Defending Liberals (Kind of)

There is a new book out by some young lady named S.E. Cupp called "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity". The title of the book pretty much says it all - Ms. Cupp (What if her first name was Debbie and she didn't have a middle name - would that make her D. Cupp? Sorry, I had to ask) believes that the liberals are attacking Christianity.

I think we all know that Conservatives are much more likely to flaunt their religious beliefs than a Liberal might be. While you might think that this is a recent trend in our political landscape it has actualy been going on since the beginning of our country. While the majority of our founding fathers were deists and not really Christian, the heavier Christians in the group would often accuse their foes of not being Christian enough. The politicians of both yesterday and today are Christians but because they do not campaign on their Christian ideals they are deemed to be not as qualified as their evangelical counterparts. There is no middle ground with these people.

So what is my point with all of this? If you guessed that this post is about religion you would be wrong.

Ms. Cupp is an atheist.

That's right - this author that took several months out of her life to both write and defend her book thought it necessary to write a book that defends Christianity. But why did she do it? Because she thought it more important to defend her party than her religious belief (or lack thereof). And that is the state of American life today - it is more important to belong to a group and defend that group (no matter how assinine that will make you look at times) than to do the right thing.

My attempt to stay consistent with my own beliefs (not being a lacky to any group or ideology) puts me into bed with some very strange bedfellows - Christian Liberals. For the life of me I can't fathom where the Liberals are attacking Christianity. Is it so wrong to try to uphold the separation of church and state? Is it wrong to have a speech that doesn't mention God?

And for the record, the Democrats pull the same crap with different subjects. If you dare to ask if the money for the school budgets are used effectively you're cast as being anti-school. Question how unemployment verification and you're an uncaring right-winger. It's the same dishonest garbage and it keeps us from having honest conversations and real solutions.
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It is official - the pirate has the nicest furniture in the house. Grandma and Grandpa were kind enough to purchase a new crib/bed combo and we finally got around to putting it together the other night. So we spend a couple of hours putting it together and then we stood back to admire our handywork. One problem.... the mattress slants down by about 20%. Upon further inspection we realized that one of the boards was flipped and that results in the bolts being a few inches lower. Oops.
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Is there a worse place besides Texas? It is bad enough that they are trying to sneak creationism into the public school system (and failing, for the most part). They are now on an even more ridiculous and sadder campaign (link).

Here are some of the highlights of their latest changes to the public school curriculum:

- Removing Thomas Jefferson's writings on the separation of church and state
- Emphasizing the importance of the pro-slavery founding fathers
- Declaring that America was chosen by God to be a beacon of liberty (which is ironic because their are few books that limit liberty like the Bible does. Maybe God had a change of heart later on)
- Stating that maybe Senator Joe McCarthy was right to hold his witch-hunt trials in the 50's

I suppose that I'm a liberal for even writing all of this....
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Check out a very cool new band that I recently started listening to - The Black Keys. They are a kind of blues/rock/funk fusion, although that really doesn't do them justice. Click on the play button on the bottom left hand corner of this page.
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I know I shouldn't find this to be really funny because of the topic but this domestic violence PSA is really amusing.