Reply #51: oooh. Tight and to the point. And I have to agree. "Cosmic Saddam Hussein"

[JohnOneillsMemory]

Christian fundamentalism is as oppressive and unloving as the Taliban ever were. The Bible has very little that one would want to teach your children in it.

www.infidels.org/library/historical/ clarence_darrow/bible_absurdities.html

Supposedly 'God' approves of slavery and has some rules about it.
Um..yeah. Is this the 'Robert E. Lee' version of the Bible?
Not a good book to run a modern democracy with. Merely historical interest.

Much of the Bible, unfortunately, is hateful and contradictory with such things as infanticide, child abuse, woman abuse, scorched-earth genocide, slavery, incest and other atrocities against the innocent that make Abu Ghraib look tame, all being sanctioned by an imaginary Lord who resembles, in the words of a famous atheist who recently 'got religion,' a "sort of cosmic Saddam Hussein."

Which is exactly why the Republican neo-cons are pushing the Bible as an anaesthetic for our brains. "Don't judge the White House. Just have faith that they know best and will do the right thing." Yeah right, in Gitmo Bay or elsewhere in the dungeons of the New Spanish Inquisition.
http://www.rotten.com/library/history/inquisition/


Putting the nurturing love and care for the needy that is preached by Jesus and other liberals back into the public arena to combat the rightously hate-fueled wrathful smiting practiced by the Republicans and Dominionists is, IMHO, the best way to address this uniquely American form of fascism while we still can.

The propaganda-based 'friendly fascism' in this country works by stoking fear, causing confusion, and then justifying dictatorship as a security blanket.

The authoritarian personality that is intentionally bred by mating TV with religion makes sheep who blindly follow The Lord, Big Brother, mein Fuhrer, the King. All of these are the same dangerous guy.
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

The Authoritarian personality was quantified by researchers after WWII when fascism was studied to see why so many people could embrace the horrors of Hitler and Mussolini. They found out it was based on a fear of complexity, a tendency towards groupthink, and a need to target people who are different as scapegoats for all that is wrong in their world.
http://www.counterpunch.org/davis01082005.html
(The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism)

The Master Race and the Chosen Few are fueled by the same psychosis.

This is exactly antithetical to an informed electorate controlling their own government, or democracy.

Rolling Stone apparently does not wish to turn the social clock back over two thousand years and that is a damned good thing, pun intended.