Spiritual Advisors
Satirist Mark Twain wrote: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shriek of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the source of love.”
The eventual cost of the occupation of Iraq may exceed $3 trillion, but more importantly 4,000 American troops have been killed, nearly 40,000 wounded, and 5 million Iraqis displaced from their homes or killed.
More than 1.2 million desperate Iraqis fled to Syria, since the invasion. Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution, because this is the only work available. Eighty percent of the girls working as prostitutes in Damascus today are Iraqis, some as young as 13 years of age. Inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists, from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy countries in the Middle East.
Nevertheless, some are upset with Obama’s spiritual advisor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright for saying: “God damn America. That’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.” I share Rev. Wright’s rage and don’t find his words offensive, because a Supreme Being wouldn’t listen to Mark Twain or Rev. Wright.
Assuming that John McCain and his pious followers have faith that a Supreme Being listens to them, they should be asking: “God have mercy on us.” Hopefully, their plea will spare those opposing the occupation of Iraq from the wrath of divine retribution.
McCain’s spiritual supporter have been largely ignore. McCain called televangelist Rick Parsley his “spiritual guide” when accepting his endorsement. Parsley insisted: “I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed.”
Furthermore, McCain sought the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee and said that he was “honored” and “proud” to receive Hagee’s support. Pastor Hagee has claimed Katrina was God’s punishment for homosexuality, Jews are to blame for anti-Semitism, and Catholicism is “a cult” and the “Whore of Babylon.”
The eventual cost of the occupation of Iraq may exceed $3 trillion, but more importantly 4,000 American troops have been killed, nearly 40,000 wounded, and 5 million Iraqis displaced from their homes or killed.
More than 1.2 million desperate Iraqis fled to Syria, since the invasion. Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution, because this is the only work available. Eighty percent of the girls working as prostitutes in Damascus today are Iraqis, some as young as 13 years of age. Inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists, from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy countries in the Middle East.
Nevertheless, some are upset with Obama’s spiritual advisor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright for saying: “God damn America. That’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.” I share Rev. Wright’s rage and don’t find his words offensive, because a Supreme Being wouldn’t listen to Mark Twain or Rev. Wright.
Assuming that John McCain and his pious followers have faith that a Supreme Being listens to them, they should be asking: “God have mercy on us.” Hopefully, their plea will spare those opposing the occupation of Iraq from the wrath of divine retribution.
McCain’s spiritual supporter have been largely ignore. McCain called televangelist Rick Parsley his “spiritual guide” when accepting his endorsement. Parsley insisted: “I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed.”
Furthermore, McCain sought the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee and said that he was “honored” and “proud” to receive Hagee’s support. Pastor Hagee has claimed Katrina was God’s punishment for homosexuality, Jews are to blame for anti-Semitism, and Catholicism is “a cult” and the “Whore of Babylon.”
posted by Jim O'Leary | 12:00 AM
1 Comments:
You show courage in backing up Wright, but i question the usefulness of cursing "America."
Maybe it's semantics, but for me, "America" is the ideal of our country, bigger than and apart from, any administration or party.
So i would say, Goddamn this government, and that would include bush and his cronies as well as the spineless Congresses that have supported him.
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