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Just finished reading the Salon piece (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/13/weinstein/print.html) on the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) founded by Mikey Weinstein.Wow!
The piece, written by Alex Koppelman, details the increasingly tribal and retributive nature of fundamentalists in the U.S. military against non-believers, the wrong types of Christians and of-course Jews.
Weinstein "founded the MRFF earlier this year to oppose the spread of religious intimidation in a military increasingly dominated by evangelical Christians," writes Koppelman.
And, man, this Weinstein does not take any shit.
An excerpt from Weinstein:
"Many [evangelical Christians] tell me, "Mikey, OK, Anne Frank, Dr. Seuss, Jack Benny, Gandhi, they're all burning eternally in the fires of hell." And here's the distinction they just don't fucking get, these cocksuckers do not get this: I would give my last drop of blood and my last breath, and I would commend my three children in the Air Force -- one of whom's going to be heading to Iraq in a few months -- to give their last drop of blood and their last breath to support the rights of these people to believe that Anne Frank is burning eternally in hell ... If they want to believe that their version of Jesus has her burning eternally in hell, I'd give my life for that. But I will not do that if my government tells me who are the children of the greater God and who are the children of the lesser God or no God at all. And that's what these monsters are doing."
An invigorating read. Think this crap would happen under a non-GWB presidency?
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