So the clash of civilizations turns into a bun-fight over a handicapped parking space.
In this corner we have the Brotherhood and their new “just say no to Denemark [sic!]� campaign (just when we could get decent butter again!), while over in the far corner (but not far enough for my taste) we have the none-too-bright Christian fundie, and former Inquisitor Generalis, John Ashcroft saying stuff like this:
…those who violate the Geneva Conventions should not benefit from its provisions.
And
If the pope thought the Muslim faith were better than the Catholic faith, he’d be a Muslim.
It’s all there in the New York Times. And make sure you read all the way to the end:
Ashcroft: I make barbed-wire sculpture.
NYT: Why barbed wire?
Ashcroft: Because there was a surplus of it on my farm.
What would Jesus do about this man?
Trying to make sense of this… Is he kidding? What do those look like? Has he considered selling them? Exhibiting them? I imagine barbed-wire statues by Ashcroft would do very well on the international art circuit.
And here I thought irony was dead…silly me, There was lots of barb wire where I grew up, too. Maybe I could make some ACLU-inspired stuff and we could have a show.
What a frighteningly simple-minded man that Ashcroft is. This statement – “What I have to do to please God is to confess that I am a sinner instead of trying to prove that I am good” – makes one wonder if those who have this view of Christianity believe they can get away with, oh, I don’t know, torturing and brutalizing hundreds of people in secret detention because they can always confess later to God.
personally? I would rather have him confess to war crimes, crimes against the constitution and see him stand up and confess in a little thing I like to think of as The People v John Ashcroft.
But what do I know? I’m a secular democrat…