The Easy Route

Mark Steyn does a good take on the sorry state of many of our social critics.

Steyn takes Beaton to task for his play Follow My Leader, an anti-Bush/Blair rant featuring the soon to be classic "We're Sending You A Cluster Bomb From Jesus". Steyn says:

The contours of our epic clash of civilisations are clear now: Christians are a cheap laugh and in ontrol of the Bush Administration, Jews are sinister and in control of the Bush Administration, and Muslims... whoa, best not to mention them, man. You don't want to be Islamophobic. You can sing "We're Sending You A Cluster Bomb From Jesus" because there are no "fundamentalist Christians" within 20 miles of the Birmingham Rep - or at least none that is going to be waiting for you at the stage door. "We're Sending You A Schoolgirl Bomb From Allah" might attract notice from a livelier crowd. If you're going to be provocative, it's best to do it with people who can't be provoked.

This gets to something that has always driven me batty about the 'left' or so-called social progressives.

Basically, they are very selective against whom they insult. In Europe, for example, you'ld get the impression that America is run by a bunch of backward religious nuts. On the other hand of course you have fundamentalist Muslims within Europe who in some cases openly state that the implementation of Sharia Law in Europe is their goal. Yet hardly a wimper is heard. There are no plays in Britain about religious Muslims (let alone fundamentalist ones). And yet Beaton can attract a crowd while mocking the oh so religious G.W. Bush.

Maybe I'm not connecting here. But as far as I'm concerned if you are worried about G.W. forcing his religion on you, you're out of your mind.

I remember reading the comments section on another blog awhile back and someone stated they wouldn't vote for the new Conservative Party because he didn't want religion to be forced on him. Like what planet was this guy living on? I would be terribly surprised if there was even one instance in this persons adult life when Christianity was 'forced' upon him. Did he actually believe this would happen? Was his statement just some reflexive response ingrained by two many years reading the Toronto Star?

Some people seem to feel that Christianity is some sort of evil that must be destroyed. These same people of course encourage other religions in the name of diversity and multicuturalism. These people are either dim-witted or dangerous. I haven't decided yet. I'm leaning towards the latter.