SAN ANTONIO — Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention. “It’s great to be back in the holy land,” the Fort Worth native said to the cheers of the party faithful.For the 4,500 delegates at last week’s biennial gathering, it was both an expression of conservative philosophy and religious faith, a melding of church and state.
The Texas Arrogant, Religious Bigots Republican Party held their state convention over the weekend, and it sure sounds like it was an exercise in holier-than-thou , self-righteous self-congratulation. Damn, we’re Christians and we’re Republicans AND we live in Texas. That must make us the Chosen Ones, eh?
Yeah, right; not only that, you also should feel free to ignore and marginalize those poor misguided souls not fortunate enough to march in ideological and theological lockstep with you. Hey, if you’re the Chosen Ones, then the rest of us just have to hope for whatever crumbs happen to fall from your table. Jeebus, what a collection of arrogant, self-important zealots y’all are. Christian charity? Love of your fellow man? Yeah, right; which Bible have YOU been reading?
At Saturday morning’s prayer meeting, party leader Tina Benkiser assured them that God was watching over the two-day confab.
“He is the chairman of this party,” she said against a backdrop of flags and a GOP seal with its red, white and blue logo.
The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares “America is a Christian nation” and affirms that “God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom.”
“We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the separation of church and state,” it says.
This is where I become furiously angry at the arrogance of those self-righteous twits who think that because they are Christians (and Republicans), they have the perfect right to ignore and marginalize those of us who are not. I am a Buddhist, and I am every bit as much of an American as the dickweeds who think that being the majority religion means that God has bestowed some sort of special magical fairy dust upon them which allows them to ignore the teachings of Jesus Christ ND treat non-Christians as if they’re pond scum.
I think I’m beginning to understand where the Crusades came from….
America may be a nation in which the majority of people are Christians, but it is NOT purely and solely a Christian nation. America is a nation of Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Packer fans…and a whole raftload of other faiths and persuasions. For members of the majority to assume that they are somehow favored by God to the exclusion of all others is the height of arrogance and shows a complete lack of understanding of the very belief system they profess to cling to. These trolls really ought to crawl back under whatever bridge they slithered out from under.
At Saturday morning’s prayer meeting, ministers delivered prayers, gospel singers sang, and the Rev. Dale Young, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Laredo, picked up the convention’s dominant theme of immigration.
“Lord, your words tell us there’s a sign that this nation is under a curse, when the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and lower,” he preached.
Yeah, and who mows your &^%$#)+ lawn, picks up your &^%$#)+ garbage, and builds your &^%$#)+ homes?
And when you build your &^%$#)+ wall along the Mexican border, who do you think is going to build it?
The night before, East Texas evangelist Rick Scarborough exhorted Christians at a “values rally” to get involved in elections: “We must do more than pray. We also must put sweat to our tears.”
Delegates sought him out, taking snapshots and having him sign his book Liberalism Kills Kids
And Scarborough calls himself a Christian? What arrogance must fuel a person willing to so thoroughly denigrate and marginalize those who happen not to think and live in the same narrow, hateful manner he does? This arrogant selo-superiority is exactly the sort of mindset that led the Nazis to think it perfectly acceptable to march Jews to the ovens.
Houston activist Bobby Eberle, a candidate for party vice chairman, organized the Friday evening rally. Taking the stage, he took aim at “the ACLU, liberal Hollywood, Democrats and these left-wingers” who have bedeviled the GOP.
“We need to continue to fight, whether for the pro-life movement or for decency in programming,” said Mr. Eberle, whose Internet enterprise had its own recent dust-up over decency.
Yeah, and Eberle is a real paragon of decency and honesty in programming. Eberle, after all, was the owner of Talon News, which employed Jeff Gannon as a White House correspondent. Well. Talon did employ Gannon, until it was disclosed that Gannon in a previous iteration had appeared on gay prostitution web sites. Now THERE’S some Christian values at work, eh? I don’t think that’s what anyone had in mind when it comes to loving your fellow man.
I have no problem with these arrogant twits believing what they choose to. That is their right. What they do not have the right to do is to denigrate, marginalize, and discriminate against those who happen not to believe as they do. Their ignorant, arrogant Chrisitianity only demonstrates that know little and understand even less about the teachings of Jesus Christ. What these folks are about is fear and control- living in fear of what they do not and choose not to understand and attempting to control others and force them to live and believe as they do.
These fools wouldn’t recognize Christian charity and understanding if it bit them on the ass. Of course, their belief system has nothing to do with charity or with loving their fellow man. No, it’s all about power, control, and forcing those who happen to be walking another path to change their ways or face the consequences.
There should be a special place in Hell for trolls such as these. They call themselves Christians, and yet they seem to know nothing about the true meaning of what they profess to believe in.
WE DESERVE BETTER.
