Exposing the religious right

[T'ai Chi]

I can only hope that the religoius right comes out maimed from this.

Sounds like you're starting to pray already..

 

[IIRichard]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed...olife_zealotry/

"SOME GOOD may yet come of Terri Schiavo's sad story. ****snip

I can only hope that the religoius right comes out maimed from this.

I checked the yellow pages here and in Manhattan. I went on the web. I can't find a single "religious right" church. The priests at both the churches I attend are raving left wing moonbats. John Kerry damn near won the election.

So far I haven't been threatened, molested or arrested for thinking out loud. Most Sundays, I don't notice the religious police very much. Usually, not at all.

Methinks ya'all my be a bit ( read "a lot") paranoid. Every adolescent wants to feel threatened, it's the only claim to importance they have.

Get over it Hippies! Four more years!!!!!!!!!!

 

[T'ai Chi]

Re: Re: Exposing the religious right

I checked the yellow pages here and in Manhattan. I went on the web. I can't find a single "religious right" church. The priests at both the churches I attend are raving left wing moonbats. John Kerry damn near won the election.

So far I haven't been threatened, molested or arrested for thinking out loud. Most Sundays, I don't notice the religious police very much. Usually, not at all.

Methinks ya'all my be a bit ( read "a lot") paranoid. Every adolescent wants to feel threatened, it's the only claim to importance they have.

Get over it Hippies! Four more years!!!!!!!!!!

If you'd see how short Ken is, it would all be crystal clear.

 

[Roadtoad]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed...olife_zealotry/

"SOME GOOD may yet come of Terri Schiavo's sad story. More of us will think hard about how we'd want to be treated if terminally incapacitated. More of us will write living wills, making clear who is in charge. And more people will gain a truer understanding of the religious right.

I can only hope that the religoius right comes out maimed from this.

Ken, that ain't happening.

Come on, Bro, you know the crowd, probably better than I do. You confront these people with evidence, and they counter with feelings. You confront them with facts, and they come back with claims of "faith." They have no interest, really, in being the majority. They want to be a challenged minority, they want to be "persecuted" for their "beliefs."

They really want to be on the outside because it provides some form of validation for what they think is supposed to be their spiritual estate. They'll be rewarded in Heaven for "sufferin' fer Jesus." They forget that no one ever was rewarded in reality for being an idiot, for denying common sense.

 

[Ladewig]

Re: Re: Exposing the religious right

I checked the yellow pages here and in Manhattan.

Why would you look in those places?

I went on the web. I can't find a single "religious right" church.

Really. You used a search engine and could not find Pat Robertson's ministries? You couldn't find the Christian Broadcasting Network? You couldn't find Jerry Falwell's ministries? You couldn't find the Christian Coalition website?

Methinks ya'all my be a bit ( read "a lot") paranoid. Every adolescent wants to feel threatened, it's the only claim to importance they have.

So when rural school districts in Ohio, Mississippi, Georgia, Oklahoma and other states try to teach ID in science classrooms, there is no need to feel threatened?


If your post was meant as an April's Fool joke, then you reelled me in. If not, then you, fellow poster, are the fool.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Well, the people within the religious right aren't going to be changing their minds. I agree.

However, in the 2008 elections, perhaps more people of the majority will vote to oust the politicians that cater to the RR. That's my hope.

 

[IIRichard]

Re: Re: Re: Exposing the religious right

Why would you look in those places?




Really. You used a search engine and could not find Pat Robertson's ministries? You couldn't find the Christian Broadcasting Network? You couldn't find Jerry Falwell's ministries? You couldn't find the Christian Coalition website?





So when rural school districts in Ohio, Mississippi, Georgia, Oklahoma and other states try to teach ID in science classrooms, there is no need to feel threatened?


If your post was meant as an April's Fool joke, then you reelled me in. If not, then you, fellow poster, are the fool. [/B]

I looked in those directories because I have access to them. I missed picking up on Robertson's outfit with the G search but most of what I did get was news articles and anti-right wing church stuff. Those school districts aren't churches and have been mostly unsucessful. Not an April Fools joke at all, just one man's comment other people's unfounded worries. We live in a secular society and neither Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson or G. W. Bush is going to change that.

 

[Skeptic]

All they care about are abstract principles, philosophies, and politics. Their only concern is that their "side" is right and the "opposition" is wrong.

Well, yes, that's known as "having principles" and "having a sense of right and wrong". I cannot see how that is going to cost them any votes.

 

[hammegk]

Seeing the loony-left blather in threads like this one is amusing. Here, the loonies are in a strong majority, and in the real world appear to me to far outnumber the RR they worry about.

Still, I suggest the loonies and the RR together constitute only a small percentage of eligible US voters.

Any of you clowns actually know a RR? I don't, but I do know some loony-lefters.

 

[thaiboxerken]

I take it that you haven't been to the South recently, eh Hammy? The RR is a minority, but they are a very loud minority and they have the president's pillow. Bush is buddies with televangelists and the RR is a real entity that is continually trying to get more power in government. Abstinence-only, for example, is a government funded ignorance campaign now, which is purely religious in philosophy. Churches are being rebuilt with federal funds and religious charities are being fed government money while retaining the right to hire and fire based on religion. These are just a few examples of the religious right getting a bit more power in the government.

I doubt that we'll see a full theocracy in my lifetime, but when federal museums are selling creationism, it's not a far off possibility.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Abstinence-only, for example, is a government funded ignorance campaign now, which is purely religious in philosophy.

HHS has a nice website promoting abstinence. It includes the advice:

The site says: "If you believe your adolescent may be gay, or is experiencing difficulties with gender identity or sexual orientation issues, consider seeing a family therapist who shares your values to clarify and work through these issues."

Charming. If you're a fundy and wish to cure your gay kid, find a fundy shrink who will convince them that not only are they sinful, they're also crazy. This will straighten them out completely, and they won't a) kill themselves, or b) get married, have kids, then go gay and leave them, which are the two most common courses of action for gays in denial.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20050401/ap_on_go_ot/government_sex_talk

 

[KelvinG]

The RR is a minority, but they are a very loud minority and they have the president's pillow.

Exactly. Look at Bush's inane stand on stem cell research. Are we to believe that so called "compromise" he came up with wasn't adversely influenced by the RR folks who seem to think they know better than the rest of us when it comes to the morality of that issue.

The RR might be small, but as long as Bush is their lapdog, they don't need to be particularly large in number.