puts the Reverend’s comments in perspective…

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