Posted by
SciFiCCGuy on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:41:55 AM
Despite my penchant for falling right in line with the conservative right, I am not a politician. Although I admire all the pundits collected on Townhall.com, and even have my own blog here, I have noticed some differences I have to the majority of commentators and bloggers on this site. There’s a lot of hate here, and I’m not even saying it’s without good reason or that I am above it. I’m way over on the right, and personally, I know it’s hard to find anything to love about the left. What’s really sickening is how the left present themselves as so tolerant and full of love, yet being on the right, I know we’ve all experienced their hate as well. They can dish out hate with the best of them and not even blink. Like them, we too can hate, and do hate. Sure, it’s justified, but hate is hate, and I’m right in there up to my elbows, same as everybody else.
I’m similar to the people on this website in many respects, and yes, I even admire them. I see the moral decay of our culture just like they do, the same decay the liberal left wrap their arms around with love and acceptance. I don’t think most of the things the left stands for are good for this, or any, society. There are limits, and those limits are not relative to an individual or situation. Moral limits are absolute and God imposed. I believe in this unreservedly, and it is the main reason I am a conservative, and to a lesser degree, a republican. Of course, I’m a Christian first and foremost. Not that I can’t appreciate other religions and points of view though – in fact, some of my favorite writers collected here are Jewish, like Michael Medved and Jeff Jacoby, who fight for my right to be Christian and who see me and my kind as sort of spiritual brothers, for in fact, we are. Christians, after all, have, and believe in, both the Old and the New Testaments, and the Old Testament is the Jewish Bible! Both Christians and Jews have this belief in common. The Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ, was born a Jew, and His Bible was the one read by Jews then and today. The Jews even know their Bible talks about a Messiah who will one day deliver them – they just don’t all agree that it’s Jesus. But we at least have the Old Testament in common, and the conservative Jews on this website see the world and this nation in the same shades of sleaze and corruption that I do. According to scripture, the Jews are God’s chosen people, after all, and I am living proof that not all Christians are anti-Semitic. I will never have a breakdown like Gibson did because that is not a part of my past or upbringing like it was for him. I don’t blame Israel for everything and I don’t hate them the way the rest of the world does right now. Their Bible is our Bible too (at least part of it).
I’m not always proud of my hate. If you had read my journals, or some of it that I’ve shared here, you’d know I’ve said some pretty mean things, same as just about everybody else here (mean but true) and I still can’t stand the likes of Howard Stern and Rosie O’Donnell. I see the people on this website as my spiritual and philosophical brothers and sisters in the fight to keep morality from dying. My world view is the same as theirs, for the most part. Yet I am not a politician, and not in love with politics. I don’t have to agree with all that is posted here, nor am I supposed to. Bill O’Reilly often has to point out that he’s an independent instead of a conservative republican, and Glen Beck’s ad for his radio show states “Not right or left; right or wrong.” In fact, I can look upon the whole of it and find the hatred I see here, even in me, distasteful. I hate to sound like a Madonna song or a bleeding heart liberal, and I mean this in a completely different context than they do, but “love makes the world go round.” It is only love that can save us, and not the love liberals have for everything immoral (because, let’s face it, they don’t love everything, or they wouldn’t hate Ann Coulter so much). I’m talking about plain old love; the kind a man has for his wife, if they really have a loving relationship; the kind parents can have for their children, if it’s real and not tainted. I’m talking about the kind of love God has for us, and the kind we can have for Him if we are truly His followers.