"The Family" and health care reform

[eridani]

http://www.alternet.org/politics/143252/meet_the_senators_in_the_creepy_right-wing_cult_trying_to_defeat_health-care_reform/?page=entire

As Oklahoma's luck would have it, both the state's U.S. senators belong to The Family. While other lawmakers complained they hadn't been given time to read the weighty health care bills on which they were to vote, Inhofe seemed untroubled by that dilemma: his religion would appear to demand that he oppose health care reform as a matter of principle.

As a government disruption of God's free markets, the very concept, by The Family's reckoning, is an abomination. At an August town-hall meeting, Inhofe told residents of Chickasha, Okla., according to the Express-Star of Grady County, that "he does not need to read the 1,000-page health care reform bill, he will simply vote against it." Inhofe explained: "I don't have to read it, or know what's in it. I'm going to oppose it anyways."

Later in the meeting, the senator elaborated. "People are not buying these concepts that are completely foreign to America," Inhofe said. "We're almost reaching a revolution in this country." And when you think about what a revolution means to members of The Family -- Savimbi, Pinochet -- that's enough to give one pause.

[VMI Dem]

1. Are there idiots that actually buy into this crap?

lol.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Religion is a device for these wackaloons...

I read a very shocking article about profiling pedophiles. The article laid out the
research that there was no "typical pedophile". They hail from all socioeconomic levels. They
have varied education--from high-school drop outs to Ph.D-level. In short, you can't really
profile a pedophile, the way you can profile serial killers.

However, there was one caveat in the article. A significant number of pedophiles identify themselves
as very religious.

Isn't that interesting?

Pedophiles have incredible denial systems that are built up over the years and decades. Pedophiles
aren't crazy. They know what they are doing is wrong and illegal. In order to function and to
survive--knowing what they have done--they develop these very elaborate mantras in their own head--that
justify and rationalize their child sex crimes. Being religious feeds their denial systems. They
rationalize that they are "good people" or that they follow the teachings of Christ--and somehow that
keeps them in a category of decent human beings. They glom onto religion as a way to hide, from themselves.

I suspect that members of "The Family" use religion in much the same way. The outcomes of their sick politics
harm a lot of people in this country. Their war causes death, suffering and trauma. Their positions on
healthcare kill people. Anyone who could use religion to justify

[Toots]

3. I think it is the idea that in Christianity, no matter what evil one does they can/will be forgiven

It is sort of a get out of hell free card..

[JHB]

4. I think it's more than that...

It seems to me that some people just can't handle the idea that their religion and their political or economic philosophy are at odds, and it's too unthinkable for them to shirk their religion, so they effectively rewrite it to better mesh with their other beliefs.

It's happened before ("divine right of kings" and such), and it continues today.