In the Republican primary campaign, at least. First we had Ted Cruz tell us that all our great presidents "started every day on their knees, asking God for guidance."
Even FDR, Ted? You sure about that?
Now we have Marco Rubio: "Our rights come from God." Let's parse that just a bit.
All our rights come from God. How's she do that?
Does everybody get the same rights, or does God play favorites?
If everybody gets the same rights, how does that work for, say, girls in Afghanistan? Muslims in Myanmar? Do they have the same rights as I do, or don't they?
Now say I am a 70 year-old guy in the USA. Does that work for me?
Okay, how about a 70 year-old black guy in the USA? I was about nine when Brown vs Board of Education was decided. Is that when I got the right to an equal access to education? 'Splain that, in reference to God.
Okay, then: what about the famous "three-fifths" compromise, in the Constitution? You know, the one that apportioned the House of Representatives according to each state's population, adding to the number of free persons, three-fifths of the number of "other persons" in each state. When that provision was overturned, by the amendments of the 1860s, how did that happen, God-wise?
I guess the question comes down to this: Does God change her mind, every so often, or finally get the memo, or what?
Can't God manage to get it right the first time? Perhaps Noah might have said, maybe not. But what does Marco Rubio say?
Monday, February 1, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
God Has a Lot to Answer For
I'll be brief.
There are a lot of people who, when confronted with an unimaginable disaster, comfort themselves, and attempt to comfort others, by saying, in effect, that it's all part of God's Plan, and we humans can't understand how it's all for the best, but it is.
There are a lot of people who, when justifying their political opinions (especially if those opinions have to do with interfering with other people undertaking private behaviors like being gay or having abortions), say that they are doing what God told them, personally, to do.
Trouble is, often these are the same people.
So how, on one hand, do they argue that God's intentions are inscrutable, and, on the other, that they themselves have an intimate pipeline* to God's intentions?
This is Fop, goddammit.
*'Scuse the imagery.
There are a lot of people who, when confronted with an unimaginable disaster, comfort themselves, and attempt to comfort others, by saying, in effect, that it's all part of God's Plan, and we humans can't understand how it's all for the best, but it is.
There are a lot of people who, when justifying their political opinions (especially if those opinions have to do with interfering with other people undertaking private behaviors like being gay or having abortions), say that they are doing what God told them, personally, to do.
Trouble is, often these are the same people.
So how, on one hand, do they argue that God's intentions are inscrutable, and, on the other, that they themselves have an intimate pipeline* to God's intentions?
This is Fop, goddammit.
*'Scuse the imagery.
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