Politics
Look at me, I've come over all political lately. The astute among you will have noticed that I must be pretty liberal what with the type of links I've been posting. And I guess, if you had to categorize my views, many of them would fall to the left. But shame on you for categorizing me. I am more than just a few views; I'm a whole person, and one who doesn't really like being categorized at that. Unless you're going to categorize me as a Christian, which still doesn't make a clean distinction of who I am. I disagree with some thoughts of some more fundamentalist luminaries out there. Anyways, I wasn't planning on talking on that right now. Suffice it to say I consider myself a staunch pluralist.
I wasn't always so concerned with what was going on in the world. But I've discovered how important it is to find out what's really going on out there and what all sorts of impacts world events can have. Even though many of my Christian brothers and sisters in this country would definitely fall on the right side of the political spectrum, I often find liberal policies and arguments (when not too extreme) to be more in line with things Christ said. Plus, I've become more liberal over time because I keep reading articles written by liberals and democrats, which feed (I think) my initial dislike for Bush. Of course, I'm going to be more likely to read an article that criticizes Bush than praises him, but it seems that I get more fed up and disillusioned with him, his spin, and government altogether with every article that I read that goes further than a dry regurgitation of the facts. I suppose, to some extent, that I shouldn't be surprised. I grew up on my dad's old MAD magazines, which told me in a much broader sense that the government was lying to us.
Anyways, to cap off my recent surge of politically-related posts, I'm going to ask you to read this. And this. And maybe one of these because I just don't like that Bush guy.
One more note, and then I'm hopefully done blogging for this year's National Gorilla Suit Day. I recently recommended you all to the Al-Jazeera website (http://english.al-jazeera.net). I discovered today that a separate news source website with the same name exists (www.aljazeera.com). The latter (the .com one) is also an Arabic news source, has been around a little bit longer than the better known one, but the one article I read there was strongly anti-Semitic. To me, anti-Semitism is damned foolishness. That is, it's a stupid, uneducated position that's eventually going to get you into trouble. Trouble in the afterlife, for sure. And trouble from me if I hear you making unfounded accusations about Jewish people. I don't stand for that kind of thing.
I wasn't always so concerned with what was going on in the world. But I've discovered how important it is to find out what's really going on out there and what all sorts of impacts world events can have. Even though many of my Christian brothers and sisters in this country would definitely fall on the right side of the political spectrum, I often find liberal policies and arguments (when not too extreme) to be more in line with things Christ said. Plus, I've become more liberal over time because I keep reading articles written by liberals and democrats, which feed (I think) my initial dislike for Bush. Of course, I'm going to be more likely to read an article that criticizes Bush than praises him, but it seems that I get more fed up and disillusioned with him, his spin, and government altogether with every article that I read that goes further than a dry regurgitation of the facts. I suppose, to some extent, that I shouldn't be surprised. I grew up on my dad's old MAD magazines, which told me in a much broader sense that the government was lying to us.
Anyways, to cap off my recent surge of politically-related posts, I'm going to ask you to read this. And this. And maybe one of these because I just don't like that Bush guy.
One more note, and then I'm hopefully done blogging for this year's National Gorilla Suit Day. I recently recommended you all to the Al-Jazeera website (http://english.al-jazeera.net). I discovered today that a separate news source website with the same name exists (www.aljazeera.com). The latter (the .com one) is also an Arabic news source, has been around a little bit longer than the better known one, but the one article I read there was strongly anti-Semitic. To me, anti-Semitism is damned foolishness. That is, it's a stupid, uneducated position that's eventually going to get you into trouble. Trouble in the afterlife, for sure. And trouble from me if I hear you making unfounded accusations about Jewish people. I don't stand for that kind of thing.
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