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The Extreme Right's Theocratic Agenda

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:29:20 AM EST
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Intemperate?

[T]he covert theocratic agenda of the [Beck] coalition needs to be emphatically pointed out to the American People at every possible moment[. . . .] The fundamental fact is that most Americans [. . .] don't want to live in a "Christian Nation" theocracy and they need to be shown that this is indeed the covert agenda of Beck and his ominously named "Black Robed Regiments."

An excerpt from Markos' "American Taliban"? No, that's Ed Kilgore of the Democratic Strategist. Will weenie liberals condemn this intemperate attack? (FTR, I think Beck's agenda is to make a lot of money.)

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    Becks agenda (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:40:53 AM EST
    is certainly to make money.  his flock however have an entirely different agenda.
    fruits of the "agenda" (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:08:28 AM EST
    Human beings with a sense of decency are demanding that Montana's Big Sky Tea Party remove Tim Ravndal from his position as President of the state party after he joked about killing LGBTQ people and the torture and murder of Matthew Shepard.

    Ravndal had stated in a Facebook post that marriage should be between a man and woman (blah blah blah) and one of his fans commented, "I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions."

    Ravndal's response: "Where can I get that Wyoming printed instruction manual?"

    The original commenter then responds to Ravndal, "Should be able to get info Gazette archives. Maybe even an illustration. Go back a bit over ten years."
    His latest FB post (none / 0) (#14)
    by Yman on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:57:44 AM EST
    In sharing news about ACLU suing Montana on the gay marriage issue, I made a mistake and commented on a post that implied that I condone violence against another human being. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Those that know me understand and that is all that matters!

    His comments were just misconstrued.

    Yeah.

    Looks like even TPers won't condone his comments...

    ... or maybe they just don't want the bad press.

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    that's pretty much my thought as well. (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:41:50 AM EST
    (FTR, I think Beck's agenda is to make a lot of money.)

    anything else is merely icing on his financial cake.

    Yup - he saw the real money is in (none / 0) (#3)
    by ruffian on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:43:44 AM EST
    religious evangelism, not politics.

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    unfortunately (none / 0) (#4)
    by CST on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:54:59 AM EST
    I'm not so sure this is true:

    "The fundamental fact is that most Americans [. . .] don't want to live in a "Christian Nation" theocracy "

    I hope it is, but I'm not so sure these days.  I think a lot of America does actually want that.

    I wish they'd stop calling these people Christian (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by cawaltz on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:15:21 AM EST
    Christ preached tolerance, compassion and forgiveness. How in the world is waging war, persecuting foreigners or people with a different belief set, and removing safety nets for the most vulnerable in order to provide tax breaks for the least vulnerable the least bit Christ like. As I told the Republican gentlemen I conversed with over the Community Center if you are cherry picking from the Old Testament that isn't the New Covenant and has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

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    I think one of the most effective (none / 0) (#11)
    by CST on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:27:24 AM EST
    people who I have seen counter that meme is Stephen Colbert, Mr. Sunday-school-teacher.  If you watch his show, you will see he takes that stuff pretty personally/seriously and really doesn't like the hi-jacking by the right of Christianity.

    That being said, unfortunately he's preaching to the choir for the most part.

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    This issue (none / 0) (#16)
    by NYShooter on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 04:04:32 PM EST
    has been discussed and explained ad nauseum. For the most part you're referring to people who simply are not fully, cognitively developed. They believe something, and when told their belief is factually incorrect, they simply shrug their shoulders or claim, "that's a lie." Glenn Beck understands that and its made him a multi-millionaire.

    As a senior GWB advisor said, "we make own reality." And that's why Obama's non-partisanship crap is just that....crap!


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    I think (none / 0) (#5)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:01:12 AM EST
    you are correct.


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    There's also a segment of America that thinks it (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by steviez314 on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:08:52 AM EST
    can ride the Christian Right tiger to suit their purposes--the neocons, GOP politicians, etc.

    Until the tiger turns around and eats them too.

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    also (none / 0) (#8)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:09:53 AM EST
    correct IMO

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    Is it just a coincidence (none / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:23:35 AM EST
    that Beck's fairly recent public ascendence seems to be coinciding with this current, big, advertising-pr push on the part of the Mormons?

    "yadda yadda yadda..and I'm a Mormon"?

    If it keeps up, possibly some Pastor may be 'forced' to hold a Book of Mormon burning - and public rebuking of Mormon "wolves in sheep's clothing"- soon. Wouldn't that be a shame? I wonder how much of a donation to his ministry it would take to get an event like that off the ground?

     

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    Is it also just a coincidence (none / 0) (#12)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:38:28 AM EST
    that all this is happening just before Mittens big run?

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    Don't forget, too, (none / 0) (#13)
    by scribe on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 11:48:36 AM EST
    that all those ads for "Ancestry.com" lead back to "the world's largest collection of family history information" or something similarly described.

    Of course, if you look behind the smiling "my great-great-whatever was the town's only doctor" on the ads, you'll see it's all tied in very, very tightly with ... the LDS church (which has, as a part of its doctrine, retroactive posthumous conversion of ancestors into the Mormon church).

    Just saying.

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    The LDS Church (none / 0) (#15)
    by jbindc on Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 03:37:40 PM EST
    In Salt Lake City, has one of the largest collections of ancestry records for people doing genealogical research.  Not just Mormons, and aside from the controversial "after death baptisms."

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    If there is a movement (none / 0) (#17)
    by BWS on Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 10:57:27 AM EST
    It's a manifestation of the Republican party's breakdown. The neo-cons lost control of the party during the latter portions of the Bush years, leaving the "fiscal" and "social" conservatives to duke it out for control of the party's ideological identity.

    It's safe to say that the dominance of one leg of that party over the other two often results in what appears to be a major societal shift. In reality though, it is often the folks shouting the loudest in an effort to gain control. (That Dems don't coalesce similarly is simultaneously their greatest strength and the source of their greatest weakness).

    Beck is just a profiteering loudspeaker for the group he has identified as leading the pack for control.

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