If I Could Reach Through the Internet and Slap Another Blogger...

Pimping for blog traffic on Blog Explosion will expose you to a wide array of blogs from the wonderful to the dreadful. I try not to go off on the ones I find horrible, but there's this one guy going by the handle "Holy Instant" who makes me want to reach through the internet and just slap this guy repeatedly. Despite my atheism, I really try not to take issue with religious folks, but I tend to make the exception when they use their religion for a political agenda or against science. This clown has a bunch of blogs, many of which just have irrelevant post titles aimed at spoofing the search engines to trick people into looking at Christianist propaganda. And you could bet that the majority of these titles bash Democrats and praise Republicans and the war in Iraq. Apparently one of his blogs actually has something more to say than that, and it's just as bad as I would expect it to be. I just read one post, and it bashes Michael Moore for daring to show that our healthcare system is a mess in his new film, Sicko. Government can only degrade health care. Michael Moore's unethical socialist propaganda to the contrary, anything government inserts its fingers into develops a life-destroying cancer: bureaucracy grows unchecked, costs spiral up beyond any hope of control, and quality literally sinks into hell. Ideology-imprisoned politicians and bureaucrats in cahoots with self-serving physicians and surgeons who are willing to play their game is your perfect recipe for pain, sickness and death, as in the recent instance in the news of the lady left to die on the Emergency Room floor. Now I don't necessarilly believe that Jesus existed and if he did I certainly don't believe he was the son of any kind of god. What I do believe though is that the core of his teachings, whether actually attributed to an actual person or just written about by others, was one of kindness and SOCIALISM. That's right, big bad evil socialism, coming together of people as a society to take care of each other is the core of what Christianity is supposed to be about. So at what point did the concept of a capitalist system that leaves so many people behind become part of their holy scripture? Capitalism isn't even mentioned in the Constitution, let alone the bible. There are plenty of socialist programs in this country that none but the most hardcore libertarian crazies complain about, like roads, the police, the military, firefighters, etc. Mr. Holy Instant, you are a disgrace to he who you supposedly base your life around and if he actually existed and came back around, you'd be first in line to get his holy foot straight up your miserable ass. And as for the left's biggest lightning rod, hear Michael Moore on Howard Stern making mincemeat of Howard TV director and token rightwingnut Scott DePace.