More Rants...yay...

Facebook statuses provide an amazing medium in which to rant.

Moreso than on message boards, because Facebook does not allow anonymity (as much as we might pray for it).


The families of victims and survivors of 9/11 are SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE on the issue of the mosque, so it's not as black and white as some would have us believe.

As much as we might idealize "separation of church and state," politicians can still sway the masses by using emotionally charged religious language, just as religious authorities can sway their congregations by using emotionally charged political language.

But when all you have is emotion, you're basically running this way and that screaming about the thing-to-be-angry-about of the day like a chicken with its head cut off, and REASON never has a chance to enter the equation.

Thus the reason I don't follow politics anymore.
It's impossible to be HAPPY when your happiness hinges on flawed human beings whom you have never met, whose decisions are beyond your control, and whom your fellow politico-addicts are telling you to hate one day and love another.

As for the mosque itself, let the people of New York City vote on the issue.
The mosque won't be in anyone else's back yard, so let the local government decide, and then let the rest of us ACCEPT THEIR DECISION.

Some claim that letting the mosque be built is somehow an insult to our military.
But this claim ignores the fact that just about everything the American military has been forced to do since 9/11 has been either idiotic or illegal.

Idiotic in "declaring war" against an ideology..we've seen how well that's worked in the "war on drugs."

Illegal (by our own standards) in that we've invaded two countries without a single declaration of war.
Congress is supposed to have sole authority in deploying our military against other nations, but because it's been labeled a "war on terror," the presidents have basically skipped over that little check on the Executive branch in order to throw American lives wherever.

We haven't played by our own rules (i.e, the CONSTITUTION), yet we expect other countries to play by our rules? Stupidity at its most basic level.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable backlash against our "Team America: World Police" nonsensical foreign policy. With our current delusional mindset of indestructibility, and the pattern we've set, eventually we'll go up against a country willing and fully able to blast us back to the stone age (Russia, China,...the list is building as we wallow in our ignorance).

There IS NO MORALITY in this situation. The presence of a mosque is not causing American Muslims to take up arms against anyone, and if it causes American "Christians" to do so, it is on the heads of those "Christians," not those who built or worship at the mosque.
The situation is amoral.
Personal bias for or against does not equate morality.

So, give NYC the power to decide, and then LET THE ISSUE GO, regardless of their decision.