No One Knows What It's Like To Be ... On A Mission From God

[Fumesucker]

Comment #15 by TAPX486 knocks it out of the park

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/10/15/no-one-knows-what-its-like-to-be-hated-to-be-fated/

I think for many it is theological. The America they know and remember is the shining city on the hill, anointed by God to lead the world till the second coming. That this vision never existed is beside the point, it is what they believe at a spiritual level. Any one or any thing that threatens that view is the work of the devil. Liberals, Obamacare, gay rights, etc. are all the handiwork of Satan. Any compromise with Satan will endanger the souls of the true believers and endanger their chance to go to heaven. That’s why it is more complicated than just Obama’s race even though that is certainly part of it. . They have no problem with an Allen West or Nicki Haley because they are operating from the same religious frame of reference.

I think it is mistake to call them crazy or unhinged. They are not. They are working from a very specific world view. Just because that worldview does not accord with the majority world view doesn’t make them crazy, mistaken maybe. but not crazy. The Iranian mullahs are working from a specific world view and they are not crazy either. It may be a worldview that we don’t understand or accept but we have to deal with it. The same goes for the religious right.

The problem is I have no idea how you acknowledge their world view and still run a 21st century economic/political system that isn’t based on visions of the second coming.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Nothing but net.... nt

[Fumesucker]

3. Evidently this point of view is insufficiently vituperative and judgmental to be popular on the DU

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Make no mistake, these people have the same mentality as the Mullahs

And if they get their way we would be under a very similar theocracy based on Leviticus and Revelations. The book of Matthew is not in their Bible.

[mindwalker_i]

4. Usually, people who believe in invisible friends are considered crazy

What's the difference between some kid and his " target="_blank">malt-o-meal eating friend vs. some big dude that's lots of crazy people believe in?

[Laelth]

5. Poor conservatives.

They think the world has changed when, in fact, it is they who have changed. Their eyes have been opened to the reality of the world, and they want to go back to their sheltered childhoods. What they don't realize is that the sheltered bubble of their childhood was ... sheltered. They couldn't see the world for what it was, then, because they were sheltered. Now that they see the world for what it is (a little), they want to crawl back up into their mothers' wombs. Sorry, conservatives. Life doesn't work that way.

-Laelth

[kelliekat44]

6. Except they aren't worried about Allen West or Niki Haley becoming President. AND

if they really believed they were on a mission from God...they would change the way they live and none of them would ever take a penny from the government they so despise.

[Fumesucker]

7. Man is not so much a rational animal as an animal that rationalizes

Even here on the DU there are plenty of irrational posts and more than a few irrational posters.