Fact one: America was founded on the values system established during the ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD, and the Founding Fathers did know their history. They knew about the hundreds to thousands of years of viscious wars in Europe and the Middle East because of RELIGION. They knew that tying RELIGION to POLITICS was not just a BAD IDEA... it was a CATASTROPHIC IDEA.
I am somewhat encouraged to see that the Republican Party in America currently seems to be disintegrating from the inside out.
Here is Fact two: Republicans do not seem to understand that in terms of actual ideological beliefs, Mr. Lincoln was basically a democrat of today. Of course, they do not care about facts, though.
Fact three: The "official" motto of the US, "In God We Trust," was established VERY RECENTLY... in 1956, actually... we had another motto before this, a much MUCH wiser one, "E Pluribus Unum," which means "Out of many, one." This motto was never adopted as "official," but it was used very widely. Frankly, I cannot stand how our country is becoming so religiously oriented. IT'S DANGEROUS!!! Now I will quote Mel Brooks,
"The inquistion
Let's begin
The inquistion
Look out sin
We have a mission
To convert the Jews
(Jew ja Jew ja Jew ja Jews)
We're gonna teach
Them wrong from right
We're gonna help
Them see the light
And make an offer
That they can't refuse
(That the Jews just can't refuse)
Confess (confess, confess)
Don't be boring
Say yes (say yes, say yes)
Don't be dull
A fact
You're ignoring
It's better to lose
Your skullcap
Than your skull
The inquistion, what a show
The inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
But the Inquistion's here
And it's here to stay
The inquistion, oh boy
The inquistion, what a joy
The inquistion, oy oy
I was sitting
In a temple
I was minding
My own business
I was listening
To a lovely Hebrew mass
Then these papus
Persons plunge in
And they throw me in a
Dungeon, and they shove
A red hot poker up my ass
Is that considerate?
Is that polite?
And not a tube
Of Preparation H in sight
I'm sitting
Plicking chickens
And I'm looking
Through the pickings
And suddenly these guys
Bring down my balls
I didn't even know them
And they grabbed me
By the scrotum and
They started
Playing ping pong
With my balls
Oy, the agony
Ooh, the shame
To make
My privates public
For a game
The inquistion, what a show
The inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
But the inquistion's here
And it's here to
Hey, Torquemada
Whaddaya say?
I just got back
From the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé
What's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't
To do but you do anyway
Skit skat voodely
Vat tootin de day
Will you convert?
No, no, no, no
Will you confess?
No, no, no, no
Will you revert?
No, no, no, no
Will you say yes?
No, no, no, no
Now I ask in a nice way
I said pretty please
I bent their ears
Now I'll work on their knees
Hey, Torquemada
Walk this way
We got a little game
That you might wanna play
So pull that handle
Try your luck
Who knows, Torq
You might win a buck
Alright
Put it in the car
(In the car 2x)
How we doing?
Any converts today?
Not a one, nay, nay, nay
We've flattened
Their fingers
We branded their buns
Nothing is working
Send in the nuns
The Inquistion, what a show
The Inquistion, here we go
We know you're wishing
That we'd go away
So, c'mon you Moslems
And you Jews
We got big news
For all of yous
You better change
Your point of views today
'Cause the inquistion's here
And it's here to stay"
So all of you who think Religion and Politics belong together, like Man and Wife, how would you like to be tortured to death for not believing in the magical sky god that loves you and hates you at the same time?
Experience is a dear school but fools will learn in no other.
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