In the Name of the Prince of Peace, We Rage
How come the people who claim to be closest to God are so mad all the time?
 

March 25 2005
Counterbias.com
Steve Horowitz


Watching the 24/7 "Survivor: Shiavo" on TV ("We'll never let her be kicked off the island! Never!") I was struck by an observation.

These people. The ones who think they're standing up for morality, and doing God's work, and protecting the sanctity of life, blah, blah, blah -- they're so angry all the time!

Think about it. They're always looking for a fight! Abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, evolution -- if they're against it, we should all be against it. And if we're not all against it, they'll go to war -- assassinating character, blasting away at empirical evidence and judicial authority, building up a fortress of lies and denial, and spewing clouds of poisonous propaganda and Orwellian slogans -- the current favorite being "culture of life."

And if the principles America was founded on -- freedom of thought, rule of law, separation of powers, personal privacy -- say we don't have to be against what they're against, then they say those principles no longer apply.

Because the Schiavo fanatics answer to a higher authority, don't they. Just like the 19 Muslim hijackers on 9/11 -- they know the true God, and His will. They're making a stand, and there'll be hell to pay (Randall Terry, of Operation Rescue infamy, actually promised that today) until we go along.

Our extremists never crashed airplanes into buildings. But they have used a truck to blow up a federal building, robbed banks and armored cars, bombed abortion clinics and murdered abortion providers when they thought our system failed them.

Or, more precisely, when the principles of democracy clashed with their totalitarian religious fantasies.

And now they're holding vigil outside Terri Schiavo's hospice room, and blathering all over the news channels, as ratings-hungry media corporations bestow credibility on belligerent zealots who know nothing about Terri Schiavo except that she seemed to smile in a video her parents released.

Bitter. Filled with rage. Near-psychotic in their unwillingness to tolerate disagreement. All in the name of God.

Happy Good Friday.

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