"Growing Up in Bachmann’s World"

[Xicano]

Michele Bachmann and I grew up in the same evangelical world. We heard similar sermons, read similar books—most importantly the Bible—and we followed the same anointed leaders.

By the time we were in college our generation of evangelicals had been educated into a profoundly different worldview than that of the secular, anti-Christian, Satan-following Ivy League elites we had been taught to fear. We understood the world to be a spiritual battleground with forces of good pitted against forces of evil. Real angels and real demons hovered about us as we prepared to wage these wars. We sang songs like “Onward Christian Soldiers” in our churches. At summer camps and vacation Bible schools we stamped our feet, and waved our arms as we sang with good Christian gusto “I’m in the Lord’s Army.” We knew which side we were on.

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We learned that homosexuality is a choice made by people to live in sin, under Satan’s influence. The reparative therapy—“pray away the gay”—used at the clinic run by Bachmann’s husband was something we all endorsed, under the influence of evangelical social scientists like James Dobson, who had a PhD in child development and thus knew what he was talking about. We grew up hearing about the “gay agenda” and how it was being used by Satan to destroy traditional morality and faith in the Bible.

Christian “historians” like Peter Marshall and David Barton helped us understand that America was a “Christian Nation” and that recent travails, like the social upheaval of the 60’s that gave us drug abuse, promiscuity, and the homosexual agenda, were the result of abandoning America’s religious roots.


http://www.frumforum.com/growing-up-in-bachmanns-world

[Kurovski]

1. All I can say is...

"Cock, cock, and more cock!!!"

[Xipe Totec]

2. Growing Up Bachmann. Now there is an oxymoran. nt

[pinboy3niner]

3. The pic looks like a scene from one of those sci-fi movies...

...when the reptilian ET invader is about to eat a live rat whole.

Or is that what was really happening there? :evilgrin:

[Javaman]

4. to me it looks like she's breakiing into song...

"springtime for hitler and germany!" LOL