Just Kristin

If I were a reli­gious per­son, I would believe that I, as well as our coun­try, had been aban­doned by God… but I am not. I do despair, though, since it has been aban­doned by its peo­ple. I wish it were harder for me to believe that our coun­try is so blind to inter­na­tional opin­ion, that its peo­ple are so hood­winked by a cor­rupt admin­is­tra­tion, myr­iad times caught — on tape no less — lying about impor­tant things, about things that affect us, our coun­try (rather than lying about some­thing per­sonal that was no one’s busi­ness to begin with), and who we keep around (“we” being a rel­a­tive term) because its fig­ure­head reminds us of our pseudo-Christian (WWJD? lesse.…war, war, war, cour only the rich and pow­er­ful, polute, cod­dle corporations.…yep, now he is one Chris­t­ian man), misog­y­nis­tic, homo­pho­bic, xeno­pho­bic, alco­holic, illit­er­ate, bul­ly­ing frat-boy days, and because he seems to be a stal­wart leader sim­ply because he never learns, never grows, never changes his mind (or so he says — video has proven oth­er­wise) while the other guy voted one way when being lied to, and another way when he found out the lie, prov­ing his abil­ity to learn and change and admit when he was wrong. I wish that this was all the joke the rest of the world sees it to be (although they and I agree that it is a very scary joke). I despair. I despair for our free­dom, for my child, for this coun­try, for the future, for my san­ity. Come on, stragglers.

§ 4 Responses to “If I Pray Harder?”

• syndromes says:

  11/4/2004 at 1:11 am

  As in being a par­tic­i­pant of the world con­ver­sa­tion rather than the moderator.
• syndromes says:

  11/3/2004 at 12:11 am

  We must take back this coun­try. You may yet see the fire lit beneath my polit­i­cal ass moti­vate me to donate much of my time to turn­ing this nation of ours around and get it headed in a more worldly and pos­i­tive direction.

  These are telling times for all of us I think.

  COMMENT:
  Syn­dromes, please clar­ify. Do you mean worldly as in car­ing about the rest of the world or worldly as in ignor­ing moral values?
• li'l brown says:

  11/3/2004 at 5:11 pm

  Let me take a stab at this:
  Worldly as in focused on that which ben­e­fits us all: our coun­try, all coun­tries, the whole world. This would include what some would call “moral­ity”, although not nec­es­sar­ily the “moral­ity” passed on by those who are cer­tain that the only true moral­ity can be passed on by reli­gion (not spir­i­tu­al­ity, not com­mon sense, not nat­ural do-unto-otherness, but dog­matic reli­gion). And I have a hard time believ­ing that moral­ity is high on the list of any­one who puts the money first, before the poor, the ill, the chil­dren, those who are dif­fer­ent in any way, the major­ity of the world’s coun­tries; before telling the truth, before play­ing fair, before tak­ing care of the eco­log­i­cal health of the earth… I can be moral with­out being reli­gious. This admin­is­tra­tion, how­ever, is the very def­i­n­i­tion of hypocrasy, and no one in it is any­one I want my child learn­ing morals from: “Smoo, above all else, befriend the rich, and hold their atten­tions and needs dearer than those of the poor and down­trod­den. If you are asked a ques­tion, avoid talk­ing (about your ser­vice record, about wmd, about what­ever) if you can, and if you can’t, lie, and blame other’s for being wishy-washy when what they did was react to your lies. Etc. ad nauseum.”

  *sigh*
  I am sorry if I sound snippy but I am always sad­dened when peo­ple assume that reli­gion makes a per­son moral, and that pro­fess­ing faith for­gives a per­son all their trans­gres­sions. WWJD? Hon­estly, if any­one in the cur­rent (*sob*) admin­is­tra­tion even began com­par­ing him­self to Jesus, Jesus him­self would cry over his mes­sage hav­ing been that com­pletely misunderstood.
• Karin says:

  11/3/2004 at 7:11 pm

  I guess my point on worldly was that it has a cer­tain con­no­ta­tion to ME prob­a­bly based on the way I was raised, and I didn’t want to judge Syn­dromes com­ment until I under­stood exactly what he meant…if that makes sense. :)

  Hugs K. We may not agree polit­i­cally all the time, but I respect your opin­ion and I’m sad you guys are frus­trated and upset with the way things are.