Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Giving Up on God
As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.
Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.
I'm bathing in holy water as I type.
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.
Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth -- as long as we're setting ourselves free -- is that if one were to eavesdrop on private conversations among the party intelligentsia, one would hear precisely that.
OK, she still makes a bow in the direction of the alter, saying that private belief still makes people and society better. But the main thrust of her column is that religion has poisoned politics, particularly Republican politics, for the last generation.
This realization seems to be the emerging conventional wisdom: theocracy really is a bad idea, as the Republics flirting with it have shown. Expect the religious conservatives to rant and scream at this idea - this is, essentially, what will play out in the Republican Reformation over the next decade. But the small slice of the electorate which became the tail that wagged the GOP Dog does not reflect the vast bulk of American society, and all the rest of us have been getting increasingly fed up with their insanity. Either the Religious Right will be reconciled with just having *some* influence in GOP politics, or the GOP will lose even more power in the future.
Jim Downey
(Via Balloon Juice.)
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Armband Religion
Armband religion? That and armband patriotism are killing us.