Thanks be to Jesus, not everyone in Kentucky is like the blobfish Mitch McConnell.
Hillbilly Report is dedicated to recording every religious-right event in Kentucky and surrounding states. They spend enormous amounts of time (and money) filming these nuts as they strut their butts before all the other nuts.
The MSM is too busy covering the Tea Party and CPAC dog and pony shows to give us even a tiny glimpse of what's going on in "down-home" America.
There's lots of singing, praying, preaching and right-wing politics at the Restore America Rally.
where are the lefties and their rallies and marches on Washington??? Where are the lefties when the conservatives are bad-mouthing dems and Obama?? Why are we so passive!?
ReplyDeleteThose Hillbillies do a great job!
Aren't they wonderful?
ReplyDeleteIt's aggravating to see ignorance, prejudice, paranoia, spitefulness and arrogance wound together with politics — to the detriment of far too many people and, ultimately, the benefit of none.
ReplyDeletePeople who show up for gatherings like the Restore America Rally come primed from the time they were children for what's being dispensed. They're prepared by family, neighbors, school, church and their communities. It's passed on from generation to generation and protected by the First Amendment.
They should have their say. They should be able to live according to their beliefs, as long as doing so doesn't trample others' rights and freedoms. What they should not have is political power.
SW: " They should be able to live according to their beliefs, as long as doing so doesn't trample others' rights and freedoms."
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, because of their upbringing they think they're on a mission to save all those who don't agree with them. They have been brainwashed into thinking "they" are the only ones who are right and everyone else is a messenger for the devil. Therefore they have no respect for other peoples' beliefs.
Lord knows, they shouldn't have political power. Imagine the consequences!
And, very sad how they put a blemish on those of us who embrace faith, but do not adhere to their fanatical mold. They are "narrow-minded people on a narrow, winding street."
ReplyDeleteTnlib, your previous comment is exactly why the founders took care to keep religion and government separate. People acting above all on religious beliefs can't and won't split differences, and regularly attribute evil motives to political opponents. Both those bad habits make democracy unworkable, much as it's almost unworkable now because of the right acting selfishl on rigid partisan political motivation.
ReplyDeleteLest we forget, the head of the Texas Taliban thought that Jesus told him to attack Iraq. He did.
ReplyDeleteI agree with BJ. Too few people realize that the Jesus of the extreme right is their own invention, a Supply-side Jesus, who is nothing at all like the real one.
BJ: You're so correct. There's been so much criticism, especially of the RC church in their political protests against abortion, I think a lot of the more sensible religious leaders are almost afraid to speak out. It would be nice to have ministers, priests and rabbis like the Berrigan brothers.
ReplyDeleteSW: I can't really add to that because you've already expressed my own thoughts better than I could. Thank you.
TC: Politics makes strange bedfellows. Maybe the head of the Texas Taliban and the Alaskan Priestess should crawl in the sack together.
Personally the religious right has done more to destroy my already shaky Christianity than the four years I spent in a HS nunnery boot camp (Episcopal).
Fanaticism is a by-product of ignorance. Prejudice and only be erased with education.
ReplyDeleteEducation starts at home and this is the kind of environment these ignorant Jesus freaks come from. The school systems in this neck of the woods are in the pits. And it doesn't look like it's going to get any better - not with state school boards like the one in Texas.
ReplyDelete".....these ignorant Jesus freaks...."
ReplyDeleteReally now? Doesn't that phrase belong on the dust-heap with "rag-head" and the various antisemitic slurs which are now shunned?
Maybe. I suppose I could have used Bible thumpers (one of my favorites) or religious righties instead.
ReplyDeleteOf course, after being called a liberal cunt, a f'ng bitch and a shit-eating socialist I should maybe be a little more sensitive. Don't think so.
dmarks: I didn't mean to sound as nasty as I might have. Bible thumpers, religious right(ies) are, in my opinion, exactly what these people are. It's a descriptive term that pulls them together, much as Tea Bagger does. Jesus freaks is a little out of date, and if anything, shows my age.
ReplyDeleteBite your tongue, Tnlib!! Geez!! If Crawford Caligula and Mooseoline crawled in the sack together, they might reproduce!! And you know what that means... 666. ;-)
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