Krishna, and Pagans, and Perverts, Oh My!

Now that I'm done wallowing in my own self-pity, thanks to my always supportive and usually argumentative fellow bloggers, as well as the idiotic ravings of the anonydolts (one of which asked me to pull his or her blog off my blogroll, which is hard to do when anonydolts are involved.), let me tackle a subject brought forward (unwittingly, of course) by said anonydolts.  Because while I did learn a few things, and will be correcting some things I've been doing that don't add to the blog, it was yet another reminder of why I prefer the company of people I may vehemently disagree with on almost everything to people who's ideology may be similar, but is wrapped in massive ignorance and utter intolerance of Joe McCarthy, the Phelps family, and their disreputable and soulless ilk.

First let me quote the cowardly bastards a little, and answer some specifics quickly [emphasis will be added]:

Your liberal friends are out for one thing and one thing only, to get you to agree with them on their terms or to make you look like a fool when you don’t agree with them. We conservatives are really are a people of God, we might have to start acting that way, if we are going to get anywhere. The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, ... and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face....

While your liberals friends walk all over this God forsaken blog. It’s time you gave it up and hung up your keyboard. It’s time for you to take up a new hobby, this one has bitten the dust. You have turned it into a liberal haven. I have stopped commenting here long ago but I just wanted to say what I had to say and get it off of my chest.. Good bye.

I didn't think God has forsaken this blog.  After all, He did give me the talent and drive to keep writing in the face of dum (intentionally misspelled) people. And as for the reason I emphasize the above bit is the main part of this post. Read on.

But Patrick, we never see you take a stand on these issues [health care and how it relates to abortion]. A blogger needs to step up to the plate.

Uh, I've beaten the health care issue like a baby seal, a red-headed stepchild, and myself in a private moment all at the same time, I've pounded it so much. And I think I covered the abortion issue a few times, and had to ban the subject because some people can't have a conversation without hitting you with a dead fetus. But this must be because I'm a godless heathen.

Why not delete the whole blog? No one but those 4 turds truth101, Tao, Shaw and the Hare Krishna Nut case bother to post here anyway!

While the nut case may not be far off (kidding), there seems to be a pattern where religion is concerned.

And those pictured on the blog below [horse sex and bumper balls]a re the most disgusting thing ever. Goes to show that you are a pervert not a conservative.

Well, this person never saw the 2girls1cup site (no, I'm not linking to that). And if being a perv makes me not a conservative, so be it. I happen to be a conservative libertarian, if a label is required. Usually I try to avoid it.

MY ADVICE TO YOU IS TO PUT LESS SUGAR IN YOUR LATTE AND NOT TO QUIT YOUR DAY JOB.

DID EVERYBODY GET THAT?!?!?! Actually, I drink coffee. Black. Black as my heart. Black as my soul. Especially according to the "righteous" above.


Now, why did I waste my time with these morons? Very simple. I've talked to a whole lot of people. I've met many soulful people of quiet faith. I've met a few seekers who can't lay claim to any specific faith but possess a good amount of wisdom. I've met the enthusiastically faithful who are open and share the joy their faith gives them. Even the atheists who come here seem to be good at heart and not out to molest my daughter just to be able to abort her baby for delicious stem cells.

But on the other hand, there is a group that carries their faith with all the delicacy so the Spanish Inquisition, demands theologically-dictated ideological purity from anyone on their side like a Chicago union thug squad, and unleashes a Nazi blitzkrieg on those they deem as "not of the master race (of God)." They're the kind of people to whom I'd suggest that their "God" and their "Jesus" can go circle jerk somewhere because I have no use for them.

And you can pretty much guess what the'd say about thee Air Force Academy adding a prayer circle for druids, wiccans, and other pagans of various stripes.  I'm sure I'll get to in the next day or so.

Now let me clarify something (as though I haven't before). I have been a Catholic for most all my life (they get you right out of the womb). I stopped calling myself Christian after dealing with too many people who called themselves that who used it as a weapon against the "impure" in ways that would make JC take the whip of cords to their asses (something about misusing God's name (wait, isn't there a Commandment for that too?)).  And the evolution of my faith has taken me to a point where I can't justly identify as a Catholic anymore.  I'm somewhere between unitarianism and deism right now, at least until something rebuilds the fires of faith (if ever).

But I can't fathom attacking the religion or god or faith of another unless they are using their bastard faith as a way to disparage me or attack my personal beliefs.

Jesus (who's divinity I may question, but who's example unquestioningly makes him a person to follow), did not get the apostles together to sit there and hang only with the faithful.  He went out and hung with the outcast, the wrongdoer, the condemned.  And by example, he led many of them in the right way.

To bring this to blogging, if that means that I have a community of folks who (as best as I can gather) include a deist, 3 atheists, several Christians of various stripes, and a Hare Krishna (who gets this it better than most), as well as my perverted, ever-questioning, ever-seeking, non-assuming, trusting-in-God cute ass, as well as welcoming anyone who does or does not profess any faith as long as they're willing to listen, exchange ideas, and not bludgeon me for something so personal as my beliefs, then so be it.  And that includes the pseudo-Christian anonydolts.  Who lack balls, being anonydolts.

Because if we can't find the common faith that we share as people who possess the freedom to seek God in our own way, and speak without fear of attacks by the unruly masked bandits (whether it be the KKK or the anonydolts), then we are all lessened.

And if that's the case, then it's time to pick up a big damned proverbial stick.

On a final note, here's a gratuitous random pic I found just to offend someone out there.  I'm good at that.  I should keep it up.