Today on NPR, we got to listen to another first class assclown, US Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) tell us how oppressed Christians are in America by the hostile, secular forces of the US Government. His current book, "Why We Whisper" details the hellish abuse suffered by Christians at the hands of a gay lifestyle promoting, God hating, premarital sex promoting, cat and dogs sleeping together and a whole pile of other things US government. Poor, poor oppressed Christians! They can't say anything about God, and goodness and puppies without being oppressed by a secular government. How sad for them and this poor country.
THESE TIGHTASSED BONEHEADS HAVE CONTROLLED ALL THREE BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THEIR STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR NEARLY A DECADE!!! WHO IS THE TROLL SUPPOSED TO BE WHO'S FUCKING WITH THEM!!! THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT!!!
They have a tab that says "Blog" on their website, and apparently only publish blessed postings, so I couldn't ask them where exactly they get off. Somewhere, deep in the South some ignorant prick is having all his prejudices reinforced so he continues to follow DeMint and his ilk.
7 comments:
Umm, Jeff?
The Republican Party has had three-branch control, etc. etc. That's not *quite* the same thing as the "Christians." You're being taken in by the God & Mammon coalition's P.R.
Google John DiIulio or David Kuo.
Sure they made a dogs breakfast of due process with Terry Schiavo, but this is all classic bait and switch.
"Let us bow our heads in prayer," murmured the sleek pastor with a reassuring smile, " ... the better not to notice those men in top hats running out the back with our collection plate!"
You've got a legitimate beef with the absurdly large number of people who are too ignorant to realize that Genesis is no substitute for "The Origin of Species." But please don't imagine that they are in charge ... just yet.
I beg to differ wiht you both. People identifying themselves as Christians have been incharge since the constituion was ratified. The fact that a small "radical" portion feel the need to be persecuted for whatever reasons does not change the fact that many productive and good folks who continue to help make this country a good place to live call themselves Christians.
STS
The vast majority of Republican politicians self identify as born again evangelicals, and the vast majority of born again evangelicals self identify as Republicans, so pardon me for mistaking the one for the other.
You've got to admit that any Republican politician will at least pay lip service to any Christian who kvetches about anything.
steve:
Quite right, hence the scare-quotes I put on "Christians." There's a small subset with persecution fantasies and they are busy telling the rest of us we have no right to associate ourselves with *their* religion because we aren't authoritarian enough for their taste.
jeff:
You bet. That's how the God & Mammon coalition works. The pols get their funding from the Gilded-Agers and talk about God in public. Dems get their funding from the plaintiffs bar, some bankers and some entrepreneurs and then -- at least they used to -- go talk about unions in public.
While unions decline and authoritarian evangelical churches grow, this isn't a formula for democratic success. Unions may make a come-back or they may not. But evangelicals aren't necessarily a permanent wholy-owned subsidiary of Gilded-Age Republicanism. They're showing a promising tendency to think about poverty and environmentalism these days.
Just as I would like to win over moderate Muslims to a joint project to eradicate militant Jihadi terrorism, it also behooves progressive-minded Americans to avoid super-charged hostility to generic "Christianity" based on radical agitators claiming ownership of "Christ." That brand is a lot less rigidly Republican than people like DeMint pretend it is. DeMint wants you to buy his framing of Republican = Christian. It's up to us to point out how fraudulent that is (which you did) without coming off as unwelcoming to people of faith (not so much).
Excellent point, STS, but the blog is after all "jefflikestorant", not "Jeffoffersgentleandthoughtfulinsightsthatmayinvitesomeformofunitywithprogressiveevangelicals".
Oppressed? Try being an atheist, unable to hold public office in somewhere between 8 and 38 states (sources vary). That's oppression, flat out. In how many states are Christians forbidden from holding office? I don't feel like being accomodating, thank you, to people who think I should have fewer rights based on my (non)beliefs.
:)
Speaking of ...
sts: is that a serious or satirical link? It's either really clever satire or really dumb hubris.
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