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Defining our world...

Perhaps it's difficult for those who want to believe that Republicans and Bush and all those that follow that path don't care about people.  They talk a great game about values... but ultimately don't those values have more to do with their own personal acquisition?  If nothing else, doesn't someone need to concede that their idea of definitions for some pretty important words and ideals are different from most of the rest of us?

Consider that they define hunting as being something akin to your drunk uncle going into a pasture with a gun to shoot a cow that his buddy is pointing out to him.  Essentially the 'hunting' of Dick Cheney was essentially this... compromised, tamed birds pointed out by outriders and dogs for the convenience of the 'hunters'.

Now consider that they consider this strip mining important enough to compromise and perhaps take the lives of virtually every person in the entire region.  Would they be among the first to speak up about how horribly the Native Americans were treated by the Western Europeans 100+ years ago?  How is this different?  The culture of these people was completely altered by the arrival of coal mining and it is dangerously close to being destroyed entirely.

Finally, take a moment to recognize that if this is how they view 'hunting' and 'coal mining'.... what would be the parameters of war?  Does this help put the Iraq situation into context?  Does it help us to understand why the Iraqi people (and all of the Middle East) are so upset?  Does it seem not only possible, but dammmed likely that many of the accusations leveled at the treatment of the Iraqis at the hands of the Americans is true?

Before anyone blindly agrees to how "Christian" this administration is... perhaps we need to recognize how they must define that term as well.  It clearly has NOTHING to do with Love Thy Neighbor.On Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back posted 3 years, 9 months ago 10 Responses

Defining our world...

Perhaps it's difficult for those who want to believe that Republicans and Bush and all those that follow that path don't care about people.  They talk a great game about values... but ultimately don't those values have more to do with their own personal acquisition?  If nothing else, doesn't someone need to concede that their idea of definitions for some pretty important words and ideals are different from most of the rest of us?

Consider that they define hunting as being something akin to your drunk uncle going into a pasture with a gun to shoot a cow that his buddy is pointing out to him.  Essentially the 'hunting' of Dick Cheney was essentially this... compromised, tamed birds pointed out by outriders and dogs for the convenience of the 'hunters'.

Now consider that they consider this strip mining important enough to compromise and perhaps take the lives of virtually every person in the entire region.  Would they be among the first to speak up about how horribly the Native Americans were treated by the Western Europeans 100+ years ago?  How is this different?  The culture of these people was completely altered by the arrival of coal mining and it is dangerously close to being destroyed entirely.

Finally, take a moment to recognize that if this is how they view 'hunting' and 'coal mining'.... what would be the parameters of war?  Does this help put the Iraq situation into context?  Does it help us to understand why the Iraqi people (and all of the Middle East) are so upset?  Does it seem not only possible, but dammmed likely that many of the accusations leveled at the treatment of the Iraqis at the hands of the Americans is true?

Before anyone blindly agrees to how "Christian" this administration is... perhaps we need to recognize how they must define that term as well.  It clearly has NOTHING to do with Love Thy Neighbor.On An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining posted 3 years, 9 months ago 10 Responses