What's the worst thing you've heard regarding religion & politics?

[Rocknrule]

You know, typical RW arguments trying to assert that God is a Republican and voted for Bush. I heard someone at my school say on November 3, 2004 "I told you, Bush won because God wanted him to win!"
:puke:

[cdsilv]

1. that they are becoming one and the same....n/t

[Mythsaje]

2. God as a Diebold machine...

What an enchanting idea.

NOT.

[Lars39]

3. A very disturbed woman erased the troop #s off the back of my vehicle

and left me a note on the back of her mapquest from Fort Campbell:

"Where is the respect for their families left behind. And the respect for those that are fighting for
your freedom As we all know your freedom is not free.
May the Lord bless you and your family, and put it in your heart to have respect for others.

Have a blessed day


What have you done besides keep a body count. as a Veteran and now a military spouse I take offense to this and feel that it is immoral. I know that I will pray for you to learn not to be so ignorant."


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Of course the troop numbers went right back up. I will not be intimidated.

On edit: this is not the worst I've heard, just my latest experience.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The classic "Gott Mit Uns" from the First & Second World Wars

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance26.html

[converted_democrat]

5. I grew up in a fiercely R-Wing household, so I could throw these at you all

day.. That if God wanted to help "a certain race" he would, and since God isn't helping them, why should the government have to, because it obviously isn't God's will..

And a close second..

That we were blessed because we were born with money and of a particular race, and God blessed us because we deserved it, and didn't bless others because they didn't deserve it..

Needless to say, I only talk and visit with my family on a very, very limited basis.. I knew it was wrong even when I was a kid.. As soon as I was old enough I ran away..

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

6. That leaked video of General Boykin scared the crap out of me

AFAIK, he's still Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence

June, 2003: "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."

June, 2003: "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan.

June 2003: "Well, is he ( bin Laden ) the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man ( Saddam ) the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan."

"They're after us because we're a Christian nation."

2002: "We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this"

2003: regarding President George W. Bush "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."

Jan., 2003 "Three days later we went after him again, and this time we got him. Not a mark on him. We got him. We brought him back into our base there and we had a Sea Land container set up to hold prisoners in, and I said put him in there. They put him in there, there was one guard with him. I said search him, they searched him, and then I walked in with no one in there but the guard, and I looked at him and said, 'Are you Osman Atto?' And he said 'Yes.' And I said, 'Mr. Atto, you underestimated our God."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin