Sunday, August 31, 2008

More Notes on Palin Choice

Tom Brokaw was giggling like a school girl this morning, enamored with Sarah Palin and her home, which sports a sign that reads "Vegetarian is a native American word for Bad Hunter".

I don't like the wild west shoot em up image encouraged by reports after the John McCain pick of Sarah Palin.

With such a choice, the easy path of violence and conquest breathes easy. "We don't have to be anything but animals," is the breath of the wind, as people polish their guns and sigh.

If this planet were merely a jungle and we the dominant predator, the conquest and vanquish mentality works just fine.

What I find appalling and interesting is when the shoot em up/predator mentality pairs with super religion, as in the case with the image born of Sarah Palin.

One example: Vegetarianism is a healthy diet. Especially these days, when cows stand in knee deep mud and manure, eating grain, which is not something their five stomachs (made to process grass) can really handle, in massive feed lots, until their slaughter. The resulting beef is fatty and unhealthy. There is a morality issue to treating life in that manner, too, mostly ignored.

Tom Brokaw, stop your giggling and restart your brain.

Jesus Christ would not wander the earth plundering its resources, torturing its animals, guns hanging off his robes, conquering any perceived threat or weakness with a shower of bullets. I'm sorry, that image doesn't work for me, and is contrary to everything taught in the Bible.

Religion these days is bizarre in belief, espousing war, guns and shunning Biblical mandates, while beating people and politicians up with the Bible and claiming family values. Really, it is very funny, if you think about it.

One evangelical Christian candidate for President, Mike Huckabee, had a son who, with his friends, fellow boy scout camp councillors, tortured a stray dog to death, hanging the poor dog then beating it to death.

There are huge hypocrisies buried into the messages of religions. I don't pay attention to religious practitioners and crusaders anymore.

Sarah Palin may be a good person, but the spin has begun, pairing her prayer groups with a gun toting conquistador's image. The two lifestyles don't mesh without major efforts put into roundabout contorted justification. To pretend they do, is laziness, and an unwillingness to embrace reality.

So tote your guns and promote them, Sarah. But don't you quote the Bible to me. I'd break out in giggles like a school girl.

White Fang or Call of the Wild? Choose.

These two books are each a mish mash, however, of one another.

There is the option of taking nothing too seriously or rigidly. And I like that option.

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