••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Friday, July 29, 2005

open letter to Jerry Falwell

Not long ago I was reminded of a remark you made shortly after 9/11:

...pagans...abortionists...feminists...gays...lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way—all of them who have tried to secularize America...I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.

Since then I've gathered some information, and the magnitude of your error looms large.

Do you know that in 1998 Osama bin Laden founded an umbrella organization named the International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders?

Clearly, it was not the attempt to "secularize" America that "helped this happen." It is far more likely that it was the attempt to Christianize America, and our president—along with his loyal followers such as you—has played right into bin Laden's game.

You, and he, and "Christian soldiers" who make war on women and deny their liberty, and cold warriors who thought to fight the "red menace" by the blasphemy of joining god to mammon and divided "one nation indivisible" by the sacrilege of blurring the church-state border, have polarized America within and united the world against us.

Be not deceived: those who hasten Armageddon will not be among those saved from the fiery pit.

The cock has crowed too many times to count. Time is long past to wake and note the light that has shone in your eye each day since you left the womb. Use it no more to blind, but to see.

The bible holds much wisdom, but it's not the only source. I'm sure you recall some of the following American sayings:

"Whatever CAN go wrong WILL go wrong."
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
"Be SURE you're right, THEN go ahead."
"There's always one more thing."
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know that just ain't so."
"Face facts."
"One man's fish is another man's poisson."

Or is that last one French?

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