Damn Rednecks!
Damn rednecks! You know what I saw today? I was stopped at a red light behind a pick up truck with a bumper sticker that read “Boycott France” and had a French flag next to it with one of those no smoking style symbols on top of it. I wish I had the opportunity to speak to that guy because I really would like to hear the rationale behind that sticker. I’m sure he would go on about how they didn’t fight in this war but let me reiterate a point I made a while back. Going to war is a country’s decision to make not anyone else’s. Why does America feel the need to get everyone to conform to our standards and beliefs? If god exists then people are the worst thing he ever created. Later.
/*Oh and another thing that irked me today was when someone said “That’s fucking weird” when I showed a video from Iraq of some people praying. How is that weird? You want to see something weird? How about 300 people in a church repeating words from a book all at once sounding eerily like a cult? Now that’s pretty fucking weird.*/





3 Responses to “Damn Rednecks!”
I was surprised too when everyone starting bashing France. It truly was a low point for our country when restaurants listed Freedom Fries on their menus. Hmm speaking of low points I was also pissed a few years ago when the Pledge’s “under god” fiasco went down. Congress shouting those two words while reciting the pledge one morning made me almost break my phenomenal no-puke streak. But back to hating France, I know it’s tough to stay calm in the face of ignorance, but you’re doing a good job so far.
I always liked seeing the throngs of men all around the mosques Friday afternoons at the weekly sermons. I thought it was a strong sense of community and unity. Far from weird, as you noted, compared to other religous practices. What do you call ducking an adult’s head in water to make him “reborn” then? Freakish?
I saw a lot of the negative stuff about France and Germany as part of that nationalistic rhetoric that was rampant a few years ago…what I don’t understand is why people still believe it…
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