Wandering around the blogoshpere you can't help but notice how many people identify themselves as christian, republican and conservative, not neccesarily in that order, but taking each of those words and using them as if they meant the same thing.
They've really taken a shine to the ease of this self-publishing world, my guess is because they don't have to deal with the questions and criticism that participating in a forum might produce.
They proudly proclaim their ignorance of history and the worthiness of their faith based system of reason (if that is even possible) while complaining that the enemy dopes the same.
They fall back to literal, fundamentalist preachings because they can't make sense of the reality around them and then accuse the other side of being narrow-minded and doing the same.
They cast the enemy as insane lunatics, bent on the destruction of a certain way of life because of their mis-interpretation of a holy book yet believe literaly in their own holy book which presumably means they also believe in the last judgement and the end of this world.
They forget that words can have different meanings to different people based on education, up-bringing, regionality and a host of other reasons. I might be a christian but if I'm not their kind of christian, well, there goes the neighbourhood.
There is a division in america. And because america is the greatest, strongest power in the world today, you're with us or against us is a dangerous statement.
I'm more and more convinced that communication is the key not sloganeering and monologues, not demonstrations in the streets but demonstrations on the netwaves.
The one uncertainty I have is: what if even communication is not enough?
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