Posted on 09/05/2011 10:00:09 AM PDT by Steelfish
The Slandering Of The American Conservative Movement Has Begun Tim Stanley September 5th, 2011
The slandering of the conservative movement has begun. For the past month, American newspapers have been awash with stories about the religion of various Republican presidential candidates. Michele Bachmann was portrayed in the New Yorker as a fanatical wingnut. Like Rick Perry, she has been labelled a follower of Dominionism – the belief that God gave Christians authority over all the Earth.
Writing for the Daily Beast, Michelle Golberg compared Dominionism to fundamentalist Islam and warned that the GOP was engaged in an “all-out assault” on the separation of church and state. This Sunday, the liberal economist Paul Krugman’s grand thesis that the Republicans are now the “anti-science” party was republished in The Observer. By questioning evolution and global warming, Krugman says, the GOP has lost its right to rule.
Krugman’s article is a good example of what’s wrong with this hogwash reporting. It is true that Rick Perry called evolution “just a theory”, but who cares? He’s running to be President of the United States, not an eighth grade biology teacher. He will have no influence over what textbooks schools buy or what is taught in classrooms. His views on evolution are as relevant to the presidential race as the price of petrol in Timbuktu. The fact that they are shared by millions of Americans has done nothing to dent the country’s advances in science and technology.
Nor are they any more irrational than the belief that Jesus walked on water or turned water into wine. Gospel stories are not only believed by many religious liberals, they are frequently quoted by Democratic presidential candidates. By the way, evolution is a theory. It is a theory constructed from individual scraps of evidence –
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Uh it began in the 30’s and never stopped.
They’d never dare to complain about a Moose what they’ve complained about Bachmann’s beliefs. With Christians it’s usually an eschatological thing, that God will intervene with miracles in the end times to set believers in the catbird seat prior to wiping out the whole world and replacing it with an eternal world. With Islam, none of these niceties apply: there is a standing directive to take over the whole world NOW, with force if need be.
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Libs are like hysterical banshees. Its way past time someone slaps them.
Global warming and evolution?
He puts global warming at the same level as "questioning" evolution. Soooo, global warming is to be worshiped as a religion huh?
No wonder he says elected governance is "the right to rule." He can not differentiate between Constitutionally restricted republicanism and an outright monarchy.
He doesn't have an incorrect view, he has defective brain function leading to faulty thought processes.
Displays of "liberal" activity, thoughts, actions, etc. appears to be symptoms, not beliefs.
It is doubtful there can be a cure, either through medication or education.
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Okay, Michelle, let's compare...
I've never heard of "Dominionism", but if it means Jesus will return, gather all of his children unto him, and reign over the whole earth for a thousand years, I guess I am one. The Bible says that, and I believe it.
What it doesn't say is that I have the right, as one of his children, to murder, rape, and enslave another person, just because he doesn't believe. I don't have the right to persecute others, to burn their churches, to kidnap and forcibly convert their children, or to impose excessive taxes on them because of their beliefs. I don't have the right to lie to them or cheat them because of my superiority.
If I make an agreement, I'm expected to honor it. I can't make false promises and fake treaties in order to lull them into a false sense of security, then stab them in the back at my first opportunity.
If I strap explosives to myself, sneak into a crowd of them and blow us all to bits, I won't be hailed as a martyr. No one will dance in the streets and give out free candy to all the kiddies.
If I creep into an unbeliever's house in the dead of night and slit his baby's throat, my pastor won't call me a glorious jihadi warrior, declare a holiday and raise statues to glorify me. He'd say I was a coward and murderer, who didn't really believe.
If you're gonna make comparisons, Michelle, tell the WHOLE story - not just the parts you like.
Mike Bettis was on The Weather Channel making fun of Rick Perry's skepticism about man-made global warming by talking about how hot it has been in Texas this summer. Right, but Bettis didn't offer a bit of evidence that any of the unusual heat was man-made in origin.
It's coming, and they are asking for it.
I refuse to cave in to the demands of the Dominion!
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