I swear to God...
Mar. 4th, 2006 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianBlair asked God for guidance about Iraq war.
Okay, being cagy when he does it, but the fact remains that this country, like the US, has been dragged into an unprovoked religious crusade and it's not on. Democracy; not theocracy. And the worst part is the justifications being given by various other political bods.
I know Blair's not going for re-election -- he says. However, to say that this is not important because he's not going for re-election? Well, I call bullshit. When Bush said "God told me to go to Iraq", the American people should have had him locked up, because, quite frankly, when most people claim to hear voices telling them, in essence, to kill and kill and kill again, they are stuck in facilities, restrained and heavily medicated. But the American people keep letting the monkey run their country and now Blair has decided that, if it works for Bush, why can't it work for him? He's been pretty good about leaving religion out of his campaign, or at least he was during the Clinton administration, but now... Ugh.
I've heard some shitty things about the war in Iraq. I've heard how Bush and Blair were talking about flying a spyplane marked with UN colours over Iraq in the hopes that their army would fire and draw the UN into war (the story of which, of course, died a rather typical death due to the 30-minute attention span of most newspaper readers). I heard Blair's pathetic whimpers after the London protest march in which something like a million people participated. I've heard pretty much every lie and excuse Bush came up with before he admitted that God told him to go to war with Iraq. And now Blair's following suit.
What really pisses me off is that it puts the concept of worship and belief in such a horrible light. To use faith, particularly a faith of peace, as an excuse for war is ... well, inexcusable. Someone points out that going to war isn't very Christian. Even if you're a Bible-thumping fanatic who only takes the Old Testament into account, please see the bit about "An eye for an eye". Okay, it also said, "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out", but what happened to the New Testament forgiving, loving God who sent His only Son to die on the cross for our sins? (Which I don't get anyway, because surely we're all God's children, but never mind.) If Bush (and, later, Blair) claim that God told them, "Yes, you are right to want to make war on these people", surely He in His all-knowing state as, well, Almighty, considered inspiring them as to where the proof was that such an act was right?
Then again, maybe God did tell them to do it. Maybe Deity sat down and thought, "These guys are doing major harm, but I'm kind of bored of smiting. I'll tell them to go do something stupid and get them impeached. COYOTE! Got a job for ya!" And now Deity is sitting there and going, "I know you all have free will and stuff, but come on! Would you impeach these yutzes already?"
That thought gives me the warm fuzzies.
Okay, being cagy when he does it, but the fact remains that this country, like the US, has been dragged into an unprovoked religious crusade and it's not on. Democracy; not theocracy. And the worst part is the justifications being given by various other political bods.
I know Blair's not going for re-election -- he says. However, to say that this is not important because he's not going for re-election? Well, I call bullshit. When Bush said "God told me to go to Iraq", the American people should have had him locked up, because, quite frankly, when most people claim to hear voices telling them, in essence, to kill and kill and kill again, they are stuck in facilities, restrained and heavily medicated. But the American people keep letting the monkey run their country and now Blair has decided that, if it works for Bush, why can't it work for him? He's been pretty good about leaving religion out of his campaign, or at least he was during the Clinton administration, but now... Ugh.
I've heard some shitty things about the war in Iraq. I've heard how Bush and Blair were talking about flying a spyplane marked with UN colours over Iraq in the hopes that their army would fire and draw the UN into war (the story of which, of course, died a rather typical death due to the 30-minute attention span of most newspaper readers). I heard Blair's pathetic whimpers after the London protest march in which something like a million people participated. I've heard pretty much every lie and excuse Bush came up with before he admitted that God told him to go to war with Iraq. And now Blair's following suit.
What really pisses me off is that it puts the concept of worship and belief in such a horrible light. To use faith, particularly a faith of peace, as an excuse for war is ... well, inexcusable. Someone points out that going to war isn't very Christian. Even if you're a Bible-thumping fanatic who only takes the Old Testament into account, please see the bit about "An eye for an eye". Okay, it also said, "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out", but what happened to the New Testament forgiving, loving God who sent His only Son to die on the cross for our sins? (Which I don't get anyway, because surely we're all God's children, but never mind.) If Bush (and, later, Blair) claim that God told them, "Yes, you are right to want to make war on these people", surely He in His all-knowing state as, well, Almighty, considered inspiring them as to where the proof was that such an act was right?
Then again, maybe God did tell them to do it. Maybe Deity sat down and thought, "These guys are doing major harm, but I'm kind of bored of smiting. I'll tell them to go do something stupid and get them impeached. COYOTE! Got a job for ya!" And now Deity is sitting there and going, "I know you all have free will and stuff, but come on! Would you impeach these yutzes already?"
That thought gives me the warm fuzzies.