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Tea Party Candidate "believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid... on Greenland"
Bruce Wilson print page
Tue May 25, 2010 at 03:38:45 PM EST

Over the past week I've been writing on some rather unusual Republican Party candidates in the 2010 election, for example the much discussed Kentucky GOP senate candidate Rand Paul who, as it happens, gave an April 2009 keynote address at a rally for the theocratic Constitution Party that wants to impose Biblical law on America and whose ideological guiding light R. J. Rushdoony wanted to impose stoning as a method of execution and thought the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Then came Arthur Robinson, running for Congress in Oregon's 4th District, who, among other things, has proposed dumping oil and nuclear waste at sea and claimed ocean life was "starved" for crude oil. With Robinson I thought the eccentricity meter had red-lined. But I was wrong.

Now comes Tim D'Annunzio, a Tea-Partying congressional candidate vying to be the GOP's nominee in North Carolina's 8th District. The Republican Party is so impressed with D'Annunzio's credentials that they're preemptively releasing dirt about him. Here's some of it:

In Hoke County divorce records, his wife said in 1995 that D'Annunzio had claimed to be the Messiah, had traveled to New Jersey to raise his stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland and found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona. A doctor's evaluation the following month said D'Annunzio used marijuana almost daily, had been living with another woman for several months, had once been in drug treatment for heroin dependence and was jailed a couple times as a teenager.
The doctor concluded that his religious beliefs were not delusional. A judge wrote in a child support ruling a few years later that D'Annunzio was a self-described "religious zealot" who believed the government was the "Antichrist."

I think D'Annunzio may do quite well - in the GOP runoff at least.

http://tinyurl.com/25vnoe5

[Chulanowa]

1. The doctor concluded that his religious beliefs were not delusional...

Well of course not, nothing is ever delusional if you call it "religions," after all. Only atheists can be crazy.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. No crazier than the founder of the Mormons.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.

Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement. In the late 1820s, Smith announced that an angel had given him a book of golden plates engraved with a religious chronicle of ancient American peoples in an unknown language. He also said he had received a pair of divining stones in which he could see the translation, which he published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. On the basis of this book and other revelations, he founded a church in western New York, claiming it to be a restoration of primitive Christianity.

Moving the church in 1831 to Kirtland, Ohio, Smith attracted hundreds of converts, who came to be called Latter Day Saints. Some of these he sent to establish a holy city of "Zion" in Jackson County, Missouri. In 1833, Missouri settlers expelled the Saints from Zion, and a paramilitary expedition Smith led to recover the land was unsuccessful. Fleeing an arrest warrant in the aftermath of a Kirtland financial crisis, Smith joined the remaining Saints in Far West, Missouri. However, tensions escalated into a violent conflict with the old Missouri settlers. Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the governor ordered their expulsion from Missouri, and Smith was imprisoned on capital charges

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Smith's followers believe he was a great prophet who saw God and angels, and they regard his revelations as scripture. His teachings include unique views on the nature of godhood, cosmology, family structures, political organization, and religious collectivism. His legacy includes several religious denominations, which collectively claim a growing membership of nearly 14 million worldwide.<1>

[JCMach1]

7. ***snap***

[old mark]

8. ...Also believed Jesus was in America and that some Indians are a lost tribe

of Israel. The stuff about people going on in later lives to rule other planets is pretty good, too.

Evidently you can believe in any religious doctrine you want, no matter how ridiculous.

God works in mysterious ways, some of which seem pretty stupid.


mark

[caledesi]

3. U know u are bad when the GOP thinks that u are unfit!

Even the GOP doesn't want D'annunzio.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. I like him.

He has flair. :rofl:

[charlesg]

5. Definitely qualified to represent the GOP

[Swamp Rat]

6. LOL!

Oh, wait. Those guys are serious. :hide: