Confronted with increasing recognition in MSM of what we always knew, namely that Bush and his fellow idiots are incompetent, and confronted with a book that exposes what Bush and his fellow idiots really thought about their lunatic religious right base, the Republicans will resort to one of their best election tactics……go after gay people.
This time, however, they will sacrifice on the altar of their own greed for power gay Republican staffers who they will claim are the real culprits in the cover up of Foley’s sexual predation. And they will find lots of willing wing nuts like the Reverend Wildmon to do their bidding.
http://www.alternet.org/story/42972/
This is how the party of family values will speak to their base: by destroying careers and lives all in the name of keeping the actual criminals in power. What is so horrendously ironic is that the very idiots the Republican power brokers call idiots will buy into this buy-off. (Can something be horrendous and ironic? Well, this crap can.)
I’m working on a diary with a working title of “People of the Book” which is a term Muslims have used to describe Christians and Jews as people with a common bond to a bible. The problem in all three desert religions is that The Book has become the god. The Koran the The Bible are worshipped more than the god they supposedly reveal. When people create a god in their own image and then worship that image, it’s called idolatry. That’s what all fundamentalism is; and this self-idolatry is then supported by mis-reading The Book.
All the passages quoted by our current stock of “good” “religious” hate-filled right wingers (Christian, Jew or Muslim) are cultural artifacts of people who wandered around in the desert some centuries ago whose ruminations gave us the Tanakh and the Koran and then The Bible. Their culture bound admonitions about everything have absolutely nothing to do with us or with how God wants us to act in the world. But they can be used to support any current political whim like gay-bashing, women-hating, or end-of-the-world-yearning. Because fundamentalists of all stripes fixate on “literal” words and worship passages rather than the spiritual truth God was trying to impart.
So hate-filled people can destroy fellow human beings and delude themselves that they are doing it for good and honest reasons. I really fucking hate Republicans, and but for the grace of God I will go to fucking hell because of this hate, where I will meet all those fucking piece of shit right wing little bastard so-called Christian fuckers again and have to listen to their fucking crap for eternity. Now that is really damnation. My only thanks to God for this will be that they will have to listen to me.
