More anti-Muslim nonsense

Really. This pasteur in Florida thinks it is a good idea to burn the Koran. How is that okay in this world? This is the stuff that burns me because it gives Christians a really bad name. One fringe lunatic offending an entire religion over the 9/11 actions of some other fringe lunatics. Can't these nuts just keep the sane people out of it? How would this pasteur feel if some iman said it was time to start burning bibles for all the attrocities the US has caused in Iraq?

Okay, I rant over the internet a bit, but the truth is I'm not often personally confronted by such idiocy. I guess, I know mostly sane people. Sure there are a few conservatives at work who think Palin is a hero, but it's a workplace and no one goes around pushing the message. There are discussions among friends, but never anything offensive.

But the other night, I was at a dinner where somebody just started going on about how Obama is a Muslim. Despite no evidence of this and plenty of evidence to the contrary, a large swath of this country seems to have accepted this as a truth. And really I froze. I didn't respond. I let it go. Here was a well educated person espousing nonsense, and yet, I didn't feel like there was any way I was going to be able to reason with him. As Obama was just saying today, he could argue that there were fish in the sea and the conservatives would have to take the opposite position.

I'm not sure what this says about me. Like I said, I'm not often confronted by something like this, and I didn't want to embarass anyone or get into it, but it still sort of left a bad taste in my mouth. My opinion of this person has changed a bit, and I guess I'm just a little disappointed if anything.