Letters to the Editor
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Holy Hucksterbee, male sperm relegated to fertilizer status when female ovum revealed.
He and his pretend christians think the universe is 6,000 years old, which is not in the Bible[KJV]. This belief despite the fossil records proving an existence of billions of years including earth. When the 1st fossils were revealed 150 years ago the phony christians went berserk and still deny it. When the female ovum was revealed 150 years ago it disempowered men as the seed of life was preciously attributed to the sperm thereby relegation sperm to the status of fertilizer. That what's behind the anti women choice agenda, women carry the seed.Until 150 years ago the female physiology was scientifically designated as male genitalia just internally located. Then there's Adam 9th rib, which becomes his penis so that Eve could come as a result, Good trick. This is the Hucksterbee campaign platform. To govern a country based on myth's and superstitions of thousands of years ago is the recipe for that country's demise, WHICH ACTUALLY COULD BE GOD'S WILL.
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Chrisrian form of Caliphate????
I am amazed at the extremism that is at the center of the political environment of today. The religious right are no better that the extremist of the Muslim world and the institution of the Caliphate. They conveniently pick and choose portions of the Bible (or Koran) that support their agenda. Most of it comes from the Old Testament. They ignore the teachings of Jesus who broke down the oppressive traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees. His message of the freedom of Gods children to grow into the loving, giving and generous individuals who seek peace is lost. The hypocrisy of the “right to lifers” who are the “first in line proponents of the death penalty if you don’t agree with me” is astounding and contrary to the teachings of Christ. The people who follow these, reactionary evangelicals are blind to reason. To understand these individuals I refer anyone to, The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/. This is a scientific study on how these people think. I dare you to read it.
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God, Guns & Country are
the three most manipulative words in the human language.
To Quote Robert Heinlein:
The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.
But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.
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Doesn't matter if he is a dominionist
The problem is that dominionist or reconstructionist thinking has penetrated very deeply into American fundamentalism. At this point it doesn't matter if a particular fundamentalist is an actual "dominionist," because he probably thinks like a dominionist on a number of significant issues, even if he doesn't want to stone disobedient children to death.
What this means is that many fundamentalist Christians don't even know the extent to which dominionism has penetrated their own thinking.
For example, a similar situation exists with respect to libertarianism. I don't know anyone who is an extreme libertarian, but libertarian thinking on many issues has become widespread. In that sense, libertarians have to a large extent won the intellectual battle, even though it's rare that a "Libertarian" candidate gets elected. When your neighbor says "the government has no right to take my money and give it to someone else," he's thinking like a libertarian, even if he isn't a "libertarian."
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Buffet Christian Politicians
Of course they don't really mean to actually use the Bible as their legal foundation - just the parts of it that benefit them.
I see their point. I'm all for stoning adulterers to death. That'd thin the field of Republican presidential candidates right down to, who? Ron Paul? And maybe Huckabee. And anyone divorced and remarried is also an adulterer, so Thompson, Guliani, McCain - they all need to be stoned too.
Mitt Romney is an infidel, if he doesn't forsake his false religion, he can't be in charge of a Biblically run country.
And the Bible Belt! Goodness!! With the highest numbers of divorces, adulterers, bastards and abortions, they would be so busy stoning their errant populations that when the stones stopped flying and the blood dried, would there be a Republican South anymore?
This does have some potential merit - kind of like letting New Orleans drown so Louisiana could be remade red, except on a national scale, and, of course, we'd be doing it to Make God Happy.
As for Huckabee, unless that kid of his was sacrificing that dog he hung, stoned and then slit the throat of as an Old testament kind of gift to a wrathful Diety, than I'm pretty sure Leviticus would require that his son be taken to the edge of town and stoned to death too.
Mrs. Huckabee probably isn't subserviant enough to put up with that, but then, if she does argue back, she should be stoned. Mrs. Thompson, Guliani and McCain, etc. are goners as well; they married divorced men, that makes them adulterers too. Girl's Day Out - Wear your prettiest Burka!
Forget caucuses! Whoever survives the stonings gets to be the Blessed Leader for Life, after which he will be ascended up to Heaven with Jaysus.
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Spine-tingling
I was nervous when John Ashcroft came too close to the Constitution and this guy scares me totally because he's so cheerful about it. Ashcroft had the grace to be dour, at least.
I don't want an evangelical within bazooka range of the ability to appoint Supreme Court judges or suggest that the Constitution should be amended. I want them to run small mom-and-pop businesses, churches and dog-catching enterprises.
When it comes to my rights, Huck is a set of fangs dripping blood.