Comments on: Evangelicals Feeling Left Out, Poll Finds

Crucial Bloc Split On GOP Options, Feels Key Issues Are Being Ignored

[kansas1946]

Much of Christian (far) Right''''s posturing is based on fear and ignorance. Their primary power base is in a part of the country that welcomes social change reluctantly if at all. Many of them are busy enough getting on with the business of survival that they have no time, let alone energy, to do any independant thinking. So strong and inflexible moral absolutes absolves them the responsibility of thought and inquiry. Posted by LloydBest1
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Lloyd, you are so right. Education is the enemy of fanaticism. Of course, groups that are controlled by these spit-slinging preachers are terrified of education, because that same preacher has told them that the public schools are full of atheists and Satanists who will try and steal their children''s minds. Ignorance is a despots best insurance policy.

[kansas1946]

A quote from a Religious Righter..

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don''''''''t want equal time. We don''''''''t want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93

hmmm sounds kind of like a muslim if you ask me.......same hate and zealous quest for power.
Posted by simonsez40 at 09:08 AM : Oct 19, 2007

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Simon. Exactly. These nuts, and Randall Terry is a perfect example, are normally left at the fringes of our society and not given much attention. This is what happens when you give them credibility. The Republican party gave these raving lunitcs credibility just to get votes, and now the beast has gotten away from them. This guy is no different from a radical mullah.

[homjett]

I think if Gov. Romney was anything but a Morman, he would be leading in the National Polls. I would like to see a Romney/Huckabee ticket. I believe Romney is the right man for bringing the country together, he has provent that he can work with folks of all stripes. What he accomplished with the Olympics is a impressive story. In this time in history, being a Morman should not matter. I think we have some folks in Congress that are Mormans, even a Muslim.

[ioweign]

A quote from a Religious Righter..

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don''''t want equal time. We don''''t want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93

hmmm sounds kind of like a muslim if you ask me.......same hate and zealous quest for power.


Posted by simonsez40 at 09:08 AM : Oct 19, 2007



I call them the American Taliban.

[ksjeff-2009]

The wingnuts need their own party. Then that party will siphon off enough votes from the Republican nominee that he will lose, and the Dems will have it. If it wasn''t for that G.D. idiot Nader, Kerry would be president now, and Bush would be back in Crawford with horsesh*t on his boots.

[cdfoxtrot]

"Evangelicals Feeling Left Out, Poll Finds". Well boo, hoo. Now maybe they know how the rest of us have felt since, oh, the mid-90s, when their extremist views began to be heard and implemented in Washington.

[presronpaul]

Aw, do the wittle crazy intolerent "Christians" get their feelings hurt?

[antoniof123]

Posted by Hwy71So at 11:37 AM : Oct 19, 2007

I don''t know where you live but in Florida we have the castle law and we can use our guns to defend ourselves. So instead of blaming us liberals and I am now for sure (I also have a few guns including my personal faviorte a Glock) blame yourself for allowing the laws. The NRA are a bunch of nut cases that do nothing except support the GOP and make more of a mess for us gun owners. I say everyone should be trained and if the NRA won''t do it then I and a few other dads will.

Thank you but no thank you any longer.

[antoniof123]

LloydBest1 I used to believe the same way you do but time has changed me. You can not reason with them they just won''t allow it. In fact their ministers teach them how to not be reasoned with. They teach them to call others names belittle others and say that they will burn in hell.

I no longer am patience with them. In fact now when they try to give me their are you going to heaven or hell speech. I tell them hell and if they don''t leave me a lone I will make sure that I take them with me. Most of the time it works but sometimes I have to get a little louder with them. Use your imagination as to what needs to be done.

[rayuk-2009]

Evangelicals should have a draft Ted Haggard for president strategy. He is perfect because his values and truthfulness mirrors theirs exactly. Go Ted!