The Republican's Biblical Boondoggle - Frank Schaeffer

[cbayer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/the-republicans-biblical-_b_1302127.html

Posted: 02/27/2012 11:23 am

The base of the Republican Party is to be pitied more than feared. They have literally been conditioned to fear their own brains. Their religious indoctrination has actually destroyed their ability to reason. No wonder they eagerly believe in Fox News' alternative reality.

Outside observers here in the US and overseas shake their heads in wonderment over just how it is that so many Republicans seem to literally come from somewhere else, say another planet.

"How on earth could they believe" fill-in-the-blank: that global warming is not real, that evolution never happened, that an embryo is a "person," that the right to carry a gun equals "security," that President Obama is a socialist, communist, Muslim, the Antichrist, soft on terror, a dangerous man, not a Christian, the wrong sort of Christian or that history text books should reflect America's "Christian country" status...

or...

that Santorum could ever become president!

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[dmallind]

1. ok at a pinch I get the global watnming thing, but guns?

Apart from the visceral kneejerk against anything that "hippies" support, the idea of global warming could be said to go against the first covenant and also be an affront against the idea that nothing done by humans can overcome God's supposedly benevolent plan, but I think Frank's straying from his wheelhouse with the gun bit. Not only are there far more scenarios in which guns help security rather than hurt it in real life, but the whole idea of Biblical boondoggles is utterly irrelevant to firearms policy. Only even vague link I can think of is the strong man guarding his house, and that doesn't come up too much in Rep. propaganda.