The Fundamental President

[LeahMira]

http://www.indiancountry.com/?1072818795&style=printable

Religion, and specifically Southern Protestant fundamentalism, is the dominant cultural reality in the Bush White House and in the process which has led to war. Although George W. Bush is nominally a Methodist, he has pandered shamelessly to the religious right and many of his views are consistent with those of Protestant fundamentalist extremists. He has confirmed such views more than once, and is on record stating his belief that non-Christians can never go to heaven. This is a statement with enormous implications that he is not president to all Americans but to a minority, albeit a sizeable minority. The religious culture he comes from is even more narrow than that, defining only born-again Christians as true to the faith and therefore eligible for admission to heaven.

Mr. Bush is steeped in the culture of West Texas, a culture with many of the characteristics of the Old South. It is tinged with a history of racism, has a strong anti-environmentalist ethos, wallows in crony capitalism, exalts in jingoistic militarism, and has an anti-public education and anti-welfare bias. The president has discovered that it is not productive to embrace all these ideologies publicly, but he has set into motion an agenda which makes the radical religious right as happy as it has been in generations.

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The president has discovered that it is not productive to embrace all these ideologies publicly...

Maybe someone ought to force him into a corner and make him admit to them before we're all involved in a world-wide religious war with no idea how we got into it all.

[lovedems]

1. Interestingly enough I was watching PBS last night about Abe Lincoln

and they were talking about the country being so extremely divided on the issue of slavery. I couldn't help but think that if the christian coalition maintains the power to force their moral adgenda on the populace, it will equally divide the nation. As a catholic, there are so many christians out there that scare the shit out of me. I am convinced the republicans are so united is because they all HATE the same people. They are bound by a common hatred of anyone who doesn't think like they do and they want to punish those people.

[ithacan]

2. all top Republicans in Congress are now fundies

and the Bush agenda is 100 percent in line with what the "christian" right is calling for.

For the details on the fundie take over of the GOP:

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

Why don't moderate republicans stand up and take their party back from the fundies???