If You Think You've Seen Religious Pandering BEFORE ...

[Edgewater_Joe]

... just WAIT until FoxNews and the rest of the U.S. media embraces Cardinal Ratzinger and truly integrates him into Dear Leader's Culthah of Lahfe.

Now the networks will REALLY think that all people of faith are off learning the Bible to recite off the top of their heads -- all the while the vast majority of us keep getting more and more freaked out at the hardcore wingers running around telling us we all stink and are going to Hell.

In other words, the distortion between what the media says is happening on the ground and the reality of what IS happening on the ground is going to get wider.

The rabbit hole, impossible as it sounds, just got deeper.

[SouthernDem2004]

1. Vast Majority? Where?

[ComerPerro]

2. Even moderate Repubs are freaked out by fundies

Trust me, I live in Kansas. We have both kinds here.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. I second that notion.

[ComerPerro]

5. Hey! I said KS, not PA!

LOL.

Kidding, of course.

The trend here seems to be that the politicians talk up fundie issues, and the Moderate Republicans just kind of cringe and hope its all talk.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. In the Northeast, we know it's not just 'talk' anymore....

They used to throw a ceremonial bone to the fundies in the 80's just to keep em amused but today the fundies are in control of the Republican party and throw the occasional bone to the moderates to keep em quiet. The moderates are either aware of the scam or are waking up to it now...we are smarter than the efungelical Rapturist Right wingnuts and I expect a turnaround starting in 06.

Ya, let's see how many elections they can win WITHOUT the moderate Republicans and just the wingnut base.:rofl:

[ComerPerro]

9. No kidding. At least you know the difference

I think the Mods here are getting more and more afraid though...

[SouthernDem2004]

10. Yea, You are right. Misread your message. Sorry, been a long day.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Yep...Wait for it...Rove's job of finding a "Culture of Life Majority"...

just got a whole lot easier.

[Malva Zebrina]

6. It struck me as odd the way Bush picked up the culture of life thing

from the Vatican, or was it the other way around?

I spent a morning reading up on the conservative take over of the Southern Baptist Convention. They infiltrated from the grass roots, using specious methods and once had voting power, voted out all those who did not subscribe to their religico fascist views. They are now the outstanding church of fascism with neo-con policies. There are about 15 million members of the SBC and that is a lot of power.

Now, I look with a skeptical eye upon Opus Dei, another religico-fascist group, with abount 85,000 members all over the world and going strong with about 3000 members in the United States. They recently built a huge headquarters in NYC.



They have a membership of hightly educated and financially well off persons. A power structure containing many with well oiled political connections--Antonin Scalia as one example.

They are secretive, just like this administration and bear watching as attempts to theocratize this country could be coming from the grass roots. They have as many as 15 of their own schools and high schools also.

It took ten years before the neo-cons gained complete power over the SBC--and OD has a head start on that.

[dbonds]

8. No wonder the Vatican went after Dan Brown and the DaVinci Code,

It makes those who are taking power there look like kooks, or would it be better to say it exposes them (in a fictional setting) for the kooks they are.