When Will It End?

As loathe as I am to delve into this subject, I must do it now. I think I've already established through my blog entries, art chosen for said blog, & Twitterfeed I am an atheist. So the millenia old pissing contest of "My GOD is bigger than your GOD" is something of little interest to me. But it is current events at the moment. The current hatred du jour is Islamophobia. I can't get away from it on the Internet. Teabaggers & the "religious right", whom have never been right, are screeching & moaning about the evils & ills of Islam. Funny that it has taken 8 years for this witch's brew of racism to come bubbling to the top of their agenda.

Not funny "ha, ha". Odd that this didn't occur when the worst president in the history of our nation was in charge. It's so clear to me that this is a transparent power play by Teabaggers & the GOP to malign Obama. To discredit him. To encourage the unstable people who believe Obama is not a citizen of our country to foment their idiocy. To scare white people who cling to guns & religion, some of which currently populate Arkansas.

Now as I have previously stated, I don't care who you worship, because all gods are bunk. Luckily, I live in America, where I don't have to pick a religion. I am free to have no religion at all. Although I'm still not sure how to get "In GOD we trust" off our money, avoid using a bible in a court trial, or how to get "Under GOD" out of the Pledge which was only added in the 1950's. But I give, or rather The Constitution gives you the right to worship anybody you want to. It would be a lie to say Bin Laden or Ahmadinejad do not have well publicized desires to see our country bow down to "Allah", because they do perceive our country to be Christian. And that is a lie, because more Atheists are coming out & making themselves known. But the "religious right" has an agenda too. It is their firm & well publicized desire (Crusades being only 1 example) to make the Middle East a hotbed of Christian activity. Oh, AND their overwhelming desire to fulfill bizarre biblical prophecy so they can be "raptured" out of the Hell they make of our planet.

The reason I'm delving into all of this now is the news of all this asshattery has finally reached Afghanistan. The scene of the crime as it were. The place that was a haven for the Taliban & Al Qaeda prior to 9/11. The country that our troops are still engaged in ACTIVE WARFARE. The place where a woman had no rights before 2001 & have very few now. Also, the launching pad for Bush Jr to escalate the insanity & invade Iraq, which had nothing to do with Bin Laden & had everything to do with destabilizing the entire region. Thanks, JACKASS! People are engaging in suicide bombings there. How many will be specifically because someone thought it would be an awesome idea to burn some devil books? The Koran may be a rip off of the Bible. But, it's their book. Just because people use it to justify all kinds of things totally unrelated to religion doesn't mean it's any it's any better or worse than the Christian Bible. In fact, the Bible has been used to justify wiping out civilizations, hate crimes, homophobia, the subjugation of women for eons, need I say more?

I guess what I want you to take away from my ramblings is this is a war without winners. Newt Gingrich & other trolls of his ilk may think they are in a position to push their arcane agenda, but they are just killing more troops in Afghanistan & other places. The blood of troops killed by religious fanatics responding to religious fanaticism displayed in our own country. And it all is so without reward. Both sides believe there is an afterlife waiting for them as a reward for doing their "GOD'S" bidding. I can't even call it stupid, because stupid is too mild a word. I don't know that their is one word in the English language that covers the futility & senselessness I'm confronted with on a daily basis. If you're a Christian, you're probably not still reading. But here me out. There are just as many ignorant & conflicting passages in your "BOOK" as there are in someone else's "BOOK". How about you worry more about the tree limb protruding from your eye than the speck in your neighbor's?