My body’s clock is messed up. I’m awake until the sun begins to rise and then I sleep until it sets. I’ve become a nocturnal creature. I hunt canned goods and beer in the cold darkness of IL’s suburbs. Families of chilis gather around the campfire to tell stories of how I jam a knife into the heads of naughty cans and eat their insides. Sodas speak of me in hushed voices because they fear that the mere mention of me summons me from the bleak hole that is my room. If they’re lucky I’ll choose an apple to bite or a carton of milk to drain.
Speaking of bites, I hate the Twilight/vampire craze. Vampires have never been the most manly of creatures (Ann Rice saw to that) but now they’re both effeminate AND teenagers. Vampires should not SPARKLE ever. And vampires should consider the sun an enemy if only for their health – they are creatures of the night. They don’t go to high school because they can’t go out in the day. And they don’t date teenage girls because they’re annoying (for the most part).
Moving to a more serious form of biting, the Ft. Hood shootings. I was unhappy to hear that so many were injured. I was even more unhappy to hear that it was one of our own who did the shooting. And now I’m getting pissed because most of the media is burying this guy’s obvious issues and connections to radical Islam. When that abortion provider was gunned down Christians received a lot of flak for “hate speech” and their beliefs leading to violence. This Muslim guy goes on a shooting spree and the connection to his faith is kept out of the picture. It’s bullshit that Christians get bashed and Muslims get a pass – either bash both or neither. And I think you should bash neither. Regardless of how good an idea is there will be idiots who take it up and try to implement it.
How many Christians do you see blowing themselves up in marketplaces and hospitals? Tiller (the murdered abortionist from earlier in the year) was a murderer in my book and a law-breaker with friends in high places that kept him out of prison – but he WAS murdered. What he did was wrong and it wasn’t corrected by the wrong done to him. And because of both men Christians and the pro-life movement suffered – three wrongs and no right. Strike that – four wrongs. The fourth wrong is that Muslim murderer is protected by his religion. He certainly acted in a hateful way but he’ll face no hate crime charges. For those who truly believe Islam is a religion of peace this man and his version of Islam should be condemned as an anethema. Does he not represent something antithetical to Western values? He murders en mass in the name of God.
And if anyone is dumb enough to bring up the Crusades I will kill you. I will kill you so dead you’ll resurrect so I can kill you again. I will club your head into a puddle of mush with the cudgel of history and I will eat the remains of your flimsy brain so I can crap it into the toilet such foolishness belongs in. The whole “Christians are evil and use violence” stigma is a) bullshit and b) contrary to historical FACT as opposed to narratives created to push an agenda that would twist or destroy truth to support a “noble” message. I will show up at your house dressed in bloody armor crafted from history texts and armed with giant hammer built of MORE textbooks (stupid college making me buy books ALL the time) and cemented with the brains of previous fools. That hammer will be heavy, folks, so don’t tempt fate (even if you want to see such an oddly dressed berserker).
Jumping off that bunny trail, Muslims who murder people are primarily MURDERERS. Christians who murder people are a) murderers and b) not acting in a Christ-like manner. If you blow yourself up in a market place, mosque, or hospital you are a) an asshole, b) a monster, c) a terrorist, and d) a murderer. You’re not a hero, you’re not a warrior, and you’re certainly not a victim. If you’re pissed at America the answer isn’t to shoot or blow up people who have little or no power to do anything.
You might think that Christian guy/gal you know is a jerk but you’re not afraid he’ll shoot you or she’ll blow herself up because you told them their Bible study was pointless bullshit. Why? Partly because of their faith (I’d hope) but also because they, and you, were raised in the West. We don’t believe in violence deciding who is right. We believe in being civil even if we don’t always practice it. There’s a lot of good in the culture here in the West so let’s not forget or destroy that in the name of tolerance and diversity – sometimes WE have it right.