Enough!
By Capt. Fogg
"Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor"
Matthew 19:21
"poverty is not an issue"
Father Jonathan Morris on Fox and Friends
Hasn't anybody had enough of rapists, pederasts, embezzlers, adulterers, public toilet Lotharios, swindlers, the cognitively impaired, the psychotic and the high living patrons of prostitutes of both genders waving bibles and telling us how to vote? Not enough of us I guess. Apparently such tin horn casuists; such moral midgets who use Bibles as a sort of elevator shoe, still find a welcome at Fox News and Republicans stupid enough to think God likes Democracy almost as much as he likes Mike Huckabee still tune them in.
Father Jonathan Morris, a "conservative" Catholic priest told us on Fox and Friends yesterday that the reason there was "less response" from Democrats when it comes to talking about God, is that the Democratic platform is at odds with Biblical teachings. So it is, or at least at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church which for well over a millennium has excommunicated anyone who dared deny that God appoints kings and prelates to rule them and told us that because questioning the government was questioning God, Democracy is of the Devil.
Perhaps Father Morris was too busy with the altar boys to study his "Ecclestical History for liars" course or to notice that the Bible doesn't mention abortion and tells us that life begins with breath, not conception. Of course the Bible, even the bowdlerized, mistranslated and tendentious Vulgate Bible the smug Father reads, commands all sorts of things that no one including the Pope would consider obeying, but Morris isn't a theologian or Biblical scholar or an historian or is he even honest or intelligent for that matter; he's a Republican Christian supremacist and Fox News pet. Like Shakespeare's Iago, he's all about convincing us that our best interests are served by killing the thing we love best and in this case that thing is freedom.
It shouldn't take a genius to realize that the aims of a united church and state are not democratic, but authoritarian. One does not arrive at commandments by voting and law based on commandments as interpreted by divinely inspired priests can be no part of a free society.
But as long as America avoids addressing it's imbecile problem; it's ridiculous fear of truth and its swooning submission to superstition and charlatans like Father Morris, we will continue to elect the Huckabees and the Romneys and the other Elmer Gantrys we always fall for. Unless we are willing to admit that the wisdom of the stupid only makes sense to the stupid; unless America is ready to have a reformation and a new birth of secularism we don't deserve any better.
Cross posted from Human Voices
"Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor"
Matthew 19:21
"poverty is not an issue"
Father Jonathan Morris on Fox and Friends
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Hasn't anybody had enough of rapists, pederasts, embezzlers, adulterers, public toilet Lotharios, swindlers, the cognitively impaired, the psychotic and the high living patrons of prostitutes of both genders waving bibles and telling us how to vote? Not enough of us I guess. Apparently such tin horn casuists; such moral midgets who use Bibles as a sort of elevator shoe, still find a welcome at Fox News and Republicans stupid enough to think God likes Democracy almost as much as he likes Mike Huckabee still tune them in.
Father Jonathan Morris, a "conservative" Catholic priest told us on Fox and Friends yesterday that the reason there was "less response" from Democrats when it comes to talking about God, is that the Democratic platform is at odds with Biblical teachings. So it is, or at least at odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church which for well over a millennium has excommunicated anyone who dared deny that God appoints kings and prelates to rule them and told us that because questioning the government was questioning God, Democracy is of the Devil.
Perhaps Father Morris was too busy with the altar boys to study his "Ecclestical History for liars" course or to notice that the Bible doesn't mention abortion and tells us that life begins with breath, not conception. Of course the Bible, even the bowdlerized, mistranslated and tendentious Vulgate Bible the smug Father reads, commands all sorts of things that no one including the Pope would consider obeying, but Morris isn't a theologian or Biblical scholar or an historian or is he even honest or intelligent for that matter; he's a Republican Christian supremacist and Fox News pet. Like Shakespeare's Iago, he's all about convincing us that our best interests are served by killing the thing we love best and in this case that thing is freedom.
It shouldn't take a genius to realize that the aims of a united church and state are not democratic, but authoritarian. One does not arrive at commandments by voting and law based on commandments as interpreted by divinely inspired priests can be no part of a free society.
"Now, this is not judging any Democrat's individual faith, but when their platform goes against Biblical teaching they know they have to be careful when they start getting into details"says Morris, carefully avoiding the details that show his ignorance and contempt for compassion and decency and liberty and all the human values the values voters can't handle. Indeed, the problem of poverty and how to treat the poor, the subject that seems to appear so often in the words of Jesus is secondary to stamping out abortion says the man in black. After all, the poor go to heaven but those single cell "babies" go elsewhere unless we sprinkle water on them and mumble in Latin, right? Screw the poor, the elderly and the sick. Screw the children and all hail the wealthy and powerful. Jesus is about persecuting gays and abortion, right?
"There's always a hierarchy of value"says Morris with the kind of self contradictory gall that only a moral absolutist can muster, and by that he means the essential teaching of Christianity is about abortion and gays and not the poor. We can talk about the poor and sick and helpless later when we solve these greater problems. Do you need any better proof that there is no God who punishes us than that Morris is rewarded while innocent children starve and die for lack of medical care?
But as long as America avoids addressing it's imbecile problem; it's ridiculous fear of truth and its swooning submission to superstition and charlatans like Father Morris, we will continue to elect the Huckabees and the Romneys and the other Elmer Gantrys we always fall for. Unless we are willing to admit that the wisdom of the stupid only makes sense to the stupid; unless America is ready to have a reformation and a new birth of secularism we don't deserve any better.
Cross posted from Human Voices
Labels: gay rights, hypocrisy, religious right, women
posted by Libby Spencer at 6:09 PM
6 Comments:
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most conservative christians give through their church and feel the issue should be dealt with that way, not through the government. and that the government shouldn't force ideas they don't agree with on them via education or supreme court dictated laws. What's wrong with that?
Basically what you are advocating is a country that is directed and funded by churchmen for the purpose of promoting a twisted version of Christianity, and an educational system which favors legend over truth and authoritarianism over freedom - which in my opinion makes you a subversive, anti American, freedom hating traitor. If you don't like freedom, go to some theocratic hell hole where the Bible justifies slavery, genocide, wife beating, mutilation and murder ; where the Bible forbids freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and the right to vote - and stay there. Go now.
This is not Jesustan, it's a secular republic; the first in history to be a nation NOT under God and I will use any means at my disposal, violent or verbal or both, to keep it that way.
lol. no, I'm saying people should be free to be as secular or reglious as they want. you liberals, you think we either subsidize something or we ban it. People in some parts of the country ARE very religious. Trying to stifle that with progressive court rulingsand so forth is silly. They are still the same people thye were the day before. live and let live
Well done! Excellent piece! You articulate your argument by slamming a person in a hateful manner, spewing a disgusting line of crap that borders on slander (i.e. "Perhaps Father Morris was too busy with altar boys"). If you want to make a point, make it without the insults. They make you look worse than the person you're accusing.
Perhaps then you were busy with something and didn't notice that Morris was slandering Jesus and bearing false witness while using God's name in vain. There is no room in a free country for both his ilk and liberty. His diatribe was an attack on religious freedom, on democracy, on me and everything I hold dear and if you're on his side, then screw you too.
I suggest you look up the Church's history with regard to opposing democracy if you're not interested in it's history of pederasty, torture, genocide and every form of tyranny yet to emerge in its sad, bloody and infamous history.
If he wants a country ruled by the Church and "bible teachings" - as he so plainly suggests, let him go live in the Vatican where ex-nazis get to tell people what the bible really means.
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