Conservatives Weaponize Religion, Worship Wealthy

[rug]

Author: Paul Kiser
Published: December 02, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Few would deny that Evangelical Christians control most if not all religious conversations among Conservatives, but that was even more apparent on the Saturday before Thanksgiving when the Iowa-based, ultra-Conservative religious group, The Family Leader, hosted a round-table discussion with six of the most prominent Republican Presidential candidates. Prior to the start of the two hour event, organizers spent 45 minutes outlining their plan for national domination by controlling who will be elected to a political office.

Groups like The Family Leader, Focus on the Family, and The Truth Project hope to create a "worldview" in the United States that uses local, state, and federal laws as their weapons to enforce their mythological beliefs on all citizens. It was hard to argue with their ability to control Conservative politics with six Republican candidates at their beck and call.

Conservatives have worked to pass laws that denied equal rights to Gay Americans, created impossible building codes for women's health clinics that honored a woman's freewill, and define birth control as murder. The Iowa event made it clear that Republican Presidential candidates have nothing but praise and support to groups who seek to replace fair government with interpretive mythology.

After the event, Conservative Presidential candidate Rick Perry joined Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum in signing The Family Leader's Pledge to Marriage. The vow that implies that being Gay is a learned behavior (presumably that can be deprogrammed,) that African Americans were better parents when they were slaves, and demands the candidate commit to 14 points, including an Amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids legal Gay marriage, and a rejection of Sharia Islam law.

http://technorati.com/politics/article/conservatives-weaponize-religion-worship-wealthy/

That headline's a good way to put it.

[NMMNG]

1. This isn't a new phenomena

But it's always good to have reminders so nobody forgets what we're up against.

[darkstar3]

2. Weaponize?

It was a weapon long before anyone who called themselves "conservative" came around.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. Amen! "Matthew 7:21Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven

There is the warning to arch-Conservatives, I only hope they listen.

[laconicsax]

4. How do you know that applies to them and not yourself?

:shrug:

[NMMNG]

5. That's what they all think

All the True Christians, anyway.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Well, as a godless unbeliever myself, I tend to think that IF there were a just God...

He wouldn't like arch-Conservatives (at least as these are usually defined) much. They do so much harm to the world. As I'm not a believer, I'll just say that they will be remembered, if at all, for making the world at least a little bit worse, when they might have made it a bit better. Which is a pity.

[trotsky]

6. Why are you criticizing people's deeply-held beliefs?

Are you some kind of militant fundie atheist?

[LeftishBrit]

7. Too true. Most depressing.

[Charlemagne]

9. Thats ironic

"including an Amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids legal Gay marriage, and a rejection of Sharia Islam law."

Gay marriage is illegal under Islamic Sharia Law. So I guess these people, by promoting such an amendment, are secret muslims.

[lwo]

10. why are most fundamentalists conservative?

I agree that the Christian Right continues to cause much mischief in the USA. My question is why do Christian fundamentalists tend mostly toward ultra-conservatism? Jesus spends his time healing the sick, feeding the poor, turning the other cheek, and hanging out w/ the outcastes. Yet the Christian Right seems to oppose such behavior today. It's as though they're reading a different bible.

[Old and In the Way]

11. welcome aboard!

Why are they conservative? Mainly because they are anti-science authoritarians who sublimate their religious beliefs to reflect their worldview. They are big on the Old Testament and the idea of a hateful God...the New Testament is filled with socialism, so they don't spend much time reflecting on that part of the Bible.