For My 700 Club Inaugural Post: A 'Tribute' to 'Judge' Roy Moore

[Sapphocrat]

Preface: I intend to put my membership in The 700 Club to good use, by devoting the next 99 posts (which, considering that it's taken me over two years to reach 700, may take me forever) to the hypocrisy of the Radical Religious Right.

No, no, this won't be an attack on Christians, I promise -- I'm talking about taking down the radical zealots who offend and desecrate the meaning of Christianity itself, shred the Constitution, lie about the Founding Fathers' intentions, and in the process, make everybody else's life a living hell.

Finding enough subject matter for this self-imposed project will present no trouble at all; actually posting another 99 messages to DU, however, may take the rest of my life!

Wish me luck!

Post #700: I hereby submit this blog entry, regarding the overthrow of Herr Roy Moore:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Just as the state must never interfere with matters of the church, the church must never interfere with matters of the state.

Hey, it's hardly an original thought -- or a terribly liberal one, for that matter. The "Christian" zealots (you know, the ones who profess "Christianity" while performing the most un-Christian acts) just need constant reminders that they are lying to themselves, and to you, that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation," and that there is "no such thing" as separation of church and state.

That kind of attitude is nothing more than the product of convenient memory. ...

Either that, or liars like Moore have never actually read the words of the guys who founded the United States in the first place:

Such language ("separation of church and state") only appeared in the constitution of the communist Soviet Union.

-- Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," January 22, 1995

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, January 1, 1802

We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation.

-- Jerry Falwell, March, 1993

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.

-- Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, signed into law by John Adams

There are many more such juxtapositions (which I hope will prove useful to anyone looking for ammunition against the "no separation" argument) at the link:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002551/2003/11/13.html#a496

[Guaranteed]

1. That's a great start.

Keep up the good work!

[Lefty48197]

2. Great post!

This one deserves a bookmark.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. John Adams

was a Unitarian, and Jefferson merely called himself a theist. Don't know that either one would call themselves "Christian" in the way the religious right uses the term

[asjr]

4. moore

Very Very good!

[Elidor]

5. Hey, I bookmarked your blog months ago

There's been some great stuff there. And it's got more meat than Eschaton.

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. Wooo hoooo!!!!

Excellent post, and congrats on making into the anti gay establishment that is The 700 Club. ;)

[newyawker99]

7. Have fun with Pat, Sapphocrat!

:evilgrin: