From a friend who wishes to remain anonymous:

[sheshe2]

Mr. Brooks invoked bloodshed and death during his speech on January 6 and exhorted the participants not let the Democratic Party “steal from us our God-given right to control our nation’s destiny.”

"That statement could only come from an elected official who took his oath of office to the Constitution without reading the fine print.

Under our Constitution, nobody has a "God-given right to control the nation's destiny." And the fact that Brooks (and apparently many other Republicans) believe this shows the true nature of the fight we are in.

Conservative "evangelical" Christianity has become a vestigial organ in our body politic. Like the appendix, it no longer serves any useful purpose, but its continued existence might be benign. However, vestigial organs can become infected, and when they do, they must be excised or they can be fatal to the host organism.


Much more here:

Progressive Eruptions

[crickets]

1. Dominionism on parade.

Dovetails nicely with a post from earlier in the week:

On White Evangelical Protestants
https://democraticunderground.com/100215684546

https://www.editorialboard.com/p/for-white-evangelical-protestants

...WEPs believe they are God’s chosen (or will be). They tend to believe the United States was given to “real Americans” by God to be ruled in His name. Those who are not God’s chosen are pretty much disposable. (After all, He knows who the righteous are.) The WEP identity is furthermore based not so much of what they are but on what they are not. We are not them. They are enmeshed in the world. We live here temporarily until The End. They represent a multiracial republic. We believe Christ is our King. The degradation is democracy isn’t regrettable. It’s desirable. Theocracy is the goal.

[lunatica]

2. That would be the perfect preamble to the

Gilead Constitution.

[sheshe2]

3. Bazinga!

[Stuart G]

4. Who is ...Mr. Brooks?

[sheshe2]

6. Mo Brooks.

Congress critter that wore body armor on 01/06. He got a heads up it might be dangerous that day.

[Caliman73]

5. Not to be negative but not the best analogy. Two conclusions about vestigial organs

1. They were once useful but are now useless.

This one is wrong for evangelical Christianity and conservatism of any stripe. Evangelical Christianity and Conservatism have NEVER been useful.

2. The function of a vestigial organ has diminished or changed significantly during the course of evolution.

Conservatism and evangelical Christianity have not changed. The only thing they have diminished is the quality of life of this country.

I do agree that conservatism and evangelical Christianity have infected and are poisoning society, but they have always done so.