Christian right marks start of `a good 4 years'

[NVMojo]

....that's one long ass "hell week" for the rest of us and Sponge Bob Squarepants....

snip...

A couple of hours after President Bush (news - web sites) took the oath of office, the indefatigable Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition (news - web sites), was more upbeat than usual.

On Wednesday, Sheldon had tossed a Christian bash for more than 800 people at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The host committee was virtually a who's who of politically important evangelicals, including Gary Bauer (news - web sites), Ralph Reed and Rev. Jerry Falwell. On Thursday, Sheldon played host to an indoor gathering of about 300 fellow Christians, people who wanted to experience the inauguration events with like-minded people but weren't inclined to brave the weather.

"This is the beginning of a good four years," said Sheldon, who is given to quoting historical figures and this time offered a snippet of George Washington's 1796 farewell address: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."

more...(if you can stomach it)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=3&u=/chitribts/20050121/ts_chicagotrib/christianrightmarksstartofagood4years

[ropi]

1. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF GILEAD!

time to dust off the copies of The Handmaid's Tale

It's gonna be a long, long four years.

[NVMojo]

2. this is scary thinking ...be warned, my friends, be warned ...

"Religion and morality," Sheldon repeated. "That's what is happening--that fusion of religion and morality and public policy has now come about."

[jeff30997]

3. And it's gonna be a bloody,bloody four years.

[Chipper Chat]

6. note to eastern museums: Better hide those stocks & pillories

- they could be the "punishment du jour" of your local RW fundies if the Falwell-Dobson-Sheldon gang get their way.

[jmowreader]

15. They'll make new ones!

If you've got a flycutter and a tablesaw, you can whip out a set of stocks in just a couple of hours, and the work will help provide for Good Christian Carpenters whose business is in a slump because of the economic policies of the dipshit they put in office.

[VegasWolf]

21. You can always buy new pillories, self flagellation whips, etc from

the Opus Dei Gift Store.

[DrCorday]

4. Latest in Freeper style muslim-bashing.

Yes! More holy wars between the Jerry Falwells and the Osama Bin-Ladens.

Why can't they just leave us out of it?

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Right Thinking said this:

Here’s the latest example of the crushing of dissent!


HIZBOLLAH, the hardline religious group, yesterday threatened to carry out suicide attacks in London in an attempt to kill a UK-based Iranian exile television presenter said to have made insulting comments about Islam.

Manouchehr Fouladvand, on the US-based Farsi language MA-TV, has been accused of mocking Moham-med and the Koran. There have been demands in Iran for the broadcaster’s death.

Mojtaba Bigdeli, spokesman for Iran’s Hizbollah group, warned the British government must ban the satellite channel, run by Iranian exiles, within 30 days or face the consequences. “After one month, our commandos will carry out suicide attacks in London against the shameless presenter of the channel. He has crossed our red lines by insulting our prophet and Islamic values.”

Mr Bigdeli said Hizbollah had the approval of leading clerics to kill him.

Do you think, for a second, that we’ll hear the kind of outrage from the western left that we’ve heard over, say, John Ashcroft?

Then White Rabbit said this:
You know, liberals like to say the world would be better off without any religion. That may or may not be true, but it’d definitely be a better place if Islam just blipped out of existence tomorrow.

Then GripeBoy said this:
Ok Muslim extremists, here’s one for you. Mohammed was a fag and I just rolled a splif with the Koran. Come and get me you insane fucks!
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They really love giving more people reasons to hate us. I wish they'd use their little article to point out the inconsistency between Islamic extremism and the general Islamic population.

With friends like this, who needs enemies?
http://right-thinking.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9217/
I'd love help if anyone's down. Thanks!

[NVMojo]

5. yeah, this is true ...they are getting ready of round two in the Muslim

bashing and killings ....just for God!!

[chicagojoe]

7. Hey-- if they get too far out of line,

we tar and feather them as a "special interest group" looking for "special rights". Then we take away their tax-exempt status.

They're just emboldened by "Revenge of the Nerds'04".

[Kimber Scott]

8. I wonder how much these "Christian" bashes cost? I bet there were

a few hungry people in DC who could have used a good "Christian" meal, or a warm "Christian" bed.

Who was it who said, "Pride goeth before the fall?"

[MountainLaurel]

30. Especially considering

That almost all the services for the homeless downtown had to be closed because of all the security measures -- some were moved to alternate locations, but how's your average homeless vet going to travel?

