Of terrorists, evildoers and witches.

[Q]

- Terrorists may strike at any moment but the world is a safer place!

- What kind of nonsensical gibberish is this? It doesn't take a genius to find the contradiction in this statement. Wouldn't a 'safer world' be devoid of escalating violence and threats of terrorism?

- The 'plain truth' is that Bush* and Cheney* could say just about anything to their 'true believer' followers and they would swallow it like a hungry child in Iraq. Their fundamentalist supporters don't seek truth or peace...but power, revenge and control over those they consider 'inferior'.

- Our country has been forced back into the times of the Puritans...when fear of the unknown was used to divide the people into political/religious factions and the 'rule of law' was leveraged to punish secular dissent. God's law was supreme...even if it meant burning 'witches' at the stake or putting adulterers in the stockade.

- In the last few decades we've witnessed the equivalent of witch hunts and inquisitions...brought about by those who called themselves the 'moral majority' and 'christian fundamentalists'. Clinton's impeachment and Gore's exile was about purging the 'evil' of secular government to make way for God's law and a return of the divine right of kings who rule in His name.

- Bush* is their king and prophet and his words are God's law to them. His God-sanctioned war against 'evildoers' is little more than a modern witch hunt...but this time the witches are in the form of brown people who worship the wrong God.

- Never mind that the 'devil can quote scripture for his own purposes'.

[liberalmuse]

1. These people don't care...

They hate humanity, and the irony is, the one they name themselves after had a deep love of humanity. I was briefly a member of the born-again cult in the early '80's after getting out of another cult at the age of 16 where I was completely brainwashed since the age of 3. I was terrified to even contemplate there might not be a god, so I jumped from the frying pan into the fire in spite of what my intuition was telling me and what I already knew: The authoritarian, human-obsessed tribal 'God' does not exist.

The people attracted to the born-again ideology for the most part are frightened of the world around them, shallow (those who are able to maintain this farce for years and years, that is), completely self-involved, are seeking to escape responsibility or suffering the consequences for their own actions, unempathetic and show signs of being brain-washed. This is why the Bushies use key words to trigger their attention and why this has been very successful.

They need demons and some evil 'Other' to hate because this somehow validates their belief system. They are a war-oriented tribal blood cult who's ultimate redemption and reward can only culminate with the deaths and suffering of billions of people along with the destruction of the planet that nurtures them.

[Q]

2. If there is a God...he's not the vengeful God of the fundamentalists...

- It was a slip of the tongue when George* used the word 'crusade'. But this crusade is against more than the brown people of Islam. It's a purging of a secular US government...to be replaced by a theocratic government that masks its corruption in piety.

[liberalmuse]

3. I agree.

I have Christian friends, but they aren't fundies, and I have respect for them and their beliefs and they don't impose their belief system on me. None of my Christian friends will be voting for Bush.

Fundies horrify me, perhaps because I know how they think. One time I was at a fundie camp, there was a car accident down the road. Apparently, from what my brother witnessed, a group of people from our church ran to the accident to find a severely injured and half-conscious man. They were trying to get him to accept Jesus. They were saying, 'If you die now, you're going to hell.' Just one example of fundie 'compassion'.

[Q]

4. Just watched Gen. Boykin say: "satan is gathering his forces and so am I"

...on Democracy now this morning. This is simply part of the transformation going on in 'our' government as Ashcroft holds prayer services on public property.

- The 'wall of separation between church and state' (Jefferson) has been effectively torn down and replaced with the fundamentalists version of God's law.

[Brewman_Jax]

5. They don't "cloud the issue with facts"

They want Dan Rather to resign over the documents, but have no problem with Bob Novak and the Plame incident. This does not alter the fact that Bush's* Air National Guard service is still unproven. (That question by itself should make an ethical individual queazy.)

The rise of social puritanism in order to cover economic and public issues makes me want to :puke:

[Q]

6. And 'they' insist that the world is 'safer'...

...but haven't caught one terrorist of import...nor have they found the Anthrax killer/terrorist. Strange that we learn that it came from a government lab and then heard no more about it.

- The issue of Bush's* guard record is a distraction from his horrible policies and warmongering. The Left is being played like suckers...pulled into a meaningless debate about Bush's* elitist past. Of course he's a person of privilege...but he's also a power-hungry madman whose main enemy is the truth.

[Brewman_Jax]

7. Complicity of the corporate press

The anthrax terrorist story died in a hurry when it was learned that the strain came from a government lab.

Bush's* present record of "accomplishments" is enough to hammer him with. Too many of his true believers will give him a free pass for what happened 30+ years ago.

[KoKo]

8. Salem....witch hunts.... it's something in our American Culture...it pops

up continuously. Some say it goes back to the Puritans. I don't know what it is, but look at Salem, McCarthy in the 50's and I think there are other examples where suspicion takes over. Father Coughlin during the Depression..

[donsu]

9. I'll take a witch over the bloody bushgang any day

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