The next is a quote I copied from the Guardian's article: "Evangelist tells 7m TV viewers: US should kill Venezuela's president ":
"I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." by Pat Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition and a former Republican in his Christian Broadcasting Network in the blessed land of USA.
This, along with other of the many comments this mad man has made are appalling, yet he is lucky for living in the USA and not in the UK. If he would have said so here and if he would have been muslim, etc. he would have been kicked out and labeled under certain terminology that the discipline of terrorism highly developed by the Bush and some EU's administrations after the events from the last four years, offers to us. But no, oh lord no, this man is lucky enough to be (as i imagine) so white and filthy rich that he is one of those untouchable religious extremists who do and say as they please and who also do not take responsibility of their acts. He might not be better or worse than those few bearded terrorists flying into buildings. He might be of the sort of fearless creatures who hold either the flag of christianity or of islam, to harm others because of their own view of the world.
Yes, I am upset at this moment, yet this post is not impulsive. It only mirrors a tiny bit of the ideas and emotions that experiencing and witnessing some of the many terrible statements, as well as actions, by christian leaders, in specific, Mexicans, Spaniards and Americans (that i can remembered at this point). Although those people and their statements might be alien, harmless, and meaningless, to you; we should bear in mind that those are people with enough power (of different sorts) to harm others and/or to make others simply hurt others. It is a pretty scary shit because we live in times when it has become dangerous to make statements that represent our minds, but still is unfair because some are threatened more than others, For example, there will be this new law here in the UK that will banned religious intolerance and, if I understood well, even the tell of religious jokes. They must be kidding if they think that will stop radicalism, which is much more complex. I think that this 'anti-religious-extremist's laws' are not fair for all because one does not necessarily need to make a religious joke or make a religious comment to hurt others, one only needs the power the entitlement that religion provides.
The words made by a man like Robertson may be taken as words only, but not everybody has the capability to take them as such. Words of hatred can turn into seeds for ideologies of hatred. I will try not to be to serious in forthcoming posts.
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