Posted on 04/19/2015 6:21:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Aspirants to the White House, both Democratic and Republican, have, as we all know, begun “announcing,” thus initiating, from a rationalist’s point of view, a media carnival featuring, on both sides, an array of supposedly God-fearing clowns and faith-mongering nitwits groveling before Evangelicals and nattering on about their belief in the Almighty and their certainty that if we just looked, we could find answers to many of our ills in the Good Book.
The candidates will cloak their true agendas – serving the Lords of Wall Street far more zealously than Our Father who art (or really, art not) in heaven – in pious patter about “values,” about the need to “restore America” and return us to the state of divinely granted exceptionalism President Obama has so gravely squandered. This Season of Unreason will end with the elections of November 2016, but its consequences – validation of the idea that belief without evidence is a virtue, that religion, and especially Christianity, deserves a place in our politics, our Constitutionally enshrined secularism notwithstanding – will live on and damage the progressive cause.
But it does not have to be this way.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Poor Jeffrey. He’s been constipated for days. I guess this article is the result of his enema. Progressive Liberals are such a funny sort of animal.
Salon is the worse of the magazine type sites, really. They were once caught doing something real shameful, I forget now.
The WSWS.org, I think that is the world socialist website and The Nation who have been around forever and even Mother Jones are nothing in comparison to Salon. If I ever were to read Mojo, just skip some stories.
Salon: serving Satan at the alter of abortion...
Intolerance and bigotry anyone?
The author quoted newsflo which is a satire website about Ted Cruz’s father.
“While they’re in their Heathen Zones, they’re free to dance naked around the fire, brand the mark of the Devil on their flesh or whatever else they want to do,” he added. “Of course, if they step one foot outside the electrified fence we shoot them between the eyes. Two or three times, just to be sure.”
The above is satire, which salon stated as fact.
Salon is filled with anti-Christian HOMOSEXUALS!!
No one ever said they (Salon writers) were smart.
Salon is nothing but a left wing rag
Actually the title told me all I wanted to know and I was correct. I did read the last line too
In that regard, I give it high marks for being a vile across the board intolerant inciteful low blow article of a group of people who wish him no personal harm.
The Left in our nation, the champions of the underdog, are certainly willing to label everyone in a group as somehow, stupid, lacking intellegence, believing in fairy-tales, and worthy of public ridiculing, and let's be honest, even worthy of hatred. And this based on their belief in God. This for their recognition of morals and the need to abide by them.
As the Knock Out game and other examples of a Godless society become more prominent, it's always amusing to watch a person ridicule God fearing people.
One wonders what this fool thinks of Islam, since Christianity seems to be his target for being so vile.
Perhaps mutilation of women is in order. Perhaps marrying off girls under ten is in order. Perhaps beheading columnists we don't agree with is in order. Perhaps bombing large public events is in order. Perhaps seeking to destroy Israel and every Jew on the planet is in order. Perhaps flogging women for being raped is in order. Perhaps stoning women for not covering up is in order.
Yep, those Christians, they sure are a vile group when you think about it. /Sarcasim
Strangely enough, those vile Christians believe Jesus Christ died for idiots too. Perhaps that's what grates this writer most. "How could there be a God that loved even a wretch like me?"
Jeffrey Taylor should pay attention to what Cruz actually says and does.
More like shooting blanks.
Taylor’s error is the error of all atheism, which thinks it can discredit the Bible using external measures.
This is as stupid as trying to say there’s no such thing as clean water because the canals are running with sewage.
CRUZ or LOSE!That’s a lot of hate to jam-pack just into the first sentence. Dude sounds like he needs an exorcism.
This hatred of Christianity is easier to understand when you realize that it gets in the way of their worship of the marxist in the WH.
I’d like to see him saved.
At least he admits that progressivism is harmed by traditional values and christian religious beliefs.
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