The Silent Majority Finally Fighting Back.
Posted in Commentary
Dec. 6, 2007 at 11:18
by BrendaBee
I was please to see the letters to the editor in today's N&R and that apparently I was not the only person offended by M. Reza Salami, the UNCG professor who was offended by a sign in Guilford County Sheriffs officer's patrol car that said 'Jesus is my savior". I of course blogged on this same subject stating that I was offended that he was offended. I was more offended that he took this offense while being charged with drunk driving.Have you noticed that more and more people are beginning to speak up to those who thru their intolerance of our culture are going about destroying our culture in favor of their own imported culture, or their own intolerant ideas. The bureaucrats in Washington and the elite at our universities have shoved this multiculturalism stuff down our throats for years now and we have taken it as the tolerant and freedom loving people we are, but are now beginning to fight back. This is good people! Enough is enough.
America is a country build on freedom and tolerance and allowing all people to do as they want, choose how they live, how they worship the God of their choice, say what they want without free of retaliation and do more or less what they want as long as they remain within the laws. The United States is also a Christian country. Yes, as hard as it may be for some of our newly arrived immigrants to accept, we are a country built by and for people who believe in the Christian Bible. Our laws, our culture and our lives are based on the lessons taught in the Christian Bible. It is also a country where the majority decides what is to be done for the over all good of the population.
But somehow in our effort to be tolerant and allow all the freedom we all cherish we allowed those who disagree to take away what we the majority want. We allowed God to be taken out of our schools. We allowed smut and filth to fill our air ways in music and talk shows. There are those of us who are now demanding that prisoners of war who are sworn enemies of our country be given the same legal rights as citizens of our country. In fact, the prisoners themselves are demanding the rights to be tried in our country rather than to be sent back and tried by the laws of their own countries! A bit of irony there wouldn't you say. These terrorist are our enemies and determined to destroy our country and yet when they are caught and being brought to justice they refuse to be sent back and tried by the courts and justice of their own countries but demand the right to be tried by our laws and tried as citizens of our country. And sadly we have foolish Americans who feel that they should have this right! The case is now gone so far as our Supreme Court to determine the status of these terrorist prisoners.
We are, in fact, bending over back wards to accommodate the haters and self absorbed who care nothing for the rights of all Americans and the culture that has been forged by a freedom loving and fair minded groups of citizens over the past 300 years. They care only about their own narrow ideas and because they are privileged to live in the united States they have the freedom to demand the rest of us comply with their views.
Two years ago we went thru a Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas phase. Do you remember that? Do you also remember the backlash with some stores actually being boycotted for their Happy Holiday pandering to the non Christians in this a Christian country celebrating a Christian holiday? Well, Merry Christmas is back and being said loud and clear.
There are also those who are trying to impose upon us all their beliefs in just how the universe was created. They want what they call "creationism" to be taught along with what we have learned thru scientific discovery. A school board in Pennsylvania was thrown out of office and a new board elected when they went against the will of the majority of people and tried to rewrite the science books. A Christian nation we may well be but we are also an intelligent people who favor the acceptance of what is before our eyes over mythology.
The protests may be over rather trivial things like Merry Christmas rather than Happy Holidays, and now a bit of outrage over a very foolish man making a stupid profession of offended sensibilities, but the momentum is growing to become intolerant of intolerance, and this can only be good in a freedom loving country. BB
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Dec. 13, 2007 - Untitled Comment
In light of today's editorial by the man of your ire, has your opinion of the man - and your stance on the righteousness of reactions you cite - changed?I'd say a conclusion jumped at you, Brenda.
Hoggard
Posted by Anonymous
Dec. 13, 2007 - Untitled Comment
I said, "Have you noticed that more and more people are beginning to speak up to those who thru their intolerance of our culture are going about destroying our culture in favor of their own imported culture, or their own intolerant ideas."The words that apply in this case are "or their own intolerant ideas". so no David I do not, and I will not, take back one word or one thought. The only thing in this case that mattesr is that he was driving drunk. If he had not been driving erratically he would not have been stopped and would not have seen the sign that so offended him. He is IMO a supercilious Jerk (that's a red neck with a degree). And he could certainly use a bit of Jesus in his life.
