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Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainJust when I thought that our respective congress critters couldn't get any more absurd they went ahead and jumped the shark. From CBS News:
Freedom wafers, anyone?This is one straight from the headlines of the Onion. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has introduced a resolution (H.Res. 847) saying, and I am not making this up, that Christmas and Christians are important. The House is scheduled to vote on this groundbreaking resolution on Tuesday.
As someone with a Christian background, I can safely say this may be the silliest resolution ever introduced by, or voted upon, by Congress, although I am a little curious to see if anyone will vote against it.
Do we really need Congress to say Christmas and the Christian faith are important? Isn't that pretty self evident by now? Don't Christians already pretty much run everything in this country, except for the mainstream media, which is of course controlled by a Jewish-Illuminati-Bill Gates cabal? Don't we already get Dec. 25 off? Wasn't I forced to shell out $65 for a scrawny Christmas tree this weekend? Won't I have to go to Pentagon City or some other godforsaken place and spend more money in the next couple weeks as part of this strange ritual? What about the terrible songs that get endlessly recycled year after stinking year? And the useless catalogs that clog my mailbox, despite my efforts to get off mailing lists? Where will the horror end?
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In that Christianity is the majority religion in this country. Also, the text of this bill (unlike that of the others) gives props to Christianity for it's role in founding the United States - which smacks of creeping theocracy. Also, cries of anti-Christian bigotry always make me somewhat skeptical (at least insofar as the United States is concerned) because I think the worst thing that your average Christian has to fear here is that some scientist might write a book that criticizes what they believe - a far cry from "bigotry" IMO. In my experience, the harshest anti-Christian "bigotry" actually comes from fellow Christians (ie Protestants and Catholics).
To be fair, I also think that the resolutions that this is a reaction to are also equally silly. Apparently, what with the war, crippling debt, and millions of uninsured children our elected representatives saw these measures as the top order of the day: hence, freedom wafers.
think about it for a few minutes, and then try to compose a relevant response - if you want to, that is.
