And Yet He Cares About Double Celled Zygotes
Rick Perry is wildly crazy about Israel. He’s not crazy about Israelis, just the country Israel. He’s a Baptist and Baptist don’t believe that Jews are going to heaven unless they accept Jesus as their personal savior. Or, as in Rick’s case, as their own personal weapon.
Today, Rick announced that killing unarmed children was really okay because “Hamas was using them as human shields.”
“But when we have a fairly good understanding that Hamas is actually using their citizens as shields, at that particular point in time, it loses a lot of the the power, if you will, from my perspective,” the Texas Republican continued.
Since when is dehumanizing children —God’s creation—an acceptable Christian view?
Let me see if I have this straight: It’s not okay to have an abortion after a rape or incest, but it is okay to kill children if they are being victimized by adults.
Oddly, Palestine Christians are direct descendants of the first Christians.
Rick Perry, listen up: Blessed are the damn peacemakers. They shall be called the children of God. Are you sleeping in church, you damfool?
Thanks to Monty for the heads up.
Now, now JJ. Rick Perry is a GOOD Baptist. On Sunday mornings, when Baptists are supposed to be good so all other Baptists can see. The rest of the week, not so much. Or not at all, depending on whether you’re running for office or something.
1An editorial cartoon said, “Which is worse: using children as human shields… or bombing them anyway?”
I don’t have a dog in this hunt, so it’s easy for me to say that both sides are wrong, but — to use another animal cliché — when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. I wish they’d find a way to leave the civilians out of it.
And Rick Perry’s voice is muffled as usual because of where his head is.
2CHINOS – Christian in name only
3This man is guilty of verbal twerking.
4I guess peacemaking sounds different depending on whether you’re pointing a bomb at somebody or handing them fresh homemade cookies while they sit on your lap, like peacemaking teams do with scared little kids in war zones. I don’t like Perry and I never will, as JJ says.
5p.s. My husband wants me to remind everyone that Israel and Palestine have NOT been fighting for 3000 years. They’ve been fighting for about 71 years, or however long it’s been since the Zionists took over Palestine and have been trying ever since to push the Palestinians into the sea. I don’t know who’s right or wrong any more. If folks were bulldozing my big family house I might get a bit desperate too.
6Rhea gets a like for the muffled voice comment. JJ, I still say you need to find a ‘like’ app for this site.
7Rick Perry is stuck back in the Psalms on the one that starts “by the waters of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion” and ends “blessed be the man who dashes the heads of the babes of my enemy upon the rocks.” That right there is the reason we are still watching these horrors unfold. That is the Zionist attitude in a nutshell, set to music. Bah. Let Rick go sign up for the IDF if he feels so flipin strongly about bloody Israel; it’ll give him something to do come January. I’ve been an advocate of yanking aid to Israel for eons now, since before Sharon got to be PM. The Zionists are a plague upon the earth ):#
8Let me try to understand the morality of this.
It is evil for Hamas to use children as shields.
But it is not evil for Israelis to actually kill those shield-children.
Seems to me there is enough evil on both sides to go around. The leaders on both sides use people as pawns and admire themselves for doing it.
9Obviously, JJ is right: the reason Perry is not concerned about these kids is that they already got born. If they were still zygotes and their moms did not want to bring them into a war zone and a life of poverty, *then* he’d be incensed. Not so much if they were Palestinian zygotes and the Jews were killing the moms, of course, but if they were Jewish zygotes and the moms could not face having a[nother] child, then, yes, then he’d be upset.
10I have just about stopped reading the newspaper and watching the news. When did it become okay to kill children, anybody’s children? When did it become all right to send armed gangs calling themselves ‘militias” to the Texas border to frighten the kids even more? When did the democrats think they could get anywhere by writing a letter about it to Greg Abbott? Something in the water, our food, environment is turning people’s brains to mush. It is a dread disease of some kind. The symptoms are arrogance, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, judgementalism, insanity defined as “doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different outcome”. Even hearing some of the names of these people, like King or Gohmert, can make me queasy. I admit to being mortally terrified of them . . . . all of them ! They are not , in my opinion, human. There is something missing from their brains that is vital to a definition of what it means to be fully human.
11@mikey, I’ve often thought the same thing, that I’d like to put stars on some of the comments. But JuanitaJean’s verbal pyrotechnics seem to bring out the most creative best in so many people! Might as well let well enough alone, and just say a big THANK YOU to all the commenters.
12I think what bothers me as much as anything about people killing children, whether it be in the Mid East, or on the border of Texas…. is that the bullets are all going to say “Made in The U.S.A”.
13A rhetorical question: If the peace makers are called the children of God, what are the war makers called and why are we always thanking them for their service?
14And according to the Geneva Convention, even the presence of non-civilians within a civilian crowd does not make the civilians legitimate targets.
15Don’t you know that Perry is a Biblical scholar? Certainly is. He’s looking for the Missing Beatitude … the one that says that the Wicked are due to inherit something.
16UmptyDump.
17I think Dickus Cheney has that particular ‘Beatitude’ squirreled away deep within one of his “undisclosed locations”, nobody gonna see it unless Cheney gets a kickback.
A lot of the anti-abortionists have nothing much against killing children. It’s only fetuses that are ‘innocent’…actual live-born children are a financial liability–a tax burden–potential if not actual Problems from birth to death. So there’s a reason not to make sure they have enough nutritious food, or a decent place to live, or a good education, or health care, or parks or libraries or parents who want them or can take care of them.
They can be “disciplined” by their parents or church groups and if that “discipline” results in injury or death, well, it was just an accident and children are naturally sinful; they can be charged and tried as adults when they’re clearly well below the age of having any adult privileges. If shot or tazed or otherwise harmed by law enforcement it’s the fault of the child and/or the parents for not teaching the child to be scrupulously polite and obedient to police officer. Certainly it’s not an officer’s fault if the officer “feels threatened” and kills the child.
Now it’s true that most of the children considered killable now have dark skin, but that hasn’t always been true–here or elsewhere–it depends on which children are perceived as an unwanted burden on society. All those babies and toddlers found “buried” in a septic tank in an Irish orphanage were white. At the height of the 19th/early 20th immigration flood in the Northeast, most of the children dismissed as useless, born bad, etc. were white. Children of poor people = always suspect. Children in need of assistance = always suspect. Doing something to help them would require money…even (gasp!) tax money, which is sacred and should be reserved (in the minds of this kind of person) for the military/industrial complex’s use.
But the embryo and fetus–invisible as they are–haven’t done anything wrong yet. Their mothers have, but they haven’t, which is why pregnant women can be treated like livestock and/or criminals, while the fetus gets all the love.
18Geneva Convention is just more regulations that burden right wing war mongers who yearn to kill for the thrill of killing. Doesn’t matter who,what or why,somebody’s got to die.
19Any moron who rationalizes killing children has no soul and should be shouted down with vehemence, be he American, Israeli, or Palestinian.
20I’m very glad there’s a cease fire in place, and wishful (if not actually hopeful) that a path is found to lasting peace, even though I do believe the Quaker quote, ‘There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.’ I just finished my dinner an hour ago, because I did a sundown last night to sundown tonight fast for peace, on Tisha B’Av. Blessed are the peacemakers. Rick Perry and his ilk, well, as they say south of where I am, bless his heart (if he has one).
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