I'm terribly mundane.

Hello all. I won't have internet access from tonight until Sunday (oh! The horrors!) while I'm home on Thanksgiving break.

Before then, I've got to get my laundry together, clean out my side of the fridge, and do my dishes. Idon'twannagohome.

So. I'm gonna get on that.

Also, my friends-of list has been fluctuating weirdly as of late. I went from 136 to 129 to 131 in a week. Most of those people aren't on my friendslist, although I did have one annoying instance of "How dare you disagree with me?? Defriend!!" Blah to that.

Anyway, hello to all the new people who've friended me! I don't automatically friend back (mostly because I'm so far behind), especially if I've never gotten a comment for you, but I do try to take time to look at everyone's journal. I hope you enjoy your stay... you'll be hearing about terribly interesting things, like my laundry. You might get an occasional poem. And such. :)

Oof. Finishing my tea, must write thank you note...

Grrgh.

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This Link via seshen.

Wow. For once, Bush isn't the biggest moron in any given article. I know that seshen and I differ in opinion in the way that we view the Divine (I see all Gods/Goddesses as facets of the Divine as a whole, while she tends to focus more on individual Deities as independent), but I didn't think that Bush's assessment that the Christian and Muslim Gods being the same was terribly far off.

Granted, the religions are very different and should be respected as such. But in my opinion, Jesus is Allah is Krishna is Buddha is Aphrodite is Cerridwen is Freya is Odin is Grandmother Spider is insert-other-Deity. They all deserve respect and verneration. But I see the multitudes of Gods as man's way of trying to express the Divine. Every culture notes that the Divine exists, and their culture and specific needs shape the way that they view and link to the Divine. And thus we get such diverse panthenons. YMMV, of course.

Even though I was surprised by Bush's apparent open-mindedness (especially post-911), this all makes me wonder why he tried to repeal the decision that made Wicca a recognized religion in TX. Oh, that's right, fundies don't see Wiccans as worshipping the same God. We of course worship demons... :P

However, I would agree (and have stated many times) that the office of the President is a secular one, and God shouldn't come up at all. But at least he said, "I believe" this time instead of stating his religious views as absolute fact.

What completely threw me about this article were the terribly inacurate statements made by Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. How dare he say that

The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health while the Muslim God appears to value the opposite... The personalities of each God are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities.

Um. STFU, thanks. Because Lord knows, the "peoples that serve" Christianity didn't once have this teensy tiny Inquisition thing that murdered thousands unjustly or anything.

I'm not saying that Jesus' central message wasn't love. I overwhelmingly believe that it was. I'm just saying that if Haggard's going to say that the actions of Muslim people reflect their God, he should realize that warped Christian ideology has been at the bottom of many of our most hideous historical eras.

And for God's sake, how the hell would he know anything about the actual Muslim culture? No doubt the only evidence he's seen has been related to the rule of opressive regimes like the Taliban wherein the people had no voice or choice within their own culture. This whole 911-backlash Muslims-R-EVOL! thing needs to just stop. Along with the whole notion of My God is better than your God!

/rant.


Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Eat lots of turkey/tofurkey.

ETA: A lady in my grammar class mistook me for Jewish today when we were doing dialects and Yiddish came up. :P When I explained to her that no, my pentacle isn't a Star of David, she felt really dumb. :) Not that I made her feel dumb, but she'd spent the entire semester thinking I was Jewish. :P

This, of course, prompted Colby Goodrum to ask loudly, "So, you're a witch?" Oi. What a loaded word. One I don't usually use around non-Pagans because it is so loaded. But I didn't have time to do the whole "Wicca 101" spiel. And such.

Okay, I'm REALLY gone now!