Update [2005-4-18 22:55:47 by HadIt]:Sorry if my writing was awkward and it wasn't obvious that I don't believe the title of my diary. I added a boldface in a spot to emphasize that. Also, I absolutely WANT discussion to continue. I would just like people to focus on the one repetitive line in the diary before they come to blows.
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Even if you just have a passing acquaintance with a faith, which you keep in your life like an old comfortable couch, your are anti-intellectual and a bit irrational and so have no part in being here?
Is that, in the end, what the majority here want?
It damn well better not be.
But I'll have a poll at the end, just to check.
Until then, let me say the obvious:
We're all on the fucking same side!
Pastordan asks for people to strongly counter Senator Frist's horrific claim that Democrats are moral-less and evil, and many did so.
Then hundreds of others acted as if the Religious Right had invaded.
We're all on the fucking same side!
DHinMI posts a thoughtful proposal that we only talk of religion in its political use and abuse but not argue over who's view of the universe is correct. Many thought it was a good rational post.
Then others actually (it seems deliberately) twisted what he said and claimed he said atheists weren't welcome - which is an absolute lie.
We're all on the fucking same side!
And this is just the latest salvo. On and on it's gone. "There is no God", "There is too a God", "Yeah, well I worship a squirrel eating a coconut", "Religious people are irrational and unintelligent", "You just called me a moron!", "You're too stupid to hold office", and in the background people are screaming "STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!"
We're all on the fucking same side!
What the hell is the matter with everyone here!?!
This is a partisan Democratic blog, right?
I, also, mistakenly forgot that and plopped out some oddball diaries about me trying to understand the religious right in the context of their supposed playbook, the Bible. But, I realize my diaries were written more for a progressive Christian blog. I was in error.
(Of course mine (rightly) never made it to the list, so probably never hurt anybody.)
But still some kind of discontent keeps flaring and erupting.
DHinMI's suggestion of balance was, it seems, taken under advisement.
But I fear this kind of crap is going to continue unless people remember that NO ONE HERE IS THE ENEMY!
Are some INTENTIONALLY trying to be divisive by blowing statements out of proportion and actually creating a religious wedge here?!?
Are we being jerked around, with people intentionally twisting discussion threads?
We're all on the fucking same side!
Everyone here wants the same thing: A restoration of our party and a movement of our country to a brighter progressive future.
Justice, Compassion, Equality, Prosperity, Opportunity, Security, Liberty.
We're all on the fucking same side!
We're all on the fucking same side!
We're all on the fucking same side!
I need a drink.
Update [2005-4-18 22:7:15 by HadIt]:
A rundown of relevant this past weekend, in order of appearance (I think).
It's the comments more than the posts themselves.
Dems of Faith, Represent! (In fact, ALL DEMS!)
A statement for Pastor Dan
No more free passes for RELIGION!
I've Had My Fill of the Pastor Dan Statements, Thank You.
Losing My Religion
Pastor Dan Rants on the PD Diaries
Enough With Religion, Fergodssake!