http://melaise.livejournal.com/ melaise - LiveJournal.com Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:04:42 GMT LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com melaise 15042881 personal http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/72790950/15042881 http://melaise.livejournal.com/ 100 76 http://melaise.livejournal.com/675.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:04:42 GMT http://melaise.livejournal.com/675.html One thing I have never understood is how someone who is neither rich nor stupid can support the republican party in this day and age. A long time ago, they used to be about less government interference and regulation. Nowdays, if you are Christian, you have to be a republican or else you are an atheist communist. I don't get it. I don't understand how one point has anything to do with the other. If you offer a sound argument against them, they just resort to namecalling and fallacious arguments. It's incredibly frustrating, that's why I don't even bother anymore. Which I guess is common for reasonable people these days, since you never seem to hear anything from them. All you hear about are the right wing blowhards that want everyone to be forced to pray in school and be taught bible lessons as if they were scientific fact. It's scary. I wonder how much more advanced we would be as a society right now if religion didn't take over western civilization. I am not against Christianity, but I am really against people using it as a weapon to oppress others. I am also against the hypocrisy that comes along with it. They pick and choose the things they want to be against and weild the bible like some kind of otherworldly weapon. It's a book that was written, re-written, censored, and edited by human beings. It didn't drop out of the freaking sky. I can't help but think that Jesus would be deeply disappointed by what they have done in his name. I am assuming it's just the way they were raised that gives them these twisted ideas. Ideas like a war for oil is morally upright and that God talks to George Bush...are you freaking kidding me?! I also don't understand why  they would dedicate so much time and resources to trying to prevent abortion, yet they do nothing about child abuse and neglect. And what is the deal about being so against gay people? There is next to nothing about it in the bible, yet this is one of their big things. They don't give a shit about people starving or dying because of lack of health care, yet they will unite far and wide to prevent a gay marriage from being legally recognized. It's completely bizarre and nonsensical. I'm not saying all religious people are like that. But the only ones you hear from are. I guess I am just deeply disturbed by how many of my old classmates are rigid right wingers. Not that I really expected them to be logical thinkers or anything, but it's really disappointing. You know, nobody likes abortion. But that's not why its legal. It's legal because when it was illegal, you had girls throwing themselves down stairs, getting beat up, taking coat hangers to themselvs, going to back alley doctors, and the result was often death or sterility. I do think it's kind of gross to wait 24 weeks. Maybe they should lower the limit to like, 16 weeks unless there is a serious health issue.  I do sort of agree with them on a couple of issues, but I don't think any reasonable person is completely far left or completely far right. To adopt ideas simply because your church or political party tells you to is ridiculous. I do think it's kind of weird that we would fund abortions outside of the US when we don't fund them inside the US. But I think it's even stranger how Bush made this Wall Street bailout happen, but the right wingers are trying to blame it on our current president. They were trying to blame the falling stock market on him 2 months before he was even in office. Yet when Bush was messing everything up, they were like, "everyone needs to quit playing the blame game". It's just so irrational. I don't get why Bush's bailouts and stimulus packages were such a good idea, and Obama's stimulus packages are called "socialist." It makes no sense to me. I think handing billions over to Wall Street with no strings attached was more of a socialist move. The whole idea behind capitalism is when a business isn't doing good business, they go out of business and some other business take its place. Not the government pumping more and more money into it trying to turn things around. It's crazy. With the money they gave Wall Street, they could have given every taxpayer 200,000 bucks that could be used to pay of mortgages and credit debts, but that would somehow be socialist, despite the fact that it is taxpayer money to begin with. And now that there is a democrat for president, watch all of the republicans do everything they possibly can to keep him from getting anything done. When democrats try to stop republicans, we're "unpatriotic" and "anti-America", but somehow its ok for them to be that way. It's ridiculous. I think there needs to be more education required in this country, but the government is unsupportive of anything that gives people the tools to think for themselves. It's scary. I was just reading about how they're still trying to get creationism taught in public schools...wtf?! Are you serious? That is what freaking Bible School is for. There is nothing scientific about it. Not that the scientists always get it right, but c'mon. I guess they could teach it as mythology, along with Zeus and Thor. I'd be ok with that. It just drives me nuts that the average, ill-educated American doesn't understand that scientific theory isn't speculation. They get hung up on the word theory. 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