Ranting to /dev/null

Totally inappropriate

Someone, I don't know who, made this little flash thingie. It's a montage of sorts and pretty explicitly pro-Bush. It's also one of the worst things ever. The person who used the song in question (if you don't recognize it, shame on you) is either completely unaware of its original implications or one of the most misguided people on the net.

Let me just set this straight for the record. I support Bush for reelection, but only because the person running against him is awful in and of his own right. Not only that, but lots of people with terrifying agendas want Kerr to win. But that doesn't mean I conflate my religion with my politics. Even my "Never forgive. Never forget." post is not intended to be a conflation of Christianity with either end of the political spectrum. I'll make that explicit elsewhere. For now, I want to say that this rather creepy juxtaposition of messiaic imagery with George W. Bush scared the shit out of me. God isn't on the side of America. He's on the side of his Church. This does happen to mean that he's against Islam (which has been the single most dedicated persecutor of Christians in history, Rome and Russia included), and at the moment he seems to be using America to drive that point home. But that didn't stop him from using Islam to give America a good wake-up call. "God on our side" politics always leads to bad things happening.