C Baldwin: "I'm A Conservative Christian & Religious Right Scares Me Too"

[VTGold]

http://www.godfamilyrepublic.com/schedule/index.php?action=eventview&event_id=639

Thom Hartman just read some of this on-air - a riveting editorial by a very conservative Christian Minister:
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No one can honestly question my commitment to pro-life, pro- family, conservative causes. That being said, the Religious Right, as it now exists, scares me.

For one reason, on the whole, the Religious Right has obviously and patently become little more than a propaganda machine for the Republican Party in general and for President G.W. Bush in particular. This is in spite of the fact that both Bush and the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., have routinely ignored and even trampled the very principles which the Religious Right claims to represent.

Therefore, no longer does the Religious Right represent conservative, Christian values. Instead, they represent their own self-serving interests at the expense of those values.

It also appears painfully obvious to me that in order to sit at the king's table, the Religious Right is willing to compromise any principle, no matter how sacred. As such, it has become a hollow movement. Sadly, the Religious Right is now a movement without a cause, except the cause of advancing the Republican Party.

Beyond that, the Religious Right is actively assisting those who would destroy our freedoms. On the whole, the Religious Right comports with those within the Bush administration and within the Republican Party who, in the name of "fighting terrorism," are actually terrorizing constitutional protections of our liberties.

more:
http://www.godfamilyrepublic.com/schedule/index.php?action=eventview&event_id=639

[htuttle]

1. Sounds like the AntiChrist and False Prophet are in the house!

Fits them to a tee, though I do not believe in Revelations. (I don't believe the rest of the book either, for that matter).

[TwentyFive]

2. Good article --- but he misses the big point.

Everybody knows the RR is a political action group that has nothing to do with christianity. No news here.

What he fails to mention is the RR is so dangerous because they are a stealth organization. They organize around some issue that has popular support - like same-sex marriage bans. Their huge organizing & media campaigns sway voters into voting for the candidate they want. Voters may not support the RR....but they get influenced by their political ads...and vote on a ballot measure that was put there by the RR.

Chuck needs to tell us how we can slay the monster.

[complain jane]

3. Thanks for this. I gleefully posted it on my favorite fundie site.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for RW confrontation.

:toast:

[colonel odis]

4. sorry, rev. you should have been more careful whom you lay down with.

n/t

[indepat]

5. "who, in the name of 'fighting terrorism,' are actually terrorizing

constitutional protections of our liberties" succinctly, but profoundly, sums it all up. BF foresaw this potentiality when he quipped to the effect that those willing to give up liberty for a little security will soon have neither. Have we the people in essence sold our collective soul to the devil in turn for a promise that will never be realized?