Oh Lord, can't we keep religion out of politics?

[cbayer]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/keep-religion-out-politics

America's founders insisted on church-state separation. Yet now we have senators and justices prattling about the devil. Save us

Teresa Wiltz
theguardian.com, Monday 14 October 2013 12.43 EDT


Michele Bachmann sees US support for some Syrian rebel groups as proof that 'end times' are near. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

The devil is making a comeback.

Or maybe, if we're to believe a certain group of politicos, he's been hiding in plain sight all along.

First, we had Representative Michele Bachmann (Republican, Minneosota) asserting that President Obama's decision to help a segment of the Syrian rebels is proof positive that the four horsemen of the apocalypse would be showing up any day now. Because terrorists.

"Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.

more at link

[hrmjustin]

1. The good think is she is leaving congress.

[cbayer]

3. True, but she's not going away.

It's not in her nature to remove herself from the limelight.

[hrmjustin]

4. She will become another Sarah Palin out for a buck.

[elleng]

2. If only.

[cbayer]

5. GOP House members sing Christian hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ before pushing to derail Senate deal

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/15/gop-house-members-sing-christian-hymn-amazing-grace-before-pushing-to-derail-senate-deal/

[trotsky]

6. Certainly not as long as people think it's just fine and dandy when our side does it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121885415

[skepticscott]

7. Yes, but he's a "real" Christian

So of course the religionists here all fawn over him, never grasping the irony or the danger.