True Religion Is The Top Requirement

Lois: “The world doesn’t need a savior.”
Superman: “Everyday I hear people crying for one.”

Savior Obama?

A SAVIOR IS A PERSON who saves someone or something— especially a country or a cause— from danger. Such a person may come to be regarded with the veneration of a religious figure, like the Savior in Christianity, God or Jesus Christ.

So just how bad must things be before we officially recognize the services of a qualified savior are not just desirable, but required to solve our enormous list of problems?

Three Christians are vying to assure us— or not— that they are the Christian leader we are looking for; each of them publicly committed to the core values and principles taught by Christ himself.

These three Christian candidates however, each reflect different traditions of American Christianity, each adhering to a slightly different doctrine held to be relatively true over all others. We might safely assume all three presumably agree that Jesus is their “Savior,” the source of not only their personal salvation, but also of their Christian values. This might indicate at least, some understanding of the necessity of the role in human social dynamics, but may also do nothing to help them actually fill such er, sandals.

Let’s be clear: NO sane person wants a religious savior as POTUS. The ongoing catastrophe hatched by the comparatively modest breach of the wall between church and state by the religious right with the Bushite collaborators, should shiver the cockles of the most rabid liberal or flaming conservative.

What we’re looking for is a leader who can perform as a savior while not actually thinking they are a savior. But how could the nation not benefit from a Christian president who actually lived the values of the true Savior they each claim to emulate? Especially one who recognizes the absurdity of saying men and women should not inject their “personal morality” into public policy debates; who understands our laws are a codification of morality; and that one’s core religious values must be translated into universal— not religion-specific— values.

Despite one or two pretenders, no one in our political history has inspired more feelings of savior-tude than Barack Obama, who is being both praised and ridiculed for appealing to our innate spiritual hunger for a savior, and not, we must presume, simply because the republicans have fucked things up with unprecedented alacrity and malfeasance. Maybe it’s simply time we had one.

McSavior?

John McCain is the sometimes Episcopalian, sometimes Baptist Christian, who got religion the old fashion way— by praying in a situation where his ass was on the line, and frankly, among the most exciting come-to-Jesus moment one may have, I think, but oddly, not one that always necessarily rises above an intellectual emotional conversion to the lofty plateau of a spiritual one.

Jesus is certainly aware of McCain’s suffering in Vietnam, extending from the moment he was hauled out of Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi, by a dozen or so angry young men to become the captive of the very men, women, and children he had been dropping napalm on a few minutes earlier, and yet, he still draws breath.

And before that, the Lord heard McCain when he said, “Now that I’ve seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I’m not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam.”

Jesus is aware that, despite McCain’s awakening to the fact the jellied gasoline he’d been dropping on human beings was not unlike “that stuff” that burned 138 of his crewmen to death and nearly him too, when a rocket errantly fired on the deck of the Forrestal, that he continued to do it anyway.

And the Creator of us all heard McCain when he sang “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”

And his professed Master and Savior took note of him when he shew his guidance for the Christian nation he would lead by opining: “There will be more wars.”

And Jesus said, “Love your enemies.”

Not exactly top drawer savior material. Next.

Saviorette Clinton?

Hillary Clinton, a Methodist early on, tends to talk about God in the abstract, ever careful to not sound so committed to religion as to jar secular America fully awake to her supposed faith in a being higher in stature than herself. But Jesus was most assuredly awake when she said, “I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.”

And Jesus was next to the podium when she said, “Shame on you Barack Obama, shame on you!”

And when she said, “We have a lot of kids who don’t know what work means. They think work is a four-letter word.”

And some years ago, “I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”

And, “If I didn’t kick his [Bill's] ass every day, he wouldn’t be worth anything.”

And Jesus knows she speaks the truth when she revealed, “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
And Jesus said, “Love one another.”
Add to that her uncanny ability to drag her nails across the blackboard of unethical polemics for weeks on end (she’s a dirty fighter alright) without breaking one, and you’ve got a candidate who’s learned nothing about the true values her professed Savior proclaims.

Yeah. That’s right.

This is a no-brainer.

Cross-posted from one of the fine Commenters at Driftglass; from Driftglass’ entry: “Get Rid Of The Bitter”
TANBARK said:

Last night was a republican victory. In this year in which the repubs are going into the election with more negatives than any party in decades, for the DEMOCRATIC candidate to win the popular votes in Texas and Ohio by saying things like:

“Vote for me or the terrrists will eat your children”

and, 24 hours before the Texas and Ohio primaries:

“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Senator John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”

…is depressing. We do NOT have, as the Hillary supporters keep saying: “Two fine candidates.” We have a republican-lite on the war, and on such issues as helping bush with the Kiel-Lieberman amendment, and co-sponsoring, with one of the rankest right-wingers in the senate, Robert Bennett, an amendment to make burning the american flag a federal crime; and the other candidate, a bright, decent man, who can legitimately go after the republicans for their bloody mess in Iraq.

