Monday, January 26, 2009

Theese wackos, they're crazy...an irony

Today while driving I was listening to a progressive radio station that touched upon a reinstation of four bishops by the pope.  The host adamantly discussed how outraged he was since one of the bishops just last week reiterated his stance that there was no Holocaust.  Upon hearing that I thought bad thoughts about the bishop and his beliefs.  How could one be so ignorant of history and brainwash his followers into believing such lies.  The bishop is crazy!

While my brain was flushed with negativity, I overheard the talk show host mention another one of the bishop's beliefs.  The bishop stated that September 11th attacks were staged by the United States government in order to get American people's signoff on wars in Afganistan and Iraq.  And there I felt a sense of irony...for the crazy bishop I was so fond of critisizing just a minute earlier was believing the same thing I do about September 11th.  Or rather, I am not certain of what I belive about 9/11 but I do have unanswered questions and don't dismiss the conspiracy theories.

And then the world wasn't black and white again.  I disagreed so vehemently on one issue but agreed on the other.  Ironic, I thought and wondered what the talk show host would say about me...