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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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14 Nov 2004 02:22:01 PM |
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Christian hate mongers: Slapping the Other Cheek |
From The New York Times, 11/14/04:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/opinion/14dowd.html?oref=login
Slapping the Other Cheek
By MAUREEN DOWD
You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be
that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments
like "love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward
men," "blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged."
Yet somehow I'm not getting a peace, charity, tolerance and
forgiveness vibe from the conservatives and evangelicals who claim to
have put their prodigal son back in office.
I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob - revved up by rectitude -
running around with torches and hatchets after heathens and pagans and
infidels.
One fiery Southern senator actually accused a nice Catholic columnist
of having horns coming up out of her head!
Bob Jones III, president of the fundamentalist college of the same
name, has written a letter to the president telling him that "Christ
has allowed you to be his servant" so he could "leave an imprint for
righteousness," by appointing conservative judges and approving
legislation "defined by biblical norm."
"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she
doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism," Mr.
Jones wrote.
"Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the
liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ."
Way harsh.
The Christian avengers and inquisitors, hearts hard as marble, are
chasing poor 74-year-old Arlen Specter through the Capitol's marble
halls, determined to flagellate him and deny him his cherished goal of
taking over the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Not only are they irate at his fairly innocuous comment after the
election that anti-Roe v. Wade judges would have a hard time getting
through the Senate.
They are also full of bloodthirsty feelings of revenge against the
senator for championing stem cell research and for voting against
Robert Bork - who denounces Mr. Specter as "a bit shifty" - 17 years
ago.
"He is a problem, and he must be derailed," Dr. James Dobson, founder
and chairman of Focus on the Family, told George Stephanopoulos.
Sounding more like the head of a mob family than a ministry, Dr.
Dobson told Mr. Stephanopoulos about a warning he issued a White House
staffer after the election that the president and Republicans had
better deliver on issues like abortion, gay marriage and conservative
judges or "I believe they'll pay a price in the next election."
Certainly Mr. Specter has done his part for the conservative cause.
He accused Anita Hill of "flat-out perjury" for a minor inconsistency
in her testimony against Clarence Thomas, that good Christian jurist
who once had a taste for porn films.
Some in the White House thought of giving Mr. Specter the post and
then keeping him on a short leash.
But the power puritans have no mercy.
They say he's a mealy-mouthed impediment to the crusade of
evangelicals and conservative Catholic bishops - who delivered their
vote with ruthless efficacy - to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Stephanopoulos asked Dr. Dobson about his comment to The Daily
Oklahoman that "Patrick Leahy is a 'God's people-hater.' I don't know
if he hates God, but he hates God's people," noting that it was not a
particularly Christian thing to say about the ranking Democrat on the
Judiciary Committee.
(Especially after that vulgar un-Christian thing ***** Cheney spat at
Mr. Leahy last summer.)
"George," Dr. Dobson haughtily snapped back, "do you think you ought
to lecture me on what a Christian is all about?"
Why not?
The TV host is the son of a Greek Orthodox priest.
Acting as though Mr. Bush's decisions should be taken on faith, John
Ashcroft lashed into judges for not giving Mr. Bush unbridled power in
his war against terror.
Speaking Friday before an adulatory Federalist Society, a group of
conservative lawyers, Mr. Ashcroft echoed remarks he made to the
Senate soon after 9/11 arguing that objecting to the president's
antiterror proposals could give "ammunition to America's enemies."
He asserted that judges who interfere in or second guess the
president's constitutional authority to make decisions during war can
jeopardize the "very security of our nation in a time of war."
And since the president has no end in sight to his war on terror, that
makes him infallible ad infini- tum?
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate mongers: Slapping the Other Cheek |
15 Nov 2004 08:30:09 PM |
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In our last episode <10pffflqlcn094f@corp.supernews.com>, Fredric L. Rice
lept out of the bushes shouting:
You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be
that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments like
"love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward men,"
"blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged."
Not if you've read history...
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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| User: "The Last Liberal" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate mongers: Slapping the Other Cheek |
14 Nov 2004 08:56:05 PM |
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:22:01 GMT, occr42@skeptictank.orgREMOVE
(Fredric L. Rice) wrote:
From The New York Times, 11/14/04:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/opinion/14dowd.html?oref=login
Slapping the Other Cheek
By MAUREEN DOWD
You'd think the one good thing about merging church and state would be
that politics would be suffused with glistening Christian sentiments
like "love thy neighbor," "turn the other cheek," "good will toward
men," "blessed be the peacemakers" and "judge not lest you be judged."
Er, uh, those have never been Christian sentiments. They have been,
however, Far-East sentiments and the few remaining American liberals
sentiments. Christianity is almost 1,700 years old---- and members of
the Christian cult by and large never lived by such sentiments; they
certainly show no intention of doing so these days.
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"Terrorism" isn't the enemy: George W Bush is!
http://lastliberal.org
Voting Republican makes baby Jesus cry!
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| User: "Fear gan dia" |
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| Title: Re: Christian hate mongers: Slapping the Other Cheek |
15 Nov 2004 08:33:37 PM |
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There are rumors on the internets that occr42@skeptictank.orgREMOVE (Fredric L. Rice)
said in <10pffflqlcn094f@corp.supernews.com>:
From The New York Times, 11/14/04:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/opinion/14dowd.html?oref=login
Slapping the Other Cheek
[snip]
Is the "other cheek" the same as the "left behind"?
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The Very Irrev. Fear gan dia # http://goddamliberal.port5.com
It's the stupidity, stupid!
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