Intro: "As presidential candidate Michele Bachmann chews up scenery in the GOP primaries, the mainstream media is finally digging into her extremist beliefs in a serious way. In a profile published earlier this week, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza talked about Bachmann's radical right-wing influences, which include the most extremist figures in the history of the religious right movement."
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann greets supporters on the campus of Iowa State University after winning the Iowa Straw Poll, 08/13/11. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Turn the argument on its head: which would be scarier if they possessed nuclear weapons: the house of Saud who pretend to be pious but are a bunch of debauched libertines... or the Taleban, who are unambiguously sincere in their proclaimed dedication to the doctrine they espouse?
I can't recall who said it, or the precise quotation... but there is nothing scarier than a True Believer... if you genuinely believe an absurdity, you're stupid enough to commit atrocities to prevent that absurdity from being exposed.
For further clarification regarding the relationship between Church & State please check out the following video: A Christian Nation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eQazNUNO2w
Weird huh? ;P
They system is now fully corrupted, virtually none in Congress (except Bernie Saunders, Dennis Kucinich and a few others) tell the real truth. Just ask that model Dem from NY - Chuck Schumer - to raise the taxes on his billionaire buddies from Wall Street to the same 35% tax rate that their secretaries and chauffers pay. Watch his response.
Sick about the values of our nation being so corrupted in my short lifetime - what will our children say?
Elliot H.
I sorta am having Flashbacks of Starwars and the "Last vestiges of the republic" scene...
Ah, maybe that is IT !?! These people use it to subjugate their women - and so it, like most things, from selling cars to deodorants, revolves ultimately around sex.
This must be a nightmare? Is this real?
I seem to recall the Bible mentioning "asses" a lot.
"Calvinism," or the idea that the rich are somehow blessed to be rich, was not invented by Calvin, but Augustine. This concept was considered anathema by many, and a throwback to non-Christian beliefs that Augustine had before his conversion. Augustine was trying to defend the idea that grace comes from God, but missed the mark. It would have been easier to say that grace comes from God, who blesses the poor (as the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew and the Sermon on the Plain in St. Luke). Some Bishops picked up Augustine's ideas because they didn't like the fact that some poor monks were more educated than they were.
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This book has a detailed discussion of these roots of Christian Nationalism that complements this article.
It also has a discussion of the Griswold v. Connecticut decision (the basis for a right to privacy that overturned a state ban dating from 1879 on any form of contraception) that underlies Roe v. Wade and the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade by means of overturning Griswold.
Strange how the right wants government off our backs but into every bedroom but their own.
So now all anti-government people are 'Christian Reconstructioni sts?' And if you question the validity of global warming, you're a religious fanatic?
Cops are tasering people to death every week and we're supposed to worry about abortion clinic protests? I just checked, in the last twenty years only seven people have been killed in anti-abortion violence. Bad, yes, but maybe government violence IS the bigger problem?
Suppose for a moment that dad and son Schaeffer are both working for the same people, just that one plays the conservative card and the other plays the liberal card. And the purpose of both is to divide and conquer the rest of us so that we don't organize against the bankster/government continuum.
Not all antigovernment people are right wing. I'm neither right wing, nor a Christian in any form, and I do think AGW is poppycock founded on really bad physics. I am libertarian and think the Bill of Rights needs to held up as the best statement of human rights that has ever been penned. You want to note that the right and the left between them would like to dismantle it all.
As regards cops and tasers, I would far rather be tasered than shot. You really, really want to consider the alternatives. Tasers aren't nonlethal, but they really are *less* lethal than a gun, and cause far, far less physical trauma.
A son of (the very rich right-wing economist) Milton Friedman, also an "economist," David Friedman, wants everything to be free enterprise for profit, especially hospitals, etc. David Friedman also goes by the moniker "Cariadoc," a founder of the S.C.A., which re-enacts the period between 600 and 1600 A.D., but with no "Magna Carta" or member rights in their charter. The "S.C.A." thinks they are a private club, but they invite members and non-members alike to join them at events, which makes them public, and some events have more than 10,000 people. Although most members of the S.C.A. don't care about politics, that is almost the point: many of them are involved in the S.C.A. to the exclusion of participation in present-day political activities. Ever wonder what happened to former hippies that liked to dress up in Medieval clothes? Nor is this the only example: much larger is the Civil War re-enacters. The right-wing has managed to engulf and devour the left-wing. Drum circle anyone?
This article is an example of Luke 8:7, KJV, “And some (the good seeds: the Word of God) fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and chocked it.” This article acts to choke the righteous Word of God. And it now places the decision before everyone reading this article as to who they are going to follow: God or man.
IT ALREADY HAS...... UNLESS WE HIT THE STREETS!!!
1. The Creator God, the Spirit/Essence of the Sentient Universe. Gen 1:1,25 Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all and in you all. Eph 4:6
2. The Gods who created Man in their own image, male and female created he them. Gen 1:26,27, 5:1,2
3. The God of Laws who told Moses; Thou shalt not kill, steal, bear false witness, covet anything that is thy neighbors. Ex 20.
4. The God of War, Hatred, and Greed who proscribed genocide, murder, covetousness and theft against their neighbors. Book or Joshua
5. The God of Peace. Matt 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God
In an attempt to identify who is speaking, we recall that Jesus said: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" Matt 7:16
"...by their fruits ye shall know them." Matt 7:20
Unfortunately, many who believe that they are worshiping the Creator God, have instead been seduced into fulfilling the wishes of the God of War, Hatred and Greed, i.e. Satan,thereby often unknowing become His greatest advocates.
When your faith is no longer in a god almighty but in an automatic weapon almighty, you are a religious extremist who has plumbed the depths of god's innermost thoughts and deliberations.
Bah humbug!
Bringin God into the picture is something that came out during the Dark Ages. History repeats itself, folks!
It's like Conservative Christianity in the USA is going postal!
We are all preaching to the choir!
How do we get the word out to the dumbed-down, proudly-ignorant and anti-government zealots?
I might point out that our military, particularly Air Force cadets, Are infused with this "stuff". Considering how the tail wags the dog, sometimes, the whole military/congressional complex may be beyond control of anything other than corporations (thanks to the Supremes). We live in exceedingly dangerous times, when all we're used for is a *funding stream* to further the cause of EMPIRE.
The lifespan of the last few empires (Spain, France, England) has been 150 years, so we ought to be just about done by the 2030s. But can the planet sustain us for that long?
Corporations are becoming the defacto government, especially the banks, and they have their own religious belief system. That belief system is money and control. The banks effectively say to the people, if you don’t do it our (their) way, then we’ll withhold money and then you don’t work and you don’t get food, shelter, or clothing. The banks not too subtly force themselves upon the people. And we’ve only had a few presidents, like Andrew Jackson and John F. Kennedy, fight back. And most of the other politicians must be on the dole to the corporations because they’re selling us out by making decisions favorable to the corporations to the hurt of the people.
"Anyone who has read the Bible...knows that it is filled with some of the worst kinds of...intolerance...mostly justified as the will of a Deity...that manifests His...will by visiting plagues and other calumnies on...nations..."
Perhaps you views are from the eyes of someone who does not believe that God is God. If you think God is some man, then you'll have the view you have. But if you believed He's God, and that He made all things, including man, then you'll see His judgements as gleening the unbelievers from the fold. He offered peace and comfort to all who choose Him and oppression to those who don't. He gives us all a choice. Choose as you will.
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