It Would Appear That Jesus Christ Is Who We Would Like Him To Be And How Once Again, The Troops Become Inconveeenient

How Conveeenient!!  Dana Carvey’s the Churchlady would say on Saturday Night Live in the 80s & early 90s.  As puritanical as the Church lady was, one has to wonder if  she would have been as nutty as Pastor Terrence Jones of Gainesville, Florida is.  He’s the wingnut who plans to commemorate 9/11 in a whole new way–by burning the Quran.  Ain’t that special? I see that  the Evangelicals of America still haven’t given up the traditions of good ol’ fashioned book burnings of literature that just doesn’t suit their puritanical maintenance of ignorance and in many cases, white supremacy.

General Petreaus  has already come out against this event, citing that this would endanger the lives of  the troops fighting in Afghanistan.

But with about 120,000 U.S. and NATO-led troops still battling al Qaeda and its allies in the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement, Petraeus warned that burning Qurans “is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems — not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.”

And one of his deputies, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, told CNN’s “The Situation Room” that the event “has already stirred up a lot of discussion and concern” among Afghans.

“We very much feel that this can jeopardize the safety of our men and women that are serving over here in the country,” said Caldwell, the head of NATO efforts to train Afghan security forces.

Caldwell said American troops “are over here to defend the rights of American citizens, and we’re not debating the First Amendment rights that people have.” But he added, “What I will tell you is that their very actions will in fact jeopardize the safety of the young men and women who are serving in uniform over here and also undermine the very mission that we’re trying to accomplish.”

Of course, much of the right wingnut faction, including, of course, Kathy Shaidle, and this fool who really shouldn’t be loose in society,  much like Stevie Spiteful, show how they stop supporting the troops when it’s no longer conveeenient for them to do so. In fact, the latter has his own way of directing General Petraeus:

Petraeus would do better to tell the Afghans that in America we have freedom of speech and expression, and that we put up with speech and expression that we dislike without trying to kill the speaker. He would do better to tell them that their likely murderous rage over this event is an outrageous overreaction, and that any bloodshed over this would be a heinous crime, far dwarfing any crime they think the people in Florida are committing.

Oh yeah! Better still, Robert of “Jihad Watch”, since you claim to know more about how to run a war and conduct NATO troops in this effort, how’s you enlist and fly down to Afghanistan and you just go and tell the good general how it’s done? Even better still, how’s about you tell the Taliban and whomever else you perceive to be the “enemy” what you just said above and everything else in that blog of your’s and let’s see exactly how well that would go over?

Our dear self-designated Jihad vigilante doesn’t quit while he’s behind:

Petraeus should be defending the Florida church’s right to do as they please, and using it as a teaching moment in Afghanistan to say, We are going to defend our vision of society, no matter what you bring against us.

More like impose your vision of society, it would seem. Ok, then, we’ll see if his “subjects” would be fast learners here.  Say they adapt DeBeauxOs of Dammit Janet’s massively excellent idea and they burn bibles. I would also add that they should burn Torahs.  I wonder how our Jihad vigilante, Robert would feel about that? After all, it’s what your vision of society that you’re imposing on others is all about, right? Burning books you just don’t like?

As for Jesus Christ, well, he has been twisted around to suit the new right, hasn’t he? I mean, let’s face it, he’s just been too damned liberal with his healing the sick, helping the poor and teaching about love and peace toward our fellow man.  It is why Andy Schlafly is rewriting the bible, isn’t he?

And now, Pastor Jones  has told ABC News in a special interview that

If Jesus Christ were here today, he would support burning the Quran.

I guess Jesus Christ doesn’t support the troops neither, or at the very least, shouldn’t, if he were still among us (I’m aware that many of my readers are non-believers and when I do blog about Jesus, I’m not imposing my views on anyone).

I wonder how Robert, the Jihadist vigilante feels about the 9/11 first responders having had their health care funding cut by 77%  and, in December of 2007, when Dubya cancelled a health monitoring and treatment program for Ground Zero workers?  Does Pastor Jones think Jesus Christ would have supported that in his psychotic mind? I wonder why Pastor Jones doesn’t commemorate 9/11 in a more constructive fashion like raising money through his church to help these victims and their families? Oh yeah! That would be evul soshalism, now wouldn’t it?

In the wonderful delusional world according to the evangelical far right cult and their flock like Pastor Jones and Andy Schlafly as well bungling fools like the socon element here in Canada, Jesus Christ is whomever they would like him to be; whatever suits their whims.  I wonder if Pastor Jones and his ilk even knows how to read; let alone read the bible. After all, actually sitting down and taking the time to read it before Schlafly and his Conservapedia friends butcher it beyond recognition, would just be inconveeeenient.