I have a few thoughts.
I am simply shocked and surprised that ANYONE is shocked and surprised by this. Where the hell have folks been these last few decades? Busy watching "Dancing With the Stars" or something? This is nothing new, nor is it even novel. It's all been going on for decades, and all their opponents can say is "Well, shit! What's on TV tonight?"
This is happening at a school in the Redmond area of Washington state. Has no one noticed that area is the American version of Moscow? If they have, then WHY are they shocked and surprised?
The school has not "cancelled Veteran's Day". They don't have the power to do that. They are merely not observing it, which is their right. How many of you observe Ramadan? Same thing. You've not "cancelled" Ramadan, you're just not observing it, as is your right.
"Day of Tolerance"? Give me a fuckin' break! I'm not going to celebrate tolerance for people who will not tolerate ME. My failure to celebrate their silly-assed holiday will not "cancel" it, either. It just means I'm not going to play their silly-assed game by partaking in their big bowl o' bullshit. They're welcome to glad-hand and grab-ass all day long on their special day. I just won't be in the crowd is all.
I also stopped celebrating Veteran's Day about two years ago, when I realized the "D.I.E." (Diversity-Inclusion-Equity) caliber of veterans they plan on starting to churn out now. Older veterans will laugh at them and point fingers, but older veterans also recognize that they sacrificed for freedom, and won't participate in limiting the freedom of others that they shed blood for. Older veterans realize that "the soldiers fight, but the kings are heroes". They know where they stand in the pecking order, such as it is. Why would anyone go overseas to "fight for freedom", kill folks and blow shit up "for freedom", lose their limbs and lives "for freedom", and then set about trying to steal the freedoms they guaranteed with their one and only bodies when they got back home?
I don't care what they do in Redmond. Their lives are theirs to do with as they will. There are folks out here who fought like demons to make sure they could, and most of those folks understand that they are not going to be thanked or even recognized for it. They didn't do it for the "attaboys".
They did it to guarantee those folks can do with their own lives as they will, however dumbassed it might be.
Christian nationalists are a scary bunch - they are the modern-day equivalent of the Catholic Inqusitions of Medieval times, the same fine folks who burned Protestants at the stake as "heretics", but without the power - but no more scary than all the other little tiny splinter groups of batshit crazy "activists" dotted all over the landscape, each trying to pull the country in their own direction. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, whether it's trying to pull us to the Left, or to the Right, or to Heaven, or to Hell. They're all loons, and not a damned one of them has any more power over YOU than you give them yourself. As they used to say around here "locks is for honest folks", and likewise laws are for folks that want to obey them. Laws may not be enforced against the will of the People, and anyone who tries is defined as a "tyrant", no matter what end of the political or religious spectrum they may occupy.
But for the religious inclined, Matthew 5:45 says "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
If God Itself allows folks to go their own way as they will, who are you to countermand and try to supersede God? I think God will have a word with such folks on Judgement Day, and it may not be the word they thought they were gonna hear...
... and for a preview of what Jesus says they will hear, we only have to skip forward a couple of chapters in Matthew, to Matthew 7:21-23, to find out:
"21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
We often create our own monsters out of nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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I am simply shocked and surprised that ANYONE is shocked and surprised by this. Where the hell have folks been these last few decades? Busy watching "Dancing With the Stars" or something? This is nothing new, nor is it even novel. It's all been going on for decades, and all their opponents can say is "Well, shit! What's on TV tonight?"
This is happening at a school in the Redmond area of Washington state. Has no one noticed that area is the American version of Moscow? If they have, then WHY are they shocked and surprised?
The school has not "cancelled Veteran's Day". They don't have the power to do that. They are merely not observing it, which is their right. How many of you observe Ramadan? Same thing. You've not "cancelled" Ramadan, you're just not observing it, as is your right.
"Day of Tolerance"? Give me a fuckin' break! I'm not going to celebrate tolerance for people who will not tolerate ME. My failure to celebrate their silly-assed holiday will not "cancel" it, either. It just means I'm not going to play their silly-assed game by partaking in their big bowl o' bullshit. They're welcome to glad-hand and grab-ass all day long on their special day. I just won't be in the crowd is all.
I also stopped celebrating Veteran's Day about two years ago, when I realized the "D.I.E." (Diversity-Inclusion-Equity) caliber of veterans they plan on starting to churn out now. Older veterans will laugh at them and point fingers, but older veterans also recognize that they sacrificed for freedom, and won't participate in limiting the freedom of others that they shed blood for. Older veterans realize that "the soldiers fight, but the kings are heroes". They know where they stand in the pecking order, such as it is. Why would anyone go overseas to "fight for freedom", kill folks and blow shit up "for freedom", lose their limbs and lives "for freedom", and then set about trying to steal the freedoms they guaranteed with their one and only bodies when they got back home?
I don't care what they do in Redmond. Their lives are theirs to do with as they will. There are folks out here who fought like demons to make sure they could, and most of those folks understand that they are not going to be thanked or even recognized for it. They didn't do it for the "attaboys".
They did it to guarantee those folks can do with their own lives as they will, however dumbassed it might be.
Christian nationalists are a scary bunch - they are the modern-day equivalent of the Catholic Inqusitions of Medieval times, the same fine folks who burned Protestants at the stake as "heretics", but without the power - but no more scary than all the other little tiny splinter groups of batshit crazy "activists" dotted all over the landscape, each trying to pull the country in their own direction. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, whether it's trying to pull us to the Left, or to the Right, or to Heaven, or to Hell. They're all loons, and not a damned one of them has any more power over YOU than you give them yourself. As they used to say around here "locks is for honest folks", and likewise laws are for folks that want to obey them. Laws may not be enforced against the will of the People, and anyone who tries is defined as a "tyrant", no matter what end of the political or religious spectrum they may occupy.
But for the religious inclined, Matthew 5:45 says "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
If God Itself allows folks to go their own way as they will, who are you to countermand and try to supersede God? I think God will have a word with such folks on Judgement Day, and it may not be the word they thought they were gonna hear...
... and for a preview of what Jesus says they will hear, we only have to skip forward a couple of chapters in Matthew, to Matthew 7:21-23, to find out:
"21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
We often create our own monsters out of nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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