Today in "Am I Actually Reading This Shit?"

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Arizona residents show some basic human compassion, get ticketed for littering.

But opponents say the water drops are encouraging immigrants to continue to come across the border illegally. The critics say there ought to be Border Patrol agents stationed near the water stations to arrest those who are crossing illegally as soon as they finish drinking. So furious are some at the practice of aiding immigrants that they have slashed open the water jugs, crushed them with their vehicles or simply poured the water into the desert.

These "critics" ought to get charged with murder. One of the people profiled in the article found the body of a 14-year-old child in the desert just before he was ticketed.

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I keep running into such people who claim to be Christians.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me.' Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not help you?' Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.'

IT'S RIGHT THERE, PEOPLE. Take water away from thirsty people, go to hell. I wouldn't bring it up if they didn't go on and on about God all the time.

[funnel101.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of when anti-abortion people blow up clinics and shoot doctors in the name of "Thou shalt not kill".

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Ah, nothing so great as Just War Theory as an excuse for hypocritical Christians to break the moral foundation of their faith while refusing to admit they're doing such a thing.

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

No no no... White people. Oh wait, that doesn't work either, cuz they don't do it for white people either. Hrmm... Ok, into the fire they go!!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Somehow, fundamentalists always seem to conveniently leave out parts like that when insisting that everything in the Bible must be taken literally... Stuff like "Judge not, lest ye be judged," "Love thy neighbour," "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," etc. usually seems to slip their minds as well. :-(

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I think it's just the Old Testament they want to be taken literally, with all those smitings and vengeance and massacres... they view the New Testament as some kind of addendum, of doubtful translation and provenance.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

They should convert to judaism then...

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that Jesus guy sounds like a pretty sketchy character, what with all that compassion for poor people and hookers and such. Obviously one of those un-American liberals!

[lienne.livejournal.com]

D:

[mad-bertha.livejournal.com]

Truly depressing. Unfortunately, I come across these type of sentiments over here too--'do gooders' gets thrown around a lot :(

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

This is something I have never understood at all. Why would you not want to be a do-gooder? Why is that bad? I mean, do-gooders do good, right? And good is, like, good.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one always sort of makes my brain explode a little. It's like I'm back in grade school and today is Opposites Day or something.

[mad-bertha.livejournal.com]

It's thrown about by the same people that use 'bleeding hearts' and these are people who mistake callousness and selfishness for rationality.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

It seems that in America that if you're no selfishly concerned for yourself 24/7/365 then you've got some kind of moral problem (instead of the other way around). We are becoming a culture that is downright sociopathic in terms of our narcissism.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised "critics" aren't poisoning the jugs they find.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Killing people through passive means, by denying something they need to live rather than using active violence, allows them to cling to a happy state of denial wherein they're not actually doing what they're doing. :-(

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

Yes because killing people with a relatively quick, possibly pain free poison would be wrong. Let them die of slow, painful, dehydration. God would approve.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Don't give them ideas.

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

yes, OF COURSE people are crossing the border and making potentially fatal treks through the desert in order to get at that water. of course!!

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

god what the hell is wrong with arizona