{"id":18,"date":"2010-08-30T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/08\/mein-dc.html"},"modified":"2010-08-30T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T08:37:35","slug":"mein-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/08\/mein-dc.html","title":{"rendered":"Me..in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">So this past Saturday I attended the Glenn Beck<br \/>\n912 rally to restore honor to America. It is a noble cause and emphasizes the<br \/>\nrestoration of original Judeo\/Christian values to our culture via its citizens<br \/>\nwith the hope of rubbing off on our elected officials who somehow disregard the<br \/>\nnotion that they represent <i>our<\/i> voice<br \/>\nand instead believe their purpose is to decide for us what we believe. It had a<br \/>\nhistoric vibe about it because it was the same day and location that Dr. martin<br \/>\nLuther King gave his famous &#8220;I have a dream &#8221; speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Funny thing about epic events I discovered, they<br \/>\nlook and feel better on TV than in person. The first thing that came to mind was<br \/>\neverything was in color. The original MLK &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech footage was<br \/>\nin black and white which for some reason not only gives it more authenticity as<br \/>\na historic event, but made it not seem as hot! Here it was late Aug in DC at<br \/>\nnoon and these people were in suits or crying out loud and nobody was sweating,<br \/>\nmeanwhile people at Becks were selling their bottled water for black-market<br \/>\nprices and we were gobbling it up like heroin addicts! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The good news is it was peaceful and optimistic<br \/>\nand fun to be a part of. Of course there were those who joined the event simply<br \/>\nto antagonize the rest of us because that is what liberal thought in America is<br \/>\nnow, shove their belief down your throat and censor dissent from the right as<br \/>\ndangerous. Face it nothing is more divisive than God and country. Just ask the<br \/>\nfounding fathers! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Even though we have the writings of our founders<br \/>\nthat to a man (yes, that includes Jefferson and Franklin)<span>&nbsp; <\/span>they believed in divine providence to<br \/>\nsecure our victory over tyranny and the Judeo\/Christian God and His revelation<br \/>\nto guide us, the only way that can be interpreted by the revisionist<br \/>\nconstitutional &#8220;scholars&#8221; is that they were deists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Of course a deist is someone that believes in<br \/>\nGod but also believes He stays out of human affairs and leaves us to ourselves.<br \/>\nKind of counterintuitive to the many prayers offered up thanking God for His<br \/>\nprovidence and asking Him to keep us grateful and seeking His wisdom, but then<br \/>\nagain when you begin to confuse secular\/humanists with facts it makes them more<br \/>\naggressive to maintain their &#8220;faith&#8221; that our &#8220;faith&#8221; is anti-intellectual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>There was a black student from Howard that was<br \/>\ninterviewing whites asking them if they felt it was insulting to him as an<br \/>\nAfrican\/American for Beck to hijack Martin Luther Kings &#8220;dream&#8221; speech since it<br \/>\nwas 47 years from the day he spoke it. This was ironic to me since the<br \/>\nimplication there of course is the &#8220;dream speech&#8221; was for black Americans<br \/>\nwhich, had you asked King I&#8217;m sure he would have responded it was for America<br \/>\nas a whole, thus revealing an underlying racism (I.E. King only cared about<br \/>\nblack&#8217;s) in the implication of the Howard students inquiry. That made me sad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>There were a couple signs stating &#8221; I am brown<br \/>\nand born in this country, why do you hate me?&#8221; another implicating Beck as a<br \/>\nterrorist. Now remember these were 3 signs in a sea of over 200,000 people so<br \/>\nit is obvious they were looking for conflict not resolution or even dialogue.<br \/>\nYet even with those who were there with an agenda and a desire to disrupt it<br \/>\nwas a beautiful example of free speech in America in real time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>There was one guy from Long Island that<br \/>\nrecognized me and asked if he could get a picture of us both but other than<br \/>\nthat I pretty much blended in with all the other Americans of every age color<br \/>\nand creed. It was great to be with my own tribe and to see what I have been<br \/>\nsaying as a comic for the past 8 years played out on a big stage. Yes it was<br \/>\nhot and hard to find a good place to see, but it was a moment I will not soon<br \/>\nforget, I can only pray America won&#8217;t either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;So this past Saturday I attended the Glenn Beck 912 rally to restore honor to America. 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