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Has the GOP transformed itself into the Christian version of the Taliban?

post #1 of 9
2/18/12 at 8:32pm
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What has happened to the GOP lately? Now yes they have always been about silly extremist social issues but the conversations going on about contraception, killing the middle class creating a massive split between the rich and poor, killing important agenicies like the department of education on both state and national level, anti-gay marriage, not reaffirming the Protection of Women act protecting women from battery and all the ridiculous over protection of religious issues (separation between church and state?) and that this is the nationally conversation is very frightening. As a antagonistic liberal I find the path that the GOP is taking as disturbing and very harmful to our society as they seem to be wanting take our country backwards to the turn of the 20Th century politically. It's truly sad that this is the alternative and proves that they have nothing real to talk about, but what worries me even in my pretty much liberal city (Albany, NY) there is a bit of traction in supporting the GOP which is so insane to me and a lot people at work are talking supportively about Santorum. I don't know if everyone agrees with me with this but the fact that Santorum leads in Michigan has to be disconcerting, and a horrid sign for our country.

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post #2 of 9
2/18/12 at 9:10pm

Calling the GOP the Christian Taiban is a bit of a strench, but not that much of one. What really pisses me off about all the God talk from the GOP is they could care less about the poor. Jesus was all about helping the poor, healing the sick and he preched against the rich. He did say,"It is easier for a camel to pass though the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter The Kingdom."  Its a safe bet that Jesus would be for health care and against trickle down economics.

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post #3 of 9
2/18/12 at 9:24pm
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I even agree its a little of a stretch but what concerns me is the religious extremism of the party and the utter disrespect of both gay rights and women rights. I guess it's because the economy is getting better and have nothing real to say so back to culture warfare!

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post #4 of 9
2/19/12 at 1:16pm

What's horrifying to me is why our government even CARES what the catholic league of bishops or the american christian councils or whatever crazy christian group thinks. If any, ANY other religious group had the gall that half these guys had, there would be an outcry of the highest sort. Why are we even listening to them? Every time they open their mouth it just shows how completely out of touch they are with modern society. Women shouldn't be having sex AT ALL unless their married?  Who wants to live in THAT world? And if I hear one more utterance of "the gay agenda" (oh yes, would that be the agenda of not being made to feel ashamed to express their love, or the agenda not to be beaten to death? Or is it the agenda to not have kids kill themselves?) This is AMERICA, God damnitt, not some country where they stone you to death for being gay. And where was all this talk of religious freedom when Mosques were being protested, hmm? 

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post #5 of 9
2/19/12 at 1:22pm

Alan Moore discusses how the current, populist form of "Christian" group think originated:

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post #6 of 9
2/19/12 at 4:30pm

One thing you see in places controlled by heavy Fundamentalist sects is profound, life-crushing poverty. 

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post #7 of 9
2/20/12 at 9:48am
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Originally Posted by yt View Post

One thing you see in places controlled by heavy Fundamentalist sects is profound, life-crushing poverty. 



So which comes first?  The poverty, or the "grasping at straws" hope that religion offers?

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post #8 of 9
2/20/12 at 10:00am
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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector View Post



So which comes first?  The poverty, or the "grasping at straws" hope that religion offers?


 

I think poverty comes first.  The desperation, the lack of education and opportunity.  Deprive a population enough and they become superstitious and easier to control than educated people with a decent supply of food.  In the '60s, the middle class in America was at its apex.  People were more or less comfortable enough to be able to think without worrying where their next meal was coming from.  From thinking you got engagement and protest, which inconvenienced the ruling class.  Today, with poverty up so dramatically, home schooling and defunded public education, hunger on the rise, etc., people working two, three jobs just to keep food on the table, you have a huge percentage of the population vulnerable to those who use people's inclination towards faith as a way to control them. 

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post #9 of 9
2/20/12 at 10:05am

Religion's relationship to poverty has always been like that of a mime who stands by a drowning man & pantomimes the act of pulling him to safety by invisible rope...and demanding money for it.

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