“America is no longer good.”
“Unrighteousness, evil, corruption, perversion and death are now standard operating procedure in the United States of America.”
Imagine if liberal politicians were calling America “evil” and predicting its demise. They’d be labelled as anti-American and contemptable. Hell, all a left-leaning person has to do is say that she wasn’t mistreated by Iraqis and that’s enough to call her a suicide bomber.
But it’s a-ok when right-wing Christian leaders complain about their evil country.
By the way, Christianity is apparently under attack in America. And they have a point. I mean, just look at all the Christ-hating Jews who have occupied the Whitehouse over the past century. And all the Buddhists in Congress. Not to mention all those Hindus sitting on the Supreme Court! Just as expected, atheists are routinely accorded more respect than all religious people. And it’s not like the vast majority of Americans identify as Christians or anything. Clearly, we are an oppressed minority here.
At one point, speaker Herb Titus held up a copy of Kevin Phillips’ “American Theocracy,” offering it as evidence of the putative war on Christians. It was an audacious move, given that Sara Diamond, the preeminent scholar of the Christian right, reported in a 1998 book that Titus was forced to resign his post as dean of the law school at Pat Robertson’s Regent University because he refused to renounce Christian Reconstructionism. Christian Reconstructionism is a theocratic sect that advocates the replacement of civil law with biblical law, including the execution of homosexuals, apostates and women who are unchaste before marriage. Christian Reconstructionists used to be politically radioactive, but a new generation of religious right leaders like Scarborough have embraced them, and some members of today’s GOP apparently see no problem associating with them. This does not mean that America is on the verge of theocracy, but it signals an important shift. The language of religious authoritarianism has become at least somewhat politically acceptable.
Well, at least it’ll relieve the over-population problem.