[LynnTheDem]

9. They'll all be dying for more of bush's warmongering lies soon

We must SPREAD DEMOCRACY and NATION-BUILD and bring LIBERTY to every OOT in the world!!!

RAH RAH RAH!!! KILL KILL KILL!!!

DIE DIE DIE!!!

Coz I am NOT going. So the warmongering incredibly STUPID rightwingnuts that worship their bush-god will just have to start dying without me. And I suspect without most progressives. HAVE FUN, freepo-fascists! RAH RAH RAH!!!

[NVMojo]

10. yeah, but if there christian kids get drafted and killed in * middle east

takeover, they will make them martyrs for their holy wars ...

[LynnTheDem]

25. Their rightwingnut parents may think so...

but in reality, they'll just be dead. Like the hundred thousand now dead because of George W. bush.

[GarySeven]

11. All those enemies of democracy and freedom in one place at one time ..

well, I won't say it. But you can think it.

And remember THEY would never miss a chance like that.

[AnnInLa]

12. Jazz Funeral for Democracy pic

http://www.magnjc.com:8000/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Jazz-Funeral-for-Democracy&id=IMG_4910

for a pic from the Jazz Funeral for Democracy in New Orleans on Jan 20, take a look at this one, which goes to show you that not all Christians are buying the evangelical, fundie crap.

BTW, it was an honor to have participated in the Funeral, the largest counter-inaugural in the U.S. Take a look at the rest of the pics in that gallery.

[GarySeven]

14. Great - they gather to consolidate their plans for OUR destruction ...

and we put on a piece of street theater.

Sometimes I wonder if Democracy is even worth defending. At gunpoint we liberals pshaw and dance for their entertainment.

[AnnInLa]

16. thanks for your support

street theater is how things are done in New Orleans. If you think that our mocking of the bush inaugural did not make our point, then you are wrong. Please go to the website and click on the speakers, and see if these particular people would be taken lightly by the opposing "side." Which demonstration did you participate in on Inaugural Day?

[GarySeven]

19. I was on the streets of DC

Getting pepper sprayed and getting into the faces of the fascist cops.

It's going to take BLOOD, my friend, not rarees and puppet shows. Bricks and stones and riots will make them turn loose their power.

[The Zanti Regent]

13. Screw Jesusland. I'm working for secession.

I'm working to take California out of Jesusland. If you want to live in California free from Je$u$ and ¢hri$tianity, join us at http://moveoncalifornia.org/index.html

[QC]

24. Secession was already tried once before.

A fairly important war was fought over that issue, and the secession side lost. Perhaps you've heard about it?

[NNguyenMD]

17. these guys are setting themselves up for crushing dissapointment/failure

There is just too much of an ominous feel in the air to term 2, Bush is going to show the world precisely how anti-christian he is, and the fundies will be responsible for the shit that spills for the next four years.

[BiggJawn]

18. They think they're in total control now.

What wiill I do when it comes to the cops knocking on my door Sunday morning asking why I'm not at Church?

Never happen?

That's what they said in Europe back in the 30's.

[chicagojoe]

20. Anyone who kicks MY door in

will take a round in the f*ckin' eye.

[BiggJawn]

26. Yeah, but there's only one of you...

And more of them wanting to be "Holy Warriors" every day.

Kind of a low price for your life, dontcha think?

[chicagojoe]

28. But I'm armed to the teeth.

If it ever came to pass that there were fascist "holy police",
my defenses will be in such a state that they couldn't make it up my driveway without massive loss of life and limb. And I will rejoice!

[98geoduck]

22. The Old Traditional Values Coalition...They're back out of the closet

[SmartBomb]

23. Morality, Smorality, they are driven by an unconscious desire to subjugate

Control, not faith, is what they worship. Otherwise, they'd happily go about practicing their religion in fellowship with their ilk, and leave the rest of us alone.

[WahooJunkie]

27. Christian bash...?

"On Wednesday, Sheldon had tossed a Christian bash for more than 800 people at the Ritz-Carlton hotel."

How much fun could a christian bash be?

No booze. No pot. No Rock-n-roll. No cartoons. No bumpin' and grindin'.

That's a "bash?"


boo.

[leesa]

29. Lot's of death and destruction...a right wing Fundies wet dream!

[glitch]

31. Dear Lord give this planet a break - Rapture Already! nt