God help this country...

[olde_fashioned]

You know, they say you can judge a person (and a nation) by how they treat the helpless and those unable to defend themselves.

This poster doesn't even need any words. It speaks for itself.



(click to enlarge, and the original image courtesy of THIS SITE)

(and oh, yeah, to any potential trolls -- don't even think about starting a flame war in the comments. I'm not in the mood for it!)

ETA: I always find it interesting how I get unfriended by people whenever I post something even remotely political. ;-P

Comments

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I find it consistently sickening the methods that you use to express your points of view.

Why is it "sickening" for me to post a poster of an unborn baby, with the word "Obama?" and a Bible verse?

Posts like this are not going to make friends and influence people and serve only to make yourself feel good about what you believe.

First off, I'm not posting about my beliefs to "make friends." I'm posting about them because this is something I feel strongly about. I'm not trying to "make myself feel good" and for the record, when I post things like this, I usually end up feeling quite the opposite, due to the amount of bitterness and unkind things people invariably say. So, I'm not doing this for fun. I feel myself morally obligated to not take the easy way out and hide my convictions in a closet under a pile of politically-correct clothes.

I don't want to wade through posts in which the author posts contentious material and then forbids comments of an opposing nature.

Katie, I was in no way attempting to forbid comments from the other side of view, but I'm sorry if I was unclear. In my original remarks, I said specifically "trolls". I've had numerous issues with people in the past who are only looking for a fight, and who have no interest in intelligent discussion. I'm not interested in humoring those types of people -- I don't have time for it anymore. However, I am more than welcoming to people of opposing viewpoints. All I ask is that they express themselves respectfully and not insult me or other commenters on my blog.

By posting in such a deliberately narrow-minded fashion, you are slowly eliminating those from your friends list that you may actually be interested in reaching, thereby leaving only those that agree completely with you.

Again, how is it "narrow-minded" of me to post this? Would you have me post a pro-Obama poster along with this one? I'm not bashing anybody, or calling them names, or anything like that.

And you know, I have plenty of friends who I disagree with politically and otherwise, and I have no problem "agreeing to disagree" with them! But if someone else is so shakeable in their beliefs as to feel threatened by someone else that is unshakeable, and unfriend them for it, then it is my opinion that they are being the narrow minded ones.