If you caught Meet the Press this morning; you got a pre-view of my
plan for dealing with the Religious Right in America.
NAMELY, LET THEM TALK!
The best way to discredit the Religious Right is just to let them talk; and then to guide their childish conversation to those areas that they want to avoid.
The assembled Meet the Press Reverends wanted to talk abortion and gay marriage.
But, others made them consult their Bibles, about Unjust Wars and
Poverty, and the seperation of Church and State, and giving to Caesar
what is Caesar's.
Then it gets dicey. The truth is simply this: IF POVERTY WERE LESS,
THERE WOULD BE FAR FEWER ABORTIONS.
ANOTHER TRUTH IS THAT THE SOUTH IS THE BIBLE BELT!
BUT, IT IS ALSO THE DIVORCE BELT! AND THE GOVERNMENT DISABILITY BELT!
PROBABLY BECAUSE OF WIDE SPREAD POVERTY AND LACK OF EDCUATION!
MY BIGGEST GRIPE WITH THE "RELIGIOUS RIGHT" IS NOT THEIR "BELIEFS."
IT'S THEIR INCREDIBLE HYPOCRISY! I mean Dubya was a reformed
alcoholic! And now God picks him to be president! Oh please....!
Saddly, few ignorant or religious people watch the "talking heads" on
Sunday Morning---maybe they're all in church? Or sleeping off a
Saturday Night Drunk!
I find that, (perhaps like with Ms Dowd's family below), the Bushies
DON'T TALK POLITICS; THEY WATCH FOOTBALL!
NOW EXACTLY HOW WATCHING ESPN 24.7.365 MAKES THESE PEOPLE "QUALIFIED"
TO EXPRESS AN OPINION ON PUBLIC POLICY, OR TO VOTE INTELLIGENTLY EVERY
FOUR YEARS IS BEYOND ME.
Except of course that it is their "consitutional right" to do so.
Still, I think the Democratic Left should encourage the Republican
Religious Right to talk!
AND TALK! AND TALK! AND TALK!
Because the more they talk, the more they sound like AN AMERICAN
TALIBAN!
And there is something about expressing an ignorant or foolish
position in a public forum that makes it look even more foolish and
nonsensical;
Even if that same opinion would pass muster "in church."
Remember how Clarance Darrow took apart William Jennings Bryan in the
SCOPES MONEKY TRIAL?
DARROW SIMPLY LET BRYAN TALK HIMSELF INTO A CORNER!
EVENTUALLY;
BRYAN'S "LITERAL INTERPRETATION" OF THE BIBLE HAD THE SNAKE IN GENESIS
BOUNCING AROUND ON HIS TAIL, AS ITS MEANS OF LOCOMATION BEFORE ADAM'S
FALL!!
DARROW HAD THE "RELIGIOUS" SOUTHERN COURT ROOM SPECTATORS LAUGHING AT
BRYAN AT THE END OF THE TRIAL!
The point is that these religious folks can look very very foolish
when the sunlight of reason and logic is allowed to flood into their
churchs!
It's sad really, because many of these people are so desperate to
believe in something beyond themselves. Yet, they get caught up in
the mumbo-jumbo of religion and superstition. And then they are
vulnerable to all sorts of hatreds and killing and wars all "in the
name of God."
KNOW THIS: THE NEW AMERICAN TALIBAN WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IF THE MEDIA
LETS THEM----JUST KEEP TALKING!
SHADES OF "THE GREAT ORATOR!" WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANT!
History repeats.....just a little bit every decade or so.
Religion is an insturment of social control. That's why the Roman
Emperor Constantine "adopted" Christianity! Constantine saw a new way
to control the vast population of the Roman Empire.
And, so to today, the American elites are using religion as a means of
controlling the American masses; and making them do what's right for
the elites, but not necessarily for the people as a whole.
Understand?
