The Theocrat in Lipstick

Townhall.com ^ | September 12, 2008 | Michael Gerson

[MrB]

Historically, look what leftists have done to “counter-revolutionaries” throughout history.

“To the Wall”.

Heck, try to feed your family under a collectivist regime, or refuse to sell your goods and services at the below market price, and you’re lynched as a “hoarder”.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There is a lot of "projection" going on. Five children, a newborn, and a pregnant daughter planning to have her child have been a post-abortion trigger for liberals who have had abortions. Seeing a happy, healthy, working mother of five, they fly into a rage. It contradicts all of the feminist pro-abortion and population control propaganda about having children as an intolerable burden for women. They go mental. Instant spaz attacks.

[Jim Noble]

the Marxist True Believers such as Obama have much bigger plans.

[MrB]

That “spaz attack” is called, biblically, “conviction”.

[Tax-chick]

Exactly. I remember some of these from one of your posts earlier this week.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The liberal panic is setting in. They are going to hype this monkey bones hysteria. In ominous questioning: "Do you believe in Darwinian evolution?" There is not one issue or decision that comes before a U.S. president or VP that requires consulting prehistoric monkey men graphs. This Matt Damon character makes it sound like there's a strong chance the Raptors and T. Rex of Jurassic Park might be coming back and unless Palin demonstrates graduate-level knowledge of dinosaurology we're in serious danger. Woooooh!

[Tax-chick]

They’re so tolerant ...

[Tax-chick]

If she had 4 pre-teen boys in her house, she’d know all about dinosaurs. My 6-year-old amuses himself by rewriting all the names in actual Greek.

Since most of the American public doesn’t hold the Darwinian faith in any dogmatic way (to the consternation of the Chattering Classes), this is another issue with potential to backfire for the Dems. Most voters aren’t afraid of a person who finds Darwinism less than fully persuasive, any more than they’re afraid of “Pentecostals.”

[LibLieSlayer]

If barry was not such a wuss, I would agree with you.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

If barry was not such a wuss, I would agree with you.

LLS

[Red Boots]

The media treatment of Pentecostalism (Palin's main religious background) and Bible church evangelicalism (her current affiliation) has had the quality of a National Geographic special on a newly discovered Amazon tribe. You might not suspect that Pentecostalism -- grown from the admirable, racially integrated roots of the Los Angeles Azusa Street Revival of 1906 -- is one of the fastest-growing and most influential forms of mainstream Christianity. There are now between 250 million and 500 million Pentecostals in places from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa to rural Alaska. It is often described as the faith of the dispossessed -- many adherents come from poorer backgrounds. But it is also the faith of the socially mobile -- promoting virtues of hard work, savings and self-denial that would make Max Weber proud.

Kudos the Gerson for actually doing his homework on the beginnings of the modern pentacostism. I've never seen a national writer ever do more than take a sidewise swipe at Amie Simple MacPherson.

[redgolum]

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