God and country

[dweller]

BY PETER EICHENBERGER

"The national government will maintain and defend the
foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer
strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective
morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We
want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to
burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the
theatre, and in the press--in short, we want to burn out the poison
of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as
a result of liberal excess during the past years."
--Adolf Hitler

It is between 50 and 60 years since I read it , and I then
considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor
capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly
dreams.
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825

Let us bow our heads and pray, bruthahs and sistahs, for the dearly
departed soul of the Rev. Billy James Hargis. The good reverend has
left the room after a valiant struggle with seeeee-yin, Old Scratch oh
for zip. Some of you students of the antics of Christian nut-jobs may
remember Rev. Hargis, a monstrous, sweaty man with a fervid
imagination and an eerie resemblance to J. Edgar Hoover, except with
a prettier mouth and an even wilder imagination. His big caper:
Releasing thousands of scripture-bearing hot-air balloons (a fleet of
little, bitty Rush Limbaughs) into the USSR. Alas, Rev. Hargis' ministry
blowed up when he admitted he had been engaging in the fine old
tradition of Prima Noctae, that is, tapping new brides before the
grooms got a shot at it. Nothing wrong with that--tradition being a
touchstone of conservatism. Problem was, Brutha Hargis was doin' the
grooms as well. (Shudder.)
www.postfun.com/pfp/features/97/oct/hargis.html

Hargis joins a long list of frauds/lunatics who have been undone by the
temptations and eeeee-veal that walk this earth. The good news is that
Hargis is asleep in the arms of Jayzus; speaking the right babble will get
you out of almost anything in the murky world of charismatic
evangelism, where good acts will not guarantee you a seat on the Holy
Express, but if you admit you are a sinner and that you're really, really
sorry, you can screw chickens and it's all forgiven.
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/137/52.0.html

Well right here in little old Raleigh, the battle for the soul of America is
not over sodomy, but Christm--oops--holiday decorations.

Everyone's heard about Pastor Patrick Wooden's full-page ad in the N
'n' O, right? There is more to the story.

more here


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