Comments on: National Day of Right Wing Christianity http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/ Some place between 40 and Death Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: david http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2561 david Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:14:43 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2561 whether it's a right wing or left wing. there's a mistake, in giving power over belief to the state, or to any religion if that state or that religion determines to use coercion in the promoting right belief. True for TLDS, true for TLGBT, true for the GOP, true for the Green. It's an inconvenient truth for many with their own agendas, but love will win the day. whether it’s a right wing or left wing.

there’s a mistake, in giving power over belief to the state, or to any religion if that state or that religion determines to use coercion in the promoting right belief.

True for TLDS, true for TLGBT, true for the GOP, true for the Green.

It’s an inconvenient truth for many with their own agendas, but love will win the day.

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2560 Huw Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:11:57 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2560 It didn't exist before... you are right there. I'm suggesting they are seeking for a version of Christianity which will serve as their "shinto" - a state religion obsessed with purity (I hadn't made that parallel, thanks), and obsessed with an empire that threatens the world with eradication "by an empire to be replaced with a fictional story of that empire’s rise." I accept that the right wing believes what it says - that we are "liberating" the world... but, regardless of their beliefs, the effect is opression, loss of freedom (at home and abroad) and enforced "purity". And higher income for oil companies. It didn’t exist before… you are right there. I’m suggesting they are seeking for a version of Christianity which will serve as their “shinto” - a state religion obsessed with purity (I hadn’t made that parallel, thanks), and obsessed with an empire that threatens the world with eradication “by an empire to be replaced with a fictional story of that empire’s rise.” I accept that the right wing believes what it says - that we are “liberating” the world… but, regardless of their beliefs, the effect is opression, loss of freedom (at home and abroad) and enforced “purity”.

And higher income for oil companies.

]]> By: david http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2559 david Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:04:44 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2559 shinto and nazism were alike in their strident purification attempts. So, I conceded shinto is an apt analogy here in way. But, I don't believe that the dobson's 'brand' of Christianity existed prior. shinto and nazism were alike in their strident purification attempts.

So, I conceded shinto is an apt analogy here in way. But, I don’t believe that the dobson’s ‘brand’ of Christianity existed prior.

]]> By: david http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2558 david Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:58:46 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2558 who records the audio files of the anti-spam words? they are funny. Nazi was a religion, too. A state government and state religion marriage with a education system to match. Anti-jewish, anti-christian, it used falsified anthropology to build its history. It sought to eradicate anything that did not conform to the new reich and Nazi ideals. Nazism borrowed symbols from the past, built on the current philosophical teachings and sought to exemplify nihilism… If they had the technologies we have I dare say they might have succeeded, however I have hopes that the wide dispersal of knowledge can prevent it from nearly happening again. To the extent that our federal gov. seems bent on centralized (or centralized access without due course of law) to intelligence gathering it is very much like the reich. Nazi Germany was truly the last time world history was threated and nearly eradicated by an empire to be replaced with a fictional story of that empire's rise. Shinto truly came before. It was a state religion without a name until Buddhism arrived. Much like Pharoah was a king-god religion of Egypt until moses arrived. Maybe, a better analogy for this National Prayer Day is Nebechanezars golden idol. There is no fiery furnace yet. who records the audio files of the anti-spam words? they are funny.

Nazi was a religion, too. A state government and state religion marriage with a education system to match. Anti-jewish, anti-christian, it used falsified anthropology to build its history. It sought to eradicate anything that did not conform to the new reich and Nazi ideals. Nazism borrowed symbols from the past, built on the current philosophical teachings and sought to exemplify nihilism…

If they had the technologies we have I dare say they might have succeeded, however I have hopes that the wide dispersal of knowledge can prevent it from nearly happening again. To the extent that our federal gov. seems bent on centralized (or centralized access without due course of law) to intelligence gathering it is very much like the reich.

Nazi Germany was truly the last time world history was threated and nearly eradicated by an empire to be replaced with a fictional story of that empire’s rise.

Shinto truly came before. It was a state religion without a name until Buddhism arrived.

Much like Pharoah was a king-god religion of Egypt until moses arrived.

Maybe, a better analogy for this National Prayer Day is Nebechanezars golden idol. There is no fiery furnace yet.

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2557 Huw Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:02:32 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2557 "The only news is how does Dobson get this position in the first place, and doesn’t a national day of prayer sound rather Senator McCarthy like anyway?" Right. The point of a national day of prayer - in a country where there is no official religion - is to include everyone. Their website makes Christianity out to be the American version of Shinto in WW2: the religious arm of an American Reich. “The only news is how does Dobson get this position in the first place, and doesn’t a national day of prayer sound rather Senator McCarthy like anyway?”

Right. The point of a national day of prayer - in a country where there is no official religion - is to include everyone. Their website makes Christianity out to be the American version of Shinto in WW2: the religious arm of an American Reich.

]]> By: david http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/04/26/national-day-of-right-wing-christianity/#comment-2556 david Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:48:56 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2573#comment-2556 Sarcasm is over, if you want it. “I urge you, first to pray for all people… Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we may live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity…” I Timothy 2:1-4 Not to say one is right and the other is not, after all I grew up in the same denomination as Barak, but I can just imagine Pharoah uttering those words to Moses, asking him to reframe the question, because, 'Really Moses… why must anyone be such a kind of religious absolutist?' How does Focus on the Family become a denomination? He's more like a cranky old crack-pot uncle on the hill. Hillary's wisdom can apply, ‘I'd walk right out of any church if I didn't agree with him…’ Although, come to think of it her wisdom sounds like what was called dressing for success. And being so selective in your family no matter how eccentric and even racist, does takes the focus off of the Christian commandments. How right wing can the Dobson's be? He's letting his wife take a leadership role… What does excluding ‘and even mainline Christians’ mean? Sounds like, well sounds like only crackpots should show up… almost like a klan-rally. I suppose they take the bible as the inerrant word of God too, I've never asked. The only news is how does Dobson get this position in the first place, and doesn't a national day of prayer sound rather Senator McCarthy like anyway? Sarcasm is over, if you want it.

“I urge you, first to pray for all people… Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we may live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity…” I Timothy 2:1-4

Not to say one is right and the other is not, after all I grew up in the same denomination as Barak, but I can just imagine Pharoah uttering those words to Moses, asking him to reframe the question, because, ‘Really Moses… why must anyone be such a kind of religious absolutist?’

How does Focus on the Family become a denomination? He’s more like a cranky old crack-pot uncle on the hill.

Hillary’s wisdom can apply, ‘I’d walk right out of any church if I didn’t agree with him…’ Although, come to think of it her wisdom sounds like what was called dressing for success. And being so selective in your family no matter how eccentric and even racist, does takes the focus off of the Christian commandments.

How right wing can the Dobson’s be? He’s letting his wife take a leadership role…

What does excluding ‘and even mainline Christians’ mean? Sounds like, well sounds like only crackpots should show up… almost like a klan-rally. I suppose they take the bible as the inerrant word of God too, I’ve never asked.

The only news is how does Dobson get this position in the first place, and doesn’t a national day of prayer sound rather Senator McCarthy like anyway?

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