Yes it is.

But then again, I'm an evil liberal atheist socialist pinko subversive un-Patriotic anti-American French Loving Latte Drinking Volvo driving kind of guy.

Don't worry Seamus, im going to Hell for not confessing my sins.

Fortunately, Seamus, we athiests don't have to worry about hell or heaven. I leave that to those who need to worry about it.

To be honest, I'm not an atheist.

I do feel however, that I don't need to shove my particular brand of religion/faith/spirituality/belief down other people's throats.

I suppose to many fundamentalists I could be classified as an atheist because I don't wear my faith on my sleeve!

no problem.

i went to that web site and read some of the email they got....quite interesting.

It isn't wearing one's religion on one's sleeve that bothers me, it is that darn megephone!

or maybe it is the whip.......

If the sheeple weren't so damned gullible, the fundies could wear and say and do what they pleased, but they wouldn't be empowered.

It's the sheeple who give them their power.

It's that way with all religions....and the Bushies have figured out how to mix it up with politics, just like the Nazis managed to mix up the Jewish race as scapegoats for all of the problems Germany was facing when Hitler came to power.

Catherine

Whip??? Kinky, very kinky! Are you sure you're not a GOP Dominatrix?

BTW... I'm stealing that phrase of yours. It's a keeper. It's short, sweet and to the point.

It's the "normal" people. Those that know "their place". Whatever they do they never question the order of things. How many times have you heard someone with that sort of mindset utter "That's just the way things are"?



Don't forget the "Banality of Evil". While so many on the right were having a hairy knee jerk hissy fit over Ward Churchill's phrase "Little Eichmans", how many of them do you think actually took the time to understand what Churchill meant? Too many people never think twice about how their lives are inextricably intertwined with everyone else on this planet. How many of these pod people take the time to think about who's behind all of the cheap crap they buy to make their lives easier? Acknowledging that we're all responsible is as far from "self hating" as you can get. Like Ward pointed out, eventually some people are going to push back.

When you make xenophobia the centerpiece of who you are, you become nothing more than an ignorant hatemonger. It's them against us! The "them" can be anyone from plain brown people, to "A-rhabs", to Jews, to whoever you you don't fully understand.

That's how fundamentalism works, any sort of fundamentalism. There's "us" as in the saved, the initiated, the elect; and then there's "them", those who are undeserving, the damned, those "who don't know/believe". If you question or point out the irrationality you're ostracized as an infidel, a heretic or heaven forbid un-American or un-Patriotic!

You have to admit, the GOP have become masters at manipulating irrational emotion. They love to play the primitive lizard brain. They know how to use that place where "fight or flight" resides. It's a powerful tool for them.

Religion can be a powerful control agent. Why do you think elites have manipulated it for so many millennia?

Love your reasoning Seamus. Just that extra umph to go with the origional article.

mga, are you aware of the Center for Inquiry in Amherst? Nice people there.

Aw shucks, it was nothing...

Thanks.

Seamus, I will trade your wonderful reasoning powers for my short, to the point phrases.

Boy! I get the best of THIS deal!

But then, you know women are sort of familiar with contractions.....

You guys are so clever! I LOVE it...I'm just really surprised bucky doesn't want to become more like the clever people at this site, instead of remaining always outside looking in.

Who can understand the Republican, Limbaughish, Coulterish, Bushit state of mind to which some people cling?

Catherine

Catherine, I am surounded by it, but will never understand it.

Ehhh, if I do, please shoot me and put me out of my misery.