http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=685&Itemid=1
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Goobers on Parade: Fake Christians and Sham Southerners
Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 05 June 2006
From the Dallas Morning News: GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on
their sleeves. Excerpt:
SAN ANTONIO – Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to
the Republican convention. "It's great to be back in the holy land," the
Fort Worth native said to the cheers of the party faithful.For the 4,500
delegates at last week's biennial gathering, it was both an expression of
conservative philosophy and religious faith, a melding of church and state.
At Saturday morning's prayer meeting, party leader Tina Benkiser assured
them that God was watching over the two-day confab. "He is the chairman of
this party," she said against a backdrop of flags and a GOP seal with its
red, white and blue logo.
The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian
nation" and affirms that "God is undeniable in our history and is vital to
our freedom…We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the
original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the
separation of church and state…"
At Saturday morning's prayer meeting, ministers delivered prayers, gospel
singers sang, and the Rev. Dale Young, pastor of First Presbyterian Church
in Laredo, picked up the convention's dominant theme of immigration. "Lord,
your words tell us there's a sign that this nation is under a curse, when
the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and
lower," he preached.
The night before, East Texas evangelist Rick Scarborough exhorted
Christians at a "values rally" to get involved in elections…Delegates
sought him out, taking snapshots and having him sign his book Liberalism
Kills Kids.
Can I just say, as a Southerner, from a long line of Southerners going back
to the 17th century, that these people are a bunch of ignorant goobers?
Back in my youth, growing up in the most conservative, traditional,
church-going, Bible-believing, flag-waving, rural Heartland community
imaginable, these people would have been considered freaks on the fringe,
best kept under the slimy rocks they occasionally crawled out from under.
Now they are enthroned on high, in Texas, in Washington, in the White
House, in the greasy-money media empires that belch their filth and their
perversions of faith over the airwaves and in print in a relentless,
unending stream. These people aren't Christians – imagine using the Bible,
with its constant refrain of taking in the stranger, caring for the alien,
the commonality of the human predictment (rain falling on the just and
unjust alike) as a cudgel to beat immigrants! No, they aren't Christians,
they are primitive nationalists, proto-fascists who despise democracy and
human freedom, preening in self-regard, imbuing their own willfully
ignorant, lovingly cultivated prejudices and fears (and their squirmy,
creepy sexual obsessions) with divine sanction. They are blind guides,
whited sepulchres, exalters of the self, haters of women and traitors to
the God they profess to worship.
And they aren't Southerners either, not really. For one thing, a good many
of these "Sun Belt" conservatives are actually transplants from outside the
South, like that quintessential modern Texan, George W. Bush, a prissy
prep-school cheerleader from an old-line Yankee blueblood family. The
Bushes are about as authentically Southern as an igloo.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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