Jesus Hates Taxes

[egbert]

While the assault on unions by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP governors and legislators seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of “biblical capitalism,” which researcher Rachel Tabachnick describes as “the belief that unregulated capitalism is biblically mandated.”

Pseudo-historian David Barton, a frequent guest of broadcaster Glenn Beck, is using his newly enlarged audience to promote American exceptionalism (America was created by its divinely-inspired founders as a country of, by, and for Christians) and Tea Party-on-steroids economics (Jesus and the Bible oppose progressive taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, and minimum wage laws). The religious right has a long practice of claiming divine mandate for its policy agenda as it makes for an exceptionally potent political argument: if God supports radically limited government, then progressive policies are not only wrong but evil, and supporters of liberal policies are not only political opponents but enemies of God.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archi ... nion_soil/

[Seth]

While the assault on unions by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP governors and legislators seems driven mostly by the billionaire Koch brothers and corporate-funded groups, religious right leaders and activists have spent decades creating fertile soil for anti-union campaigns through the promotion of “biblical capitalism,” which researcher Rachel Tabachnick describes as “the belief that unregulated capitalism is biblically mandated.”

Pseudo-historian David Barton, a frequent guest of broadcaster Glenn Beck, is using his newly enlarged audience to promote American exceptionalism (America was created by its divinely-inspired founders as a country of, by, and for Christians) and Tea Party-on-steroids economics (Jesus and the Bible oppose progressive taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, and minimum wage laws). The religious right has a long practice of claiming divine mandate for its policy agenda as it makes for an exceptionally potent political argument: if God supports radically limited government, then progressive policies are not only wrong but evil, and supporters of liberal policies are not only political opponents but enemies of God.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archi ... nion_soil/

This calumny against Barton and the Tea Party is, of course, leftist Alinsky-style propaganda smears not even remotely related to reality, which the delusional liberal progressive drones lap up without any critical inquiry at all.

[Hermit]

This calumny

You're much more convincing when you type words like "estopple".

[JimC]

I suspect Seth has deep inner conflicts between his inner rational atheism, and the fundamentalist christian woo espoused by the majority of the people whose politics he shares...

[Hermit]

I suspect Seth has deep inner conflicts between his inner rational atheism

Most explicitly NO, I am NOT an "atheist." I'm a non-theistic Tolerist™ and I'm pretty adamant about that. I created Tolerism™ as my religion because I do not want to be associated with atheists, whom I generally find in my personal experience to be intolerant, arrogant, self-righteous and generally intolerable about their beliefs in polite company. Few and far between are the atheists I've personally met who are anything but intolerant bigots.

[Aos Si]

I thought drones were more likely to be Republicans being as liberals tend to eschew control. Well just goes to show liberal = drones I'll get me robot slippers and put me feet up while CBS dictates my entire life to me. Oh no wait I'm from the UK we're communist over there perhaps Pravda, the Soviets answer to Fox. Oh no wait that's just a news source now, not a political party run lackey.

[Aos Si]

I suspect Seth has deep inner conflicts between his inner rational atheism, and the fundamentalist christian woo espoused by the majority of the people whose politics he shares...

I love Christian woo, its one of the few things that can really make me laugh on forums these days. That and hard line right wing apologetics get me off. It's always interested me how badly some people can be deluded by things. Pet hobby I guess.

Oh yeah God hates fags too, he must really hate Texan fags. This God guy he really should try being more tolerant. Oh no wait look how that turned out the last time...

[Feck]

I thought drones were more likely to be Republicans being as liberals tend to eschew control. Well just goes to show liberal = drones I'll get me robot slippers and put me feet up while CBS dictates my entire life to me. Oh no wait I'm from the UK we're communist over there.

Godless Commies (still waiting for that slip out in a Seth post )

[Aos Si]

I thought drones were more likely to be Republicans being as liberals tend to eschew control. Well just goes to show liberal = drones I'll get me robot slippers and put me feet up while CBS dictates my entire life to me. Oh no wait I'm from the UK we're communist over there.

Godless Commies (still waiting for that slip out in a Seth post )

I get the impression Seth would consider the Conservatives as dabbling in socialist agendas, Labour would be a bunch of panzy assed ex socialist sell outs who haven't gone right enough, with liberals being full of deserters from new labour, or communists as they commonly are known over there and socialists as they are here.

We are currently Lib dem - Con alliance run, so just pretty much panzies and socialist scum who couldn't win in their own right and just formed a club for leftists.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This calumny

You're much more convincing when you type words like "estopple".

I keep hoping he'll write a suicide note.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I thought drones were more likely to be Republicans being as liberals tend to eschew control. Well just goes to show liberal = drones I'll get me robot slippers and put me feet up while CBS dictates my entire life to me. Oh no wait I'm from the UK we're communist over there.

Godless Commies (still waiting for that slip out in a Seth post )

Do you want slathering with that?

[Hermit]

I thought drones were more likely to be Republicans being as liberals tend to eschew control. Well just goes to show liberal = drones I'll get me robot slippers and put me feet up while CBS dictates my entire life to me. Oh no wait I'm from the UK we're communist over there.

Godless Commies (still waiting for that slip out in a Seth post )

I get the impression Seth would consider the Conservatives as dabbling in socialist agendas, Labour would be a bunch of panzy assed ex socialist sell outs who haven't gone right enough, with liberals being full of deserters from new labour, or communists as they commonly are known over there and socialists as they are here.

We are currently Lib dem - Con alliance run, so just pretty much panzies and socialist scum who couldn't win in their own right and just formed a club for leftists.

Did you know that Obama is a crypto-communist? That's what Seth told us. No kidding.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did you know that Obama is a crypto-communist? That's what Seth told us. No kidding.

He stole that from the HBO series, "Tales from the Crypto."

[Pensioner]

[Seth]

I suspect Seth has deep inner conflicts between his inner rational atheism

Most explicitly NO, I am NOT an "atheist." I'm a non-theistic Tolerist™ and I'm pretty adamant about that. I created Tolerism™ as my religion because I do not want to be associated with atheists, whom I generally find in my personal experience to be intolerant, arrogant, self-righteous and generally intolerable about their beliefs in polite company. Few and far between are the atheists I've personally met who are anything but intolerant bigots.

Thanks for reposting that. Saves me the trouble.