The so-called "Christian" Jerry Falwell recently blamed "the attacks on pagans, abortionists, feminists, homosexuals, the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way." This hurts and offends me on all planes of reality and existence and I feel almost as if this must be an old film reel from the 40's. I have not seen or heard of anything so hateful or blatently Neanderthalistic as these words since the last time I saw a film of Hitler.
Falwell's statement was coupled with that of another horrible excuse for a human being, Pat Robertson. Robertson, who founded the psuedo-Nazi "Christian" Coalition, said in his statement Thursday that Americans have insulted God by allowing abortion and "rampant Internet pornography.'' He also chided the U.S. Supreme Court for, among other things, limiting prayer in public schools.
Sometimes I feel that the god I know is not the same as other Christians. I have a hard time belieiving that the reactionary and hateful rhetoric of these two Neanderthals would even be spoken this week. As America needs more healing and less angry divisiveness, I pray that other Christians will stand up for the only principle we know for sure: God is love. Love is "the greatest of these", is it not? And where is their Christian love?
It truly makes me sick. Today I stand embarrassed to be identified, WITH THEM, a Christian.
