I don't get it, folks. The ACLU wants to stop a community in Ocean Grove, NJ from having their high school graduation in a church. Mind you, no one in the community is complaining; it's people from outside the community who have issues with the separation of church and state. I wonder if it's possible for Christians to come together and sue the ACLU for a systematic pattern of abuse and discrimination? They hide harassment of Christians -- and anything associated with Christians -- under the guise of "separation of church and state." Think about it. If someone who was not Jewish were to complain about a high school graduation being held in a building because that building had stars of David on it, they'd instantly be branded anti-semitic. If someone who was not Muslim were to complain about a high school graduation being held in a building with the star and crescent on it, demanding that those symbols be covered, that person would be branded an Islamophobe.
(My eyes went over to the news. There's a story on about gay pride in Atlantic City. All I see is some guy who's shaped like a pig shaking his stomach. Revolting. Not the homosexuality; the fat. And the gay dancers they have look like robots.)
Meanwhile, I just saw two stories back to back. One was about how the City overturned a judgement against it. Seems a man was unfairly convicted of rape and served time. He was exonerated, sued the City and won an 18 million dollar judgement. But it was thrown out because the City "didn't intend to violate his civil rights." Or else he had an attorney who was on the City's payroll. Really. With a systematic history of oppression of men of color, how can the argument be made that the City didn't intend to violate his civil rights? If you have three unrelated incidents, lawyers will tell you there's a pattern. How in the world did the City get off with this judgement? How, indeed. Either the atty was still in law school, or they were on the take.
The second story was of a 91-year old man being evicted from his senior citizen center. The reason was .... does it really matter? The guy's 91 years old. How long is he going to live to be able to be a pain in anyone's behind? Who does it serve to evict a 91 year old man from the place he's called home for 24 years?
And on to a familiar rant: I'm sorry, folks. I love God's people Israel. I enjoy visiting the region that is presently referred to as Israel and that which is not acknowledged as Palestine. But I have absolutely no use for the politics of the modern nation of Israel. I believe they hide behind the horrors of history to propagate those same horrors upon others. I know my opinion is unpopular, but I've been in Israel, a passenger in a taxi driven by a Palestinian. I've been stopped and grilled by Israeli security for no apparent reason except that I was riding in a Palestinian's cab. I've seen the concentration camps. I despise the wall. And I don't understand how we can talk about separation of church and state in our own home, yet give billions of dollars a year to a country that not only espouses a religion, but espouses a religion that effectively results in an apartheid state. Perhaps that statement is a bit harsh -- it's not, of course, the rich tradition of Judaism that promotes the apartheid state; it's people who are fanatic in their interpretation of that rich tradition.
We find fanatics in all the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It's just interesting to me that a zealous Jewish person is a Freedom Fighter, a zealous Christian is a Crusader, but a zealous Muslim is a terrorist.
Wow. Not sure where that came from. It's just really frustrating to see oppression all around, and to see the concept of religion, or of The Divine, or of God -- to see those concepts bastardized and demeaned rather than clarified and elevated in the minds of the people. This happens because so many people are so willing to misuse relationships, both with the Divine and with one another. The result is a skewed world where the bizarre is increasingly presented as normal.
It's a world gone mad.
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