The US theocracy
Religion in all its many forms, US issues, Uncategorized - - Posted on August, 17 at 5:26 pm by Ken L
Imagine if the first televised debate in 2010 between Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson Malcolm Turnbull Peter Costello the leader of the opposition du jour was about their religious beliefs, moderated by the pastor of Hillsong and conducted in the church itself. Most Australians would go WTF?? Yet that’s exactly what’s about to happen in the good ol’ god-fearing USA:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will spend Saturday night discussing issues of faith and leadership in a forum moderated by the Rev. Rick Warren.
Warren, the author of the best-seller “The Purpose-Driven Life,” will spend an hour interviewing each candidate at his 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in Southern California.
There are all kinds of reasons to find this a troubling development in the world’s only superpower - I don’t recall any precedents in previous election campaigns - but the biggest concern is that faith, by definition, is irrational. I don’t feel at all comfortable about men who make their faith a central element of their political persona being in control of a military budget that matches the rest of the world put together, especially when it seems to be a militant Christian faith that perceives the alternative Muslim faith of a good slice of the global population as a hostile existential threat.
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August 17th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I’ve always thought the times would get downright fascinating when the US had the economy of a 3rd-world country and the surviving arsenal of a superpower.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
WTF???
August 17th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
At least two-thirds of Americans believe in angels. More than a few say they’re been kidnapped and anally probed by aliens. I suspect many of them can’t find Washington DC on a map. Their current leader reckons that “the jury is still out” on evolution.
And they’re armed. They account for over 40% of the world’s military expenditure.
….shit.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Comments 1 & 3 are spot on. It’s fuckin’ scary.
Much scarier than teh Russians, teh terrorists or teh Democrats combined.
If people gave this any real contemplation there would be a collective shudder at the precariousness of the capacity for reasoned decision making by the Commander in Chief.
Toaf you’re also correct.
WTF? says it pretty well.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Now… here’s a disturbing thought.
I suspect that if WE had the money and the firepower, we’d be no different to the yanks.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Two-thirds of Americans believe that they’ve been abducted by aliens and suffered sexual experiments performed upon them. Anally probed, Mars claims.
Had sad and grossly unfortunate then, that discerning aliens, having traversed an entire universe no less, for friggin’ light years no less, somehow omitted on arrival to anally probe that idiot nation with fucking REALITY - for a change.
But they met with guns, bibles and the Holy Dollar - plus world domination. A recipe that equates to collective American national insanity, unheralded in history, but that’s what today’s USA thrives on while we choke on it - like it or not. 737 foreign US military bases prove America’s obsession with their “wedon’tgiveafuckaboutyouse” attitude, plus their “destroy.the.environment.com” or “rape.the.whole.planet.earth.too.com” attitude.
With the most rampant nutbag ever let loose since ‘Psycho in the shower’ now running the country, my only desperate solution is to grant them their national wish and levitate them all up to their contrived heaven to which they all so earnestly desire and pray for.
Alternatively, I am emailing a few Alien friends of mine and asking them to get here real quick, as in faster than the speed of light, to extract us the hell out of here and leave dangerous fuck-knuckles like the USA and George W. Bullshit to hopefully implode upon themselves.
Because one thing is certain: this world can’t live with America any more. Neither do we need or desire to.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
“Two-thirds of Americans believe that they’ve been abducted by aliens and suffered sexual experiments performed upon them. Anally probed, Mars claims.
Some misunderstanding there.
What I actually said is that at least two-thirds of American militarists believe they’ve anally probed by creationist angels armed with automatic weapons. From Nashville.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Yes! But should we have faith in science?
Tis a more difficult question.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Don’t the candidates have to juggle 3 balls while riding a unicycle and singing “I love you more than he does” to AIPAC as well?
August 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Obviously in this instance Obama has to go and politely deny that he’s a Muslim, and if he doesn’t his opponents will say it’s because he’d melt if he went into a church.
Sorry, megachurch.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I suspect that if WE had the money and the firepower, we’d be no different to the yanks.
I suspect you are dead right.
Unfortunately we have all the hallmarks of wannabes as we scuttle along at the US’s heels jumping up every now & again to sniff the Village Idiot’s crotch just like Barney.