Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
-Matthew 25: 40-
Conservative Christians of the George Bush type are good at weaseling out of such fundamental bits of Christian moral imperative, even though George’s excuse that there’s a war on has to be seen in light of the fact that there was a war on when Jesus said the above and a war on when he was identified as an insurgent, tortured and killed. Of course the weasel word here is “brethren” and although we are told often enough in those steepled edifices that all men are brothers, when push comes to shove, Christians have too often defined brethren only as Christian brethren.
Is not Maher Arar a man and a brother? Not enough of one for our George with his “higher father” to consider as such. Besides there’s a war on and that means morality and decency are off. Maher Arar was spirited off to one of George the Christian’s secret dungeons to be tortured for 10 months. Let me say it again so that you can imagine being drowned to unconsciousness for 10 months and made to writhe in pain, sleeplessness, heat and cold for 10 months in some hell hole without contact with anyone but your interrogators. 10 Months.
What was his crime? Nothing at all. He was simply accused and that’s enough. It’s a lot less than others have had to suffer from the boot heel of George the Christian. For is there not a war on? Are we not in terrible danger from an enemy with no moral scruples?
Let the lily livered, moralist, liberal, do-gooder, bleeding heart, democrat, godless, baby-killer, tyrant appeaser, coward, traitor, leftist, commie bastards go wah, wah, wah all they want. There’s a war on and we’re Christians.
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The flip side of this tragedy is that the American people are not outraged at what is being done in their name.
I simply cannot believe I live in a country that would render a person overseas to be tortured... let alone on ZERO evidence of him actually being a terrorist.
When outrage starts to be noticable, Goerge the Christian just tells us how dangerous things are and how he's doing something about it and we put our heads back in the sand.
So much for the land of the brave and the home of the free.
It's land of the free and home of the brave. If you don't know that it sounds to me like you're not even an American citizen. More like some subversive spy planted here to put down roots and undermine our nation at a time of war. I think you need to be rendered to a secret location in an unnamed country under a secret warrant labeling you an enemy combatant. Then "alternative interrogation methods" can be used to find out the extent of your involvement with international terrorism because if you are picked up and rendered it means by definition that you are guilty because Georgie says so. Don't you get it man? Isn't it faster for one out of touch delusional Jesus freak to make decisions of guilt rather than the whole cumbersome due process thing? Warrants, preliminary hearings, pre-trial motions, judges, juries, cross-examination, exclusion of unreliable evidence, confrontation of witnesses and evidence, a reading of the charges and sharing of evidence - inculpating and exculpating, verdicts, appeals, clemency pleas, pardons and parole? It's faster this way. Pull up a chair, pop some popcorn and embrace the horror.
I'm sorry, this is off topic, but I loved that Crankyboy used the term "Jesus Freak." I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin where almost EVERYONE went to church on Sunday, but stayed uniformly out of everyone else's face. What people did behind closed doors was their business. And the minority that didn't worship in any sense were not ostrasized and didn't draw special attention. The few who did proselytize or acted like the very prominent and popular "Christianists" of today were referred to as "Jesus Freaks" by the rest of us. I haven't heard the term used in 20 years, because it seems the majority no longer views them as freaks. Freaky, no?
As I remember from the day, the term freak was embraced by those of us who for reasons of hair and clothes were called that on the street.
Somehow, as you say, the Jesus Freaks weren't of us or like us - more like wolves in sheep's clothing. Still, most of them just wanted to convert you. These days they want to take over the world.
And there there are the cranky folks who don't get it when you play with the words to that dumb song. Maybe I'll call them Cranky Freaks.
Guilty as charged Capt. I deserve to be rendered to to a secret location - Victoria's Secret location that is.
Render
transitive verb, purify fat: to purify or extract something by melting, especially to heat solid fat slowly until as much liquid fat as possible has been extracted from it, leaving small crisp remains.
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Sounds much too painful to me, whether Victoria has anything todo with it or not.
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