Gang Aft Agley
Religion may well do more good than ill though it also gives people the wherewithal to take themselves far too seriously. Big Thinkers, for example, like Reinhold Niebuhr, take religion beyond the pale — when we get into human sacrifice for principle's sake, bereft of context, we may as well start feeding beating human hearts to the sun. Yet harness intelligence (or intelligent rhetoric) to the sacred cause and Christian Realism defies the words to bring it to account.
Mr. Obama has naturally seized upon Christian Realism, incorporating as it does the highest strains of human gobbledygook. And he expresses it with grand decorum, ever so politely. Yet the reality is that he is merely saying "let us indulge our every perverted, murderous fantasy," while he offers us absolution.
As if lace-dressed pedophile priests were an insufficient hint, now we have the President of the United States invoking religion on behalf of an insane war. Religion, perhaps, should be taken down a notch or two... Mr. Obama's Oslo speech, notwithstanding its bipartisan, highly positive reception, is a disgusting disgrace.
Posted by George Kenney on December 12, 2009 10:07 PM 
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Comments
Right. What makes dangerous more so is that in this case it's disgusting.
"March on Christian Soldiers." Not in my name, thank you.
The pithy way to put it is how Carlin did: "Keep thy religion to thyself."
Talk about moral hazard! This is on you, Mr. President, no hiding behind the robed agents of hooey.
Posted by: Peter | December 13, 2009 9:09 AM
Chris Floyd is burning:
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Posted by: EJK | December 15, 2009 10:57 AM