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      In the Name of the Prince of Peace, We Rage
      How come the people who claim to be closest to God are so mad all 
the time?
       

      March 25 2005
      Counterbias.com
      Steve Horowitz


      Watching the 24/7 "Survivor: Shiavo" on TV ("We'll never let her be 
kicked off the island! Never!") I was struck by an observation.

      These people. The ones who think they're standing up for morality, 
and doing God's work, and protecting the sanctity of life, blah, blah, 
blah -- they're so angry all the time!

      Think about it. They're always looking for a fight! Abortion, stem 
cell research, gay marriage, evolution -- if they're against it, we should 
all be against it. And if we're not all against it, they'll go to war -- 
assassinating character, blasting away at empirical evidence and judicial 
authority, building up a fortress of lies and denial, and spewing clouds 
of poisonous propaganda and Orwellian slogans -- the current favorite 
being "culture of life."

      And if the principles America was founded on -- freedom of thought, 
rule of law, separation of powers, personal privacy -- say we don't have 
to be against what they're against, then they say those principles no 
longer apply.

      Because the Schiavo fanatics answer to a higher authority, don't 
they. Just like the 19 Muslim hijackers on 9/11 -- they know the true God, 
and His will. They're making a stand, and there'll be hell to pay (Randall 
Terry, of Operation Rescue infamy, actually promised that today) until we 
go along.

      Our extremists never crashed airplanes into buildings. But they have 
used a truck to blow up a federal building, robbed banks and armored cars, 
bombed abortion clinics and murdered abortion providers when they thought 
our system failed them.

      Or, more precisely, when the principles of democracy clashed with 
their totalitarian religious fantasies.

      And now they're holding vigil outside Terri Schiavo's hospice room, 
and blathering all over the news channels, as ratings-hungry media 
corporations bestow credibility on belligerent zealots who know nothing 
about Terri Schiavo except that she seemed to smile in a video her parents 
released.

      Bitter. Filled with rage. Near-psychotic in their unwillingness to 
tolerate disagreement. All in the name of God.

      Happy Good Friday.


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