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To: headsonpikes
Oh, poor little secular right, all picked on by the Big Bad Bully of religion. Boohoo.

From the outset of the Religious Right having a place at the table of politics, and it's been less than thirty years, there's been a lot of whining from the non-religious who would really like the RR to leave the GOP--or at least stay very, very quiet and never remind the urban libertarians that JoeSixpack is in the room.

The snobs sob, but the Religious Right still expects a share in the pie and also expects to help with the baking. And we're the only real energy the GOP has.

This is just another essay that expresses a feeling--distaste. Not our kind, dearie. Too bad.

34 posted on 08/29/2006 9:40:52 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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37 posted on 08/29/2006 9:44:46 AM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: Mamzelle

You `tub-thumpers' are out of the closet all right.
http://www.watchman.net/articles/pray.html

So, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts and that really weird looking guy (RWLG) in that `Crystal Cathedral' whose-name-escapes-me, they were all meeting to `chew the fat', but specifically, to talk about a sensitive subject: `tithing'.
The RWLG said, "I figure half goes to our operating expenses, including my salary, of course. The residue goes to God."
Oral said, "The Lord will call me home if I don't use 3/4 for His purposes--overhead, `walking around money', rentals, etc.--you've gotta `feed the bulldog' you know! And He gets the rest: orphans, the RNC ... things like that, you know."

And Jimmy chimed in: "We just put all the offerings in a big peach basket, then toss it all in the air. Whatever the Lord catches, He can keep!"


47 posted on 08/29/2006 9:56:32 AM PDT by tumblindice (Indictment?! Can I get a witness?)
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To: Mamzelle

The Religious Right, as you call it, has owned the table of politics for all but the last couple of centuries.

We'll have no whining from the sky-pilots, thanks.


53 posted on 08/29/2006 10:05:59 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Mamzelle
And we're the only real energy the GOP has.

Oh, puh-leeze. There are those who do the work, and those who talk about doing the work. The two sets rarely intersect.

130 posted on 08/29/2006 11:50:40 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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