TYT: Christians Should Control Government - Michele Bachmann & Dominionism

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 08:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBf9q8yV9g   Posted on YouTube: August 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 16920   Posted on DU: August 30, 2011 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1936

 
Summary: A http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all|New Yorker piece> explains how 2012 Republican presidential candidate and Tea Party favorites Michele Bachmann has ties to a radical fundamentalist Christian movement known as Dominionism. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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[RandySF]

1. Michelle who?

She's yesterday's church flyer.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. ...and tomorrow's anti-christ

These fuckers are dangerous.

[20score]

3. K&R

[maddiemom]

4. "Christian" superiority

What is it that the right wing "Christians" don't get about the real world. Following your beliefs, rather Christian, Muslim, Buddhism, Agnostic, Atheist, was supposed to be allowed in this country. You can believe that your religion is the true one, so why worry if all others are consigned to Hell ? They'd rather be left alone to their own beliefs. Those who are fanatic in other beliefs can consign "Christians" to their own versions of Hell, if they have one. Bachman Perry and the like are free to believe what they want. Anyone who is not intelligent enough to recognize different beliefs in this country, let alone the vast, non-Christian world is wholly unqualified to hold the office of President of the United States.

[cactusfractal]

5. Rec'd with reservations...

The operative chapter and verse is not Gen. 1:26, but Deut. 17:2-5:

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

3And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

4And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

5Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

The former just grants mankind the right to put the earth under his control. Meh. But the latter explicitly gives believers the command to seek out and exterminate those who believe differently. Next time some flagwrapped crosswaver tries to tell you Muslims want a global caliphate and the death of non-Muslims, whip this verse out. Et tu, Christer?

Yes, they will try to squirm out of it with some "but the New Testament..." blather, but unless and until they turn from ALL this OT xenophobia, I believe fundamentalist Christians, when organized, constitute a clear and present danger not just to our republic, but the world.

[ScottLand]

6. Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's

and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him, saying "But my Lord, canst thou not count farm subsidies?"

[libodem]

7. How can fundies not smell

The wreak of hypocracy.

[alp227]

8. sighhh...we can NOT afford to sit out 2012 without any great harm to this nation

the leading candidates are freakin' dominionists, while Obama knows to keep his religious beliefs to himself and as a former constitutional law professor that separation of church and state is real (hear that, Christine O'Donnell?)

[bowens43]

9. I've been saying for years

that we have much more to fear from christianity then we do islam...here's more supporting evidence.