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I submit to you this excerpt from a televised arguement between Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell:
JACKSON: I submit to you today that our going to Iraq was a misadventure. It has put America in isolation. We are losing lives, money and losing our character in that war.
We deserve better leadership. And we need...
FALWELL: I'd rather be killing them over there than fighting them over here, Jesse. And I think you would...
JACKSON: Let's stop the killing and choose peace. Let's choose negotiation over confrontation.
FALWELL: Well, I'm for that too. But you've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.
JACKSON: That does not sound Biblical to me. And that sounds ridiculous.
Falwell is insane, that's no surprise to anybody. He's totally certifiable, and the fact that anybody in the world gives this guy any credibility at all, quite frankly scares me.
These most-extreme right-wing christians, the ones who love to tell us that the Muslim terrorists are 'evil' because they're commiting their crimes based(more and more loosely) on their religious beliefs....the furthest right christians, the people who support people like Jerry Falwell, they are part of the problem here. Some(keyword: SOME) Christians are as out of their minds with their beliefs as some(keywords: SOME) Islam people are. The only difference is that Christians aren't internationally mass-murdering people. Yet. It's part of the problem. When one of the big reasons Muslims hate us is because we don't show them any respect and because we have a public image of ALL of them being terrorists, then if these most fanatical of the fanatical Christians are going to keep calling said Muslims 'evil', then it's part of the problem. And people just don't get it(or at least not enough people get it).
It's a shame that Christianity, at least the way Falwell preaches it, has strayed so far from what Jesus was all about. Shame on you, Jerry. This is why I refuse to believe in any religion.
JACKSON: I submit to you today that our going to Iraq was a misadventure. It has put America in isolation. We are losing lives, money and losing our character in that war.
We deserve better leadership. And we need...
FALWELL: I'd rather be killing them over there than fighting them over here, Jesse. And I think you would...
JACKSON: Let's stop the killing and choose peace. Let's choose negotiation over confrontation.
FALWELL: Well, I'm for that too. But you've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.
JACKSON: That does not sound Biblical to me. And that sounds ridiculous.
Falwell is insane, that's no surprise to anybody. He's totally certifiable, and the fact that anybody in the world gives this guy any credibility at all, quite frankly scares me.
These most-extreme right-wing christians, the ones who love to tell us that the Muslim terrorists are 'evil' because they're commiting their crimes based(more and more loosely) on their religious beliefs....the furthest right christians, the people who support people like Jerry Falwell, they are part of the problem here. Some(keyword: SOME) Christians are as out of their minds with their beliefs as some(keywords: SOME) Islam people are. The only difference is that Christians aren't internationally mass-murdering people. Yet. It's part of the problem. When one of the big reasons Muslims hate us is because we don't show them any respect and because we have a public image of ALL of them being terrorists, then if these most fanatical of the fanatical Christians are going to keep calling said Muslims 'evil', then it's part of the problem. And people just don't get it(or at least not enough people get it).
It's a shame that Christianity, at least the way Falwell preaches it, has strayed so far from what Jesus was all about. Shame on you, Jerry. This is why I refuse to believe in any religion.
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