Drowning In Irony

Is it my imagination or are Christians the nastiest, cruelest people on the face of the planet? Recently a horrible little biddy named Ann Coulter, was interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today show. She expressed her opinion that the widows of 9/11 victims were witches and harpies who were enjoying their notoriety and using their “fame” to push their political agenda.
Ann is a right wing author of the newly released book,”Godless: The Church of Liberalism” in which she castigates liberals, and places them somewhere between fecal matter and pond scum.
Many of us have known about Ann for some time and usually we don’t pay her any attention. She’s a clever woman who knows that if she stirs things up she will sell books, And it works.
We are up to our chins in irony lately. The Christians, represented here by George Bush, Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, are people who purport to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.
The central message of this rather radical Jewish teacher was that you should love all others as if they were your brother, even your enemy. It remains a radical idea today. When this Jesus guy was confronted with people he thought to be sinners, he would take them aside and council them to help get them back on the right track. In other words, he was compassionate for the troubled, the “sinners”, and even those who hated him; quite a guy.
However, the whole agenda expressed by these modern followers of Christ seems to be attacking gays, minorities and foreigners, bombing other countries, and just generally spewing more hatred than any satan worshipper I’ve ever seen. (OK, I’ve never seen one but you get the point).
Hey, I just got an idea. Maybe they ARE satan worshippers and this is their way of destroying Christianity. You never know. It’s hard to imagine Jesus preaching all this hatred.
I’m reminded of the parade held by the Neo-Nazis a few years ago and everybody got all upset. Imagine what would have happened if they gave their little parade with their flags and uniforms and nobody showed up. Imagine if they had marched empty streets except for the occasional puzzled, stray dog. That’s what we need to do with sad little people like Ann. Ignore her parade of Christian hatred.