Does the DOJ have so little to do that they have time to focus on this?
Posted by ann at March 3, 2007 02:00 PMYa know what? Their time is up. THEIR = THE RIGHT WING WACKOS THAT SAY THEY ARE SPIRITUAL. THEY ARE FULL OF CRAP. THEIR TIME IS SERIOUSLY ....UP....!.
Religious freedom for the right wing = freedom to kick all people around and attempt to dominate anyone who does not believe in the right wing definition of God! Know what? Bullshit.
The Dalai Lama, a representative of one of the most intellectual, compassionate, and inclusive religons of all time ( Buddhism) says: "It would be better to have no religion in the world given how people twist religious concepts to suit the ego's goals." In other words...JUST BE A DECENT PERSON!!!!!!! Drop the manipulation.
Posted by s at March 3, 2007 03:21 PMJUST BE A DECENT PERSON!!!!!!!
This is why the Southern Baptist Convention needs the help of the DOJ.
The solution is easy. The DOJ needs to push for mandatory castration of all religious leaders, regardless of their particular faith.
Posted by TIKI AL at March 3, 2007 06:28 PMThe DOJ needs to push for mandatory castration of all religious leaders, regardless of their particular faith.
ROFLMAO
Posted by phidipides at March 3, 2007 09:21 PMThis republican clique is rolling with the Dominionists. Soccerdad, you've been writing some great posts. Thanks for this one. Have you had a chance to look at Chris Hedges' new book? It's called "American Fascists, The Christian Right and the War on America".
Here's Hedges' comment from the blurb on the book's jacket:
Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we were his age--he was then close to 80--we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."Posted by Copeland at March 3, 2007 11:16 PMThe warning, given to me nearly 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of leaders in the Christian Right who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors in America had found a mask for fascism in patriotism and the pages of the Bible.
Copeland
Thanks. I have not had a chance to read his book, but have read some of his articles. He is very insightful. In general people have greatly underestimated the threat from the dominionists and their influence on the present regime.
I am for freedom to practice religion as well as the freedom not to believe at all. But religion should not be a part of the government, period.