Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: Tab
Originally posted by: Genx87
The left will try their hardest to uncover anything on McCain that sounds like Wright. They will ultimately fail.
And... Your point is this is politics as usual? Wright might be crazy and all but Parsley asking for the elimination of an entire religion is something much more serious.
Or do you disagree?
My point is you guys will try to uncover anything on anybody and paint it in the same light as the Wright\Obama relationship when it is clearly apples and oranges. Dont waste your time because people wont buy it. What is this, the 3rd attempt in as many weeks trying to do this? And nothign has stuck because people see right through it as a lame attempt.
Yes, beacause there is no comparison to a black preacher stateing the US government spread Aids to black people purposely and labeling him an them "America Hater" and similar, America-hating white Christian ministers, are celebrated as cherished figures among the very same right-wing faction feigning such outrage and offense over Wright's far more mild statements. White, right-wing Christian evangelical vitrol against America is understandable, respectable.
Gimme a break...
It's not "okay" for a America hating preacher er, um "spiritual advisor" to say the 9/11 attacks are "blowback" from America's interference in the ME, but it's "okay" for another America hating evangelical christian preacher to say the 9/11 attacks are "blowback" for the evil sins of American society.
There's no comparison, and okay for the America Hater Jerry Falwell to spew his hate and blame 9\11 on "sin" and gay people and Aids. Oh, no...He's was a patriotic American. President Bush "said he was deeply saddened by Falwell's death, calling him 'a man who cherished faith, family and freedom. Baloney, this man hated America and blamed American society unless it had his America hating worldview.
There's no comparison when America Hater Hagee calls Katrina "blowback" for gay people and the evil American society. How bout it...The city of New Orleans got what it deserved when Katrina drowned its residents and devastated the lives of thousands of Americans. No, he's a patriotic American and a good card carrying Republican.
It's okay for America hating "spiritual advisor" Parsley an Ohio megachurch to call upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it and "America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion [Islam] destroyed".All the while we have soldiers over in the ME fighting to HELP the muslum world live in peace and bring them into the modern world. Oh no....this America hater is a patriotic American. Our soldiers are "supposedly in the ME so he can have the right to spew his hate. Why does this "good"christian preacher hate America?
Its okay for America hater James Inhofe, a member in good standing in the GOP Senate Caucus to say the US provoked the 9/11 attacks for its "wickedness" of American society. The Republican Party has tied itself at the hip to a whole slew of "anti-American extremists" - people who believe that the U.S. provoked the 9/11 attacks because God wants to punish us for the evil, wicked nation we've become - and yet the is virtual silence about these associations and they are "apples to oranges comparisons".
It's okay for America hating Christian Rapture enthusiasts such as Hagee, Parsley, Inhofe, and Robertson to call for the destruction of other religons and the protection of Isreal so that god can destroy it and the jewish people. Yet the controversy created over their close ties is virtually non-existent.
The phrases "anti-American" and "America-haters" are among the most barren and manipulative in our entire political lexicon, but whatever they happen to mean on any given day, they easily encompass people who believe that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks, devastating hurricanes and the like. Yet when are people like Falwell, Robertson, Hagee, Inhofe and other white Christian radicals ever described as anti-American or America-hating extremists?
Never...
Because white Christian evangelicals who tie themselves to the political Right are intrinsically patriotic. Do they believe that those individuals are anti-American radicals and that people who allow their children to belong to their churches are exercising grave errors of judgment?. Shouldn't we be very concerned about American children hearing our President praise an American-hating radical who believes that our country is a sick and wicked land that God wanted to be victimized by the 9/11 attacks?
George Bush had private conversations with Pat Robertson about matters as weighty as whether to invade Iraq. Isn't that a big scandal - that the President is consulting with an American-hating minister - someone who believes God allowed the 9/11 attacks as punishment for our evil country - about vital foreign policy decisions? No, it wasn't controversial at all. Of coarse this televangalist is a patriotic American?!
Hagee and his ilk are all bigoted divide and conquer powermongers, just like Reverend Wright. Within all the Evangelical Love and Support for Israel, is the inconvenient grand finale, where everyone but "them" burn in hell for all eternity, including the Jews in Israel who don't "instantaneously convert" when the crazies and their crocoducks starting disappearing. If that is not the logical conclusion of pure bigorty, an endgame agenda of "everyone is dead and we are in Heaven with a Benevolent God who loves us", than what is?
It's pretty self-evident about the double standard that clearly, irrefutably exists in America with regard to what is and is not acceptable religious/political speech.