We Are Not Afraid!

We conservatives are not afraid of people who are different than us, we just don't like them. It's like Roger Woofy said about cats. Roger was a beagle dog who lived in Taiwan, and he was a regular contributor to the site I was frequenting at that time. I lost track of him when the site went out of business. Too bad, he was a brilliant writer for a dog. Actually, he would have been a brilliant writer for a human, if he had been a human, but he was in fact a dog. Well, he didn't exactly write those posts himself because he was unable to type on the keyboard with those Beagle paws of his. Roger would dictate his posts to one of his daddies, who would then type it for him. Roger lived with his two human daddies, one of which was Irish and one of which was Taiwanese. I always wondered why he had two daddies and no mommy, but those were the days of "Don't ask, don't tell", so I didn't ask and Roger didn't tell. For all I know they might have been just good friends. 

Although Roger was a big city apartment dweller, he was the proud descendent of brave hunting dogs, and he tried his best to live up to his legacy. He was always telling us what a brave hunting dog he was, even though there was nothing to hunt in his downtown neighborhood. He did get tangled up with a domestic rabbit once, and got in trouble for it. Roger claimed that it wasn't his fault because the rabbit's daddy should have had better sense than to bring a rabbit to a dog park.

Roger lived in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, which is pretty pet friendly for a big city, and he was able to accompany his daddies almost every place they went. One night they were all hanging out in their favorite bar when somebody brought in a "stupid cat". (Roger's words, not mine.) We got to see a photo of Roger perched on a tall barstool looking nervous, while the cat was looking up at him from the floor with mild curiosity. Roger insisted that he was not afraid of cats, he just didn't like them. He didn't jump up on that barstool because he was afraid, he was a brave hunting dog after all, he just wanted to get as far as possible from that cat because he didn't like cats and wanted nothing to do with this one. That was his story, and he was sticking to it.

Sorry about that mistake I made about the Muslims, I think I got them mixed up with the Mongols. I realized my mistake while thinking about the issue this morning and resolved to fix it this evening, which I did. Also, there certainly were renegade Christian sects in existence during the time of the Crusades, but they were called "heretics" in those days. I think the name "Protestant" came into common usage during the time of Martin Luther. Although the Hussites may be considered Protestants, I don't think they were called that at the time, but I could be wrong about that. By today's standards, the Hussites would be considered terrorists, as would the Crusaders and the Muslims of the time. The difference is that the Hussites and the Crusaders went out of business a long time ago, and the Muslims are still at it.