Look What The Cat Dragged In
If you are a cat person, you know that from time-to-time a cat with give you a “gift” – something it killed. The best “gift” is a large brown rat, preferably dead, proving the cat’s hunting skills.
Recently the media has presented a number of “gifts” in the form of Republican whackoes:
Echidne noted three of them.
- Congresscritter Paul Broun [R-GA] a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology who doesn’t believe in any of those things.
- State Representative Jon Hubbard of Arkansas who believes that slavery was a good deal for the slaves.
- Candidate for the Arkansas House, Charlie Fuqua thinks there is an alliance between liberals and Muslims.
Mustang Bobby notes that Fuqua also thinks that parents should be allowed to execute children who show disrespect.
I believe that having people like this talk publicly and constantly about their beliefs is a major reason that Protestants are no longer the majority in U.S.. These people have defined a Christian theology that contains none of the basic elements of the Sermon on the Mount, which has always been held as the core of Christianity. People are walking away from the cult of fear and hatred that American “Christianity” has become.
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Jesus will people actually vote for these utter arseholes?
I think it’s the lead in the Washington DC water…. no, actually, I think the Era of Stupid is upon us and the American Taliban is floating to the top of the septic think tank. Men who are seduced by power but have no brain power are being voted in and the first thing they try to do is contain them uppity wimmen folk and send all of us back to the wonderful days of the 1950s which existed only on television.
God help us if they get the majority….
Well, Jams, that depends on the definition of ‘people’. OTOH, will voters in Arkansas and Georgia elect them? Alas, yes, they will.
I would think it was closer to 1590 than 1950, Ellroon, because most of them consider the majority of voters, women, to be property, not real people. They claim they don’t want Shiria law in the US and then they pass them, not knowing what they are doing is identical to what the Taliban and other Salafi groups are doing. Fundamentalists are all the same, no matter what religion.
Woodie Guthrie pointed out that if Jesus came today and preached what he preached in Gallilee, especially that bit about how the rich should sell all their material goods and give the proceeds to the poor, he would once again be laid in his grave by the preachers and the bankers and the soldiers that they hire. I don’t see much Christian about today’s “Christian” denominations, just a lot of hate, spite, and, well, evil. Which of course is why I am a Tuxologist rather than a “Christian”, since the Great Penguin, unlike the “Christian” God, is a pleasant rotund deity that pretty much says enjoy life and be most excellent to each other. Well, He would if He talked, which He doesn’t, since He’s a penguin, duh.
Let’s see: ‘Compare and contrast the actions of Jesus of Nazareth regarding the money-changers at the Temple, with the conduct of Christianist regarding the financial sector”
Not mush similarity that I can see.
For centuries it was a sin for a Christian to charge interest on money they lend. It is still a sin in the Islamic view.