Because, of course, if anyone else does anything wrong, it's obviously the fault of one of the above three anyway.
This is the message I'm receiving from sites like BoingBoing lately. Since the election, BoingBoing has been highlighting radical Christians. Sour grapes, I'm sure, over the president's "moral victory". I suppose it doesn't matter that I didn't vote for him because of morals, and I really doubt anyone else did either.
The posts have a condescending feel to them, as though the writers are looking at specimens in a jar and commenting on their base habits. With every post, the writers are lining up reason after reason to reject Christianity and to be intolerant of Christians...as though these fringe radicals are in any way representative of the average Christian.
It's really annoying.
Here's the latest, entitled "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition".
Yes, that is seriously the title.
Thanks, BoingBoing, for your level-headed and fair portrayal of Christianity. I'm sure all your readers appreciate it.
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It's a spin, of course. These people seem to have such short memories. Sure, Bush is Christian. But he's mentioned his faith much, much less than say, the Greatest Democrat Who Ever Lived, Mr. Bill Clinton. Clinton carried a bible with him when he made speeches. He went into black churches and proclaimed his faith, which no-doubt had something to do with his becoming the "first black president". Maybe what's scary to these people is that Bush simply believes in God and doesn't really use that for political gains. Anyone that says Clinton wasn't using faith for his campaign is lying.
When Bush supporters prodded Christians to vote for Bush - or when it was suggested they did (I still haven't seen any proof that it happened the way they were saying), people got pissed. But what about Clinton himself stumping in black churches, carrying a bible and talking up his campaign? That ties into the title of your post, I figure. If it's a white church, that's bad. Black? No big deal.
And on a final note, it was John F(uckin') Kerry who said in a speech weeks before the election that he would take the bible with him into the oval office. Religion is important to a lot of us, but I don't think any of us are so stupid as to choose our leader based on claims of religion alone.
-AJ
It's a spin, of course. These people seem to have such short memories. Sure, Bush is Christian. But he's mentioned his faith much, much less than say, the Greatest Democrat Who Ever Lived, Mr. Bill Clinton. Clinton carried a bible with him when he made speeches. He went into black churches and proclaimed his faith, which no-doubt had something to do with his becoming the "first black president". Maybe what's scary to these people is that Bush simply believes in God and doesn't really use that for political gains. Anyone that says Clinton wasn't using faith for his campaign is lying.
When Bush supporters prodded Christians to vote for Bush - or when it was suggested they did (I still haven't seen any proof that it happened the way they were saying), people got pissed. But what about Clinton himself stumping in black churches, carrying a bible and talking up his campaign? That ties into the title of your post, I figure. If it's a white church, that's bad. Black? No big deal.
And on a final note, it was John F(uckin') Kerry who said in a speech weeks before the election that he would take the bible with him into the oval office. Religion is important to a lot of us, but I don't think any of us are so stupid as to choose our leader based on claims of religion alone.
I know. That comment was a reaction to that sentiment.
I just don't buy it. "Exit polls" also have Kerry winning the popular vote.
...although that is a good point, BoingBoing seems to think exit polls are infallible, so that would validate their "arguments".
It just feels like BoingBoing is grasping on to anything that "proves" that they're right and that those who voted for Bush are wrong...hell, not just wrong, but deranged psychopaths.
I personally think that if Kerry had been elected, we would have withdrawn prematurely from Iraq and that our national security would take a backseat to issues that are better dealt with in peacetime. And that's why I voted for Bush. I can't be alone on this.
Exit polls are like any other poll...they are limited to a subset of Americans who are willing to take polls. Conservatives are more likely to say they don't want to answer questions; that's part of why I don't take polls at face value.
Here's more on why I don't care for polls. In a nutshell, a lot of people who don't know what they're talking about tend to misinterpret the numbers.
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