Bob Potter • 5 hours ago
Wow, this totally explains the Republican Party.Exploitation of religion to make the rich richer at the expense of the little guy. Exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught
Bob Potter J Lee • an hour ago
Not surprised. But the whole pattern suddenly made a lot more sense.I guess I never quite got how religious fundamentalism was related to reverse-Robin-Hoodism.
Abbi Baily Bob Potter • an hour ago
The pieces fall into place now. This book and what it documents are really stunning. This feels like the 47% video, only for the whole conservative party. The wealthiest Americans had 17,000 Christian ministers and preachers competing with each other (for cash prizes) to write the best anti-New Deal sermon? Oh wow.
XavierOnnasis Bob Potter • an hour ago
it's only twice as bad as your comment suggests. sure, it was the titans of industry who shelled out the bucks to flim-flam the public. but it was a bunch of (so-called) men of god who, in exchange for a few pieces of silver, agreed to do the hands on flimming and flamming. plenty of malfeasance on all sides of this story, I'd say...
Bob Potter Mark P • an hour ago
Yeah, that's totally what Jesus taught.Because conservatives and facts ...
William Marone Mike Boxell • 4 hours ago
There are undoubtedly Christian democrats, perhaps they don't feel it's useful to push their faith so publicly?
Mike Boxell William Marone • 3 hours ago
Some use the word push, some prefer exercise. Everyone is different.
Beau SevenEightNineZero Mike Boxell • 3 hours ago
Jesus would have used the word "hypocrite." Matthew 6:5-6 says:“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love
to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they
may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their
reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray
to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.
Beau SevenEightNineZero Mike Boxell • 3 hours ago
Your savior would call people who would prefer to "exercise their faith in public" hypocrites. Are you one of those?
Mike Boxell Beau SevenEightNineZero • 3 hours ago
Then every church service in America Christians praying at church with each other are hypocrites? Not buying it.
Beau SevenEightNineZero Mike Boxell • 3 hours ago
Hey, I don't care whether you buy it. They're not my words—they're the words of Jesus as recounted by Matthew the Apostle.
Robert Thomas Mike Boxell • 2 hours ago
You're correct not to.. They're hypocrites in other countries, too.
n w Mike Boxell • 3 hours ago
When the Pope says, "Serve with love," I've seen a couple CapitaChristian friends of mine squirm. I'm not Roman Catholic, but watching a Christian who doesn't clang like a bell is a real treat.
(Clanging bell reference courtesy of Pau alias Saul of Tarsus.)
Abbi Baily Mike Boxell • an hour ago
It's been documented that a handful of the richest Americans deliberately manipulated conservative religious leaders to spread false propaganda (in the rich men's favor, and at the expense of the other 99%), and that's all you can say? Astounding.
Abbi Baily • 4 hours ago
I knew it. Corporate America needed the fundamentalist Christians. Oligarchs have trouble ruling without an ignorant, superstitious underclass to parrot the talking points. The crazy theory that our education system was deliberately undermined to produce more people willing to vote against their own interests starts to seem plausible.
Al Koldzig Abbi Baily • 3 hours ago
But now that they have pushed us toward a dark age of superstition, they complain that they cannot find scientifically literate drones to hire.
XavierOnnasis Abbi Baily • 43 minutes ago
sadly, there's nothing really new here"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful"
-- Seneca the Younger (4? BC - 65 AD)
Rhetorical Jones Abbi Baily • 3 hours ago
"we dun want no 'fordable health, and mah chidlin should be so luckeh..." - good ol' Uncle Ruckas, if he could just see what Obamacare was attempting to do, he'd be saying something similar : )
n w Abbi Baily • 3 hours ago
Not only that...I believe its worse now because our corporate oligarchs, and a bunch of Repubes, don't want a return to that awful time...the sixties and seventies...when the children of WWII vet's were actually being educated instead of trained. Remember art in a classroom? Remember phys-ed? Remember music? Remember Western world history? The classics? Debate? A decent 2 year Liberal Arts base?
Never again. We's got too dang smart to work in massah's factory.
L Barrett • 4 hours ago
A fascinating history--some of which I knew having lived it. I grew up in the 50s and 60s, saying the Pledge of Allegiance (and "under God") everyday in school for years. Mine was a church-going Eisenhower family. Yet none of my siblings today are conservatives. In fact, we're all very happy and successful leftist/socialist atheists. So the cynical attempts to dupe and brainwash us as kids clearly failed, thank Zeus...
battybrain Jimbo tron • 3 hours ago
Also, who flagged the OP? People around here really have to calm down.
Skip Mendler • 2 hours ago
Here's another level to think about: Christian conservatives have for generations been kept focused on sexual issues (abortion, homosexuality) rather than ECONOMIC morality - because there's no way that that the fruits of modern capitalism can pass moral muster.
Robert Thomas Sun Moon • 2 hours ago
They don't experience much dissonance. You and I experience the dissonance.
Sun Moon Robert Thomas • 2 hours ago
Good point. I suspect some may actually have a guilty conscience which is why they are religious, but the majority are likely oblivious.
Sun Moon Skip Mendler • 2 hours ago
Teaching actual history is not in the best interest of the owners of this country.
Robert Thomas Skip Mendler • 2 hours ago
What's really astonishing is that most all of the history and the facts - at least about the "under God" controversy - were actually mentioned in my local newspaper and even in local television broadcast news, forty years ago. As I say here elsewhere, there was some controversy in the year leading up to the bicentennial about reviving the Pledge of Allegiance as an institution in my region and in others as well.
RageOfAchilles • 2 hours ago
Thomas Jefferson said it best "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
Kabrok • 2 hours ago
You'd think that using God as a scapegoat to justify hoarding worldly possessions would be disrespectful to God.Of course, I am not an evangelical preacher who competes in sermon contests for cash, so what do I know?
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