The Republican party is being born-again – literally. Palin’s emergence simply confirms the final dumbing down and ruralization of the Republican Party, and its metamorphosis into a political vehicle for the religious far right.
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Far more important, McCain chose Palin as his running mate because she is an in-your-face, born-again, evangelical Christian. Some 44% to 50% of Republican voters now call themselves evangelical Christians. Concentrated in America’s deep heartland and southern Bible Belt, these ultra-conservative, fundamentalist white Protestants provided the Bush administration’s core support in a nation where 63% of its citizens believe that every word in the Bible is true.
Evangelical TV ayatollahs have become major political figures on America’s right. Millions of Americans get their only news from evangelical radio and TV stations.
Many evangelicals believe in the absolute literal nature of the Scriptures, biblical prophecy, the Messiah’s imminent return, and mankind’s destruction. Doing anything about the environment is thus unnecessary. They consider teaching evolution an abomination.
Evangelism has become the Republican Party’s official religion, and Mrs. Palin its new high priestess. Full story...
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Scary. And scarier still is the fact that this is a close race.
ReplyDeleteMcCain and Palin are heinous, vicious, repugnant people. And so is their party, and so is their followers.
It's come to this in America.
I just hope we do the right thing.
Does it make any differance who will get to the White House? Elections are nothing more than shows, giving us the illusion of choice. The State ALWAYS wins! Heads I win, tails you lose. Either way, we are screwed. Sigh...
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