I found this over at Skeptic Freethought, another of my fave off tumblr blogs. ~ Kim
Theopublicans
Virginia transvaginal ultrasounds. Oklahoma zygote personhood. Rick Santorum. I am so gobsmacked, I seriously have no idea what to say. It’s as though Republicans have deluded themselves into believing that the past, a time when people were tortured and killed for speaking out against the Church, when women were treated as baby-making appliances rather than human beings, when the genocide of people with skin browner than Rick Santorum was considered by the elite of Europe to be a righteous act, that this tarnished and violent past of ours is some sort of Golden Age to which we should return. Progressive Americans keep shouting at Republicans like Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, and so many others under the banner of the GOP, to pull their heads out of their asses and join us in the real world of the twenty-first century, but apparently there is some sort of euphoric mass hallucination going on in their bowels that makes it difficult for them to hear reason.
Do yourself a favor, click that link up there and read the whole post. Great read.
By William Saletan | Slate
Is the United States sliding toward theocracy? That’s what Republican presidential candidates have told us for more than a year. Radical Islam, they’ve argued, is on the verge of taking over our country through Sharia law. But this weekend, at an Iowa forum sparsely covered by the press, the candidates made clear that they don’t mind theocracy—in fact, they’d like to impose it—as long as it’s Christian.
You can find video of Saturday’s “Thanksgiving Family Forum” on the Web sites of two organizations that sponsored it: CitizenLink and the Family Leader. Here are highlights of the candidates’ remarks.
In 2006, long before costume shops first began selling tri-corner hats to early adopters of the tea party movement, professors David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam “interviewed a representative sample of 3,000 Americans” about their “political attitudes.” By re-interviewing many of the same people this summer, they were able to determine what type of person eventually became a tea partier. Some of what they found is about as shocking as an episode of Full House: Current tea-party supporters were likely to have been “highly partisan Republicans,” and “even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president.” One finding that is actually revealing, though:
Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.
It’s no coincidence that Rick “I’ll Have God Fix All of Our Problems” Perry and Michele “I’ll Have God Pick My Campaign Staff” Bachmann combined captured 60 percent of the tea party movement’s support in the latest GOP primary poll. Of course, “more God” and “less government” are hardly mutually exclusive — in fact, some tea partiers, like Jim DeMint, see them as one in the same. Whoa, wait, we just had a thought: Would it be possible for God to make a government so small that even he couldn’t fit inside of it? Sorry for blowing your minds.
To those who say “America is a Christian Nation.”
In that the majority of the settlers of the original 13 states practiced some derivation of Christianity, this is true. Just ignore the fact that before the continent was named after Amerigo Vespucci, it was inhabited by millions of people, of…
And a fucking parody of what it was founded on.
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