Jack Burns Lives!

Over the weekend, a lunatic went into a church and executed a doctor that performed abortions. I’m sure as the details unfold we’ll find that he was a Bill O’Reilly regular listener and a self-proclaimed soldier for god.

Interestingly, the god squad also has a ready answer for why there’s so much violence in today’s society. For why everything has gone “to hell in a handbasket.”

It’s here if you’re interested.

Actually, I think the first step toward creating a more peaceful society is a closer examination of the role of religion in society. We’ve always had out of control violence in this country. Against American Indians, blacks, women and non-humans. And “god” was always there, always a part of our society. In fact, the single theme that I find running throughout our entire violent history is a belief in god. Hell, at one point, we even burned women we suspected might be witches. In the name of god, of course.

If you want to believe in god, that’s ok by me. I don’t care. But don’t think for a minute that the establishment of what’s essentially a monoculture combined with a theocracy is a solution the rest of us will stand by and allow to happen.

After all, that’s exactly how the Taliban operates.