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2006-03-22 Home Front: Culture Wars
Bush Holy Rollers Rule Debt Crippled American Theocracy
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Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-22 00:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 And third, debt is becoming a national weakness

All of them, from Rome to Britain, resembled the Bush era U.S. in imperial cockiness.

Nothing annoys me more than people who make historical comparisons and merely expose their ignorance of history. The British Empire went massively into debt to pay for the Napoleonic Wars. But once won, they enjoyed a century of unrivalled dominance and economic prosperity.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-03-22 01:20|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-03-22 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 What a pack of BS.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-22 08:11|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-22 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Last time I checked, it was the dim-o-crat party that took the lead in limiting oil drilling (and coal mining, and nuclear power, and when they can, wind power(!)) in this country...
Posted by Phil 2006-03-22 09:10||   2006-03-22 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhpas if he were no so busy with pejoratives like "Theocrat", and sliming with a broad brush anyone that hold religious bleiefs, he might realize that he is simply wrong.


This whole screed reeks of some sort of anti-Bush hatred; the author looking for a reason for his hatred, and is thus trying to attach himself to anything, and consequently is makign himself into an ass.

"Theocracy" is not a "peril" to the US. Not nearly as much as the militant secularist atheism that seeks eradicate religion and morality from public life. It has already destroyed the black community with it s"its ok to be a sngle parte, its ok to bear children out of wedlokc, there are no such thing as personal consequences to yourself or God for your actions".

THAT is the sort of thing that has nearly destroyed this nation, and indded, its the polar opposite of theism that the biggest trheat to this naiton: they seek to eratdicate the one thing they cannot stand against: religion in the marketplace of ideas. The ACLU and atheists like this writer are still fighting to get religion *excluded* from public life, and seem to be completely unaware of the consequencse.

Thank God that we do have the first admenment which provides for freedom OF religion, not FROM religion.

And I am thankful that we have a president who is appointing judges and justices that will adhere tightly to the constitution instead of fabricting things wholesale from outside of it.

And I'm thankful that idiots like Jeving Phillips are in the minority in this nation -and are breeding themselves out of existence.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-03-22 09:34||   2006-03-22 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 
This whole screed reeks of some sort of anti-Bush hatred; the author looking for a reason for his hatred, and is thus trying to attach himself to anything, and consequently is makign himself into an ass.

Well, it is from TPMCafe.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-22 09:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Well said. She's peddling another "ism" that seeks to divide and weaken the US from within. A hundred flavors of hatred with a common goal.

We became who we are because we were founded by people of good common sense, collective purpose, and who believed in individual Freedom created and protected by rule of law - including recourse.

I don't recall the Secularists being listed at Plymouth Rock or on the Jamestown rolls. They did not create America. They are simply yet another SIG. They are protected, equally, under our Constitution. Just like every other group, they deserve no quarter for attempting to impose themselves upon others. By rule of law, we should be earnestly working to remove them from any positions they have managed to acquire to advance their agenda.

She, and those of her ilk, who make the wild-eyed claim that the Constitution has been eroded by religion have not one shred of evidence to support it. None. It's pure dementia.

There is ample evidence, however, that those espousing Secularism have abused their offices and abused our institutions in their efforts to destroy what made American the home of Freedom for all.

There is also ample evidence that dementias converge.
Posted by Creater Crater3500 2006-03-22 09:58||   2006-03-22 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Secular doesn't mean irreligious... Exactly, it is the left that is irreligious. The right is less tolerant of Muslim integration of mosque and state. Sharia campaigns - in the guise of "Muslim Personal Law" - in South Africa, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, etc - were supported by the left and opposed by the right. Southern Baptists have a persistent demand: let us have real Secularism. And, I would argue, the SBs can deliver 5-7 million votes. So who champions Secularism?
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-22 11:05||   2006-03-22 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 A wild guess: Stalinists and their tools who fall for the tripe that the Constitution is under attack from religion.
Posted by Creater Crater3500 2006-03-22 11:20||   2006-03-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9  All of them, from Rome to Britain, resembled the Bush era U.S. in imperial cockiness. They thought they were unique, that God was on their side and that they had transcended history. Ultimately, too much crusading, strutting, borrowing, luxuriating and interest-group entrenchment helped do them in. Empires don't facilitate free elections for their subjects, while permitting freedom of expression.

Oh, puhleeese ... I stopped reading about here. All of you know my distaste for the overemphasis being placed on religiosity by the Oval Office. I point to the thundering silence regarding Abdul Rahman as a sterling example. However, I refuse to give the least creedence to this sort of hysterical twaddle.

