Monday, May 23, 2005
I got an angel named Boney Moroni
How would the Latter Day Saints win converts if they advocated death to everyone whose initial reaction to the Book of Mormon was laughter? Really, the Mullahs ought to wise up or they'll never get shameless uber-caucasian Nichole Nordeman into a full burka, not voluntarily. Talk about the inadequacy of intelligent design: Use Spf 50 sunblock at least, Nichole.
What orthodox Islam fears most (is Islam ever not orthodox?) is the same as what America's heretical Christian far right fears: the feminization of their institutions & the resulting loss of entrenched patriarchal power. If mobs of illiterate wife-beaters are capable of murderous mass-psychosis over the rumored desecration of a book that is printed on cheap paper in editions of millions & handed out for free, so our own sectarian extremists would if they could lynch anyone who uses the United States flag as a bed sheet. Both are examples of the kind of idolatrous tribal mentality monotheism has tried - with only sporadic success - to overcome for 6000 years. & if the stories of Koran toilet flushing are true (we all know how much the CIA honors the religious beliefs of the people it kidnaps) well, what the hell can you expect when we're degenerating into a neopaganized-Christian version of the same theocratic police state advocated throughout the Islamic world.
We ought to be less concerned with what the various Islams think of our decadent Hellenic Judaic Christian post-enlightenment culture - we can't make Muslims forgive us short of adopting Sharia ourselves & bagging, burying up to their necks & stoning to death all Unitarians - & concern ourselves more with reducing our dependence on oil - an addiction that steers our foreign policy. & we need to aggressively oppose the homegrown mullahs & their babbling minions - less than 20% of Americans - who are bullying us step by step back into superstition & ignorance.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
What orthodox Islam fears most (is Islam ever not orthodox?) is the same as what America's heretical Christian far right fears: the feminization of their institutions & the resulting loss of entrenched patriarchal power. If mobs of illiterate wife-beaters are capable of murderous mass-psychosis over the rumored desecration of a book that is printed on cheap paper in editions of millions & handed out for free, so our own sectarian extremists would if they could lynch anyone who uses the United States flag as a bed sheet. Both are examples of the kind of idolatrous tribal mentality monotheism has tried - with only sporadic success - to overcome for 6000 years. & if the stories of Koran toilet flushing are true (we all know how much the CIA honors the religious beliefs of the people it kidnaps) well, what the hell can you expect when we're degenerating into a neopaganized-Christian version of the same theocratic police state advocated throughout the Islamic world.
We ought to be less concerned with what the various Islams think of our decadent Hellenic Judaic Christian post-enlightenment culture - we can't make Muslims forgive us short of adopting Sharia ourselves & bagging, burying up to their necks & stoning to death all Unitarians - & concern ourselves more with reducing our dependence on oil - an addiction that steers our foreign policy. & we need to aggressively oppose the homegrown mullahs & their babbling minions - less than 20% of Americans - who are bullying us step by step back into superstition & ignorance.
