political wonkery

[rmd]

whoah. this is quite something. i found it linked from kos. it's a write-up of a "men's night out" with enough melding of military worship and christianity to make the chrisitan who did the write-up uncomfortable.

the author sounds like some of the very religious christians i know -- particularly the level of discomfort with secular matters (no matter how patriotic) seemingly trumping the purpose of the church. (specifically, the flag covering up the cross)

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[solarbird]

Remember my post about visiting Kentucky, and how different it was since the last time we visited Anna's family, and stuff?

Same town. I can say with near certainty that we drove by this church. (It's only near-certainty because I didn't specifically see it. But Nicholasville Road is a major artery - bigger than 520 in Seattle - and it's kind of unavoidable.)

And this fits right in. It has exactly the same undertones to it.

[cz_unit]

Ah yes. Religious based wars are without a doubt the most fun. Remember the good ole boring days where all we had to argue about was ideology? Ah memories...

That said, people have been recruiting for over a thousand years to combat the evil heathen. I don't see any sign of this stopping anytime soon. Also there are a lot of whack jobs in this country who had no problem doing all sorts of things (Abe Lincoln brigade for example) so we don't have a monopoly on this.

MTD was doing a big reporting job for barf.org awhile back. Good use of his Digex money. Check it out.

Chris

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I just read this and am incredibly creeped out.