tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post9204078567652420686..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: Rick Perry: lying, meretricious assholeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-42783528932522193942008-02-13T13:30:00.000-06:002008-02-13T13:30:00.000-06:00I like to try this excercise: Instead of euphemism...I like to try this excercise: Instead of euphemisms for atheists and gays, plug in euphemisms for blacks and Jews and then read back the statement and see how nice it sounds then.<BR/><BR/>If Perry had said "blacks" or "Jews" alongside child molesters and pornographers--it would be a media circus of criticism. I wouldn't doubt people would be calling for a resignation.<BR/><BR/>It suprises me how people can't recognize bigotry or prejudice until it's finally applied to a group that has struggled for years or been through hell to finally achieve something close to equality. It seems that unless you've got the blood of genocidal victimization or slavery still on your shirt, anyone can be bigotted against you and it's not a social issue.<BR/><BR/>Ironically, Hitler, like the BSofA, also had issues with gays and people of a different religious view. On the one hand, I certainly don't mean to imply that Perry or the Boy Scouts are genocidal criminals; BUT, people don't reach the point of targeting people for political persecution without starting out with justifying their individual hatred, bigotry and prejudice against other groups.<BR/><BR/>In other words, as horrid as he was, Hitler wasn't born into a culture where bigotry and prejudice against Jews and gays was totally absent until he created it. He just took the next step of hatred and resentment that was already simmering and used it to a very bad purpose. That's why such attitudes can never be allowed to go unchecked, and need to be identified clearly whenever they rear their hideous heads.<BR/><BR/>People have a legal right to be prejudicial bigots--but society has a right to label that as a negative value that leads to harmful ends and initiatives. Perry can be this way if he likes--but he shouldn't be admired for it, or praised. It shouldn't be considered an "American" value or an honorable human trait to be a bigot and to be prejudice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-36300561767176193582008-02-12T11:18:00.000-06:002008-02-12T11:18:00.000-06:00Like so many Christians in office, he's decided to...Like so many Christians in office, he's decided to sell out the constitution to his Christian base in order to get their votes and stay in office. And they wonder why us atheists hold believers in contempt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com