Mad About Religion

Touchstone Magazine ^ | December, 2001 | Mark Tooley

[FormerLib]

I can only wonder what inner demons drive Norman Lear to attack Christianity at every turn.

Ralph Neas boasted that People for the American Way had spent over $200,000 organizing the partnership because it realizes it cannot change America without first changing America's religious climate.

It just as we've been saying, to destroy America, they must first destroy the faith of America.

"At the heart of all homophobia is what I call feminaphobia," McNeill explained, calling this new phobia a "hatred of all things feminine."

Can you believe the things they have to think up to challenge normalcy!

[FormerLib]

Ping.

[FormerLib]

Ping.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

"I can't fight all of these Christian preachers on TV with all the Jewish money. So you must raise some gentile money,"

Translation: "I've conned all the Jews I can so now I must go after others."

The left is on the move again with their corruption of the language and of religion. The difference between the Left and the Jihadists? None! Same tactics, same goals - the destruction of America as we know it!

[Dumb_Ox]

Unlike prominent Evangelical groups, she fretted, the Catholic conservatives operate more behind the scenes and are especially prominent in the Bush administration.

Even now, Jesuit agents have infiltrated NASA and are plotting to construct a secret moonbase, from which they will proselytize the universe and enslave us all!

[LarryLied]

Lear didn't conned anyone. He and his supporters are just looking for some Kapos to do some of the dirty work.

[DonkeyHodee]

A fetus is not an icon, it's a person.

[GOP Jedi]

The partnership aims to combat all these "isms" with its own brand of politics that are decidedly left-wing but still "rooted in the sacred story," according to Regas. Central to their movement will be a balance between its demands for "economic and sexual justice."

I'm sure they'll be able to wedge Jesus in there somewhere between rounds of economic and sexual justice. Maybe every third Sunday? After all, got so many powerful Christian saints to learn from, like Mohammad, Sojourner Truth, Mahatma Gandhi, Bishop Oscar Romero and Groucho Marx.

Loved all the Tom Swifties in this article (e.g. "Look, I got the headlights working again," Tom beamed.). Everyone is opining, musing, pointing out, lamenting, insisting, enthusing, fretting, assuring, alleging, and on and on. A simple "he said, she said" is more transparent and elegant, Mr. Tooley.

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“I will not walk with your progressive apes, erect and sapient. Before them gapes the dark abyss to which their progress tends—if by God’s mercy progress ever ends, and does not ceaselessly revolve the same unfruitful course with changing of a name.” --J.R.R. Tolkien

[crazykatz]

The great deceiver satan has those folks by the hand....and where he leads them...they will follow and try to drag as many souls down with them as they can.

Mad women.... INDEED they are ...mad as march hares.

[pbear8]

Even now, Jesuit agents have infiltrated NASA and are plotting to construct a secret moonbase, from which they will proselytize the universe and enslave us all!

I heard about this in church this morning. Glad the Jesuits are keeping busy.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Katherine Ragsdale, an Episcopal priest from Massachusetts and president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, called abortion "providers" the "saints and heroes" of our day.

I’m this close to leaving the ECUSA because of people like this. What is wrong with these people?

[FreeTally]

Judging from most of the remarks at that gathering, the partnership is not likely to be known for its moderation. Besides touting traditional liberal causes, such as gun control and expanded welfare spending, Partnership leaders demanded homosexual marriage, government subsidies for abortion, and reparations for slavery.

So in reality, this is just an organization of leftists and communists trying to fool as many as they can under the cover of "new religion".

[Cap'n Crunch]

bump

The enemies seem to sense that the tide is turning, and I believe it is. Let's keep after them.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

We boldly set forth our affirmation of gay marriage as part of God?s design which we will bless

I've never been able to figure out which "God" keeps claiming that a man-man, or woman-woman, marriage is appropriate let alone NOT a sin. Why these people hate God so much yet insist on being in God's church is truly bizarre!!!

[BibChr]

"At the heart of all homophobia is what I call feminaphobia," McNeill explained, calling this new phobia a "hatred of all things feminine."

Yes. Right. Of course. How terribly perceptive.

Liberalism has always been noted for its heart-stirring enshrinement of femininity, for how honoring and affirming it is of those classically feminine instincts to take on masculine roles, to sleep around like a dog in heat and thus to allow oneself to be treated as meat, to embrace all that is destructive of family health, and above all to butcher and/or poison the children of one's own womb.

Yeah, liberalism is the very tonic for femininity.

< /dripping, acid sarcasm >

Dan

PS -- isn't this the very heart of perversity? Liberalism stands for masculine women and effeminate men. Hello chaos, my old friend.

[crazykatz]

GREAT BIG BUMP!!

[patent]

I've noticed that many people have problems writing about things they just don’t understand. It’s hard to describe something in clear, simple terms when the subject baffles you. People compensate for their ignorance by using big words and complicated phrases when a simple word would do. For example,

A number of radical Roman Catholic dissidents were present

Marianne Duddy was another pro-minent radical Catholic voice

We call them "heretics." Isn’t that much simpler, and much more clear?

patent  +AMDG

[dead]

Great points, Dan. I liked this old nugget:

Partnership leaders demanded homosexual marriage, government subsidies for abortion, and reparations for slavery.

Why do leftists always “demand” things?

I guess they think this phrasing adds heft to their gossamer logic.

I demand that they shut up.

[Fintan]

Lemme guess: Christ was gay, the 12 Disciples were black, Oriental, lesbian, Wiccan, Oriental, on welfare and socialists, the Virgin Mary headed the Judean NOW chapter, Joseph was a wife-beater and Jesus' real purpose was to Free Tibet and keep abortion legal.

Did I miss anything?

[FormerLib]

...the Virgin Mary headed the Judean NOW chapter...

Oh great, here come all the Monty Python quotes! May your cigar burn unevenly!