For God's Sake: The Idiocy of "Divine Inspiration" In Politics

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It equally pervades the rest of right-wing political culture in the US, as twisted scripture both provides ready justification for those who hate everything about the this country post-1930, and renders more difficult the job of the media to effectively criticise any crackpot theory - lest they lose their "objectivity" for a moment and offend some True Believers...

For, in the end, it doesn't matter if you're a Believer or not. Most of us to the north of birdbrain can agree that no matter what Bachmann, Akin, Robertson or Tyree have to say on the matter, it is in fact societies ruled by faux-pious numbskulls that, to quote the elegant and articulate Robertson, have "never, ever survived."

http://www.alternet.org/story/151658/for_god%27s_sake%3A_the_idiocy_of_%22divine_inspiration%22_in_politics

(Posted by marmar in Editorials & Other Articles)

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1. Yep, it's an old, tired, contrived and obvious trick, and still quite effective after thousands

of years.

Humans: Not too bright, really.