Blasphemy...not a problem when conservatives do it

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Conservative activists compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Jesus Christ during an event Friday, earning a chorus of amens from the audience of Iowa Republicans. Steve Scheffler, a conservative Christian activist, thanked God for the freshman Texas senator who helped engineer the 16-day government shutdown in his effort to derail the Affordable Care Act. He also prayed for more conservative leaders like Cruz who were willing to “be crucified for their belief system,” reported BuzzFeed…. “Every time one of these guys attacks him, it’s good for him,” said one Iowa Republican operative. “He’s like a superhero. The more bullets that get shot at him, the bigger and stronger he gets.”…. Cruz and other conservatives at the annual Reagan fundraising dinner cast themselves as victims and compared themselves to David fighting an army of Goliaths that included the mainstream media and the Obama administration.

Imagine the hue and cry, the furious weeping and gnashing of teeth, that would erupt if someone on the Left compared…say, Harry Reid…to Jesus Christ. The absurdity of the comparison aside, the Christian Right would be aflame with righteous indignation over the idea that Liberals would DARE mention Reid in the same breath as the Prince of Peace (whom they view as their very own). Then look at what happened in Iowa over the weekend, where Ted Cruz was frequently (and absurdly) mentioned in the same breath as their Lord and Savior. No problem, right? Only when the Left does it…because as any REAL American knows, God’s a Conservative free-market Republican.

When godless Liberals do it, it’s the worst sort of anti-Christian blasphemy imaginable. When Conservative Christians do it, they’re simply expressing their admiration for someone willing to “be crucified for their belief system.” The predictable and trite David and Goliath analogies aside, how can it be viewed as hypocrisy when you’re convinced that God’s a Conservative Republican and therefore on your side? When you can’t be bothered with details like the separation of Church and State, it’s easy to believe that the Almighty is rightly and unquestionably on your side.

Except that there’s nothing about Ted Cruz that makes him a “superhero,” nor is he willing to “be crucified for their belief system.” Ted Cruz is all and only about his only political prospects and self-aggrandizement. He’s a demagogue, a hypocrite, and a liar of the first order. If it takes slandering the President to boost his political star, then so be it. One of the beautiful things about being a member of the Rabid Christian Right is that facts are virtually meaningless. What matters is what you can convince like-minded sheeple to be true. When you’re predisposed to assume the worst of The Black Guy in the White House ©, anything that paints him in an unflattering light is easily and quickly accepted as Gospel.

That most of these folks wouldn’t recognize the teachings of Jesus Christ if the Lord himself showed up with an instruction manual almost goes without saying. The truth is that the politics of the Rabid Christian Right has nothing to do with the true meaning of Christianity. What it’s really about is power and control, and if authoritarian zealots can use their conveniently bastardized faith to seize and maintain it, so much the better. The truth is that the Rabid Christian Right is a fraud whose true values have nothing in common with the true meaning of Christianity. Their apocalyptic world view is as grounded in biblical reality as Timothy McVeigh’s was in nonviolence.

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[meow2u3]

1. The media needs to point out this right-wing blasphemy

Calling RWNJs like Cruz out on their blasphemy might get through to some religious voters, but for the extreme sacrelegious right, nothing we say will get them to change their minds.

[gopiscrap]

2. they never will, corporate whores that they are

[gopiscrap]

3. they're a bunch or hypocrits

[Half-Century Man]

4. The stuporhero from Canada/Texas/Iowa/Wonderland has never been in danger.

If he seriously thought someone would nail him to a tree he would flip in a nanosecond.

Tokurode, the "nails and spear in 3 hours" crucification is the easy way to die on the cross. The hard way lasts usually 3 days.

[arendt]

5. Been here before. Not a good place...

The science/cultural historian, Morris Berman, quotes from the December, 1934 issue of Harper's:

At Garmisch, I met an American...who had been at Oberammergau, at the Passion Play. "These people are all crazy," he said. "This is not a revolution, it's a revival. They think Hitler is God. Believe it or not, A German woman sat next to me at the Passion Play and when they hoisted Jesus on the Cross, she said, 'There he is. That is our Fuehrer, our Hitler.' And when they paid out the thirty pieces of silver to Judas, she said: 'That is Roehm, who betrayed the Leader.' "

He goes on to say:

Christ associations were everywhere. Walter Langer reports that an art shop in Berlin had a large portrait of Hitler in its display window surrounded by paintings of Christ, and the historian Stephen Roberts tells of seeing, in Munich in the fall of 1936, "coloured pictures of Hitler in the actuyal silver garments of the Knight of the Grail..." The highest circles fo the SS were, in the mid-thirties, agreed that Hitler would take over the role that had historically been held by Christ...

"There has arisen a new authority as to what Christ and Christianity really are," said Hans Kerrl, Reichsminister for Church Affiars, on February 23, 1937; "Adolf Hitler is the real Holy Ghost."

- Morris Berman, "Coming to Our Senses"

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You can scream "Godwin" all you want. These people have crossed every red line, and they are accelerating. If they aren't completed disgraced as a political and theological movement, our society will be paralyzed by these militant, fundamentalist lunatics. You say Godwin; I say "Never Again.".

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Yeah, let them stick him on the ticket in 2016. Preferably with Santorum.

Like the Dominionist Batman and Robin.

That would be good for some laughs.