David Brat warns ‘the weak modern Christian democratic man’ will submit to another Hitler
By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 14:38 EDT
David Brat, who won a surprise victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, warned of another Hitler in a 13-page essay on theology and banking.
The economics professor, who won at Randolph-Macon College said “church folk” and his “liberal pals” should extend their inclusiveness to capitalists.
“We need to get our story straight on capitalism and faith,” Brat wrote. “The two can go together and they had better go together, or we will not transform anything.”
He said capitalism was “here to stay,” and he said the church should reflect that reality.
“Read Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on,” Brat wrote. “Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong?”
“We appear to be a bit passive,” he continued. “Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong.”
He suggested that spreading Christianity would improve the economy.
“Preach the gospel and change hearts and souls,” Brat wrote. “If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. Markets are made up of people.”
“If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are,” he continued. “Want good markets? Change the people.”
Brat encouraged Christians to harshly condemn their neighbors’ sins.
“We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it,” he wrote. “If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.”
Brat wondered whether Christians could force others to follow their ethical teachings on social issues, and he said both Democrats and Republicans hypocritically imposed their values on the political system.
“The government holds a monopoly on violence,” Brat wrote. “Any law that we vote for is ultimately backed by the full force of our government and military. Do we trust institutions of the government to ensure justice? Is that what history teaches us about the State? Or do we live in particularly lucky and fortunate times where the State can be trusted to do minimal justice?”
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I'm awaiting his: "I am not a witch" moment.
Pogo sticks, teapots, trailer hitches, now He's on a trampoline. 
Of course he's nuts. It's great that he's the nominee. I'm hoping McDaniel can upset Cochran in MS because McDaniel is loonier than Brat. Not saying much since this IS MS, but hey, McDaniel vs. Childers is better than Cochran vs. Childers. Crossing my fingers for a McDaniel win in the run off so that he can proceed to have the expected meltdown of lunacy.
That is hilarious!!!!!
So anywhere you can think of, He's there. Trampoline, trailer hitch, wherever.
See what fine things theology can do?
This whole subthread is a DUzy
Omnipresent indeed, riqster! OMG, I'm laughing so hard right now I can hardly stop!!!!
Thank you, thank you all so much! 
Tip your servers!
(You know I'm a punster) 
And lets hope it stays that way..
Of course the Temple also served as the government of the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple
The narrative of the "Cleansing of the Temple" tells of Jesus and the money changers, and occurs in all four canonical gospels of the New Testament.
In this Gospel episode Jesus and his disciples travel to Jerusalem for Passover, where he expels the money changers from the Temple, accusing them of turning the Temple into a den of thieves through their commercial activities.[1][2] In the Gospel of John Jesus refers to the Temple as "my Father’s house", thus, in some views, making a claim to being the Son of God,[3] although it is common in the Abrahamic religions to refer to God as God the Father.
Some Christians think this is the only account of Jesus using physical force in any of the Gospels. Eastern Orthodoxy rejects this idea. The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Mark 11:15–19, 11:27–33, Matthew 21:12–17, 21:23–27 and Luke 19:45–48, 20:1–8) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover.[4]
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And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade."[Jn 2:13–16]
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In Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47 Jesus accused the Temple authorities of thieving and this time names poor widows as their victims, going on to provide evidence of this in Mark 12:42 and Luke 21:2. Dove sellers were selling doves that were sacrificed by the poor who could not afford grander sacrifices and specifically by women. According to Mark 11:16, Jesus then put an embargo on people carrying any merchandise through the Temple—a sanction that would have disrupted all commerce.[4][7] This occurred in the outermost court of the gentiles. Gentile money could not be used at the Temple because of the graven images on it.
Thanks for the thread, DonViejo.
I worried the Republicans had elected themselves another smugly irrational, ethics-free, wild-eyed loon.
Buuut, as long as we don't trust "the state," I guess it's fine if we impose monolithic fanatical religious views and unfettered, unaccountable pursuit of greed on the entire country. Once fundamentalist Christians are running all the megacorps without distraction, things should be FINE!
Where do they find these people?
On the upside, maybe he'll be like Christine what's-her-name and wind up on television explaining that he's not a witch.
.... because it seems to me he is just "spitballing it."
"All I know is if you take the long-run graph over 200 years of the wage rate, it cannot differ from your nation's productivity. Right? So you can't make up wage rates."
“If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are,” he continued. “Want good markets? Change the people.”
look, look! i'm Brat doing some edjumacatin'
keep fillin' those airheads, you're stimulating the economy!
The base won't like that. The choice is between two ivory tower eggheads? Write in Cantor guys! 
I thought we had reached that bottom with Cantor, but I suppose my expectations were not set low enough.
What shithole do these people climb out from? I shouldn't be surprised. But being a VA resident, I guess it is not really beyond belief. It is, however, beyond depressing that this is what we continue to churn out as representatives of the Commonwealth.
There really are sane people who live in VA. Honest to goodness. Alas...too few. 
intellectual growth is frozen at 16 or 17. How can these "devout" baggers love Ayn Rand so much? Arrgh! His whining comment to Chuck Todd about "how I thought this was a celebratory interview and not about policy" really showed how this guy is so not ready for prime time. Typical bagger whiner with the intellectual and emotional age of 17. Awesome. Well done, GOP. Congrats!
MORON PLEASE! I was born at night...JUST NOT LAST NIGHT! 
Tea Partier David Brat LIES: He Didn’t Go to Princeton University
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"Apparently honesty is not among Dave Brat’s “Christian” values. Alright, technically he didn’t “lie” — he simply allowed everyone to believe something that was not true, that untruth being that he attended Princeton University.
When the Washington Post contacted the University seeking information on his time there, University spokesman Martin Mbugua said, “We have no record under that name.”
As it turns out, he did obtain his masters in divinity at Princeton, which is a well respected theological institution but not the prestigious Ivy League school that Princeton University is recognized as.
Mbugua says that occasionally people “make an association between the institutions here in Princeton — an incorrect association.” Although the two institutions are located in the same town there is no connection between the two."
Americans Against the Teaparty
Brat wanted them to believe he went to Princeton University to make a cheap political point.. and in the process he sounds ashamed of the Princeton Divinity School that he did go to.
Brat
Mahalo Don
"Judge not lest ye be judged" in it.
My religion professor had a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary (YES, THE Princeton (Presbyterian) University), and I bet Dave Brat probably couldn't understand any of my professor's courses. My prof was an amazing linguist and knew the standard Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and other obscure languages like Amharic, Aramaic, and Linear B (as in "Babylonian wedge writing on clay tablets"
He once said "I had to read St. Thomas Aquinas. In the original Medieval Latin." Like it was no big deal.
