Downright Assholery?

“Are you a Buddhist?"

"No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”

-- Scott Hawkins, author, computer programmer

Scott Hawkins must've known me, or someone like me, at some point.  I studied Buddhism for a while.  I couldn't seem to move past my assholery, either.  It's something people like me hold tightly to.  Marriage, for me, not so much, but my assholery?  Oh, my... yes!  

I don't know who Jayson Zabate is, but he wrote, “Be an asshole, and prove to someone that you're a good person.”  I am one of those rare people, I suppose, who can be an asshole and still be a good person.  For the majority of humanity, I find no reason to exercise my right to show my ass.  But, I take particular pleasure in irritating those members of the League of the Perpetually Offended.  I think it's because all I have to do is say the right thing, or not, and it sets them off on some ignorant rant about how superior they think they are.  They really aren't, but it is fun to let them rant about it and think they are.  I am continually attacked by these trolls.  I tend to leave them to my readers who have more to say about them, and to them, then I care to.  I fight to try and stay above it all.  It is hard.

“When a fool utters all kinds of insults against you in a social media group without even knowing you or without any worthwhile reason or provocation usually they are merely sad & pathetic attention-seeking trolls who we should all feel sorry for. They don't deserve our anger. They deserve our pity.”

-- R.M. Engelhardt, poet, author, minister

It's harder when I get aggravated by people who don't understand that killing babies in the womb is still killing babies.  And, yet, these liberal baby-killers have the temerity to call me a Nazi.  I understand the medical need for an abortion, and I also know, for all the others, there is a "morning-after" pill they can purchase if things go too far, or rape is involved.  With this pill available, abortion, freedom of choice, seems like a poorly veiled argument for not wanting to keep one's legs together, unless they're forced apart.  I wonder if pro-choice folks have heard the story of the live births, waiting on the cold steel table, while everyone decides whether to terminate them?  Murder?  If you don't want the crimes against humanity to exist, they don't.  Just turn a blind eye and stay in denial.  But then, I'm the Nazi, right?  

For those who fight for a woman's right to choose murder, I can only hope these people are all almost reborn, time and time again, aborted from birth for eternity.  You see?  This is me, exercising my assholery.  It isn't my fault, though.  I was brought up a Catholic and some of it stuck.  I have a special place in my heart for the innocence of children, and for the monsters who treat them badly, deprive them of their right to life, or their right to live.  Children should never be "collateral damage" of gangs on the streets or during a divorce.  Children should never be used as pawns or objects.  Children should, most certainly, not be taught evil.  All of this is child abuse, to my way of thinking, but, then, I'm the asshole.

“When a troll tries to piss on your leg online, simply reply with: "Does your mom know she raised a little asshole?" It attacks him on so many different levels at once, he won't know how to respond.”

-- Oliver Markus Malloy, author, comic artist

Yes, I think I will continue to hold onto my assholery until someone comes along to relieve me of the responsibility.  That will never happen.  It takes a certain kind of person to be an asshole and still have a sense of ethics.  To be an asshole and still see the wonder in the eyes of a child. To be an asshole and stand up for innocence that cannot stand for themselves, and to protect society from the slaughter of those innocent.  I will continue to enjoy irritating to League of the Perpetually Offended until they are lined up against a wall by the socialists they support and are shot for knowing too much, yet being too ignorant to see it coming.

I'll make the popcorn for the show.  Care to join me?

Editor's Note

(Re: disclaimer cum "get out of jail free" card)

Before you go getting your panties in a bunch, it is essential to understand that this is just an opinion site and, as such, can be subjected to scrutiny by anyone with a differing opinion. It doesn't make either opinion any more right or wrong than the other. An opinion, presented in this context, is a way of inciting others to think and, hopefully, to form opinions of their own, if they haven't already done so. This is also why, occasionally, I will present an "opinion" just to stir an emotional pot. Where it may sound like I agree with the statements made, I'm more interested in getting others to consider an alternate viewpoint. 

It is my fervent hope that we keep open and active minds when reading opinions and while engaging in peaceful and constructive discussion, in an arena of mutual respect, concerning those opinions put forth. After over twenty years with military intelligence, I have come to believe engaging each other in this manner and in this arena is the way we will learn tolerance and respect for differing beliefs, cultures, and viewpoints.

We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we learn from the experience, and what we do afterward.

Pastor Tony spent 22 years with the United States Air Force Intelligence as a planner, analyst, briefer, instructor, and senior manager. He spent 17 years, following his service career, working with the premier, world-renowned, Institutional Review Board helping to protect the rights of human subjects involved in pharmaceutical research. Ordained 1n 2013 as an "interfaith" minister, he founded the Congregation for Religious Tolerance in response to intolerance shown by Christians toward peaceful Islam. As the weapon for his war on intolerance he chose the pen, and wages his "battle" in the guise of the Congregation's official online blog, The Path, of which he is both author and editor. "The Path" offers a vehicle for commentary and guidance concerning one's own personal, spiritual, path toward peace and the final destination for us all. He currently resides in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he volunteers as a chaplain at the regional medical center.