This Week In God (Maddow Blog)

[AlbertCat]

the YIKES! edition


First up from the God Machine this week is a look at the “presidential family forum,” held last night in Iowa, and hosted by a far-right religious-right group called The Family Leader, led by a conservative kingmaker named Bob Vander Plaats.

Right Wing Watch explained this week a little about the man who ran the show: “”Not only does Vander Plaats want to remove from office or defund the courts of judges who find in favor of marriage equality, he believes that anything, like gay marriage, that ‘goes against the law of nature’ is by definition unconstitutional . He argues that the government is an institution of God and therefore its purpose is ‘to promote righteousness’ and to apply ‘God’s principles and precepts.’”

And it’s against this backdrop that seven contenders for the Republican presidential nomination – Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum – appeared at last night’s gathering, hoping to earn an endorsement. (In 2008, Vander Plaats backed Huckabee, who won that year’s Iowa caucuses, and in 2012 he backed Santorum, who won that year’s Iowa caucuses).

So, how’d it go? I think this helped capture the flavor of the evening.

Asked to name the first person they would call upon hearing about a terrorist attack, Carson and Rubio both said the Department of Homeland Security; Fiorina and Mike Huckabee both said they’d fall to their knees and pray.



All of it:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-112115?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[mountain grammy]

1. Jesus would fight for the second amendment..

of course he would!

[Yorktown]

2. Carson, Fiorina and Huckabee should be removed from the race on mental health issues

Asked to name the first person they would call upon hearing about a terrorist attack, Fiorina and Mike Huckabee both said they’d fall to their knees and pray.

Terrorist attack, and you call an invisible friend in the sky?

jeesus (irony intended)

[Lordquinton]

3. We need a leader who can keep their cool

Not fall into a puddle talking to spirits.

Maybe they can hire a professional wailer to do that for them, bring the royal entourage back, a few jesters, a bishop...

[Yorktown]

4. Seriously, claiming to be falling on one's knee in case of problem

should be enough to exclude someone from running for high office.

That millions should view this benevolently is ..

[Lordquinton]

5. At least no one said they would keep reading about goats

Which was the actual response we should expect from this cavalcade of buffoons.

[Yorktown]

6. Antiquity Romans looked at the direction of flight of birds as omens

Safer for goats and their entrails.

[mr blur]

9. Goats!

[beam me up scottie]

7. "Fiorina and Mike Huckabee both said they’d fall to their knees and pray."

Yes because that's always worked out so well in the past.

[RussBLib]

8. even worse

I doubt Huckabee or Fiorina would actually fall to their knees and pray, but they will SAY they would to curry favor with the inmates of the religious asylum.

That's politics, I guess.

[RussBLib]

10. I like that last story too

I'm impressed how Steve Benen covers soooo many goofy things and somehow doesn't get snarky. Or at least not very snarky.

Former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said on Twitter this week, in an all-caps message, “Jesus would fight for our Second Amendment.” For what it’s worth, I don’t think she was kidding.

Jesus would fight for our second amendment? Fight who? The devil? George Soros? Why would Jesus, the alleged Son of the alleged God even NEED to fight for something like the second amendment? That just blows my mind at how WEAK they think their Jesus must be.

[AlbertCat]

11. Jesus would fight for our Second Amendment.

Y'see.... it all part of that "Love your enemy" thing. Y'know, the "least of these" and "the meek" stuff.
Don't you get it?

Silly atheist!