Thursday, May 07, 2009

Bad timing award

Talk about bad timing. My FaceBook "friend" David Klinghoffer blogs Why I'm "Christian-Friendly" on the selfsame day Westboro Baptist announces a plan to picket shuls. Seems they've peeved both that we're so gay friendly, and also because we murdered their omnipotent, almost all-powerful Lord. Klinghoffer's money quote
yes, I'm "Christian-friendly." Why on earth would I not be? We don't live in Europe -- medieval, mid-20th century, or modern -- where religious, ideological, and secular-fed anti-Semitism was and is rife. We live in America, the most philo-Semitic country in history and arguably the most passionately Christian in the world today.
Sorry, but the hard-core Catholics in Brazil, Peru, and Africa are far more passionately Christian than sloppy feel-good mega-church Americans (and of course the most passionately religious countries today are Muslim) Besides, American philo-Semitism comes with some awfully big strings attached, and a few intolerable conditions, so who needs it?

There's more to say about why DK is wrong, but I am past zonked. Perhaps tomorrow.

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