Radical Rosie

  • How long did Rosie O’Donnell wait to say some­thing offen­sive to believ­ing Amer­i­can Chris­tians — about five sec­onds?

    Since I would watch “The View” only about as will­ingly as I would watch any other women-prattling-endlessly show, which is to say ‘not at all’, I didn’t catch Rosie’s remarks dur­ing the Sep­tem­ber 11 show, which was sup­posed to have had some­thing to do with a rea­son­able person’s thoughts on 9/11. Instead, Rosie made sure to get in a riff for Christianity-bashing (link with video is HERE):

    (“View” co-host Eliz­a­beth) Has­sel­beck noted that the fund­ing of rad­i­cal Islam is wide­spread. O’Donnell again inter­rupted and said, “Rad­i­cal Chris­tian­ity is just as threat­en­ing as rad­i­cal Islam in a coun­try like America.”

    So … in this cor­ner, we have an armed, mil­i­tant fac­tion of a reli­gion that has killed men, women and chil­dren indis­crim­i­nately around the world, taken pris­on­ers and decap­i­tated them on film while chant­ing that their god is great, uttered threats against every per­son who lives in a West­ern civ­i­liza­tion (and a great many that don’t, includ­ing those of other sects of their own reli­gion), sup­pressed its own women with vio­lence to sub­ju­gate their wills entirely … oh, and — memo to Rosie — has never been timid about pun­ish­ing homo­sex­u­als (see HERE if you need an exam­ple). In the other cor­ner, we have Amer­i­can Chris­tians, who stage ral­lies, vote against gay mar­riage (along with a lot of non-Christians), have their share of idiots who resort to ver­bal abuse to make their case but never esca­late to any­thing like real jihad and whose stated objec­tive — along with all Chris­tians — is to bring the whole world to the knowl­edge of One they believe to be the Prince of Peace.

    And Rosie’s a lit­tle fuzzy on the dif­fer­ence. All looks the same to her.

    Why in the world do peo­ple not col­lec­tively boo some­one off the stage when they utter com­plete garbage like this? Why …

    Well, I could go on, but there’s no point. I know why. I think any­one who’s over the age of about 12 really knows why. Rosie might be a blab­ber­mouth (and I wouldn’t be sur­prised if she has to either apol­o­gize or quit), but she’s just say­ing out loud what many, many oth­ers have implied or said less loudly. Com­pletely unrea­son­able state­ments aren’t seen as being com­pletely unrea­son­able if they can refer back to the emo­tional core issue that we have to go over and over and OVER. Once again, it’s Right vs. Left, and — some­where con­tained therein, though I think many well-intentioned Chris­tians would like to believe oth­er­wise — Chris­tian­ity vs. Left. I don’t say that because Chris­tian­ity has to be con­ser­v­a­tive; I say it because the Left is unwill­ing to make dis­tinc­tions and really, really hates Amer­i­can Chris­tian­ity. Try­ing to occa­sion­ally butt in with the fact that there are some Ortho­dox that aren’t that crazy about it either is appar­ently beside the point. We’re all lumped in together.

    And what is that lump? Well, as Rosie has it, it’s ‘rad­i­cal Chris­tian­ity,’ what­ever that is. It would be easy to say that she only means peo­ple who dis­trib­ute Chick Tracts detail­ing who’s going to hell this week. But you’d really have to be wear­ing a par­tic­u­larly opaque pair of (ha ha) rose-colored glasses to say that. I have a sneak­ing sus­pi­cion she means any­one who believes (a) that sin sep­a­rates us from God, and (b) that homo­sex­u­al­ity is a sin. In other words, any­one who sub­scribes to the his­toric posi­tion of the Chris­t­ian Church and doesn’t play fast and loose with the Scriptures.

    That’s it. If we’d pitch that stuff, rede­fine mar­riage as any­thing that any­one does with any­one or any­thing, and stop pre­tend­ing that some val­ues are more ben­e­fi­cial to all of human­ity and that there are things that are true whether we want them to be true or not, well then, it’s all be fine. We wouldn’t be as bad as the mur­der­ously rad­i­cal Mus­lims any­more, and she’d give us free tick­ets to see some movie she made before she became so offen­sive and self-important.

    We’ll never make it. We do all real­ize it, right? The things we’d have to cave to in order to sat­isfy those who rail against us leave us use­less to our­selves and the world. “When the salt has lost its fla­vor, with what shall it be salted?” There’s noth­ing else in the world like Chris­tian­ity. There never has been. It came from out­side of all of our plans, our philoso­phies, our best inten­tions and worst night­mares. It’s no use pre­tend­ing for the sake of con­temp­tu­ous talk-show per­son­al­i­ties that it’s ours to filet until she gets to a part she finds palatable.

    Besides, who are we kid­ding? If they start filet­ing Chris­tian­ity, do we have any doubt that Ortho­doxy won’t sur­vive the first cut?


    Related posts:

    1. Advice from one pos­si­ble future
    2. John Mark Reynolds set­ting it straight
    3. Gun­point conversion
    4. More new martyrs
    5. Memo­r­ial Day

    September 14th, 2006 | Grace | No Comments |

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