Isn't it amazing how in the United States of America of 2005, we have citizens who are totally Biblically illiterate?
Posted on 06/11/2005 5:20:34 PM PDT by rface
Milton continued, "Commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh told Americans to hate the liberals. It was a sure-fire way of getting ratings."
"I hate O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh," I said, "because they hate me."
Milton said, "Why does everyone write about how much the world hates America, and no one writes about why Americans hate each other?"
"I was thinking about it," I said. "Why do you think they do?"
"I can't blame it all on President Bush, but the hate factor in the country was raised to a new high when he said it was politically correct to do it."
"How so?"
"Hating fellow Americans didn't become serious until Bush decided to invade Iraq. Then both sides came out of the closet. The conservatives said war was a dandy idea, and the liberals said it was a lousy one. When it was discovered that there were no weapons of mass destruction, which was the reason for going to war, the liberals attacked the president. The conservatives called the anti-war people traitors."
"That was strong language," I told Milton.
"Adding gasoline to the fire were the 'elite' media [the L.A. Times, Washington Post and the New York Times], who editorialized that we got into a lousy war and didn't know how to get out."
Milton continued, "Commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh told Americans to hate the liberals. It was a sure-fire way of getting ratings."
"I hate O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh," I said, "because they hate me."
Milton said, "But what is really tearing the country apart is God. Every group insists they know what God wants for America. People are fighting over the Pledge of Allegiance in the schools, the Ten Commandments on government property and whether Americans came from Adam and Eve or from monkeys."
"I thought we settled that years ago," I said.
"So did most Americans, but the theories kept popping up," Milton told me. "Things really got ugly when the religious right said if you don't believe in Jesus then you are going to hell.
"Evangelicals are now going all over the country asking - no, demanding - that everyone be born again. The worst example is the Air Force Academy, where the cadets are asked to pledge their lives to Jesus. No one knows what blue skies they will fly into once they graduate.
"Everything has a religious background. The right-to-life people are against stem cell research, abortions and condoms. They are for guns, the Second Amendment and the National Rifle Association.
"One of the major issues is same-sex marriage. The right opposes it and the left, who couldn't care less, says, 'Get off my back.'"
I said, "Isn't it now true that members of Congress really hate each other?"
"It's worse than ever."
"I guess they can't pick a judge now without getting mad," I said. "Are all these issues political?"
"No," Milton replied. "They're personal. Americans are not born to hate, but it's taught to them at an early age and once you learn it, you never let it go."
"Tell me this. Do the French hate Americans as much as we hate each other?"
"It's a close call, but we're catching up to them. I could go on and on listing the causes as to why there is so much animosity among Americans, but it won't do anyone much good.
"All I know is, I'm right and they are wrong - and I'm certain they'll go to hell before I do."
question 2) Why isn't Michael Moore mentioned in this column?
We hate liberals because they hate America.
Whoever he is, he must be pretty young. Hating fellow Americans became serious....oohhhhh...long about 1967, I reckon. And it sure didn't start on the Right.
2) don't care.
Why not talk about Howard 'Screech' Dean who has said openly he hates Republicans.
I never heard O'Reilly say that.
I don't hate liberals, I just think they're idiots for the most part.
"Things really got ugly when the religious right said if you don't believe in Jesus then you are going to hell. "
Whoever 'Milton' is he is quite ignorant if he just now learning that Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
And another thing! I'm an atheist, but...don't all Jesus' children say you're going to hell if you don't believe? I mean, isn't that, like, "Christianity"?
Art Buchwold used to be funny in the 60"s and 70"s. WashingtonDC finally got to him. Now he is the joke
question 3: Why is everyone else such a freaking adolescent?
Milton is the pet name Art Buchwald uses for his penis. Now it is damn near impossible to take a man seriously when he has conversations with the penis he endows with a pet name but, undoubtedly, many will.
"Commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh told Americans to hate the liberals."
They did? And, when?
Since when did an American ever need someone to tell them to hate "socialism" liberalism?
The dummycrats are out of their respective closets now, and to hate certainly comes easy!
I guess the leftist in America love Conservative Christians, and remember, American conservatives have never work an honest day in their lives either!
Yes I know, the correct answer is the most obvious one, suggested by the question itself.
These people love to throw around generalizations. I'm sure no one can find a single instance in which Rush or OReilly ever said they hate liberals, or that we should hate them. Why would OReilly say that, when he is not even a conservative??
Pretty childish view of conservatives, the war, and Christianity, and poorly written, too.
Oh, I didnt even see Buchwald's name at first. Is he still alive?? I thought either he was dead, or had retired. I hadn't heard anything about him in several years. He is another one who claims to be a "humorist," but most of his humor is anti conservative propaganda.
Simly remember who is in power, and remember who it is that keeps losing their power, and then figure out who it is that is so full of hate, because they just cannot except the fact that they are OUT OF POWER< and FOREVER THANK GOD!
Isn't it amazing how in the United States of America of 2005, we have citizens who are totally Biblically illiterate?
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