I don't like what has happened to my country and my culture David, and looking back I can trace the beginnings of our fall into this state of moral decay to when we took God out of our schools and public forums. I haven't been in a church for 30 years and practice my faith privately so I have sat back quietly while all of this took place. Well, I am sorry now for my tolerance of the intolerance.
Tell me David, just what harm did that little sign do that man or anyone else who saw it? Then tell me just what harm that man could have done driving in his condition? I am a member of long standing in MADD and for good reason. I hate and detest drunks! Almost as much as I hate and detest the intolerant to any ideas but their own. If someone else's desires are harmless then what is the problem with it anyhow. How does a Nativity set in the Park harm anyone? How does a scroll of the Ten Commandments given to Moses by the God everyone believes in and on which our laws are based harm anyone by being placed outside of a court house or in a school. How does the pledge of allegiance with the words "under God" harm anyone. Don't we all hope that we are under God's protection? Isn't He the God of all?
You kind of hit a sore spot here. And no I didn't bother to read the man's blathering because I consider anything he had to say a waste of my time. BB
Edited by BrendaFayBowers on Dec. 13, 2007 at 10:07
Posted by BrendaFayBowers
Dec. 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment
But Brenda... if you would just take time to read his "blather" you would find that he is a Christian. Furthermore, as discussed on the editorial pages of today's N&R, he was not anywhere near drunk. He was recycling some bottles.You must be blissful beyond measure.
David
Posted by Anonymous
Dec. 14, 2007 - Untitled Comment
David I read enough of his blather to get that he is a Christian that is why I pointed out that I had written "or their own intolerant ideas." I also read the N&R article today because reading a morning paper is a long time habit I find hard to break and not because I consider the articles written by the upper level N&R staff anything but biased hogwash.Salami was pulled over for a reason David and frankly I don't really care what the reason was. He has his story, the police have theirs, you have yours and and I certainly have mine. I am just plain tired of and intolerant of all these piss ants out there being offended at something as harmless as a sign. Or a Nativity or a word or saying Merry Christmas when the nation's majority are celebrating a Christian holiday. I certainly don't mind saying Happy Hanukkah or seeing a Menorah set up in the park. I certainly am not offended by Muslim workers wanting and getting time five times everyday from their work to say their prayers. So why is it only Christian values and symbols that are being attacked and banned? Could it be because we Christians have been too tolerant and peace loving?
As I said I have lived thru this time and watched the moral decay and I can trace it all the way back to when God was removed from our lives outside of the homes and the churches. That left those who didn't have God in their homes or did not attend churches to have no higher being or higher authority at all in their lives. No higher guide or standards than the movies, TV and the Godlessness of MTV and rap.
I feel as a nation we had better turn this trend around and we start by having Christians proudly stand up for what they believe and not allow the tiny minority to push our values aside for their own. The liberal judges misread the first amendment. A conservative court would in my opinion be just as bad and would go the other way in denying people rights they should have, or I feel they should have. Somewhere there is a common ground and some sanity, but I haven't seen a great deal of it in my life time.
Yes, I am happy to see people standing up against the likes of Salami and Wineburg and others who feel they know best how my life should be run and what I should read and do and say. Again I ask, what harm did that sign do anyone? On the other hand, it might very well have given the police officer whose life is on the line a whole lot of solace to have it there.
Am I blissfully happy over this episode? Of course not. This episode is hardly any more than a moment in my day. It is going on only because you have it in your head that I am a bitter old scandal monger looking for anything to bitch about. This because I point out bluntly and with clear sight what I see as dirt on mu blog. You on the other hand see what you wish to see. I, David , am a very happy and contented individual in my own personal life. Do I like what has happened in my country? No. Am I trying to do something about what is going down? Yes. I have always tried to right what I personally saw as a wrong. But it hasn't consumed me or made me bitter. It has only opened my eyes to the evil that man can harbor in his soul and the harm that can be done if people of good will fail to see and accept and fight this evil. BB
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