It's Hunting Me

Okay, yesterday I said that life was throwing signs at me about the seriousness of the fundamentalist threat. Today, two more things came my way...

This video and article was posted on Military.com (As a military veteran, I use this site to keep an eye on military and veterans' issues). It is related to the subject of the "Jesus Killed Mohammed" article in the current edition of Harper's.

http://www.military.com/news/article/gis-told-to-bring-afghans-to-jesus.html?ESRC=army.nl

There are lots of responses to the video, very few of them show much knowledge of the subjects at hand, as you would expect.

And I was given notice via e-mail today about the new Congressional resolution, HR 397, which is another fundamentalist effort to chip away at the Constitution and rewrite American history. I sent this out as a MySpace bulletin earlier:

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Here's an alert for those of you who value the Constitution and American history and values....

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Today, Rep. Randy Forbes of Virginia, the Founder and Chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, and twenty-four other members of the House of Representatives, co-sponsored a resolution in Congress that would "affirm the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and express support for designation of the first week in May as America's Spiritual Heritage Week for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith."

The resolution, House Resolution 397, would put Congress on record as "recogniz[ing] the religious foundations of faith on which America was built are critical underpinnings of our Nation's most valuable institutions and form the inseparable foundation for America's representative processes, legal systems, and societal structures."

In addition, the resolution "rejects, in the strongest possible terms, any effort to remove, obscure, or purposely omit such history from our Nation's public buildings and educational resources" and justifies the need to keep "under God" in the pledge.

Last year, when a similar measure was introduced, 93 members of the House of Representatives co-sponsored this legislation. Write to your representative in Congress today and tell him/her that you do not want them to co-sponsor or support this measure in any way.

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Don't think for a second that this is some innocuous resolution. It is just another part of the strategy of chipping away at the Constitution and rewriting the history books (both of which they have already been quite successful at). Just because these people believe that a Jewish zombie hears the thoughts in their heads and talks to them doesn't mean that they can't be clever and sneaky.

I have already written my Congressman (and will probably post it on my Blogger.com blog). Your turn.

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I am hoping to get a break from all this soon and get on to more fun topics, like gardening, motorcycling, music, physics, pets, history, neuroscience, Buddhism, and all that other neat stuff I'd much rather write about.