"Dead Presidents" by Jay-Z

on the religious right
What is the difference between Pat Robertson and Muqtada Al-Sadr? The latter is a terrorist, calling for the death of our nation's leaders; the former is a man of god, protected by freedom of speech in his calls for the death of another nation's leaders. The punchline? Well, I'm not that great at writing jokes, folks.

By now everyone has heard about Robertson's statements on his late night ABC Family program The 700 Club, so I won't bore you with them here. I will say that these statements are a testiment to the type of hypocrisy we see when politics, especially foreign policy, is combined with a religious worldview. Is it not a tenant of Christianity to love your neighbor and not call for his death? Here, Pat Robertson, a man claiming to be of God, has called upon his country to assassinate the leader of another country. Wow.

So, what is my point? Pat Robertson and the rest of the religious right (i.e. Jerry Falwell, Dr. Dobson, et al.) need to stay in their realm of expertise (i.e. bedtime stories, fairy tales, et al.) and leave the foreign policy decisions up to those in charge. As a matter of fact, get your fat asses out of politics altogether. The country would be a lot better off without your rhetoric involved.

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