It’s been real. Real, fucking annoying. I don’t believe in God, but yeah. Burn in hell. Good riddance. You have made the world a better place by moving on.

The Maine GOP just came up with a brand new Tea Party oriented platform. It says a little bit about a lot of things, mostly wingnut talking points. There is no sign that anybody was thinking too hard when they put it together. My impression of the Maine Republican party is that it is so small that it would be easy to overrun with not very many warm bodies, which is why I suggested partly in jest last year that us progressives could swoop in there and take it over. We could use a party of our own. But who listens to me?

Although the document is chock full of wingnutty teabaggy whackiness, there’s one part I’d like to discuss.

II. To Establish Justice:
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b. Reassert the principle that “Freedom of Religion” does not mean “freedom from religion”.

Wait, what? If they are saying that individuals do not have the right not to be religious, how will that be codified into law? What are they planning to force us to do? Who will they have enforce it?

How will they determine who does not believe, by home invasions by religious police belonging to a certain state-approved sect? Interrogations with torture?

When was this previously asserted, during the Dark Ages?

How will they force us to believe, on penalty of death by fire?

Of course their hope is to institute wingnut extremist religious education in our schools that all children would be forced to take, whether they belong to a sect that believes and practices that at all. Because, yanno, they’re right and everybody else is wrong.

People who don’t belong to their church would no longer have the right to raise their own children to believe as they believe. They hope to take over the curriculum and replace science with Bible worship.

God also told their leaders to tell them to hand over all their money so they could hire gay prostitutes over the internet build a powerful religious empire that will inspire non-members to accept that they are wretches who don’t deserve life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, or the money they earned.

If God had intended any of them to be wealthy, he’d have made them wealthy.

God is responsible for everything. If you don’t have health insurance, it’s because he didn’t want you to. If you have Medicare and someone else is poor, it means you deserve it and they don’t.

Maybe what they have in mind is what I call “competing religious rights”, specifically where one person’s religion tells them to harass people until they convert them spread the joy of Jesus, while the presumed potential convert simply wants the right to be left alone. How about starting religious wars? Should the person who has heard a message from God telling them to kill those who worship what they consider to be false gods, as often happened in the Old Testament, have the right to do so?

Are those who appear to be worshiping money worshipping false gods?

Not permitting self-proclaimed “Christians” to indoctrinate our children with their wrong-headed beliefs is considered “persecution”. For atheists to speak up about their opinions is “persecution”. The fact that others are even permitted to exist is “persecution”.

I’m starting to think religion is insanity.

Remember when Pat Robertson declared that Hurricane Katrina was God punishing New Orleans for being sinful? Remember when he said that the great tsunami was God punishing Thailand, Indonesia, etc, killing millions of people because they weren’t born Christian? Remember after the Haiti earthquake he announced on television that God was punishing Haitians for their ancestors having made a “pact with the devil” to free them from slavery, a combination of good old right wing historical revisionism, racism, and Christianizing?

Well, it’s clear to me. The winter storm of the century has hit Washington DC, and God is punishing Congress for listening to lobbyists and the assholes on C Street and failing to pass meaningful health care and economic reform.

So there. Somebody had to say it.

Did the fact that everybody didn’t pray hard enough for Senator Byrd’s death result in a member of the caller’s prayer group dying? Is this guy serious? You be the judge.

Showing his true colors, Mike Huckabee revealed in front of a fawning audience his plans to turn the country into a theocracy by amending the constitution to accord with his personal delusions of what god ‘thinks’ he should do. More fun than a barrel of monkeys, Mike. You and the chimp, that is…

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Republicans Should Ask, ‘Who would Jesus torture?’

A. Alexander, November 10th, 2007

The Republican Party is supposed to be home to a lot of Christians and that might be true. Judging by the view of most Republicans, however, the Party doesn’t appear to contain very many Christ-like people. It is hard to imagine Jesus Christ waterboarding someone while sermonizing on turning the other cheek, or loving thy neighbor, or doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

And yet, a lot of Republicans, Christian Conservative Republicans, are vocal supporters of torture.

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I haven’t read the New Yorker article, and I don’t know if I will, so I can only comment on what I have read in this blog entry.

The question is, how likely is it that Bush thinks god told him to invade Afghanistan? If Bush not only believes that is true but is willing to speak to others about it, then quite possibly he also believes the same thing about invading Iran.

Discussion seems to be swirling around the fact that the source seems to be a senior Palestinian official, who would of course have to be lying. This therefore means that our very own Prez would not believe such an insane thing. Besides, everyone knows he never lies…don’t they?

The reason I believe this to be true is because the reason Bush ran for President in the first place is that GOD TOLD HIM TO. He has declared this to the applause of numerous right-wing crackpot fundamentalist audiences.

Doesn’t that make you feel safer?