It really is a crusade

[morgan_dhu]

I found this item courtesy of techn0goddess.

Let me ask just one simple question.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Seriously.

People all over this planet are strangling on the accumulations of bile-soaked hatred and slaughter justified by fundamentalist doctrines (not to ignore the contributions of all those other wonderful things like colonialism, imperialism and incessant meddling from European and american empires and the global neo-liberal nightmare of untrammelled oppression and greed in the name of the holy profit margin).

And the US military machine is humming "Onward Christian Soldiers."

Is anyone in power there even thinking anymore?

(Edit: I originally misspelled techn0goddess's name. This has been corrected. My apologies.)

Comments

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

Is anyone in power there even thinking anymore?

I seriously believe that many people who follow strict fundamentalist religious doctrines like this do it so that they don't have to think for themselves.

I also think that there is a distinct possibility that people who behave in the ways described in that article sincerely believe that "unbelievers" are somehow less than human, so they think it doesn't matter how you treat them.

I like to think that someday, maybe when they die and confront their God, they will be in for a biiiiiig surprise.

[trinityva.livejournal.com]

I have nothing deeply thoughtful to say.

But

According to the OCF's executive director, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Bruce Fister

...*iz ded*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I highly support the quest he's on now, but as a Jew, I have to say, what fucking took him so long? He was a lawyer for Reagan in Iran Contra? His son is acting like the military is the first place he's encountered anti-semitism--what insulated little rich protected neighborhood did he grow up in? What did he do to combat the religious zealots attacks on queers in the military before they got so well enscounced to start pushing their fundamentalism on everyone. Now they're coming for him, and suddenly he cares. It's about time he knew better. Welcome to the neighborhood, buddy.

[fancymcsnazsnaz.livejournal.com]

What in the HELL?!

Ugh. Someone please stop and let me off this thing.

[guyindkny.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say that I was terribly surprised by all of this, but I'm not. After all, American foreign policy has been nothing short of neo-colonial, and what is such a big part of colonialism but the White Man's Burden. The orientalising process of that also dehumanises those who practice another religion, making them an Other that is easier to hate and kill. Add to that, before the current Iraq war started, you had American generals publicly saying "My God is bigger than their god," this story just reaffirms what I already knew.