The religious right's threat

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | October 2, 2007 | Dick Polman

[oldbrowser]

Dobson is the Republicans’ Je$$e Jack$on. I am as conservative as they come but the “religious right” is beginning to scare the hell out of me.

I think you just nailed it.

All the trolls are running with this and trying to split the conservatives.

[Sherman Logan]

He says that the church is full of hypocrites.

I'm always amused by this notion. People who reject the very notion of high moral standards can't be hypocrites. People who try and fail, as we all do, to live up to the high standards the believe in are therefore considered hypocrites and even worse than those who never try. Strange line of reasoning, IMHO.

[srmorton]

On his part, it's just an excuse. He watches religious programing on Sunday morning in his Lazy-boy. That way he can smoke and drink beer. I think that one reason he avoids church is that, when he goes, the HS is convicting him that he is not living the way that he was raised.

He also says that we do not sing the old hymns that he used to sing when he was growing up. We grew up Presbyterian, a denomination that has become so politically correct that the official hymn book removed the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers many years ago because it was "too militant". I now go to a Methodist church and our hymn book still contains, not only that song, but Standing On the Promises and Victory In Jesus, just to name a couple. You can see he is grabbing at straws to find excuses not to go.

[nonliberal]

The sad thing is, the choice is between having money forcibly extracted from your wallet at gunpoint for the greater good of society or for some religious duty.

Either way, both groups main goal is to separate me from my money.