Word on all of this--including on the symbols.:-) There are some people I've come across on the net who are knowlegeable in the ancient languages of the Bible and it's fascinating...and crazy when you think there are people who honestly think whatever interpretation they have at the moment is obviously correct. That's especially true when you've got a nebulous concept like "homosexuals," which didn't even exist as a word in English until relatively recently! I was reading something somewhere else where they pointed out there's possibly a scene where Jesus comes across a soldier and a catamite and says nothing about their relationship being a bad thing.
The attitude towards war nowadays does seem very damaging in so many ways. In fact I think that's maybe why the Vietnam records of the candidate seem somehow significant. I mean, I don't think being a good soldier makes you a good president--the two are completely different things. But it just seemed disturbing how really disrespectful the GOP was about Kerry's war record, wearing purple heart Band-Aids and sneering at his wounds for not being serious enough while playing up Bush as a "war president" and acting as if his photo ops were actual battles or something. That we would choose the fake soldier over the real one seemed to reflect a more general trend towards the superficial: buy a flag but put it on your gas guzzling car that you drive alone and don't carpool in, demand more war and say you support troops but also demand tax cuts. I don't want to sound like I'm so much better than anybody who would do that, but the way it's presented as something to aspire to is upsetting.
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Date: 2004-11-06 08:40 pm (UTC)The attitude towards war nowadays does seem very damaging in so many ways. In fact I think that's maybe why the Vietnam records of the candidate seem somehow significant. I mean, I don't think being a good soldier makes you a good president--the two are completely different things. But it just seemed disturbing how really disrespectful the GOP was about Kerry's war record, wearing purple heart Band-Aids and sneering at his wounds for not being serious enough while playing up Bush as a "war president" and acting as if his photo ops were actual battles or something. That we would choose the fake soldier over the real one seemed to reflect a more general trend towards the superficial: buy a flag but put it on your gas guzzling car that you drive alone and don't carpool in, demand more war and say you support troops but also demand tax cuts. I don't want to sound like I'm so much better than anybody who would do that, but the way it's presented as something to aspire to is upsetting.