This week in god.... (Maddow blog)

[AlbertCat]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-42515?cid=sm_fb_maddow


"First up from the God Machine this week is an aggressive push from likely Republican presidential candidates to characterize social conservatives as a “victims” of a secular American government.

If this seems like a cyclical problem, it’s not your imagination. Four years ago, Newt Gingrich delivered one of my favorite quotes of all time, warning that if conservatives “do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America,” his grandchildren might one day live “in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.” The contradiction was apparently lost on him.

Four years later, it’s Rick Santorum reading from a similar script. Right Wing Watch reported this week:
Santorum told [the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins] that, for the first time ever in U.S. history, religious liberty is under assault from a new secular theocratic system:

“For the first time in the history of our country, the government is attacking people, prosecuting people, calling for people to be rehabilitated…. We have the state establishing a new religion, a secular state religion…. We have now the secular church that is being imposed on this country and anybody that defects is subject to persecution and prosecution.”
For the record, I haven’t seen any evidence of any government agency “calling for people to be rehabilitated.” The notion of “secular churches” and a “secular religion” also seem misplaced, if not oxymoronic."

[beam me up scottie]

1. Wow, that meme is really catching fire.

It speaks to their need to feel persecuted.

The anti-atheist sentiment it generates is just an added bonus.

calling for people to be rehabilitated

Anyone know where he's getting that from?

[Mr.Bill]

2. I'll believe religion is under attack in America

when it says "There Is No God" on our money.

For now, the fairytale believers seem to pretty much have control of things.

[GeorgeGist]

3. God makes idiots look ...

like idiots.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Why should they worry? They can pray for victory.

That actually works, right?

[Novara]

5. I have a theory

That because there's actual pushback on "religious conscience" laws regarding gay discrimination they've got to play the victim. I actually think losing the fight on gay rights is also what's causing them to go after women's rights in record and stunning numbers. They know their brand of belief is losing adherents and they're scared shitless. So they are now going all out with the War on Women, War on Gays, and meanwhile throwing in a good dose of victimhood as the cherry on top.

And I'm loving watching them squirm. Uh, until shit like Hobby Lobby gets through the damn SCOTUS. But the louder they are about this shit, the more transparent they are.