It's a very short journey from "I am blessed by God" to "get in the oven, Jew".

As with most things that piss me off, it started on Face Book.

Someone posted something like "My life is awesome", and one of this person's idiot friends replied "You are blessed by God."

Well I would not be Uncle Hatey if I let shit like that pass unchecked. I will use this space to explain to you, my dear readers, why it is a short journey from "I'm blessed by God" to "Get in the oven, Jew".

The reasoning is simple, and it has happened many times in human history. Someone decides that they have God's favor because they have made the choices that God supports. This, very quickly, leads the favored to wonder "What has that person done that God is not showing them the same favor he has shown me?"

The answer that most often comes back from a non-existent deity is "He does not worship me in the manor which I have prescribed."

Once it has been established in the mind of the favored that

• God approves of the way he lives his life.
• God does not approve of the way that other guy lives his life
• God's perfect morality allows for the harsh punishment of those who do not live the way I do

then it is clearly morally justifiable for those who think they are favored by God to set off on a Crusade, hide pedophile priests from law enforcement, or fly planes into buildings.

Since I started this off with a Hitler reference, and there is no doubt some of you idiot readers will be thinking to yourselves "Hitler was an atheist", I will end this post y pointing you to this link.