Back away from the bong, dude.

Why do conservatives spend sooooo much time defining what "liberalism" is, and what it is to be a "liberal"?

It is almost as if they can't define themselves without the existance of something outside of themselves. Their mode of thought is, by nature, oppositional...

...and they have used this defining characteristic to sow fear and hatred into the every fundamental aspect of their movement.

Like the '06 and '08 elections showed, creating straw-men out of the opposition, and then whipping up fear, only works for so long. Eventually it will bite you in the ass...either people will call you for what you are doing...

...or you are going to get what you want. And when that happens, violence is the most logical outcome.

statement: The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence of creation over the Creator).

Child sacrifice: a whole-hearted refusal to support healthcare reform, provide funding for daycare, consistently refuse to raise food stamp benefits;

sexual immorality: there are surely no "religious" consumers of internet pornography, are there? Aren't we a deeply religious, "center-right" country?

pantheism: here, I have to give it to this guy. He and his revere neither the creation nor, by extension, the creator.

So all in all, he's able to muster roughly a 0% accuracy rating. Other than that, hey, good job!

Second.

Their rants never make any real logical sense, they are not intended to. Their rants are intended to divide the American people and divide us any way they can. Calling more than half of the American people Baal worshipers is a good WTF way of pissing people off and energizing their Neanderthal base.

Third.

It is uncanny how the tone and a good deal of the content of the American right-wing fundamentalists mirror that of the Middle Eastern right-wing religious fundamentalists.

I doubt that their bases would ever be willing to take a hard look at themselves and their counterparts in the other parts of the world and see the similarities... and why they are a anathema to everything the purport to stand for.

Fourth.

Baal worshipers???... these people have been watching too many Star Gate reruns.

I dealt with Liberty University last year. They were nice to me. Here's the story:

My pal Richard died. He left 9% of his estate to Liberty University, because Jerry Falwell supported Israel. Dead Richard was a Jew, an artist, gay, a Hindu, a liberal in his roots, but more than anything, he was an Israel Patriot.

I handled Dead Richard's estate. The people I dealt with at Liberty University could not have been nicer. They took Richard's money and his paintings.

They are American humans. If you ever need to deal with them, just pick up the phone and deal. My testimony is that we can all be Americans together. It seems to be possible for lefties and righties to get back to being Americans together.

Instead, we sacrifice adults: we sacrifice them to the God of Oil, to the God Mammon, to the God of Capital Punishment, to the God of Private Health Care.

We send our adult sons and daughters into the great yapping maw of War, of Poverty, and of Ignorance.

As Matt Barber amply demonstrates.

There is no better example of worshipping the creation and not the Creator than sects who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible.

If it made him richer.

Read Burkton's letter below - these people are sweet as can be when money's involved.

Whores.

Matt Barber got it all wrong. Ba'al is the god/goddess of fertility and child sacrifice is the last thing on his/her mind!

They're much tastier after being cooked, and besides, it's hygienic.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Save me from your followers!

I should also add that screeds like this bring to mind the saying, "Their reality has lapped our satire."

and pantheism (reverence of creation over the Creator).

Actually, IF modern quantum mechanics is true and reality is nonlocal, then Being (whatever one chooses to name it) cannot be artificially re-configured into "creator" and "creation". They are the same entity, but - as David BOhm pointed out in his book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, of a higher dimensionality than the simple 4-D physical cosmos per se.

We use QM at many levels from parsing the spectra of distant quasars to running solid-state electronic devices (where the phenomenon of quantum "tunnelling" comes into play) so I hardly think it's farcical that QM is wrong.

What remains open to question is how far quantum results can be extrapolated. Bohm and others, e.g. Prof. Henry Stapp in his Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics, thought it could be done right to the core of our very being.

A good book to read also is Bernard d'Espagnat's In Search of Reality (Springer-Verlag, 1983). As he shrewdly observes (p. 158):

“The archaic notion that is conveyed by the words ‘Lord’ and ‘Almighty’ will presumably never recover its full efficiency for lulling the ontological qualms of mankind. For a religious mind, turning towards being should therefore become a subtler endeavor than the mere acceptance of the heavenly will stated in the Bible, formulated by the priests, and exhibited by miracles.”

knew we were in trouble when I left my secret decoder ring on the bus.

so I hardly think it's farcical that QM is wrong.

Should read:

"so I hardly think it's farcical that QM nonlocality is valid."

Just when you think you have read the most idiotic "conservative" nutjob screed someone else comes along. Will you rise to the challenge Right Wing Hack Nation? I am sure you will.

You were giving them money, most people tend to be at their best behavior when receiving an undeserved handout.

In the right (or wrong) circumstances these are the type of people that would be perfectly happy to see you burned alive because you do not agree with them on some crazy "belief" they have. They have done it before.

They are not "nice" people. Even ol Adolph smiled and liked puppies.