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Religous fundamentalism is finally being exposed as a political scam by corrupted politicians, corrupt clerics, and unscrupulous business persons and organizations, as well as the lobbyists they hire at a salary commensurate with that of a star athlete or Hollywood actor, as a smokescreen to deceive unsuspecting voters into electing officials who pass laws that give a license for favored businesses to pollute their air and water, poison their food supply--if they're lucky enough to afford enough food to eat, ship their jobs overseas, steal the roof over their heads and the little money they have remaining from their bank accounts, break up their marriages and families by causing both spouses work two or three minimum-wage jobs just to make ends meet, etc. They also conspire to pass laws that give the big companies, banks, etc., impunity by means of laws that protect the Republics' partners in crime from the legal consequence of their actions.
The con is simple yet devastating to American politics. All the Republicans have to do is convince voters to elect Republic politicians is to downplay or ignore their collusion with banksters and other gangster captains of industry by using Christian fundamentalist clergy as mouthpieces to pressure churchgoing voters to vote for candidates that profess to oppose legal abortions, assisted suicide, euthanasia, gays, etc. Notice how those fundamentalist churches/parishes either never mention one word of the Beatitudes or twist Scriptures to justify protecting the rich's abuse of the poor. The people involved in this right-wing swindle either are in on the scam and the voters are being played for suckers.
Here's how the game is played:
You vote to abolish abortion and you get tax breaks for the 0.1% while your tax burden gets heavier.
You vote to stop gay rights and you'll get more of your high-skilled, high-paying jobs shipped to China, India, and third-world dictatorships, where your former bosses can now enslave little kids to amass more obscene profits.
You vote to strengthen traditional marriage and you'll end up either underwater on your mortgage (if you're lucky) or kicked out of your house due to the predatory lenders the GOP protects.
You vote to make divorce more difficult, if not impossible, and you'll end up getting killed anyhow by eating poison disguised as food, drinking polluted water, and breathing toxic air.
When the Republics control a Congressional house, they pass some sort of bill that, on its surface, restricts abortions that they know either won't pass or will be struck down in the courts as unconstitutional. The sole purpose of those bills is symbolic and serve no constructive purpose. They intentionally divide the electorate, painting Democrats as immoral baby killers, anti-Christian, and even murderers.
Notice how fundie clerics are obsessed with sex. Every single wedge issue they preach against somehow involves sex. They use sex as a distraction to prevent citizens from focusing on the real issue that's destroying this country from within: the love of money. What's even more scandalizing is that these same fundamentalist clerics who preach politics from the pulpit have themselves been embroiled in sex and/or financial scandals of their own.
I'm no secularist--in fact, I'm Catholic, and outraged by the obsession of some clergy who take it upon themselves to decide who goes to Heaven or Hell. I resent the way some bishops think you have to vote Republican to be regarded as a real Christian. Last time I checked, Jesus was infuriated with the money changers and turned over their tables, and the GOP is loath to do likewise. I see through the flimflam the republics are trying to pull. I am not fooled by their con artist tactics.
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