Brace Yourselves and Take Cover

I don't normally like attacking other people's works or educated views, mostly because they're much smarter than me.  But that's what this blog is about, getting my arrogance subdued and corrected.  So today I'm putting a friend of mine up in the spotlight, quasi-anonymous cause I don't say his name.  He wrote a article (blog article) about the reaching cheering at the Republican candidates debate.  I'm way too lazy to put the links here, but I can give you a link to the article he wrote, which has the links.  *bing* >>> http://blogalution.com/thoughts-on-the-debate <<<
So to cut straight to my criticism, my thoughts exactly are: "Yes, yes, we all feel the same way you do.  We all wish we could look those people who cheered right in the eye and tell them that they are disgusting.  There is no need to convince us of that."  Right there.  We do not need to be convinced.  My friend has written a win-win article, raging against something that everyone in the entire nation, Rick Perry not excluding, has deemed improper and barbaric.  Even people who whole-heartedly support the death penalty were disgusted.  Even Ron Paul, as the crowd cheered, tried to express how he himself would have helped the uninsured man, and tried to say that his point was merely that the government shouldn't hold that responsibility.  I digress.  My beef with my friend is simply.

Why do you rant against no one?  What good does that do?  What have you accomplished?

The end point of his article was that we, especially as Christians, should speak out against this behavior.  I say, no need!  Everyone who wasn't clapping in that audience is now currently speaking out against this!  There was more conflict of opinions in the comments below about the semantics of trying to agree with the article than there was in the article.  In the end, it felt like someone was trying to convince you the sky was blue, the pope was Catholic, or that bacon smells good.

Now I will try not to be too unfair.  My friend did say at the top of the article that he was just trying to think through what he had seen, and I guess he meant that the article wasn't supposed have an actually point to which someone might be able to disagree.

But, in the end, my thought is that you should write to get something done.  To make a difference.  To educate the arrogant and the humble.  I think you shouldn't rant against nobody.

- Achilles