I am not a very religious person, but I was raised Christian and I have read the bible mostly straight through. And this pisses me off:
From a wheel cover on a jeep, "God will Judge Our Enemies.
We will arrange the meeting."
Now, some people might find this "funny" or a proud slogan. If you really think about it, what all this says, it is so much of what is wrong with the Christian right in the U.S.
You see, it assumes that their enemies are going against god, possibly just for being their enemies. It assumes that they know for a fact that they are on the right side of god and their enemies are not.
"We will arrange the meeting" is a cute euphemism for murdering your enemies. So this statement completely ignores the fact that from one of the earliest stories in Genesis, god has been telling us not to kill or murder, and that he does actually punish people for that. So the assumption that the speaker of this statement will not be judged for killing his enemies is very much against everything it says in the bible. And while it starts out saying "God will judge" it is in fact, a ridiculously judgemental statement, by making assumption that his enemies will be judged and found in the wrong, as evidenced by the fact that the speaker seems to be under the assumption that they are within their rights to kill their enemies. So, punishment before judgemental is their S.O.P.? I have yet to see that in the bible.
I am so tired of these hyper-masculine, violent, and hateful statements like this being considered acceptable in our culture.
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