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Iran says new Gospel to cause Christianity collapse!

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It's A Fact - Right-Wingers Have No Compassion!

We always knew this but now we know why.

The below article is the BEST explanation I have come upon so far that explains why the GOP/TP seems to exhibit such hate toward everything and everybody that does not share their warped opinion of reality. It is a must read if you seek help for the anquish that has built up in the brains of those of us who think. thinkingblue

PS: Notice the date is February 17, 2012, I never did get to blog this for some reason but it's too good to let stand idle in my blogging folder.

EXCERPT FROM :http://www.alternet.org/story/154194/a_conservative_explains_why_right-wingers_have_no_compassion

A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have No Compassion
A former Republican Senate Congressional staffer on why right-wingers think people without insurance deserve to die.

February 17, 2012 |

Although Mitt Romney used the word "conservative" 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, the audience he used this word to appeal to was not conservative by any traditional definition. It was right wing. Despite the common American practice of using "conservative" and "right wing" interchangeably, right wing is not a synonym for conservative and not even a true variant of conservatism - although the right wing will opportunistically borrow conservative themes as required.

Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group that displays its supposed pro-life credentials like a neon sign, the biggest applause lines resulted from their hearing about executions or the prospect of someone dying without health insurance.

Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology. Three books may serve as field guides to the farther shores of American politics and the netherworld of the true believer.

Most estimates calculate the percentage of Republican voters who are religious fundamentalists at around 40 percent; in some key political contests, such as the Iowa caucuses, the percentage is closer to 60. Because of their social cohesion, ease of political mobilization and high election turnout, fundamentalists have political weight even beyond their raw numbers. An understanding of their leaders, infrastructure and political goals is warranted. Max Blumenthal has done the work in his book "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party." Blumenthal investigates politicized fundamentalism and provides capsule bios of such movement luminaries as James Dobson, Tony Perkins, John Hagee and Ted Haggard. The reader will conclude that these authority figures and the flocks they command are driven by a binary, Manichean vision of life and a hunger for conflict. Their minds appear to have no more give and take than that of a terrier staring down a rat hole.

Blumenthal examines the childhoods of these religious-right celebrities and reveals a significant quotient of physical and mental abuse suffered at the hands of parents. His analysis of the obvious sadomasochistic element in Mel Gibson's films - so lionized by the right wing - is enough to give one the creeps. But the book is by no means a uniformly depressing slog: the chapter titled "Satan in a Porsche," about fundamentalist attempts to ban pornography, approaches slapstick.

According to the author, the inner life of fundamentalist true believers is the farthest thing from that of a stuffily proper Goody Two Shoes. They seem tormented by demons that those in the reality-based community scarcely experience. That may explain their extraordinary latitude in absolving their political and ecclesiastical heroes of their sins: while most of us might regard George W. Bush as a dry drunk resentful of his father, Newt Gingrich as a sociopathic serial adulterer and Ted Haggard as a pathetic specimen in terminal denial, their followers on the right apparently believe that the greater the sin, the more impressive the salvation - so long as the magic words are uttered and the penitent sinner is washed in the Blood of the Lamb. This explains why people like Gingrich can attend "values voter" forums and both he and the audience manage to keep straight faces. Far from being a purpose-driven life, the existence of many true believers is a crisis-driven life that seeks release, as Blumenthal asserts, in an "escape from freedom."We always knew this but now we know why. The below article is the BEST explanation... more

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Tolerance

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Skyscraper: Exclusive Biography of DJ Mona-Lisa (Famous Celebrity

She defied all odds to become a global phenomenal superstar. Mother of 13, molested -... more

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What's a Liberal?

Progresshiv talks about what it means to be a liberal.

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Anne Graham Lotz Helping to Create a Boston Bible Party

Billy Graham's daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, took time out from her swim in the... more

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Political Advertising in San Francisco

I was watching the Daily Show the other day because that's where I turn when I... more

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Rick Warren: Mormonism ‘denies’ Christian doctrine

By David Edwards Sunday, April 8, 2012 12:06 EDT Evangelical Saddleback Church... more

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Scott Walker Ramps Up The Extremism

By Kenneth Quinnell In advance of his upcoming recall election and possible legal... more

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Peace Talks in the War on Christianity

It does not take much for many Christians to throw down the Christian Card and declare... more

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Not A Christian, Then GET OUT!

So says, GOP Pastor Dennis Terry I created this video using a clip from an Internet... more

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Rick Santorum's "I Have A Dream"

Please, Lord, make it stop . . .

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The Christian War on John Lennon - GOD CODE PEACE new book by Pepper Chomsky © 2012

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink..." John Lennon

On March 4,1966, this quote of John Lennon's was printed in an interview by reporter Maureen Cleave in the London Evening Standard. US radio stations in the south banned Beatles music. There were rallies of boys and girls stomping on their record albums and bonfires of burning Beatles material. John received death threats, and the KKK protested a Beatles concert in Alabama.

Lennon offered a public apology:
John: "If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it. Well, originally I pointed out the fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."

On Dec. 31, 2011 Cee Lo Green changed the lyrics to "Imagine" the most famous Lennon anthem. "No religion too" was replaced with "All religions TRUE." He offered no apology when he greatly angered and offended John Lennon fans around the world. As for millions of atheists and agnostics this attack on New Years Eve was no small accidental omission. It was once again a declaration of WAR on John Lennon.

On February 17, 2012 Archbishop of New York and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan spoke from the Vatican about a new "creative strategy of evangelization.” He said the recognition that the Church herself needs evangelization gives Catholics humility and awareness of the Church’s “deep need” for interior conversion.

“God does not satisfy the thirst of the human heart with a proposition, but with a Person, whose name is Jesus,” he stated. The New Evangelization invites people not to doctrine, but to know, love and serve him. “The New Evangelization is accomplished with a smile, not a frown,” Cardinal-designate Dolan summarized.

He cited the Pope’s speech for presenting the red biretta to new cardinals: “know that you must be willing to conduct yourselves with fortitude even to the shedding of your blood.” Though Cardinal-designate Dolan jokingly asked the Pope to omit that passage from his presentation, he also said that cardinals must be aids for Christians called to be “ready to suffer and die for Jesus.” The “supreme witness” is martyrdom, he noted.

“You have to understand, that I don’t think I truly thought that I was doing anything evil. I thought I was good. That this was a white knight kind of a thing—a crusade.”
- Mark David Chapman (NBC "Dateline", 2005)

John Lennon was murdered by a zealous Christian martyr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4bpJzq3ZBM"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink..." John Lennon On March... more