Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

How odd it is that so many American historians through the ages have failed to discern and report on the Founding Fathers' intent to destroy Islam.  How strange it is that the Founding Fathers left no message of such intent and went so far as to not even mention God in the U.S. Constitution, choosing to begin that document with the potentially suspicious "We the people."

What were they really trying to tell us?  

How delighted Parsley and Hagee would have been had the Constitution emerged as a gigantic document espousing witch hunts, the types that were eventually initiated in Salem, Massachusetts.  

I recall from early boyhood a painting that affected so many of a serene appearing Jesus Christ ministering to a flock of sheep.  This is the symbol I chose to accept as Christianity at its most loving and caring, the expression of love for fellow creatures one and all.

Parsley and Hagee call for hate mongering rather than the kindness and caring replete in the sermons of Christ and the psalms.  Parsley zeroes in particularly on believers of Islam, such appropriately vulnerable targets since 9/11, which, incidentally, has still not been investigated by the U.S. Government in an independent manner.

Reverend Parsley in his omniscient manner has taken it upon himself to settle the issue of rights of worship.  Clearly, while Christians have a right to worship, he exorcises Muslims for their belief that Muhammad received visitations from God or Allah.

Parsley does not deny that Muhammad received visitations.  He questions their source, informing all willing to listen to him with smug, seething self-assurance that Muhammad was visited by Satan.

Reverend Parsley, whenever you disagree with another's spiritual viewpoint, use the old reliable technique that Jonathan Edwards employed with his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon and those that branded as "witches" in Salem individuals they could not fathom as being influenced and controlled by Satan.

If you really believe that Muslims have all been tragically manipulated by the devil, Reverend Parsley, then perhaps you see as some form of divine revenge from an "angry God" the report from the British Journal Lancet that 1.2 million Iraqis have died since the first of the Donald Rumsfeld "shock and awe" attacks were launched.

The current figure, in case of you haven't noticed, Reverend Parsley, is that 2.5 million Iraqis have fled their homes and flooded the borders of countries neighboring Iraq.  

Have they also been victimized as an act of revenge by an angry God?

On the other side of the coin, Reverend Parsley, were those meetings held in secret in Vice President Dick Cheney's office to divide up profits for an Iraq War campaign before the first "smart bombs" that were said to be capable of distinguishing between good and bad targets and good and bad people were dropped, consecrated by God?

Was God truly on the side of the company that continued to pay Cheney handsomely while he served as Vice President, Halliburton, along with Bechtel and the rest of the prospective profiteers, all doing God's work?

Reverend Parsley, shall we pass the tambourines and shout "amen" and "hosanna" as we sing the praises of Cheney and Halliburton for initiating God-ordained acts against infidels?