James Dobson's Bitch Introduces "Christian Nation Act of 2006"
On Wednesday's Hardball, Christopher Hitchens referred to Richard Armitage as Colin Powell's "bitch" - so I guess that term is fair use now.
Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) is James Dobson's bitch. That's why he will introduce a resolution making July 30 the day Americans celebrate the 1956 adoption of "In God We Trust" as a national motto. Carpetbagger Report has the scoop:
The national motto as the 'American trust in the Christian Deity'
We had a perfectly good motto for nearly 200 years. The founding fathers went to a lot of trouble to pick "E Pluribus Unum" ("From many, one") as a reflection of American diversity and unity. Sure, it wasn't in English, but it was a pretty good motto nevertheless.
In 1956, during the Cold War, politicians decided the motto wasn't religious enough, so they picked a new one, "In God We Trust." And to celebrate the golden anniversary of the phrase, Rep. John Duncan (R-Tenn.) has an idea.
James Dobson's Focus on the Family sent this alert to its membership yesterday via email (no link available):
U.S. Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., has plans to introduce a resolution reaffirming the motto, one that would call on Americans to celebrate it on or around its July 30 anniversary with patriotic and sacred assemblies and prayer. […]
[The resolution includes a] list of 16 historical findings, including that "the fundamental trust of the American people upon the God of the Bible is irrefutable." It also cites Psalm 33:12 ("Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord") and proclaims that "This American trust in the Christian Deity dates from the earliest colonial days."
Read that again. An elected lawmaker wants Congress to support a resolution that says all of us have an "irrefutable" trust in the "God of the Bible," and, more specifically, we've also always trusted the "Christian Deity." For good measure, Tanner even has plans to throw in a theocratic Bible verse in his resolution.
I know it frustrates a lot of conservatives when liberals talk about the "Taliban wing of the Republican Party," but we'll stop using the phrase just as soon as these guys stop acting like they want to a establish a theocracy.
Will House Democrats let the Republican Right divide the nation along religious lines?
Haven't we seen that bloody movie enough? Does anyone study the Reformation and the CounterReformation in Europe? How about Ireland and Northern Ireland? How about the former Yugoslavia? How about Iraq right now?
Why do James Dobson and John Duncan hate America's unique and precious freedom from religious warfare???
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Why can't the "Christians"
Why can't the "Christians" get their own act together? They have more sects and cults than any other two religions put together.
These religious right fanatics have given the entire American religious community a bad name, and I expect the real Christians to denounce them.
I like another motto better: Don't Tread On Me.
Religaversary
Submarine USS Wahoo ss238
And in 47years from now we will all be celebrating the 50th
anniversary of "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom Toast"
with a resolution by another ignorant Republican,
who has nothing better to do, then make these silly acts
of domestic terra.
While our brave soldiers are dying in Iraq because of GW Bush's
illegal invasion mistake.
Our Country is in debt up to its eyes.
And these people put forth silly resolutions like this..
Dont they have any real work they can do, like help reducing
the deficit, health care, education?
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"Hunger, frightens and hurts, and it has many faces, and every man must sometimes face the terror of one of them. Wouldn't it seem that a misery known and understood by all men would lead Man not to deception and murder, but to faith, and hope, and love ?"
...And they wonder why they are under attack...
Tennessee is one of 'those' states that has been in the lead wave of those forcing all Americans to believe in their religious nonsense. In the courts, they have lost again and again, but still insist on beating their bloody heads against the wall of law.
Somehow, Dobson managed to escape the religious bondage of the southern states when he set up his fortress in the all-fundie=all the-time location of Colorado Springs.
From this height, he expects to rule the country and eventually the world. Got news for this inveterate asshole...lightning will strike you down.
As stated before, Tennessee is just one of the principal enablers...no sentence uttered there lacks the call to christian arms. Ah-well, so be it. Will keep the lawyers busy and off the streets.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest degrangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
The Rightwing Christian Agenda: Willing Recruits to the Military
Right now Bush needs a steady supply of willing recruits to his military to sustain his ever-widening "war on terror" (translated: quest for oil and natural gas). But he knows that a draft would be a political disaster for him and the Repug party. So, how to get the recruits? Especially since recruiters are being drummed off campuses by angry crowds, as I read in one news report this week.
So here's the scheme
1. turn the "war on terror" into a 21st century "crusade" against infidels that is working its way toward the glory of Armaggedon.
The groundwork has been laid by rightwingnuts like Tim Haydn and his "Left Behind" series - available even at Walmart!! Even Billy Graham has been pushing the idea that the "great battle" is at hand and will occur in the "Biblical lands" of the middle east.
2. Introduce a "national religious stance" to validate the "us" against "them" theme (which in reality boils down to the "US versus Muslims in oil rich countries").
3. Start a teen crusade couched in militaristic terms, whip teens into religious frenzy and convince them they are 21st century crusaders.
4. Induce teens, when old enough to sign up, convinced they are riding to glory.
(read "Teen Mania: Duping Kids into going to war as 21st century crusaders" http://cherylsealreports.com/teenmania.html
Just plain awful
how these "Holy Rollers", duped by wealthy preachers and the administration, are starting a "Children's Crusade" by getting our innocent kids into these bogus religious organizations and from there, straight to Iraq (and probably Iran in the near future) as cannon fodder!
There was another "Children's Crusade" in the Middle Ages and we know how that one ended. Just say "HELL NO!" to another one.
Truly religious organizations like the American Friends Service Committee (Remember how those sympathetic to this group were spied on by the Bushites in Lake Worth FL?) are trying to counter these inexcusable tactics. Support them totally!
Dobson's bitch
and whose bitch is Hitchens?
“Make yourself a sheep and
“Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
Be a wolf in sheeps clothing...and you will most certainly......
be escorted to the end of the earth and dropped off. Gee Metronil...we didnt even get to know you[didn't want to anyway]
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest degrangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
God's Army
That's how Luce refers to his people. That is VERY scary IMO. Religious armies can be very dangerous to anyone who disagrees with them. I wonder what all this group is going to do.
our motto
The "In God We Trust" motto was put on our money during the Civil War, although the radical right
wants us to think it came from the founding fathers, whose motto was E Pluribus Unum, and took great
pains to leave God out of things. It was shoved down our noses during the McCarthy era, and so much
for E Pluribus Unum, a slogan of unity, as the national motto. Instead we got the divisive In God We
Trust. It is always those the most insecure about their religion who are most anxious to shove it down
the throats of the population, and it is no coincidence that those people most anxious to do so seem
to come from those parts of the country with the most violence, divorces, and poverty.
The only Freedom Toast worthy of mention is the new music group whose CDs satirize Bush and his
minions with musical comedy worthy of SNL or the Daily Show (It's always nice to see Republican stupidity
turned back in their faces, and these guys do it in spades).