I figure I should post a little something today. Sorry, not much cool to rant about today. I just wanted to put my two cents in, considering the news from last night and today.
When I posted yesterday, some teenager hadn't gone into Trolley Square and killed five innocent people. At this point, they don't know why, and I'm not going to go through the work of updating this blog as a news cast. There are just somethings that I want to express.
I don't care who you are, what your creed, color, who or what you sleep with, or whether or not you agree with me that tuna is of the devil. There is never a good excuse for terrorism. Honest to Father, unloading a shotgun into a crowded mall (much less the sanctity of the gaming store there) for any reason is stupid, foolish, and is liable to get you rooming with some very unpleasant people of the Eternities. I'm fine, by the way. Wasn't there. None of my family were there, that I'm aware of, and neither were any of my friends. I am outraged, though, that someone thought walking into a place like that was a good idea. I mean, even if he was angst ridden, mentally ill, whatever... I am sickened that what ever he wanted to do, say, or express, he thought could only be done through senseless slaughter. We are human beings. We have been given gifts of compassion, love, reasoning, and understanding. We also seem to be too stupid to use them to prevent things like this from occurring. I know that somewhere, sometime, someone will come forward with the key to this tragedy, and it will come down to love (most likely a lack of it, either on his side, or expressed to him).
I also want to vent about NBC News. At the very least, I would like to inform them that Utah has news reporters. Heck, we're so fangdangled high tech we even have one o' them gosh darn neato TeeVee studio thangs where they broadcast news from. Actually managed to work pretty well when that little thing called the Olympics were here. I don't understand, then, why they felt that some guy from Los Angeles was better suited to tell what happened at Trolley Square than one of our guys here? I mean, unless he was visiting from out-of-state, eating at the Rodigio when the shots got fired I feel kinda insulted that NBC decided to ignore out own broadcasting team. (Ummm.... Rodigio... I could really go for a trip there right now.)
Next little rant... You would think that after all that's happened in this world, and all the people out there... why is the fact that Mitt Romney a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints such a "powder keg issue"? For that matter, why is the chance that Barack Obama may possibly be Muslim be the same? Are they good men? Yes, I think so. Do they have valid stances on the issues? Yes. Do they want what is best for this nation? Yes I think Mitt, Barack, Hillary, and Gulliani all want what is best for this nation. I feel that is what they have in the hearts. I may be wrong. But I am very sure that there is not some secret religious conspiracy behind ANY of the candidates that will summon forth the Elder God Cthulhu to crush the world should they win. It would be an interesting campaign (role-playing not political) to run through, though.
I will say this, get over it! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is no more a cult than the Roman Catholic, Judaic, or Protestant denominations out there. I don't understand why people can't see that? Do we pay tithing? Yes, but what faith does not express the concept of financial sacrifice for the Kingdom of God in some way. We don't drink, we don't smoke, so we get in less car accidents, and die older. Yes there are things that are different about us. There are things that are different about the Orthodox and Roman Catholic faiths. It is differences that explain why I go to church on Sunday, and why you go to church on Sunday (or Easter, or Saturday, or five times a day... or when ever you go).
Religion is another part of who we are. We all need to believe in something greater than ourselves (even if you an atheist and believe in gravity). We all strive to look beyond our mortal shells, and strive to touch that which is just beyond. Why must that be a source of contention? Jesus taught that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. Muhammad taught that the people of the Book should get along. Jews, Muslims, Christians, all should get a long. It's the 21st century, people. We're never going to form a United Federation of Planets if we keep going at this rate. So, I say, don't let the title cause fear. Look at a person for who they are, and the works they bring forth. Just because a man says "I go to church every Sunday" and then orders schools to be bombed... that doesn't actually make him a Christian does it?
Last word on this little tirade. I want the world to know that I love my wife. She is everything to me. She is my joy and my happiness. If not for her, I'd probably be locked up somewhere bouncing off the walls. That, or I'd of taken a gun into a mall somewhere.
I love my wife, and I want her to know that I always will. Forever an' ever an' ever an' ever.
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