2010: Year Of The Bible

[lame54]

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/georgia-republican-wants-year-bible (for video)

From C&L:

Rep. Paul Broun, R-GA, was on Fox and Friends yesterday touting his proposal to have Congress officially designate 2010 "The Year of the Bible", and he had an interesting rationale for it:

Broun: Well, it's all about freedom, actually. The Bible was the basis of our laws, it was the basis of the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence -- the Bible was the founding source.

Hmmmmm. Well, some of us have heard otherwise, but OK, whatever.

You may remember Rep. Broun. Last November he won lots of friends on both sides of the aisle and in the White House when he warned that Obama was preparing a Hitler-like dictatorship with his civilian-youth-corps proposal: "That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did ... When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

Broun is, of course, asking President Obama to issue this proclamation. And what will Obama achieve by issuing it?

Broun: The Bible was the basis of our nation. And as we look to the future, and as we deal with our economic problems, as we're stealing our grandchildren's future, we need to look at the principles that were taught Biblically. When our Founding Fathers established this country, they established it on freedom. That's what the Bible teaches. Every single one of our laws are based on the Biblical precepts. And we need to turn back to those precepts if our country's going to be strong and great again.

It's absolutely critical for us to understand what freedom's all about, what our own responsibility is all about, and what government's function within our society is supposed to be. And we have forgotten that in Washington. We are heading down a road that's going to destroy our nation. We are headed toward a total government control of everybody's lives -- a loss of freedom, a loss of our money, a loss of our private property -- and it's extremely critical now for us to go back to those foundational principles that this country was founded upon.

That's the reason a proclamation of "The Year of the Bible" will help people understand what the importance of those, um, principles are all about as we go forward to make our nation secure, free, and great again.

Oh. OK. So you want President Obama to issue this proclamation so right-wing nutcases like yourself can hijack the entire text of the Bible to promote your teabagging brand of politics. Whose entire purpose is to undermine the agenda of both the president and the Democratic Congress.

Right. Well, lots of luck with that, Rep. Broun.

You can't make this stuff up.

[Nicole Lambeth]

1. I was under the impression

that 2000-2008 were all "Years of the Bible", and if I recall correctly, they did not work out at all in anyone's favor. Unless you were a rich, white crony of Bush's to begin with.

And someone needs to teach this guy about American history. The bible was not the source for any of our founding documents. He cites the Constitution, but somehow I doubt he's ever read it.

[CJCRANE]

2. 2010: Year of the Enlightenment

That sounds better to me.

[Enrique]

3. so what kind of sex scandal will Paul Broun be involved in?

because politicians that engage in this phony bible stuff usually end up getting caught doing kinky stuff.

[mitchum]

8. That defender of "the sanctity of marriage" is also quite fond of divorce...

he already has three behind him.

[Taverner]

4. Who's Bible? Which version? WTF?

[havocmom]

5. I prefer Year of Constitutional Renewal

Beat the religious tyrants down with the instrument of our governance.

The Puritans still won't accept that they lost that civil war so long ago in a different country.

[Iris]

11. or how about a year of just being kind to one another?

[Brewman_Jax]

6. Good grief

it's the best selling book of all time! What more do they want? :boring:

[moggie]

10. A sequel n/t

[mitchum]

7. 1010: Year Of The Bible would be more appropriate

[Solomon]

9. LOL

:rofl:

[piratefish08]

12. Not THIS shit again.............. n/t

[paparush]

13. Year of the Anglo-Taliban

[Ioo]

14. Bible / Jesus not used ONCE in our founding docs - made up BS (NT)

[Burma Jones]

15. He's just representing his constituents

Well, many of them at least

[madrchsod]

16. he`s a dumb fuck.

real christians believe in the separation of church and state. we believe in -render unto cesar ,cesar`s and to god ,god`s.

[asksam]

17. How about 2010 -- The Year We Ban The Bible

Book full of genocide, homophobia, hatred and lies.

[montanto]

24. Hast thou read?

"full of"?

[CJCRANE]

18. Someone should take him up

on his faithfulness to the Bible.

Firstly go through the 10 Commandments:

For example does he follow the Sabbath (no work or shopping etc on a Saturday)?
Does he disapprove of graven images (such as crosses and crucifixes)?

Etc.

[Threedifferentones]

19. What a bunch of fucking assholes

How many times is the word God in our Constitution? In the Declaration of Independence? The closest our two most important national documents come to mentioning God is the generic word "creator," and every day I hear some new asshole preaching about how American government is based on Christianity. Fuck ya'll!

[B3Nut]

20. The only mention of God in any of them (IIRC) is in the Declaration of Independence

written by Jefferson, who was a Deist. He did not have the personal Christian god in view, but rather the "Nature's God" of Deism. Right-wing politicians and preachers are either misinformed, lying, or both.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[DaveinJapan]

21. Definitely both. n/t

[Bucky]

22. If we could just have a year of the Bible, the Crucifix, and a fat clove of garlic....

we'd all be safe from Dick & Newt.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. Nothing like tackling the burning issues of the day.

:banghead:

[montanto]

25. How about 2010: the year conservative Christians pay attention

to what The Bible says?