I wanted to post a response to some of your comments on my Christians and Terrorists blog. 

 

I'm not bothered that people don't like me or don't automatically change their minds at first wind.  And I am too long winded, always have been.  If you're interested, and I won't post this just anywhere, what bothers me is that people act this way.  If I knew of any ultra-leftwing site I'd be just as defiant and critical there.  Polarization is what's ruining this country.  Unwillingness to read, think and talk.  That's what's going to ultimately destroy the world, I fear. 

My blog’s name comes from a quote from Carlos Mencia.  “Why do I hate stupid people?  Because they’re f*ckin stupid!”

When I say I hate stupid people, I don’t mean Christians or conservatives or Republicans.  Actually almost all of my friends are Christian, many are Republican, and a few would be conservative enough to appease this site.  I mean people who don’t think for themselves.  I mean people who watch the news, any channel, and just repeat what they saw on Hardball or The Factor.  Someone seeing “news” and then taking the reporters opinion as gospel is, according to my logic, a moron.    

A point though, is that all the posts I’ve made on this site, except for two where I did copy a list of Republicans of recent times who were caught in scandals.  But, I did fully admit that I found and simply copied.  The rest of my posts I formulated the thoughts myself.  I went to websites to verify only, what I was typing.  So I guess does that not mean that I vetted the information or evaluated it?  I’d say though that you’re completely right, I type too much for anyone to read what I’m typing. 

Some more of my history.  Served in the military for 8 years and am currently a contractor supporting the military.  Was stationed a few places throughout the country, Korea and two trips to Iraq.  My father is a Methodist minister, who still serves a church not far from my house.  I own my own house and my girlfriend and my brother live with me.  I was raised Catholic, as my mother after their divorce converted to Catholicism.  I’ve also attended several different denominations, as well as non-denominational, before settling on Buddhism after an intentional search of a religion.  I felt there had been too many good people throughout history that have not been Christian that I refuse to believe or can’t even understand how they would be in hell just because they’re not Christian.  So if that is the case, then surely there is another way to heaven.  I also believe that any religion, or even lack of religion, is faith based.  Even atheists have a faith.  Their faith may be science, or it may be faith in nothing, but that is still faith.  My faith is that my intelligence will lead me to Nirvana.  If you don’t know that is, I suggest you go to www.buddhanet.com and read for yourself, without trusting what someone else told you about the religion.  There seems to be a lot of misconceptions at play here.

I do equate Bush and Bin Laden in the sense, as I said, that they both use terror to their advantage.  I will explain, if you’ll stay with me a little longer.  Americans are afraid.  We’re afraid of everything.  My girlfriend is afraid to run alone because someone might abduct her.  My mother, up until she died, worried constantly about the crime in this town.  From what I can gather, we (all Americans) are pretty worried about money, either because we have it or because we don’t.  We’re scared out of our minds that those evil Muslim Jihadists are going to come and kill us all.  But do you know how you beat fear?  Honestly?  Fear is an emotion, I cannot beat your fear.  I can check your closets and under your bed, but when the lights go off, you’re still going to be afraid.  That is until you think differently.  Decide that shadow isn’t a murderer but just the streetlight coming through the trees.  But whenever we see the constant flow of terror alerts and how all these countries are plotting to kill us all, that doesn’t make us less fearful, that makes us more fearful.  That is what Bin Laden wants!  He doesn’t even have to release videos any more, we’re so stirred up in a frenzy that someone farts and we all jump.  Bush propagated this for his own gains.  If you think the Patriot Act is in any way constitutional you need to take another government class.  But he pushed it through to look for terrorists (of which I’m actually not aware of any terrorists being caught here in America) and to keep us safe.  Are we safer?  People in the US seem to still be frightened, as much if not more, as always.  So I say yes, that was a blatant use of fear to further a political gain. 

Now, let’s see, I’ve been accused of being a lot of things, commie, qu33r, dumblocrap (??), leftist, there’s more but I don’t want to go on, none of which I am.  I’ve been accused of not doing my own fact checking, of which I fully disclosed I could neither confirm nor deny what I was saying (in the single instance, all the others I do fully stand by my research and will and can provide sources upon request).  I’ve also been accused of using faulty or no logic.  I’m pretty sure I’ve dispelled all of these untruths, but I’m sure there will be more after this post. 

Great quote I got this morning and felt it applies about 98% of the time on this site.

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.” – Calvin Coolidge.