When Dominionists Attack

I know this is getting old, but the march of the Christians continues. Or, more accurately as I learned from a comment posted to my blog, the Dominionists are on the attack again.

The USA Today has the story:

Pastor Russell Johnson paces across the broad stage as he decries the "secular jihadists" who have "hijacked" America, accuses the public schools of neglecting to teach that Hitler was "an avid evolutionist" and links abortion to children who murder their parents....

Interesting choice of words. Since he brings up the name Hitler, it did occur to me that the linking of terms in that way was a very effective tool of the Nazis. The word "jihadists" is perceived as very negative (and rightly so), so he links it to "secular", and "evolution". Therefore, everyone who is secular and accepts scientific fact wants to strap on bombs and blow up Americans.

It's unfortunate that USA today doesn't go to great lengths to dismantle Pastor Johnson's argument that secularists have "hijacked" America. In fact, secularists FOUNDED THIS COUNTRY. Jesus F'n Christ.

Okay.. sorry.. got a bit pissed there. It's just their constant lying, and the MSM simply reporting it without appending it with something like "Pastor Johnson's views are contradicted by the facts, which any Constitutional scholar would be ready to point out. It appears as if the Christians are trying to hijack the traditionally secular United States of America."

Then the fine Christian pastor goes further to link secularists to the murdering of kids and parents.

So, lets tally the score from that one paragraph. The Pastor is lying about the founding principals of this country. He's lying about the secularists trying to "hijack" this country, when in fact we're only trying to defend American tradition and respect all religions as well as the establishment clause. The Pastor uses really lame rhetoric to try and paint people who accept science as Nazi Jihadists bent on killing children and parents.

So what does that make Christian pastor Russell Johnson? That makes him a number of things, but primarily it makes him evil, just exactly like the lying mullahs in Iran. There is no difference. None.

But - always keep in mind that religion is about power and money - not about saving your soul. They hate, because hate sells, because most people hate themselves, and it makes them feel better to hate others as well.. hate hate hate... that's all they know.

The Ohio effort isn't unique. Johnson's project -- which he says has signed up more than 900 pastors in Ohio during its first 10 weeks in operation -- has helped spawn the Texas Restoration Project in Bush's home state. The fledging Pennsylvania Pastors' Network has signed up 81 conservative clergy so far. Similar efforts are beginning to percolate elsewhere....

John Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron, calls the networks a new chapter in an effort to organize conservative clergy that began with the Moral Majority a quarter-century ago, then faltered....

"We as Christians need to take a stand as to what our beliefs are," Linda Stoffer, 50, a bank loan officer, says after the service in Canton. Her top concerns are gay marriage and abortion. "And life issues," adds her husband, Dave, 54, who works in a cabinet shop. "Like, what was her name? Terri Schiavo."

They want their "beliefs" foisted on us again, yes. "Belief" is made up bullshit - improvable dogma, and they want that forced on everyone. But I really like their top concerns. but those are Bush people. IQ hovering around 80, and I'm being kind.

What's her name? He knows all about these "life issues", and can't remember her fucking name. I'm quite sure he doesn't know what the results of the autopsy were. I'm sure he doesn't know she was indeed blind, and in a vegetative state. I'm sure he doesn't know half her brain was liquefied.

Clearly, they are bewildered by the complexity of the world, and their pastor makes things so much easier for them to understand, by stating it in clear black and white.

I could sit and talk with that couple, and I could explain to them why they are wrong on every count, and they would merely have that glazed "I don't understand" look that you sometimes see from people who have not a single clue about what they are doing. Their brain synapses just can't connect the dots the right way, to properly interpret information logically.

It reminds me of when I was in college and working as an assistant in the computer science department. We used to help students do computer science course work, and there were always people there that wanted to learn the whole "computer thing". It was the "wave of the future" and they wanted high tech jobs, and make the big bucks and all that good shit. At least 3/4 of them were in the "don't get it, and never will get it" category.

The fact of the matter is, you can train somebody, teach them endlessly, and they will never grasp the concepts. I know them well, as they all ask the same questions, and they all have that same "I just don't get it" look on their face. You can see it in the eyes - and I could tell after about 10 seconds whether I was dealing with a student who just needed some specific technical information, or if it was a student who didn't get the concept at all, and never would.

Lots and lots of words there for me to say, "they just don't get it, and they never will." We need to figure out a way so that they are not able to influence public policy, because they are too stupid to have input.

Now, a caveat before anybody takes offense to what I just wrote. I'm not saying that anyone who doesn't grasp the concepts of computer science is an idiot. Far from it. It just takes a certain type of thinking that isn't terribly common.

I'm just saying that the appearance of incomprehension is familiar to me.

"We sit back and let it happen," Jean Wuske, 77, says. "We need to be more vocal -- let God back into places he should be, like in the schools...."

What do you think would happen if I sat down with Jean Wuske and explained to her that 7 of the 9 "founding fathers" denied the divinity of Christ? Do you think her head would implode?

No - she would simply get that glassy glaze in her eyes that I described. I could present all sorts of materials for her, like the federalists papers, the treaty of tripoli, personal writings and so on.. and she would brush them all aside, as her mind does that really neato trick of protecting its belief system - even while in the very small recesses in the back, knowing it's all bullshit.

And we all know they don't want "God" back in the schools as there was no God in the schools to begin with. They are simply advocating for "Christian mind control" in the schools.

So, while I would judge the Pastors as being evil, on the order of lets say, Satan, their followers are just too stupid to vote.

Tax-exempt churches and organizations can't endorse candidates or be formally tied to a political party. Johnson notes that the Ohio Restoration Project aims to do more than register voters. Each pastor who joins also promises to sign up 100 "Intercessors" to join an e-mail prayer chain and 200 "Minutemen Volunteers" to work in community projects.

"I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat," declares Pastor Rod Parsley, a supporter of the Ohio Restoration Project and head of a similar venture called Ohio Reformation.

Lets revoke their tax exempt status. I'd like to get that on a ballot. Once you start hurting them financially, they might go get real jobs.

Lastly - and I guess I should have said this before now. I'm not an elitists, despite the appearance. I know there are millions of people far brighter than I, and I know there are some people of a more, shall we say "simple", influence who have hearts of gold and achieve great things.

The point is - the din of irrational noise is getting louder and louder from the Christians - the vast majority of whom are not qualified to comment on the topics they are so interested in.