10 Weirdest Fundamentalist Christian Conspiracy Theories

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http://www.alternet.org/belief/10-weirdest-fundamentalist-christian-conspiracy-theories



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1) Same-sex marriage is an elaborate scheme concocted by lesbians to entrap men. David Usher of the Center for Marriage Policy managed to cough up a theory that is an outstanding blend of homophobia, misogynist myths about the mendacity of women, and paranoia about the supposed gravy train that is child support. He argues that women will marry each other and conscript men into supporting them by “pretending they are using birth control when they are not.” The men will then “become economically conscripted third parties to these marriages, but get nothing in return,” presumably because the only reason a man would want to care for his own children would be in exchange for sex and housework. He also assumes that the only sources of income women have access to are child support and welfare; the possibility that women hold jobs doesn’t seem to occur to him.

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2) Planned Parenthood is trying to get kids “hooked” on sex. The anti-choice organization American Life League has been peddling the idea for a long time now that Planned Parenthood works like a mythical drug dealer, but with sex. The theory, summarized in this amazing video, goes like this: Planned Parenthood lures otherwise asexual young people into thinking sex is fun (something they are dead certain that you would never, ever think if not for Planned Parenthood). They then trick them into having sex by telling them contraception works, but (evil laugh), the contraception doesn’t work and the young people get pregnant and have to have abortions. Which means profit for Planned Parenthood! This neat little theory requires ignoring both the fact that Planned Parenthood is a non-profit and that the overwhelming scientific evidence shows that contraception does work, but ignoring facts and evidence is what the Christian right does best.

3) Gay men wear special rings for the sole purpose of giving innocent straights HIV. This one was trotted out recently by everyone’s favorite disseminator of Christian right urban legends, Pat Robertson. “You know what they do in San Francisco, some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger,” he explained, suggesting there’s a serial killing ring of gay men who kill with HIV for reasons undetermined. Robertson backpedaled, but as Anderson Cooper suggested, only because he got caught.

4) The abortion-mad Chinese eat human fetuses. This one is popular in anti-choice circles, because it hits both the abortion-obsessed and racist sweet spots. The claim is sometimes that the Chinese eat “fetus soup” as an aphrodisiac, because concern that other people are enjoying sex too much is always part and parcel of any anti-choice urban legend. This obviously false bit of racist propaganda is spread mostly through email, though prominent anti-choice activists like Jill Stanek have also perpetuated it.

[hobbit709]

1. Just more proof that most fundies are in serious need of a psychiatric evaluation.

[TxDemChem]

2. Just when you think they can't get any nuttier,

they one-up themselves.

[Demo_Chris]

3. This deserves a kick for the sheer batshit crazy of it all. nt

[BlueJazz]

4. Our band used to do a charity thing in Chattahoochee (a Florida Mental Hospital)....

...and even the worst of the patients talked a LOT saner than the Pat Robberson crowd.

[Half-Century Man]

5. I remember an article in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine during the Russian Occupation...

...of Afghanistan, the author (who's name I can't remember) commented on a town meeting. Specifically on the Inman's sermon. As I remember it the Inman claimed the USSR invaded not for the expected reasons of exploiting resources, but because of the world's most beautiful sunsets happened in Afghanistan. He emphatically stated that the reason the Afghani fought so hard was to protect their treasured sunsets. The closing line of the article was the question "How do you fight the people who would fight over sunsets?"

The right wing fundamentalist christian are looking more and more like people who would kill other people over sunsets. Forget debate, how do you even talk to people who have such investment in fantasy?

[Zorra]

6. I avoid deranged religous people like the plague. Their kool-aid

is so out of the realm of reality that I have no alternative but to consider their derangement as psychosis.