Misc. Ranting About Bonk Jobs

Evangelicals' Bid to 'Reclaim' America

"We have God-sized problems in our country, and only God can solve them," Richard Land, a prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), told the group.

Hmm...interesting, then, that "god" has yet to step up to the plate.

In material given to conference attendees, the Rev. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge pastor wrote: "As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His will to bear on every sphere of our world and our society. We are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government ... our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors - in short, over every aspect and institution of human society."

Well. Now, see, that's just about the worst promotion of tolerance, live-and-let-live speech I've ever heard! I don't believe I've seen such aspirations for global dominance since...well, the Bush maladministration. And the Crusades. And Dr. Evil's Evil Organization.

This is the 10th conference to spread this "cultural mandate" among Christians, and although the church's pastor couldn't speak due to illness...

With the Pope hanging on to life by barely a thread and this minister missing his conference, most important of events, due to illness...I'm beginning to doubt the omnipotence of "God".

This melding of religion and politics, Christianity and patriotism, makes many uneasy, particularly those on the other side of the so-called culture war, who see a threat to the healthy discourse of a pluralistic society.

And who could blame them for feeling that pluralism is being threatened when the Christian Reich is making statements about bringing their fairy tale worldview to bear on every sphere of the world and society. Not a whole lot of room for freedom or pluralism there.

Some (of the Bonk Jobs) are already involved in their communities - in antiabortion actions, in trying to prevent removal of feeding tubes from Terri Schiavo, or in efforts to oppose same-sex marriage by defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.

Because if there's one thing Fundamentalist Bonk Jobs are about, it's ensuring that everyone live to suffer through a long, excruciating life. Without any concern for the quality of Terri Schiavo's life, they want her kept alive. Without any concern for what kind of life a fetus will have to endure after it is born into an already over-populated world to a mother who doesn't want it, or can't afford to support it, they want that baby born, damn it! Without any concern for the quality of life or of the mental health of LGBT people, they want them stripped of any of the same rights the rest of us enjoy, and crammed back into the closet.

Several speakers emphasize the idea that America's founders were largely Christian and that their intent was to establish a biblically based nation. (No mention is made of other influences on the Founding Fathers, such as Englightenment thinkers or issues of freedom of conscience.)

Thank you! It's about time someone mentioned that the Founders weren't just a bunch of Christian Nut Jobs in their reporting. You won't find any kind of reporting the facts like that at Faux News. They Distort, You Decide. Ironic, I think, that such a mention is made in an article published by the Christian Science Monitor.

Coral Ridge's Center for Reclaiming America is building a grass-roots alliance around five issues: the sanctity of life, religious liberty, pornography, the "homosexual agenda," and creation vs. evolution.

Religious Liberty. Stupid assholes think that religious liberty means having the unfettered right to ram their bigoted, racist, homophobic fairy tale down everyone else's throat. That's not religious liberty, you stupid ass-clowns, that's religious TYRANNY!

Hey...did they say they're building a grass-roots alliance around pornography?? Cool!

"If they (judges) don't vote our way, we'll change their view one way or another," executive director Gary Cass tells the group.

Did that guy just threaten to kill judges who won't vote their way?? Get Tom Ridge on the phone! (Wait, did he jump ship with the rest of Bush's cabinet, too?)

"We're going to take back what we lost in the last half of the 20th century," he adds.

Your minds?