The Elites’ Anti-Religion Obsession (Laura Ingraham)

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[nickcarraway]

George W. Bush reads the Bible every morning! He mentions God in almost every speech! Jesus is his favorite philosopher! Now a judge has the audacity to oppose the removal of a statue of the Ten Commandments in front of his courtroom!

In other words, all hell is breaking loose. Oh, but that’s right, the anti-religion elites don’t believe in hell. But lately they have been working themselves into a frothy, frantic frenzy. A few days ago I had the unfortunate experience of catching Larry King Live’s rebroadcast of his interview with “comedian” Bill Maher. Pontificating on the state of American discourse, Maher teed off on George W. Bush (“a monumental liar”) and organized religion. “The Bible (sneer). It’s all about the Bible,” he lamented, when asked about the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Texas’s sodomy statute. “It’s all about that one book written so many years ago by God knows who, but it wasn’t God.”

And this guy calls President Bush stupid?

Bill Maher, who describes himself as part Jew, part Catholic, has been slamming religion for years, but his vitriol has reached new heights during the Bush presidency. Maher’s caboose of thought goes like this: Bush is a moron because Bush is a true believer. The entertainment elites like Maher feel threatened by people of faith. How can they believe in God when they think that they are the Masters of Universe?

Maher has a comrade in arms in writer Guy Lawson, who wrote a piece in the August issue of GQ titled “George W’s Personal Jesus,” with an accompanying sacrilegious photo of Bush depicted as a Jesus-like figure—with a flowing robe, long hair, beard and mustache and halo. (Of the photo, Lawson has said, “It was meant to provoke.”) Lawson’s beef with Bush seems to be that while we all know Bush is a devout Christian who married into the Methodist church, we don’t really know what he believes. He keeps his views “closely held,” but then speaks in a secret religious “code” to other Evangelical Christians! “A person steeped in the language of faith can recognize the voice of someone who shares his beliefs,” notes Lawson, ominously. Pass out the special decoder rings!

Liberal Lauer lapped it up.

LAUER: ….Are you suggesting that before a major speech the speechwriters gather in some room and they put these words in to deliberately communicate with Evangelical voters?

LAWSON: I'm not suggesting it, I'm saying it. Absolutely. I mean, he talked about the wonder-working power of the American people. Any Evangelical Christian knows that that's a reference to a Him, the wonder-working power of the blood of Jesus.

The horror!

Lawson is disturbed both by the fact that George W. Bush “is the most overtly and publicly religious leader of the United States in generations,” and also “the most privately religious leader of the United States in generations.” Wow. Powerful stuff.

Perhaps GQ should stick to publishing articles about subjects it understands—like pectoral implants, and the latest in male exfoliation products.

Of course the point of the piece was to lump George Bush into the Bible thumping stereotype that the anti-religion elites are obsessed with. If Bush is an evangelical, reading the Bible behind closed doors every morning, no wonder he believes in all this good and evil stuff! “The Bible is a story of the struggle between good and evil, God and the devil,” Lawson reveals. Someone alert the Pulitzer Committee.

People of faith feel like they are under siege in America these days. The Supreme Court and the lower federal courts seem to find an unconstitutional establishment of religion around every corner. Hollywood routinely portrays religion in the worst possible light. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson is crucified for making a movie about the crucifixion.

But this bitter elite posture is nothing new and people of faith—Christians, Jews and others—have long been not only ridiculed, but have actually been persecuted for their beliefs. Americans of faith in the last century resisted fascism, socialism, communism, Nazism, and racism. They are hardly going to have their faith shaken by the likes of Bill Maher, Guy Lawson and their cynical cronies in the media.

[jla]

bttt

[annyokie]

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Thank you for posting a picture of my favorite Conservobabe.

[Zavien Doombringer]

LAWSON: I'm not suggesting it, I'm saying it. Absolutely. I mean, he talked about the wonder-working power of the American people. Any Evangelical Christian knows that that's a reference to a Him, the wonder-working power of the blood of Jesus.

Him = Hymn

Man, nobody edits thier pubs anymore!

[annyokie]

You're very welcome. She and the late Barbara Olsen are my favs.

[vpintheak]

We just gotta stand fast in the face of these evil, cowardly liars. Don't back down ever, remember that there is a difference between turning the other cheek and keeping silent. Maher and his ilk will face judgement just like the rest of us.

[Indianer]

George might be the most privately religeous leader in generations, but, surely, his predecessor was the most publicly religeous leader, what with bringing in poor old Billy Graham to tell the nation that adultry wasnt really a sin and bringing in Jesse for family prayer sessions. George could not and would not use religeon as a cheap political crutch.

[chiefqc]

How sad it is to see people who have no hope for the future. Who truely believe that when they die there is nothing else. When you understand this outlook that they have, you can understand why they have little or no time for others who look forward, with hope, to a life beyound the brief time spent on this planet that man is destroying by pretending to be as equal to or above God.

[reasonseeker]

"But this bitter elite posture is nothing new and people of faith—Christians, Jews and others—have long been not only ridiculed, but have actually been persecuted for their beliefs."

In what way have they been -- not just ridiculed -- but "PERSECUTED?" Religionists have gotten their way in altering the National Motto to include a reference to God (they insist that the Founding Fathers were really religious and didn't intend to have a separation of church and state, yet religionists found it necessary to alter the secular National Motto that the Founding Fathers themselves chose), and the Pledge of Allegiance (the original Pledge wasn't good enough for the religionists either). Are churches being closed down? Preachers thrown off the airwaves by government edict? Where is the alleged "persecution?"

[Big Mack]

Nuf said

[aardvark1]

Why does Bill Maher garner any attention whatsoever. He is universally portrayed as a wannabe comendian that isn't funny and the most PC person on the planet with the audacity to name a show "Policially Incorrect." He's a clymer...worse, he's a clymer wannabe.

[gaspar]

GQ is in a world of hurt. Its ad pages are down. It just canned its Publisher in July, and he was replaced by Peter King Hunsinger who had experience at Vanity Fair. Thus, expect the same sort of intellectually strained pieces from GQ as you get from VF as Conde Nast publishers (sound vaguely French?) tries to save a mag from going under.

[onedoug]

Thanks for posting.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[roses of sharon]

Commie-vampires hate God. They shrink from the cross, and suck the lifes' blood out of everything they touch.

That's the Dems for ya!

[axel f]

Perhaps GQ should stick to publishing articles about subjects it understands—like pectoral implants, and the latest in male exfoliation products.

LOL! Boy, isn't that the truth. Those men's fashion/beauty tip magazines are really bad.

However, I loooove Laura Ingraham. What a perfect woman!

[Alouette]

religionists found it necessary to alter the secular National Motto that the Founding Fathers themselves chose,

OK, what was it before "religionists" changed it to IN GOD WE TRUST?

[f.Christian]

The ' wall - separation ' ... should be to KEEP these --- aclu liberal fascists atheists nazis OUT !

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Contact your senators and ask them to vote for S-1558,"RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES RESTORATION ACT"!