Post by nick on Feb 20, 2007 4:14:57 GMT -5
I'm not an atheist really. I believe in Judaism, though I struggle. I write about struggling here.
But Judaism doesn't believe you have to be Jewish to be good.
I loathe the Religious Right in particular for their barbaric, F'ed up mindset that if you don't believe in J-zeus you'll be burned eternally in Hell, and how they try to crush minority religions like Judaism. I'm in Alabama. I know all the psychotic nuts these bastards are into, they're my enemy. All the criticisms of the Religious Right are 100% on target.
Check out Chris Hedges, who was featured many times on Air America recently talking about his new book, "American Fascists." He's right; these mofos are FASCISTS. It's not even a religious movement anymore. It is a radical corporatist movement divorced from any religious text. The Christian Coalition in Alabama was opposing the "education for every child, black or white" amendment last year, because they said "activist judges who side with abortionists" would use the amendment to *GASP* impose taxes to fund education (full story here). This is so off any Christian playbook it is scary. I think they broke with the national Christian Coalition after that.
Chris Hedges is a very credible scholar. In my college course on non-violence, we used his book "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning." Check it out, it's heavy stuff.
So when he calls the Religious Right "American Fascists" it carries a lot of weight.
And they are American fascists.
I've talked to people online connected to the most hardcore religious parties in Israel, and I read the Jewish blogosphere. The agenda of the United Torah Judaism party this year is:
1) stop cuts to the baby subsidy (they have lots of babies)
2) ensure the independence of yeshivas
What's the agenda of the Christian party in America?
1) constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and abortion
2) tax cuts for ExxonMobil
3) no taxing for education, no busing for desegregation
4) jail people for sodomy
5) we <3 war
These people are CRAZY and we need to fight them until they are marginalized and we get some change.
Nick
But Judaism doesn't believe you have to be Jewish to be good.
I loathe the Religious Right in particular for their barbaric, F'ed up mindset that if you don't believe in J-zeus you'll be burned eternally in Hell, and how they try to crush minority religions like Judaism. I'm in Alabama. I know all the psychotic nuts these bastards are into, they're my enemy. All the criticisms of the Religious Right are 100% on target.
Check out Chris Hedges, who was featured many times on Air America recently talking about his new book, "American Fascists." He's right; these mofos are FASCISTS. It's not even a religious movement anymore. It is a radical corporatist movement divorced from any religious text. The Christian Coalition in Alabama was opposing the "education for every child, black or white" amendment last year, because they said "activist judges who side with abortionists" would use the amendment to *GASP* impose taxes to fund education (full story here). This is so off any Christian playbook it is scary. I think they broke with the national Christian Coalition after that.
Chris Hedges is a very credible scholar. In my college course on non-violence, we used his book "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning." Check it out, it's heavy stuff.
So when he calls the Religious Right "American Fascists" it carries a lot of weight.
And they are American fascists.
I've talked to people online connected to the most hardcore religious parties in Israel, and I read the Jewish blogosphere. The agenda of the United Torah Judaism party this year is:
1) stop cuts to the baby subsidy (they have lots of babies)
2) ensure the independence of yeshivas
What's the agenda of the Christian party in America?
1) constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and abortion
2) tax cuts for ExxonMobil
3) no taxing for education, no busing for desegregation
4) jail people for sodomy
5) we <3 war
These people are CRAZY and we need to fight them until they are marginalized and we get some change.
Nick