Who Do You Pray To?

Sign of the anti-Christ. He’s a trickster.

Are these peo­ple for real? This must be some kind of joke, right? This is the very essence of pure evil. I believe in God, and I think George Bush and that God aren’t on speak­ing terms, let alone on the same tick­et. Why do these morons insist that God is a Repub­li­can, and that the Amer­i­can flag is now a reli­gious sym­bol? Fur­ther, that being an Amer­i­can means believ­ing in the sep­a­ra­tion of church and state. Jesus, does­n’t this make you angry?

How absurd is it that Sen. John Ker­ry of Mass­a­chu­setts is denied par­tak­ing in com­mu­nion (which in my church, isn’t up to the per­son serv­ing to judge) but no one seems to think that the pres­i­dent who sends our troops into harms way for no good rea­son should have that right revoked? Why is it that the same peo­ple who con­demn any­one who speaks ill of the Pres­i­dent Bush as being un-Amer­i­can dur­ing war-time are the same peo­ple who had no prob­lem rip­ping on Pres­i­dent Clin­ton when we had peace keep­ers in the Balkans?

Folks, if you want to save your soul and avoid the fires of hell, you need to show the world you know the truth:

Oh, and for the record, you bet­ter believe that I own one; and this isn’t any joke, either.

I was pret­ty pissed, actu­al­ly, when I wrote this. Two posts from friends help point out that self-right­eous­ness is annoy­ing, no mat­ter who’s doing it.

Sta­cie: Good point. Maybe reli­gion should just be off lim­its for both sides. While I like to believe we’ve enjoyed that in our coun­try in the past cen­tu­ry (most of it, any­way), I think that is at risk. The only dif­fer­ence I see in these prod­ucts is that fact that the lib­er­al t‑shirt does­n’t claim that any leader is clos­er to God. How­ev­er, it cer­tain­ly implies that Jesus (and, by proxy, God) has come down on one side in the cul­ture war. Real­ly not a lot dif­fer­ent than those I was beat­ing up on, or the Tal­iban for that mat­ter. Sor­ry about all that Hell-fire talk. I don’t real­ly much go for believ­ing in Hell, any­way. Speak­ing of that…

Kevin: That’s cool, too. I think reli­gious tol­er­ance has every­thing to do with the free­dom to not choose reli­gion, not just between Bap­tist or Methodist. Fur­ther, what­ev­er belief you choose (or don’t choose, or what­ev­er) should­n’t have to imply a polit­i­cal choice.

So, about that shirt. Yes, I do have one and the first time I wore it around the house, my wife asked me “so you’re okay with the blas­phe­my, then?” I sup­pose I am. I guess today, I for­got the fact that even though I may believe in the mes­sage, there’s still some humor to be had with all of this. For now on, my self-right­eous­ness will be direct­ed toward only pok­ing fun and not just being angry.