If Osama Was A Christian...

Excuse the lack of posts lately. Been busy with my new website and other ventures. I've written movie reviews there, plus on Spill.Com.

A lot of us have read the Bible. We may not all agree with it, but a lot of us have taken one thing away from it: Jesus Christ was a man of peace. So why are there so many Christians who are absolutely insane?

There's a man in North Carolina, named Justin Moose, who used Facebook to post his plans to attack a local abortion clinic. He felt that it was his duty as a Christian to use extreme violence on abortion providers, and fancied himself "a Christian counter-part" to Osama Bin Laden.

I know there are a lot of Christians who believe that killing abortion doctors is the right thing to do, which blows my mind. I've known many Christians who feel they have a higher moral barometer than anyone who doesn't believe in God. I don't believe in religion, and I find myself more peaceful than these zealots. Bill Maher once said that Christian extremists are different from Muslim extremists. The latter are often extremely violent; ours are "just funny." Well, now we got a shining example of how that's not always the case.

"Whatever you may think about me, you're probably right," he says. "Extremist, Radical, Fundamentalist...? Yep! Terrorist...? Well, I prefer the term 'freedom Fighter.'"

Freedom? This just further proves that the hardcore religious right has no fucking clue what freedom really is. Freedom, to them, is the ability to pray to God wherever and whenever they want. That may be true, but it's so much more than that. Freedom means you're free to live as you choose, as long as you're not killing anyone.

I saw a guy on CNN recently; an anti-gay Christian complaining about the overturn of the gay marriage ban in California. "I feel like in Nazi Germany and my vote doesn't mean anything anymore," he whined, clutching to his girlfriend beside him in a desperate attempt to prove he was hetero. Um, yeah, you're an idiot. If it was Nazi Germany, the LGBT community wouldn't have any rights. They'd be put to death. So when things don't go your way, don't compare it to Hitler.

Going back to Moose, Freedom is the right for these women to choose what to do with their pregnancy. Some of these women were rape victims, incest victims, or they could die from their condition. It disgusts me that there are uber-Christie nimrods, like Sarah Palin and Christine O Donnell, who want to go to these rape/incest victims and go “I’m sorry for what happened to you, but you just have to deal with it the rest of your life. It’s what God would’ve wanted.” Guys like Moose need to leave others alone, and focus on (in his case) raising his three children and finding a job.

I'm getting so sick of all these Tea Baggers (who are usually Christian) who go around saying "our rights are being taken away because of Obama." Is there no end to the stupidity of the psychotically religious?

Which brings me back to Jesus Christ. These people are advocating violence in his name. Do you really think Jesus had this in mind? “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth. Love others, except fags and liberals. Kill abortion doctors, too. To Hell with the rape victims. They were asking for it.”

If Jesus taught me anything as an Agnostic (raised Catholic) is to love and forgive others. If someone annoys you, turn the other cheek. Don’t kill people to make your point. They bitch about how the Muslim extremists have short fuses, but they really should look in a mirror and ask “are we that different?” If you’re a Christian who can honestly say “Yes. I am a true follower of Christ and I shall live as he said and be peaceful,” congratulations. You have won my respect. But if you say this, and protest about anything that strikes you as ungodly, you need to reflect more. Besides, more room in Heaven for you, right?

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