The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> The Christian Right, then and now....
| The Christian Right, then and now.... |
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pancho
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- Saturday, December 4 2010, 20:56:36 (UTC) from *** - ***  Network -  Windows XP -  MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...Christianity brags about being a universal religion...what that means in practice is that you can find like-minded thugs anywhere you go...righteous thugs, bible-spouting thugs, but thugs all the same....pretty much identical to their brothers and sisters in any Christian country....it was Christian thugs in Germany who hounded the Jews to death and it is the same Christian thugs who now have their knives sharpened for Muslims...and all the while these thugs cry and weep and yell that Jews and Muslims are targeting THEM...that they are merely "defending themselves" and trying to be "safe and secure from terrorists". ..it's amazing how similar the arguments were in the 1930s and 40s to those being made today...and the same response by the Christian Right is again playing out...laws are being changed, constitutions gutted in the name of "self-defense". Hitler was "protecting" Germans from terrorist attacks from within and from around the world...Bush/Obama are protecting us from terrorists inside the country, maybe living next door to YOU...as well from "international terrorism". It's all depressingly familiar...and we too are only too glad to give up the one thing that truly protects us and made us unique and successful: our Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights.... History showed us not too long ago who turned out to be the real enemy of the German people and it sure as hell wasn't the Jews...it was instead the very people who shouted the loudest that they were PROTECTING Germany...that they were the true Patriots and all who challenged them were enemies and traitors and terrorist "lovers". It's right there in every history book of that period...in the end the worst enemy the Germans had was their most Conservative, Patriotic, Christian fundamentalist Germans and, of course, the GOOD GERMANS by the millions who really made it happen. Which brings us back to the most important aspect of organized Judeo/Christian religions...they SCARE people, from infancy on...they make children fearful, fearful to question or disobey authority figures and "experts", to think for themselves or trust their own humanity and intelligence...instead they are taught to bow down and "love" he whom they fear the most, the one who can send them to a hell of eternal punishment...once you've been taught to fear yourself, to distrust your instincts because they are evil and tainted with original sin, you'll hardly ever dare question your president or leaders...instead you'll follow blindly, follow from fear and a hope of reward, which finally comes to mean merely the absence of pain or alleviating of fear...."just don't punish me and I'll be "happy""...." just give me a job, any job, and I'll count myself blessed"..."pay me anything, but pay me something, and I'm yours". It is Bush/Obama and the corporate structure they represent, just as Hitler did in Germany, who will turn out to have been the greatest enemies this country ever experienced...watch. --------------------- |
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