at least two conservatives call Native American blessing 'peculiar'

About the blessing at the beginning of the memorial service.

Last night, Brit Hume on Fox News called it "most peculiar" and this morning, Mona Charen used the same word "peculiar" to describe the blessing, on Bill Bennett's radio show.

Charen also said, "I don't think he was even Native American, I think he was Mexican". I'm not kidding, she said that. :rofl:

who are fucking peculiar. This is a diverse world; they need to learn to live with the rest of us.

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Hume would learn the world is full of wondrous things.

I saw absolutely nothing "peculiar" about it.

They don't show too much tolerance for religions other than Christianity.

Anyone else's religion is heretical and they should be burned at the stake.

they want everybody to be free to be Christian. And you better get on the bandwagon before the rapture (sarcasm). You know, I often hope for a rapture to take away all these wacko Christians. The world will be a much better place....

Too bad these people miss out on the beauty and love.

blessing? Different faiths; different approaches. Who cares what Hume thinks, anyhow?

I am a Christian, my husband is a church organist. But freedom of religion actually means something to me in this country. Idiots.

perhaps non-existent. Idiots.

origins. They're ridiculous. Go take your intolerance elsewhere.

I picture Hume and Bennett like old ladies at the Baptist Covered Dish Social, gossiping about their neighbors.

What complete and total rubes!

Cuz, you know, there's nothing peculiar about their best Buddy, Bloody Pat Robertson, squinching up his eyes and telling us all what the voices in his head ....I mean Gawd hisself.....is saying.

And I agree with the sentiment that Brit Hume is "most peculiar".

I would bet that it was being practiced by First Americans, long before Christianity.

"peculiar" is in the eye of the beholder.

of Jesus might very well be construed as cannibalism, and also "peculiar".

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with Native American? This is where the word mestizo comes from. I worked with Mexican nationals in restaurants in California who spoke their own native language and used Spanish as a second language.

that many Mexicans, especially recent immigrants from southern Mexico, have just as much "indio" blood as our Native Americans.

your own child to be tortured to death on purpose isn't the slightest bit peculiar.

Or is it "good" to mock only Christianity?

...get it?

Actually I make as much fun of that idiot Deepak Chopra as I do the Pope.

Religion is silly. All of it.

In fairness I should have pointed out some of the silliness in Judaism since Mona Charen is Jewish.

after Chief Paul Waterman and I completed a reburial ceremony of the remains of a young man who lived and died 2,000 years ago, the community leaders held a picnic for us. We called it a feast, of course, which suggests a slightly different way of viewing the same event.

A news reporter interviewed a number of people at the picnic. One local politician said that the reburial ceremony was "strange," as it included Chief Waterman's "chanting stuff you couldn't understand."

Sometimes in life, we don't understand other people's ways. As a rule, though, we can still respect those things we do not understand. It's the lack of respect that causes so much trouble.

Et cum spiritu tuo
Won't you eat my sleazy pancakes
Just for saintly Alphonso

And that thing where the Faddah walks down the aisle wit' a smokin incense burner, mutterin' in Latin, or da part of the service where da pastor starts playin' wit da snakes? THAT ain't "strange"?

well there's the crazy christian talking point. OMG no christian benediction at all!

and for the record I Loved the Native American blessing!:hug:

will say something stupid abt it. I think we'd all be a lot happier if we weren't always watching the neocons and their reactions.

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to pop out of her hole,how can they be unfamiliar with Native American religion, customs and traditions and call themselves American.They are unamerican because Sarah and the rightwing said so..

not necessarily journalists nor intellectuals. If they were they would have done a little homework like simply Google "Yaqui Indians," to learn that the "Yaqui Nation," is a recognized Native American Tribe whose reservation land extends not only in the US but into Mexico. Dr Carlos Gonzales, Medical Doctor/Professor at the University of Arizona, and Yaqui Indian is considered "peculiar," because Dr. Gonzales' ability in tri-lingual speaking English, Spanish and Yoeme the traditional language of the Paqua Yaqui and he was translating an Indian prayer so those listening could understand. Seems Hume and Charen as many of their crony pundits are to busy on the cocktail circuit to slow down to listen and learn. Dr. Gonzales explained that his mother was Mexican and his father Yaqui! Why would anyone question his nationality if they understood or even took the time to learn about this tribe.

Tucsonans could understand Dr. Gonzales, as Tucson is truly a melting pot of nationalities, with various beliefs and customs. It is vital that a large medical trauma center such as UMC have personnel on board who can support and work with patients from various cultures. I bet Dr. Gonzales and his staff could even comprehend the crap that comes out of the Humes and Charen mouths!

I'm mostly native American on both sides. Maternal family from Cochise County AZ. Some family members still reside there. And I have Mexican blood too.

If that rambling slightly silly fether waving mess was a traditional prayer I never heard or seen such. One of my grandmothers was for real in the traditional native religion. People claim all sorts of 'traditions' previous generations never heard of. Humility, dignity and keeping our beliefs to ourselves is what we generally do. Not showmanship. Or preaching at people. That guy reminded me of Ward Churchill.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zklPRExfnAA

Did she not hear the speaker's description of his heritage? Perhaps she couldn't understand because of his "accent"?