The last place I would look for humor is Daily Kos, ordinarily a pit of paranoia, antisemitism and bile. But a genuine satirist, under the giveaway moniker Yacka Jah Yacka, has slipped past Markos “Screw ’em” Moulitsas’ gatekeepers. Yacka proposes a quick and easy way to make peace between Western civilization and the Islamofascists:
While it appears from more than one point of view that the War in Iraq and the War on Terror are situations from which we may never be able to extricate ourselves, from the mountains of Pakistan comes a very simple solution: convert toIslam. . . .
How many of us are really just religious lightweights, happy to simply go to church every Sunday, attend church socials, knock back a drink or two every Christmas and not worry ourselves about the deeper implications of our faith?
Given the way most of us pay any real attention to the tenets of our faith, life really wouldn’t be that different if we were to exchange one faith for another. The prayers would be different, but we would recite them just as mindlessly as we do today. The sermons would in all likelihood be exactly the same, and we’d continue to snore through them.
Sure, there are a few people here and there who take religion seriously, but they are in such a small minority that their protests can be easily ignored.
All too true, I fear. If Christ means almost nothing to us, how easy it is to go along with an anti-Christ.
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