From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 04:43:01 BST
[Case to Platt]
Once again I see a disconnect between a party that espouses religious values
then twists them into something unrecognizable.
[Arlo]
Of course. Although it is more a deliberate manipulation, or pandering to,
"religion" with the sole aim of garnishing the vote-power.
You'll always find the ones who shout "Jesus!" the loudest to give them power of
another's life are the one's who completely ignore it when it comes to parting
them from their wealth.
We must stop abortion, but once children are born we can neglect them like good
Christo-Republicrats. We must stop euthanasia, but leave the sick and infirmed
who are without means of payment to die in squalor. We must crusade against gay
marriage because Jesus condemned it, but at the same time we can drive by
homeless people in our Lexuses (Lexi?) and Buicks content in the good old "Gods
and Clods" reasoning that the poor deserve to be poor, the homeless deserve to
be homeless, and the hungry deserve to be hungry. After all, we are better than
them. To have some moral compulsion shoved in our faces about feeding the poor,
why that's anti-American, Marxist gulagagging*. Buuuuuut... that won't stop us
from feeling good about how "moral" we are, will it?
*Gulagagging. A play on "lollygagging", think of it is "gulag" plus the
repetitive "gagging" of us with propaganda laden fear tactics.
At any rate, back to the point. The party faithful, I believe, don't even really
partake of such sanctimonious hypocracy. They don't try to convince themselves
they are devoutly religious, indeed, they use it only when it serves them. Like
Platt. Who has stated in this forum that "until the MOQ is accepted, we should
rely on Judeo-Christian morality" (not exact, and I think to be fair he
included "common law"). So here's a guy who is admittedly not a devout
Christian, who holds no qualms about flying the JC banner to support his belief
that gays should not be allowed to marry, for example. And yet when pressed to
the "inconvient rest of the Bible", you know, the part about loving thy
neighbor, and all that Marxist jazz, he says that, well, there are certain
parts that should not be used. Certain parts?! That's bloody well 98% of the
book!
Point, the rallying cry is not out of admiration or devotion to the words of
Jesus, or the message of the religion, it is to use certain parts to mobilize
religious citizens into voting for a party that is most assuredly NOT the party
Jesus would join (which would likely be the Socialist Workers Party, Carpentry
Division...).
In the meantime, however, the Lexuses and Buicks keep driving by. Blasted poor.
Why did God even bother to make such wretched creatures.
Arlo
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