End Time for the Pod People: You Want Them Running Your World?
"...many Christian fundamentalists feel that concern for the future of our planet is irrelevant, because it has no future. They believe we are living in the End Time, when the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. They may also believe, along with millions of other Christian fundamentalists, that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming Apocalypse.
We are not talking about a handful of fringe lawmakers who hold or are beholden to these beliefs. The 231 legislators (all but five of them Republicans) who received an average 80 percent approval rating or higher from the leading religious-right organizations make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. Congress. (The only Democrat to score 100 percent with the Christian Coalition was Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, who earlier this year quoted from the Book of Amos on the Senate floor: 'The days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread or of thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord!')
...DeLay has said bluntly that he intends to smite the 'socialist' worldview of 'secular humanists,' whom, he argues, control the U.S. political system, media, public schools, and universities. He called the 2000 presidential election an apocalyptic 'battle for souls,' a fight to the death against the forces of liberalism, feminism, and environmentalism that are corrupting America. "
No wonder the clear-eyed folks on the rest of the planet are so upset.
From: The Godly Must Be Crazy
By Glenn Scherer
At Grist
We are not talking about a handful of fringe lawmakers who hold or are beholden to these beliefs. The 231 legislators (all but five of them Republicans) who received an average 80 percent approval rating or higher from the leading religious-right organizations make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. Congress. (The only Democrat to score 100 percent with the Christian Coalition was Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia, who earlier this year quoted from the Book of Amos on the Senate floor: 'The days will come, sayeth the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread or of thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord!')
...DeLay has said bluntly that he intends to smite the 'socialist' worldview of 'secular humanists,' whom, he argues, control the U.S. political system, media, public schools, and universities. He called the 2000 presidential election an apocalyptic 'battle for souls,' a fight to the death against the forces of liberalism, feminism, and environmentalism that are corrupting America. "
No wonder the clear-eyed folks on the rest of the planet are so upset.
From: The Godly Must Be Crazy
By Glenn Scherer
At Grist
posted by S. Paine at 7:52 PM
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