Bryan J. Fischer, the issues director of the good ol’ American Family Association, who has many interesting Thoughts on interesting Topics, has some airtight logic for us, and that is that if the Founders did not want a Christianist theocracy, then why did they put a date on the Constitution…?
I didn’t listen to my father a lot, but one of the things he said that did stick with me was that merely believing something doesn’t make it true. You may want something to be a certain way, you may have convinced yourself that this is in fact the case…but that doesn’t ipso facto make it so. I don’t suppose he’d ever heard of Bryan Fischer, the self-appointed God-King of Christian Delusionalism and someone who, though he claims the imprimatur of the Almighty, probably hasn’t cracked a Bible since the Reagan Administration.
I’m not certain through what delusion Fischer believes that Christmas is actually in the Constitution (Perhaps it was written in invisible ink?)…but I can’t help but wonder if he’s ever even read it. I’m not a constitutional scholar, but I’m pretty sure you could read and parse every single word…and find nary a mention of Christmas.
(OHMIGOD!!1!1! THAT MUST MEAN THE LIBERAL WAR ON CHRISTMAS IS REAL!!1!1!!)
If your flavor of God is a deity who’s mean-spirited, narrow-minded, judgmental, and as intolerant and homophobic as the day is long, the Bryan Fischer’s probably your idea of a prophet. And if Fischer’s theology mirrors your own, I feel sorry for you, because you’re as much a Christian as Ted Cruz is a flaming Liberal.
Of course, if you like a healthy dollop of comic relief with your Christianity (And who wouldn’t?), you could do far worse than Fischer…though I don’t think he’d be one to find the humor in his twisted and bastardized theology.
