Selective Indignation From Bishop Tutu and Pals

It won’t be the first time that +Tutu and other liberals have been selective in their approach to public issues.

They’re denouncing a TV reality show?

I admit I was on vacay today, taking Number One Son to his first year at Mizzou.  Did every other moral outrage on the planet more serious than “Stars Earn Stripes” suddenly get resolved this morning?

I wonder at the idea that not having war portrayed on television in any form will make war in reality go away forever.  (If we don’t think about it, then….)

This from the man who changed his position on homosexuality after accepting the money for his cancer treatment from the gay “party.”  (If we don’t think about what God says about homosexuality, then….)

It is so sad to me because Tutu is a legitimate Christian hero.  Not only did he stand up to injustice (an injustice that was an offense to the Gospel), he worked for reconciliation between the estranged parties.

To see him caught up in the shallow, self-serving religion of liberal protestantism is depressing.

And the way that some say, “You dare to question the walking saint Tutu?” is a big problem.  Those who use the Revised Common Lectionary have had several weeks of King David’s foibles.  He was organic to God’s plan for our salvation, as the recipient of the promises of an everlasting kingship and the ancestor of the Christ.  But he was manifestly flawed, as are we all.  None of us are above critique, including Tutu.

A lot of Olympic events, fencing and the pentathlon come to mind, were military events.

Don’t forget the graeco-roman wrestling…. a truly intriguing spectator sport, even for those who understand it, apparently

And javelin throwing.

And men’s freestyle gymnastics.  You could put an eye out.

Julia #3 you make a great point about the absurdity of the protest:  ”(If we don’t think about it, then….)”

Let’s not have crime dramas, in order to reduce crime. 

Let’s not have medical shows, in order to prevent illness.

The same thought came up when the peaceniks wanted to stop sponsoring military chaplains.  Get rid of prison chaplains to prevent crime.  Get rid of hospital chaplains to rid the world of sickness.

Personally, my family pretty much watches Netflix…

I agree with #4 - it is sad to watch a great man be reduced to this sort of dribble…

This reminds me of my time as a mother of young children, young enough to be in preschool, in a town that openly compared itself to Berkeley, California.  (I went to Berkeley.  I think a lot of people would be surprised just what kind of town it really was.  The only thing I could see made them comparable were the speed bumps.) 

Anyway.  All mothers in and around this town where I lived were expected to march to the “correct” tune.  I was silent a whole bunch of the time.  There was in one of my children’s preschool a presumption that boys should not be “allowed” to play with anything with a military feel to it.  At home.  In the backyard.  And especially not at school.

And what did these mothers find out, every single year, every single one of them?  That boys turned toilet-paper inner tubes into guns.  That boys turned innocent sticks into guns.  That boys used their fingers to make imitation weapons.

And that girls turned one another into babies and mothers, and coddled accordingly.

Yeah.  It’s all in what’s taught in the home to these children that controls their behavior.

Not.

Here’s a real issue Tutu et alia could deal with: Saving Girls…

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1203327.htm

Not holding my breath, though.

I don’t care much for the premise of the reality show, but I agree with Tim that Tutu singling this one particular show out for condemnation looks ridiculous.