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2008-08-25 10:07:48 UTC
Why do Hollywood people constantly ridicule Christians' belief in the
supernatural?
I see Mr. Bill Mahr out thumping his tub about some Christians'
delusional belief in the supernatural.
Of course, he often makes the same point about Muslims.
But he doesn't seem to say the same thing about Jews, who believe in
the same Old Testament stuff as the fundamentalist Christians and
Muslims.
I've heard Mr. Mahr say it has to do with Christians "ramming their
religion down people's throats." In fact, there are a lot of Jews in
the Israeli government who believe they are "God's chosen people" and
that they have been granted by God (yes, the same supernatural god
that the Christians and Muslims believe in) some land in the Middle
East. To that end, they are slowly, deliberately trying to turn
non-Jews who have lived on the land for centuries (the Palestinians)
into refugees. Were he a logical person, Mr. Mahr would say this is
an example of the religious delusion motivating a malevolent
large-scale crime. Yet, not a peep out of him about it.
It is that kind of contradiction that leads me to think Mr. Mahr and
his colleagues in Hollywood are upset about Christians for some other
reason. They say all sorts of snarky, malicious things about Mel
Gibson's fundamentalist Christianity, but Gibson says something
negative about Jews and he is criminalized? If his anti-Jewish words
are improper, aren't their anti-Christian words just as improper? Or
are they both, as I suspect, within the bounds of free speech?
I see all sorts of Hollywood movies making Christians, especially
Christians from the American Midwest, out to be every kind of villain
from homophobes to white supremacists to terrorists. You don't see a
whole lot of Hollywood movies making fundamentalist Jews, nor
Scientologists, out to be villains.
When I have encountered Hollywood types in the work arena, they
actually would ask me if I was Jewish (a rather intrusive question),
ask me if I was Christian (equally intrusive), and then whisper to me
that they had to look out for right-wing Christians, as if RWCs might
be working undercover as saboteurs. Bear in mind, I only did contract
computer programming. I had nothing whatsoever to do with the hoi
polloi of Hollywood, the creative product, the politics or or the
money. Yes, they are that paranoid. Delusionally paranoid, if you
ask me.
I'm not saying Mr. Mahr or anyone else should go out and verbally
attack Jews. I'm saying, if the anti-christian faction is so morally
and intellectually outraged at Christians' belief in the supernatural,
then for the sake of consistency they should also be outraged by other
religions that believe in the supernatural. Or they should not be
outraged by either. But if consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, then inconsistency is the red flag of hypocrites, and where you
have a hypocrite you don't have a true opinion, you have a hidden
motive disguised as an opinion.
Now, what is the hidden motive?
- Ibn Kahldun, an atheist
supernatural?
I see Mr. Bill Mahr out thumping his tub about some Christians'
delusional belief in the supernatural.
Of course, he often makes the same point about Muslims.
But he doesn't seem to say the same thing about Jews, who believe in
the same Old Testament stuff as the fundamentalist Christians and
Muslims.
I've heard Mr. Mahr say it has to do with Christians "ramming their
religion down people's throats." In fact, there are a lot of Jews in
the Israeli government who believe they are "God's chosen people" and
that they have been granted by God (yes, the same supernatural god
that the Christians and Muslims believe in) some land in the Middle
East. To that end, they are slowly, deliberately trying to turn
non-Jews who have lived on the land for centuries (the Palestinians)
into refugees. Were he a logical person, Mr. Mahr would say this is
an example of the religious delusion motivating a malevolent
large-scale crime. Yet, not a peep out of him about it.
It is that kind of contradiction that leads me to think Mr. Mahr and
his colleagues in Hollywood are upset about Christians for some other
reason. They say all sorts of snarky, malicious things about Mel
Gibson's fundamentalist Christianity, but Gibson says something
negative about Jews and he is criminalized? If his anti-Jewish words
are improper, aren't their anti-Christian words just as improper? Or
are they both, as I suspect, within the bounds of free speech?
I see all sorts of Hollywood movies making Christians, especially
Christians from the American Midwest, out to be every kind of villain
from homophobes to white supremacists to terrorists. You don't see a
whole lot of Hollywood movies making fundamentalist Jews, nor
Scientologists, out to be villains.
When I have encountered Hollywood types in the work arena, they
actually would ask me if I was Jewish (a rather intrusive question),
ask me if I was Christian (equally intrusive), and then whisper to me
that they had to look out for right-wing Christians, as if RWCs might
be working undercover as saboteurs. Bear in mind, I only did contract
computer programming. I had nothing whatsoever to do with the hoi
polloi of Hollywood, the creative product, the politics or or the
money. Yes, they are that paranoid. Delusionally paranoid, if you
ask me.
I'm not saying Mr. Mahr or anyone else should go out and verbally
attack Jews. I'm saying, if the anti-christian faction is so morally
and intellectually outraged at Christians' belief in the supernatural,
then for the sake of consistency they should also be outraged by other
religions that believe in the supernatural. Or they should not be
outraged by either. But if consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, then inconsistency is the red flag of hypocrites, and where you
have a hypocrite you don't have a true opinion, you have a hidden
motive disguised as an opinion.
Now, what is the hidden motive?
- Ibn Kahldun, an atheist