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They hate us for our freedom.
Sep. 11th, 2008 07:03 pmOn today, September 11, we're reminded that we must be constantly vigilant for people who hate the American people's freedom.
They hate American society's secularism; the way that religion is not forced on people.
They hate American society's pluralism; the atheist, Jew, or member of a minority religion is not forced to publicly worship the dominant religion or conduct their own services out of sight for fear of offending the sensitive among them.
They hate American society's lack of censorship. Books, movies, radio, the Internet and television are disseminated regard to the most sensitive people in society - religious fundamentalists.
They hate the American system of public education. Students are taught (hopefully) without regard to religious creation myths and other religious shibboleths used to isolate believers from infidels.
They hate American science and medicine. They hate that people can have control of their bodies, whether it means choosing to have sex and not be sentenced to having a child because of their "sin", or that a medical procedure using blastocysts can be used to arrest diseases like Parkinson's syndrome. They also hate evolution; just as the earth still revolved around the sun (and not vice versa) after Galileo was put under house arrest, organisms will still evolve even as the Discovery Institute or other "intelligent design" advocates nitpick at Richard Lenski's E. coli evolution experiment, which has observed evolution in action in bacteria.
Yes, religious fundamentalists hate us for our freedom. Muslim religious fundamentalists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon seven years ago today. Christian religious fundamentalists plan to destroy American society in an even more insidious way - by subverting American science, education, and government, and even by putting one of their own into the office of the Vice-President.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but the fact of the matter is that Christian fundamentalists are more dangerous than Muslim fundamentalists, just not as spectacular.
They hate American society's secularism; the way that religion is not forced on people.
They hate American society's pluralism; the atheist, Jew, or member of a minority religion is not forced to publicly worship the dominant religion or conduct their own services out of sight for fear of offending the sensitive among them.
They hate American society's lack of censorship. Books, movies, radio, the Internet and television are disseminated regard to the most sensitive people in society - religious fundamentalists.
They hate the American system of public education. Students are taught (hopefully) without regard to religious creation myths and other religious shibboleths used to isolate believers from infidels.
They hate American science and medicine. They hate that people can have control of their bodies, whether it means choosing to have sex and not be sentenced to having a child because of their "sin", or that a medical procedure using blastocysts can be used to arrest diseases like Parkinson's syndrome. They also hate evolution; just as the earth still revolved around the sun (and not vice versa) after Galileo was put under house arrest, organisms will still evolve even as the Discovery Institute or other "intelligent design" advocates nitpick at Richard Lenski's E. coli evolution experiment, which has observed evolution in action in bacteria.
Yes, religious fundamentalists hate us for our freedom. Muslim religious fundamentalists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon seven years ago today. Christian religious fundamentalists plan to destroy American society in an even more insidious way - by subverting American science, education, and government, and even by putting one of their own into the office of the Vice-President.
You can put lipstick on a pig, but the fact of the matter is that Christian fundamentalists are more dangerous than Muslim fundamentalists, just not as spectacular.
