Radicals are not Consevative Christians

Why are we letting the Radical Republicans co-opt us into accepting the religious radical right as Conservative Christians?  They are no such thing!  They are a radical doomsday cult expecting the rapture to take righteous fanatics into a naked ascension with their clothes neatly folded where their ascension begins.  The series of best selling books called "Left Behind" is at the core of these crazy beliefs that are not conservative at all.  They believe there is no future to conserve.
The Left Behind scenario has a very short shelf life in historical terms.  Now these fanatics are successfully highjacking US policy, media, politics and education.  In a generation or so when the world is still here in whatever shambles they may have left it without discernible loss of the righteous to rapture their children are going to have to return to reality.  

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17852 Bill Moyers discussed the doomsday cult that begins with President Bush in a NY Review of Books article.

•  This reminds me of the title

       of another recent diary...

  by David Boyle on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:45:23 AM PDT

  •  You know,

    you can search for a topic, write your diary, and miss a near simultaneous one without triggering the diary police.

    by DyspepTex on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:50:06 AM PDT

    •  OOps,

      I guess you can't miss it if you wrote it. I call a mulligan on my comment.

      by DyspepTex on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:50:58 AM PDT

    •  Yes, that's true.

      you can search for a topic, write your diary, and miss a near simultaneous one without triggering the diary police.

       It's also true that the same diarist with an interest in selling conservative christianity to the 'liberals' can post two diaries on the same topis trying to distance 'conservative christians' from the radical christian right.

      The problem is the social agenda of all conservative christians and the added fact that they've undoubtedly formed an alliance religiously justifying biblically ordained and unworkable gender roles and vicious attacks against the GLBT community. How thrilling. How spiritual.
      

      by colleen on Mon May 09, 2005 at 11:38:55 AM PDT

      •  There are conservtive christians

        and then there are the doomsday freaks.

        I have problems with their religions, however, there are people who would like to consider themselves "conservative christians" whow don't want to be part of a cult. Hell there are cultists who don't want to be considered as part of a cult. The Doomsday Cult framing is, therefore, very effective at pasting a negative conotation upon the filibuster fight, and other freaky things, that might draw support from the religous right.  I all for exploring that.

        I do not think this hurts gay rights, because you as divide the conservatives they become weaker. I don't care how you divide them, at least not yet.

        Neither the CC's or the DdC's will support gay rights  right now. I just want them weakened as much as possible.

        by DyspepTex on Mon May 09, 2005 at 12:51:31 PM PDT

•  I think you're

  absolutely right to reframe them.

  Attacking "conservative christians" makes a lot of people defensive.

  Attacking a "doomsday cult' is the perfect framing. Now, some people may agree with the doomsday cult, but far fewer than those people who identify themselves as conservative christians.

  Now, we just have to appropriately define the "doomsday cult" to include the filibuster freaks.
  

  by DyspepTex on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:46:47 AM PDT

  •  Agreed

     I just said this on another diary, but it's worth repeating (IMHO).

      Republicans need to be frequently asked, "when did you change your motto from 'Morning in America' to 'repent, the end is near'"?

    by therion on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:50:55 AM PDT

•  Delete one..

  of your two redundant diaries.

  I think you meant to edit the original and wound up instead of posting a second one.

  Since your limit is two, you may want to delete one of these.

  by baldandy on Mon May 09, 2005 at 10:48:24 AM PDT