Seven days of what passes for public discourse in the Christian right wing...

[spinbaby]

Go to the link for this week's complete rundown of the far-right craziness that calls itself Christian.

http://mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com/105730.html


Radio host Jan Mickelson, interviewing presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, proposed a return to indentured servitude (and has asked “Well, what’s wrong with slavery?” for illegal aliens before): “[The Book of Exodus] says, if a person steals, they have to pay it back twofold, fourfold. If they don’t have anything, we’re supposed to take them down and sell them. [It’s better that prisoners be indentured than] spend their time [...] sitting on their stump in a jail cell--they’re supposed to be working off debt... Wouldn’t that be a better choice?”

(Snip)

Jennifer LeClaire, editor of Charisma News: “Welcome to witchcraft season. This is the time of year when people start attacking and accusing you for no reason, rebelling against authority, and otherwise walking in the flesh. [...] Witchcraft releases strong confusion against our minds so that Jesus is not the clear focus of our lives. [...] When witchcraft attacks, it’s difficult to make sound decisions, you may forget your keys, forget important appointments, or even forget what the Word says.”

(Snip)

Rick Wiles again, on Jim Bakker’s TV show this time, stated that a former Satanist had told him that he “performed 164 Satanic rituals inside of abortion clinics.” (This “former Satanist” is named Zachary King and his accounts are of things that supposedly happened in 1982 during the height of the “Satanic Panic”...when he was 14 years old.)
Jim’s current wife Lori responded: “Absolutely! I can’t prove it because I wasn’t there...I will tell you, especially on Halloween, that many many many Satanic rituals—abortion rituals--are performed. It’s the truth. [...] I’ve had women sit as close as Jim is to me, as you are to me, crying, screaming from their innermost being because they were in those Satanic rituals where their babies were aborted.”

[jberryhill]

1. "walking in the flesh"?

Well that's just not true.

October is when I remove my flesh for its annual dry cleaning.

[Bertha Venation]

2. you may forget your keys?

Please. These people are delusional idiots.

Thanks for the morning's entertainment, spinbaby.

[hatrack]

4. Except this way, instead of saying "Thanks, Obama!!" . . .

You get to say "Thanks, Beelzebub!"

[Volaris]

6. That's the Devils way of trying to get u to use Public Transportation

Damned non-christian, devil-worshopping dirty hippies...

Real Christians drive Hummers, waste resources and vote 'Merica (meaning republican).

Taking the subway is what happens right after u start be living in EVILushun!!!!!

[Hortensis]

7. Remember the outrage when Michelle suggested we feed our children salad?

Now I understand.

[Volaris]

10. Lol that's right Salads are hippie Evilness.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Italian Renaissance happened in large part because the Plague killed off a lot idiots, and because the non-rationalists (the Clergy) cloistered themselves in their Ivory Towers to keep themselves safe.
Those who survived, were more open to new forms of thinking, culture, community and government---because most of the Old Order was literally murdered out of existence by the nuances of Mother Nature.

[Hortensis]

11. Liberal evil. Same thing. You know, there has to be truth

in your musing. Maybe not in taking off more idiots than other, but the church. I don't remember much medieval history any more, but I do recall that during the great famine, and no doubt the black death, the church's hold was weakened because, in spite of all the praying and ceremonies, the death and suffering just continued through years of unimaginable calamity. It didn't bring a scrap of bread and the dying died anyway. Cannibals weren't struck by lightening. (I don't actually remember learning that last, but I'm pretty sure it was true anyway.)

[hobbit709]

3. I always thought rebelling against authority is a good thing.

These people are in serious need of a psychiatric evaluation.

[Laxman]

5. Sorry, I Couldn't Help But Post This...

When this is your reading material.....

[whatthehey]

8. The only problem here is thinking these folks a just a small far fringe

34% of the population, pretty darn close to half of all Christians, want to impose a theocracy in the US.

28%, well over 1/3 of all Christians, believe in a literal, word for word Bible replete with talking animals, stopping suns, stoning uppity kids and the like.

42%, over half, aka most of all Christians no matter what assumptions you make about minority Abrahamic faiths and indeed 70% of those who attend services weekly, believe God created the earth and humanity in their current state, within the last 10000 years. Physics, geology, archaeology, astronomy be damned.

57% of Americans, and 80% of Christians (they published the internals on this one) believe in a literally existing non-symbolic Devil.

77% believe in literal angels as immanent beings.

Your posts are simply people bold enough to proclaim what huge proportions of their fellow-believers actually think. They have their jobs for a reason.

[Rex]

9. The true irony here is that if their afterworldland turns out to be real.

They will all be roasting in the lowest pit of Hell for being charlatans. Funny thing that.