500 Words A Day--Day 2

Ugh! It’s only day two of this exercise and I already want to quit. I must be on to something good, otherwise this would be easy, right? Isn’t that the maxim? Is it a maxim? What is a maxim, exactly? Let me look it up:

Maxim-noun : a concisely expressed principle or rule of conduct or a statement of a general truth.

Sweet. I got it right. I wouldn’t have changed it even if I got it wrong, just so you know. I’m not afraid to put my stupidity right out there for everyone to see.

So I’ve been trying to think about a topic to write about all day and I realize that the thing that is pissing me off the most today is how ignorant Americans are. Big news, right? It’s really this whole thing about the mosque being built near Ground Zero in New York and how this is a polarizing subject. It has become so polarizing, in fact, that suddenly 18% of Americans now think that President Obama IS a Muslim because he had the audacity to say that the Muslims are free to practice their religion when and where they so choose.

Freedom of religion, huh? That’s a new one. Where have I heard that before? Man, I just can’t remember.

But these idiots that think that Obama is a Muslim just because he would freely allow Muslims to practice their religion in a legal place is borderline asinine. It absolutely proves that Americans aren’t smart enough to put ANYONE in office, much less complain about the person they put in there. I saw a stat on CNN this afternoon that said 5% of the American public had “actually seen a monster in their closet” at some point in their life, too.

Really? You really want to trust these people with their outrage? I’m not saying that the 18% who think Obama is a Muslim are made up of the 5% who have seen a monster in their closet, but I’m guessing there is quite a bit of monster seers in the Obama Muslim crowd. Just a guess.

And what if Obama is a Muslim? So what. He’s the president. There was a point when it was HUGE news that Kennedy was a Catholic. Is this really something we need to be caring about at this point in the presidency?

But back to the mosque at Ground Zero. What the hell are the Muslims going to do so close to Ground Zero that they couldn’t do anywhere else in New York? Are we REALLY going to hold an entire religion responsible for the actions of a few of them?

Has anyone ever heard of the crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? Any of that crap? We’re all fucking nuts as far as religion goes. People don’t like gangs in their neighborhood, but what the hell do you think a church is? It’s just a gang with God’s blessing. I read a quote yesterday that said, “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian the same way that standing in a garage doesn’t make you a car” or words to that effect. Yet it’s these people hiding behind their religion instead of their racism in opposing the mosque.

No doubt that putting that mosque where they want to put it is probably pretty inflammatory, but only to the families and friends of those killed in the 9/11 attacks. But at the end of the day those people were killed by terrorists who happen to be Muslims, not the other way around.

Get a grip folks. Put that mosque anywhere you want. Maybe we should have a zone set up for all the churches and mosques and synagogues and things like that and they could all be in one zone together so we would always know where the religious zealots are congregating, huh? And maybe we could make everyone wear a patch that denoted their religion so everyone else could see what religion they are. Then maybe we could invade Poland and make France our bitch.

Get it?

B!