The Left Behind series is escapist entertainment. It's harmless, and you only have to read it to recognize that.

I think you may (seriously) underestimate the number of people who take the Left Behind series seriously. Your own intelligence level well exceeds that of many other fundamentalist Christians who are reading this stuff. Few fundamentalist Christians I have ever known possess anything even remotely resembling the degree of worldview and political awareness that the average Rantburger maintains.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-22 11:50||   2006-03-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 This guy is a nitwit urban intellectual with a persecution complex. If politics were the Gong Show this guy would have a bag over his head.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-03-22 11:55||   2006-03-22 11:55|| Front Page Top

#11 It's obvious he's never so much as met any observant Catholics or evangelicals, and he probably crosses the street to avoid walking by churches, lest he contract "Christer cooties" from getting too close. He is right about the danger from "theocracy" in one sense: Marxism is a fantasy ideology, just like Islamism, and the fanatical Marxists want absolute power just as badly as the Islamists do.
Posted by Mike 2006-03-22 12:54||   2006-03-22 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Wonder, too, if the carping about "debt" is going to eventually lead him into a full-bore rant about "fiat money" and "international Jewish bankers who control the world" and Carlisle Group and Skull & Bones and all that moonbat jazz.

Pssst, Kevin, . . . there's never been a better time to buy gold.
Posted by Mike 2006-03-22 13:00||   2006-03-22 13:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember Kevin before the icepick incident.
Posted by 6 2006-03-22 14:57||   2006-03-22 14:57|| Front Page Top

#14 As I am both a regular Rantburger and what you would probably call a Christian Fundamentalist, I resent the elitism of #9.

Wanna compare eschatologies?

Posted by eLarson 2006-03-22 15:43|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-03-22 15:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Few fundamentalist Christians I have ever known possess anything even remotely resembling the degree of worldview and political awareness that the average Rantburger maintains.

You're right Zenster. Since (largely by choice) about 99%+ of the population lacks the political awareness of a Rantburger, that also means that your average athiest, truck driver, Hindu, and convenience store clerk also lack our political awareness. It's hardly a mark of distinction.

We are like freaking into it, man!
Posted by Secret Master 2006-03-22 16:04||   2006-03-22 16:04|| Front Page Top

#16 what a bunch of blah, blah, blah from just another loser who blindly adheres to his anti-American religion far more faithfully Christians do.

Some things are so obvious and one is that Muslim extremism, that brought down the WTC and has been responsible for untold terror worldwide. Yet this guy is still worried that Jerry Falwell might think that the blue smurf is gay. What a stupid putz.
Posted by 2b 2006-03-22 18:11||   2006-03-22 18:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Yet this guy is still worried that Jerry Falwell might think that the blue smurf is gay.

All smurfs are blue. And subject to bombing from the UN.

Falwell was griping over one of the Teletubbies. They're not gay -- just really freaking creepy.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-22 21:35|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-22 21:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Kevin Phillips is the left-wing "Republican" who's been predicting a Democratic surge for several decades now. He did it all through the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years. I guess one of these days, he'll eventually be right. The guy may fancy himself as once having been a Republican, but he was about at home in the GOP as Zell Miller was in the Democratic Party. The only reason this guy hasn't registered as a Democrat is because it would shred any tattered remnants of his pretense to impartiality when pronouncing on the doom of the GOP - any day now.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-22 22:17|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-22 22:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Zenster: I point to the thundering silence regarding Abdul Rahman as a sterling example.

I can't get too worked up about it. Defense of minorities is a fine thing, but the reality is that we have a friendly government in Afghanistan today. Another point is that perhaps 99% of Afghanistan is devoutly Muslim - so there's not even a token domestic minority constituency for religious freedom. The alternative is an unfriendly government. Note that we're not through fighting terrorists as yet. Did we quibble about Stalin sending people off to gulags during WWII? Or about Chiang Kai Shek's regrettable tendency to bump his political opponents off? We can start discussing these things once al Qaeda is beaten, and Pakistan isn't run by terrorist-sponsoring leaders. Before then, we can make a few concessions to political and diplomatic realities.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-22 22:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-22 22:26|| Front Page Top

#20 Note that thanks to Carter started pressuring the Shah with respect to human rights, we got Ayatollah Khomeini and his band of merry mullahs. And the Iranians were much more secular than Afghans are today.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-22 22:29|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-22 22:29|| Front Page Top

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