On 5/7/2011 2:00 PM, Warp wrote:
> Stephen<mcavoys_at@aoldotcom>  wrote:
>> On 07/05/2011 7:48 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>> I really don't want you in government,
>
>> I don't want them parking outside my house.
>
>    Be careful, or they'll play the victimization card: If someone makes
> even the slightest suggestion that their right to shout their views should
> perhaps be limited in some ways, they will immediately start shouting that
> they are being discriminated against and that there's a nationwide attack
> against christianity.
>
>    (Never mind that if someone dares to make any such public display about
> atheism, they will be outraged. They will be completely oblivious to the
> obvious double standard.)
>
>    Which got me thinking: Many christians in the United States like to
> emphasize how 80 or 90 or whatever percent of the nation consists of
> christians, while at the same time they behave like the vast majority
> consists of godless sinful heathens who need to be evangelized and saved.
> Double-think much?
>
No, about 1% of the country are loud, obnoxious, and constantly whining 
about how 80-90% are Christians, therefor we need to respect their far 
right, Biblical literalist, yet cherry picked, gibberish. If you are 
dumb enough, for one moment, to kiss their ass for this, and show 
respect for it, then you can watch them instantly shift gears and 
declare that 80-90% of people claiming to be Christians are in fact 
godless heathens, who don't follow the Bible properly, and will be left 
behind/burn in hell/have their rights taken away, for their own good/etc.

Not too different than what you said, but its a simple matter of 
personal convenience. If its convenient to accept that most people in 
the US are Christians, for the cause, you do so. When you are talking to 
people who already know this is a completely lie on your part, you can 
feel safe to declare the whole country, other than a few tiny lunatic 
cults, as evil, un-Christian, monsters, only slightly above pond scum, 
or possibly atheists.

There is a lot of double speak, but **absolutely** no double think going 
on there. Its simply political pandering, so that the sheep (i.e., 
moderate Christians) don't realize they are on the list of people to be 
shaved, when the "True Christians (tm)" take over, along with all the 
other heathens and unbelievers.

And, so few of them realize the truth, which is why they keep voting for 
the assholes who hold such views.

It all comes down to a very simple principle among these people, "Its 
acceptable to lie, cheat, steal, or even rape and murder, as long as the 
end result of the glorification of God, and the rise of his true 
religion, over all the false ones. After all, these things are all 
forgiven in the Bible itself, when the chosen people did them. What 
matters is that *our* side wins."

I always find it interesting that the same loonies that think this, and 
usually believe in the end of times, somehow gloss over the fact that 
nearly every single member of the human race is supposed to side with 
Satan in the end. So.. If they ever did manage to convert the whole 
country into a literalist, far right wing, theocracy, ridding the 
country of all the "invalid" Christian faiths, thus making the nuts the 
majority, who would they really be serving, by their own warped logic? 
Not that logic has any part in their gibberish, since its all about 
power, not their supposed god.

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