cause I always sit next to someone breast feeding or eating a hot dog.
POST FROM Saturday, July 24, 2004
The Critic Section Continues
Much are the choices for a 22 years old girl to do after a rough day, but I'm such a boring gal that I either watch Larry King Live at night or listen to the Majority Report. I understand it sounds like my weeknights blow, but the reality is I do enjoy getting angry in front of the tv or my pc. It allows me to digest thoughts, news and create a mind about this spinning world we are forced to keep our feets on.
The other night Mr. King was talking with no other but the greatest Mr. Bill Maher, and between his comments about next Sunday's Democratic Convention and how Bush attacked Iraq instead of Iran, he was asked what he thought about stem cells procedures.
KING: What do you make of it?
MAHER: It's a perfect example about how the world is really dividing I think between the religious and the non-religious. And we are in danger of being on the wrong side of that because we are such a religious country.
KING: Religion is bad?
MAHER: Religion, you know, I think is very bad. And it's extremely dangerous at this point in time. I read a statistic, I think 61 percent of the people in this country say religion solves some or all -- most or all of our problems. OK, religion solves nothing. OK, religion doesn't solve it. You know, it's like a hot bath does not solve a cold apartment. It may salve for awhile, but it doesn't solve it. It actually makes more problems because faith is a way to make a virtue of things that make absolutely no sense. Like stem cell research. I mean, the idea that President Bush -- remember when he went away to make that big decision right before 9/11, he went to his ranch for a month to think about it. Oh the red states were very impressed, Larry, that he took a whole month to think about stem cell.
When by the way, he should have been thinking about terrorism. That was the month when he met with the CIA director once. OK, so he's down there thinking about stem cell. He comes up with this Solomon-like decision to split the difference right down the middle, which the media hails as some sort of wisdom. As if it is wisdom to split the difference between people who really could use help from this stem cell research, and a bunch of right-wing nuts who would rather see research go undone, all because some microscopic goo on a subatomic level might, what one day grow up to be a Republican? That is not wisdom. And I'm glad Ron Reagan is pointing that out. Again, you want me to be more opinionated?
KING: Do you think it's an issue? you think gay marriage is going to be an issue in the election?
MAHER: They're making it an issue. That's another perfect example of religion making something that makes absolutely no sense into an issue. To a rational person, anyone with eyes can see God, and I believe in God, or a higher being, I just don't believe in the people who pretend they're talking for him. They can see that God or nature created, nature, even in the animal world, a gay minority. It's just a fact. For some reason, God wanted a gay minority among us. Maybe it's because we're too aggressive and gays are less aggressive. Although not at the Ramrod on Saturday night. Not that I would know that.
But I don't know. That's what the rational mind says. The rational mind takes it as the given. There are gay people in the world. The irrational mind...
KING: They're not saying there aren't. They're just saying they shouldn't get married. Marriage is a man and a woman. They acknowledge that there are gays in the world.
MAHER: What they acknowledge is that there are gays because it's a choice. They believe it is a choice. They believe, as the Bible says, it is an abomination. And it's not a choice. It's obviously not a choice. So they're working From this ridiculous premise. They think that if people get married, if gay people get married, it will lead to more homosexuality. As if guys like you and me, Larry, are just looking for a little legal cover to get together with each other.
KING: We get a break, that's funny.
Of course it's going to be an issue. I couldn't agree more with what Mr. Maher said. Why should people elect someone based on their metaphysical believes? Why would someone elected use the irrational to discriminate against the rational?
Organized religion shouldn't even be on the discussion table anymore, it's obvious that nothing good can come from it. Segregation, discrimination, brain washed generations all in the name of money, whatever the book of God we pick. Don't get me wrong I respect people's beliefs, I respect their right to believe but they don't mix at the hour of taking rational decisions. Those fanatics who defend memorized books and don't believe in equal rights should not be making any kind of decision.
Well the next day, on the Larry King Live show they covered the Lori Hacking Case, and Mr. Smart (Elizabeth Smart's father) couldn't stop talking about how everyone's prayers brought Elizabeth back home after 9 months of abduction. Mr. King nodded yes every single time he went on and on with his preaching. I mean, yes we all want her to come home safe, but there is no way religion is the instrument that will make that happen. I believe there is a God yes. I talk to him yes. Do I believe he is the one moving pieces for us? No. Why? Because that gives organized religion what I don't want them to have, power.
So first all I wanted to say when I started to type was "Mr. King put your shit together", but instead I'm gonna go with "different views make issues what they are, our responsibility is to get involve in change so start thinking".
8/13/05 - It's probably not a great idea not to go to your medical appoitment when you get the best job they could have probably offered you, just because you want to mantein that perfect record of never taking a blood test.
