I'VE BEEN..........
reading a book that a friend suggested. Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal. It is most interesting. It's so much so that I thought I'd share a brief excerpt with you. First things first. I really have never understood the Right Wingand their favorite arm Fox News. They claim to be Conservative and the claim to stand up for family and what is right yet they miss the mark.
Max Blumenthal.............
FROM REPUBLICAN GOMORRAH.........
"Inside the movement initiates refer to it cryptically as "The Family," an exclusive sect. The Christian right as a whole is called "the pro-Family" movement, and movement allies are known as "friends of The Family." In an actual family, blood ties are required; however, joining the Christian right requires little more than becoming "born again," a process of confession, conversion, and submission to a strict father figure.
The movement’s Jesus is the opposite of the prince of peace. He is a stern, overtly masculine patriarch charging into the fray with his sword raised against secular foes; he is "the head of a dreadful company, mounted on a white horse, with a double-edged sword, his robe dipped in blood," according to movement propagandist Steve Arterburn. Mark Driscoll, a pastor who operates an alternative Christian rock venue from his church, stirs the souls of twenty- something evangelical males with visions of "Ultimate Fighting Jesus." This same musclebound god-man starred in Mel Gibson’s blood-drenched The Passion of the Christ, enduring bone-crushing punishment at the hands of Jews and pagans for two hours of unrelieved pornographic masochism.
A portrait of virility and violence, the movement’s omnipotent macho Jesus represents the mirror inversion of the weak men who necessitated his creation. As Fromm explained, "the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness [italics in original]. It is the expression of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking."
The movement’s macho Jesus provided purpose to Tom DeLay, a dallying, alcoholic Texas legislator transformed through evangelical religion from "Hot Tub Tommy" into a dictatorial House majority leader known as "The Hammer." Macho Jesus was the god of Ted Haggard, a closet homosexual born-again and charismatic megachurch leader, risen to head of the National Association of Evangelicals, preaching the gospel of spiritual warfare and anti-gay crusades. And he was the god of Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., an eccentric millionaire whose inheritance of massive wealth literally drove him mad, prompting his institutionalization, who found relief as one of the far right’s most reliable financial angels. Macho Jesus even transformed the serial killer Ted Bundy, murderer and rapist of dozens of women, who became a poster child for anti-pornography activists with his nationally televised death row confessional." Max Blumenthal
WOW.......
I hope no one accuses us of Christian bashing. However, if they do, I would like to pose just one question. What is it that the "Christian Right" does that is actually Christ like?
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friends we are not Christian bashing. We do believe in bringing truth to light.
more too come
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