Pearls are to be clutched

American Christians are offended.

Sorry, let me narrow that down: American Christians are offended, this week, by the Olympic opening ceremony, which they all assumed was an attack on Christianity, even though none of it had jack and shit to do with Christianity.

Why is it ALWAYS about the poor, fucking Christians?

<SIGH>

American Christians (tm) are in a constant search for something to be offended over, reading offense into the most mundane things, and from a completely shallow and self-centric worldview, as if no one in the world is allowed to be anything except carbon copies of the offended.

Anyone with any shred of understanding of anything outside that man-edited book of fables and tall tales knows this had nothing to do with Christian anything, period. You're offended? Fine. 99.99999% of the world isn't. Let it, and the pearls, go.

Do you complain about the decorations when you attend someone else's party? Because that is what this consternation is: I don't like the decorations at your party.

Well, then, go home and leave the party-goers be.

This only offends offense-driven Americans who have absolutely nothing else going on. It is almost fetishistic.