god, save me from your followers

[anotheranon]

I couldn't make this shit up (stolen from Atrios' Eschaton):

"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.”

Note: I KNOW that not all Christians are Fundamentalists, and I know that the majority of this country considers these types of views nutty at best. No, what disturbs me is that these crazies have far more politial and social influence than their numbers warrant.

I'd also like to point out that in framing the current war in religious terms, he really is helping the terrorists. Just what we need, fundie vs. fundie playing Armageddon with the rest of the world!

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

No, what disturbs me is that these crazies have far more politial and social influence than their numbers warrant.

Many years ago, Patrick McManus wrote that the #1 reason hunters get lost is because the guy who talks loudest, takes charge and claims he knows which way north is, invariably has a brain smaller than that of a sage grouse. But everybody follows because he's the loudest ... and they get even more lost. Same principle for the fundamentalist (and other illogically righteous) movements, I sometimes suspect.

My couch folds out into a bed, should any of you want to flee north ;-)