On March 13, two months afte he was released from the Midland jail, Mr. Green was one of eight soldiers baptized during a Church of Christ service at Fort Benning.Of course, news accounts try to portray Green as a solitary, psychologically-disturbed "bad egg" -- even though others were involved, including men of higher rank. Why does Green get all the attention? If you've seen or read "A Clockwork Orange," you'll understand what I mean when I say that the reporters have chosen to pin all the blame on Dim while leaving Alex's name out of the papers.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
The Christian rapist
In the comments section to a previous post, a reader asked why I used the term "Christian" to describe Private Steven Green, one of the soldiers responsible for the rape of Abir Hamza. We now know somewhat more about this fellow:
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Personally I do not know if Green has a relationship with The Lord, but just because somebody said it does not make it true. I think if one studied history that many criminals had privately and personally proclaimed to be "christian, hindu, catholic, etc" but most of the time, this was not ever brought forth in their crimes. Is Bill Clinton a Christian? He went to a Christian church and got a blow job from a lady outside his marriage. Again faith not being brought forth as an issue. Wasn't Andrea Yates a Christian? She sure went to church and as I recall her religion may have actually played a role in the murders of her kids.
Joseph, do not play into criminalizing all Christians because maybe* one of them did something absolutely horrendous. Maybe one of em did something absolutely wonderful too.
I thought America was finished discriminating against any group. People are people and all kinds of people end up professing to be things... some of which they clearly are not.
Again, please do not intentionally discriminate against an entire group because of one person's actions. Thanks.
"Again, please do not intentionally discriminate against an entire group because of one person's actions."
I am not in a position to practice any sort of discrimination, if by that you mean hiring practices or something similar. I AM, however, in a position to practice condemnation, and I do so not because of one person's actions but because of the history of the group.
Fundamentalist and evangelical Christians have destroyed this country. Everything decent and civilized that the New Deal wrought has been uprooted by ghastly, monstrous Republicans, who have achieved power through cynical appeals to superstition.
Fundamentalist Christians have attacked science itself. "Christian" leaders have even been so brazen as to decry the values of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. They decry anything that smacks of intellectualism. They sneer at any art they do not understand.
In short, they have taken a position against everything that makes life worth living.
And whenever someone tries to hold you Christians accountable for your vile values, you retreat into whining. I get ill whenever I see your maudlin, self-serving insistence on protraying yourselves as the victims, when in fact you are the greatest victimizers in all history.
You judge a tree by its fruit, as a wise Jews once said. By that standard, you Christians stand forever condemned. You are EVIL. Your unshakable faith in your own recititude and your absolute inability to question yourselves, is precisely what makes you evil.
I've made my own views on religion clear previously: I stand somewhere between agnosticism and Gnosticism. The Gnostics condemned the "one god" of the Jews, Christians, and Arabs; Yahweh was their devil. Were the Gnostics on to something when they said this? Nearly any honest book of history indicates that they may have had a point; at all times and in all places, the monotheists have been up to -- or should that be "down to? -- deviltry.
Anon 6:53, it is unlikely that Joseph would be critical of the Methodists, Episcopalians, and Presbyterians (maybe even the Lutherans?) who built this country. Nor would I be. I am not a big churchgoer, but my wife and children attend a liturgical church.
But what defense can you possibly offer for the evangelicals and charismatics and fundamentalists who swept fake Conservatives like Bush and Frist and Delay into power? None, I submit. None at all. These so-called Christians have have proven themselves to be everything Joe portrays them as. And do not think for a moment that the future will forget what they have done.
The sad thing is that all the traditional churches will be burned along with the guilty ones.
He's a jew. Green is a very common jew last name, and how could a jew pass up a chance to rape and murder an Arab girl and her family?
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