God save America ... fundagelicals!

[icymist]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1208413,00.html

God save America ...

The race for the White House will be decided by fundagelicals. That's good news for twice-born George Bush

John Sutherland
Monday May 3, 2004
The Guardian

The word "fundagelism" has never appeared in the columns of this newspaper. The term is, however, current in the blogosphere - that cyberforum which nowadays carries the most interestingly paranoid political debate. "Fundagelism" is not a word that trips easily off the tongue. It's a crunching together of the even more mouth-boggling compound "fundamentalist evangelism".

George W Bush is a fundagelist. Dad wasn't. George H Bush (not renowned for his Wildean wit) delivered his most memorable wisecrack on walking into a room full of fundagelists: "Gee! I'm the only person here that's only been born once."


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The White House has recently been accused of inveighing (via Nasa) against the movie The Day After Tomorrow (out on May 28) because it narrates the wrong apocalypse. One caused by man-made global warming, that is, rather than God's white-hot rage against sinners. The apocalypse depicted in Tim LaHaye's Left Behind books is, we assume, the US government-approved version.

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The White House has recently been accused of inveighing (via Nasa) against the movie The Day After Tomorrow (out on May 28) because it narrates the wrong apocalypse. One caused by man-made global warming, that is, rather than God's white-hot rage against sinners. The apocalypse depicted in Tim LaHaye's Left Behind books is, we assume, the US government-approved version.


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What do y'all think? Are the fundamental Christians such a powerful base in the US that a president can't get elected without them?

[FunBobbyMucha]

1. Of course not. * can't exist without the Fundys. But

they are a huge voting block. There are arguably enough of them out there to re-elect the Failure. Why else do you think BushCo has quit even pretending that they're not in the pocket of the Fundys?

[icymist]

2. So these idiots actually think they can make the apocalypse happen?!

Are fundies that f**king stupid? Even their own bible says that only the Father knows what time this will happen, if it even happens at all!

[stopthegop]

3. I've never seen where anyone says

they can make it happen...

[icymist]

4. Maybe I'm just reading between the lines....

It sure seems that junior focused on one thing right from the start of his presidency: Iraq. Is it for the oil? The control of the oil? Unfinished business from his father's presidency? Or is he playing to his base to get re-elected?

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"Iraq (ancient Babylon) figures centrally in the fundagelist vision of things, as does the Rapture, and the imminent mass conversion of the Jews (hence fundagelist-Zionism)."

[Skittles]

5. yes

they are f***ing stupid

[mhr]

6. The Jesus Factor Is Available For Viewing Online At Frontline

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/view /

This is very scary stuff to watch.

Nonetheless, * is probably sincere in his religious convictions. The problem is that not everyone shares his convictions.

Well worth the time to watch for those that missed the regular broadcast.