Religious extremists make my butt tired.
Pope Benedict quotes an obscure Byzantine emperor who called the Muslim faith evil and one that was spread by the sword. Muslims worldwide failed to hear the "I quote" before the passage, and they riot and burn churches. Then Al Qaeda puts forth a statement that the Pope and the West are "doomed" and that eventually our choice will be "conversion or the sword." Um, didn't that statement just appear to validate the Byzantine's view of Islam? "How dare you say we're violent! Convert or die!" Anyone else see the illogic?
Yet some Christians seem bent on proving Rosie O'Donnell right. While I plow through a flurry of forwarded e-mails calling on everyone to send a Christmas card to the ACLU and bury them in mail, I read about Christian Zionism (which in part holds that the establishment of Israel is part of Biblical prophecy) and its support by GOP head Ken Mehlman and Sen. Rick Santorum. It was Santorum, speaking in July at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) first Washington-Israel summit, who invoked this belief in a call to stop negotiating with Iran and take action against it. CUFI is a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel's expansionist policies is "a Biblical imperative." CUFI was founded by John Hagee, the head of the 18,000 person Cornerstone Church in San Antonio who believes that "a nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty."
No wonder I often feel like I'm walking between two big rabid dogs, hoping neither of them takes notice of me and decides to bite.
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