It’s starting to sound like she’s angling for the second spot on the fucking republican ticket.

THIS is the stuff of wingnut dreams.

MORE. She is the CANDIDATE of wingnut dreams. When the brain-trust of the RNC read that little statement, their eyes got glassy. When I googled to find the precise words, guess where it came up first?

A right-wing blog.

And does anyone reading this think that McCain and the GOP won’t use it if she’s able to get the nomination?

Is she going to sit across from John McCain at the debates and say THAT to him?

What is nauseating is reading the blogs run by women who support her, as they so studiously ignore the reality of her using these republican talking points against a candidate who has used NO right-wing smears on her.

They keep hammering away at McCain, while Clinton says things like the above comment.

It’s fucking insane. And it’s the same kind of Orwellian doublethink that let bush and the warpimps get us into the quagmire.

It’s no accident that the drool-heads like Limbaugh, Coulter, etc., were telling their fans to cross over and vote for Clinton. They KNOW who they want to run against.

It’s a terrible indictment of a lot of democrats, including some that call themselves “progressives” that at least some of the time, Rush Limbaugh, etc. are politically smarter than they are.

A day after the Ohio debate in which MTP’s major scold, Timmeh Russert and presidential rival Hillary Clinton beat up on Obama for being the recipient of some favorable but unsolicited words from Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, St. John McCain accepted the support from mega-church magnate and Armageddon promoter, the Rev. John Hagee.

“All I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor John
Hagee’s support,” gushed McCain.

The NY Times describes Hagee as follows:

“. . .a popular televangelist who leads the 18,000- 19,000 member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, ratcheted up his rhetoric this year with the publication of his book, “Jerusalem Countdown,” in which he argues that a confrontation with Iran is a necessary precondition for Armageddon (which will mean the death of most Jews, in his eyes) and the Second Coming of Christ. In the best-selling book, Hagee insists that the United States must join Israel in a preemptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West.

“The pastor is best known in some Washington circles as a founder of Christians United for Israel and for his belief, as laid out in his book “Jerusalem Countdown” that the end of days scenario as spelled out in the Book of Revelation will occur after Russia, allied with the Islamic world, attacks Israel.

“Russia is going to get in that position and they are literally, with all that massive military force, going to attack Israel,” Hagee told ABC News in 2006. “This is recorded in Ezekiel 38 and 39. God himself is literally going to destroy that army. Decimate it.”

[Glenn Greenwald has more on Hagee's thoughts on Muslims, Catholics, and gay hurricanes. ]

Fast forward to the future.

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Rapture Rupture!

Unsuspecting Christians Victims of Alien Black Ops

by Propagandee

WASHINGTON, [C.U. News] — A large segment of the world’s estimated two billion Christians are no longer among us.

“The aliens came like thieves in the night,” reported Pentagon spokesman Hymen Feith, an orthodox Jew. “Apparently, they were abducted by a vast fleet of extraterrestrial spaceships that suddenly appeared in the skies yesterday evening through a previously undetected wormhole over the Arctic.”

“We were facing a severe labor shortage on our world,” explained the Alien Commander Flybotz from the planet Rove. “Our previous work force, er, ..expired,” he added after consulting his translator’s thesaurus.

Using the troposphere as a massive projection screen, the Rovians put on a stunning audio visual holographic light show, backed up by a horn section to die for.

“I was particularly proud of the customized fiery chariots” beamed Production Designer Zybok, describing the evacuation vehicles used to transport the rapturees into the spaceship cargo holds.

Asked what his most difficult challenge was, he replied: “Getting them to don their rapture helmets. They were skeptical at first, but after we explained to their leader, a Rev. Hagee, that the helmets were necessary to dampen the blinding light from their new halos, they readily agreed.”

Commander Flybotz said they were even now enjoying their hyperspace jump back to his home world. “We produced a special inflight movie to keep them happy. Actually, they think it’s a real time satellite feed of the fate of those Left Behind. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but the denouement involves Muslims, giant meat hooks, homosexuals, Urantia Book readers, and a vast burning lake of sulfurous fire.”

When queried about the rapturees’ human rights, Koblotz replied: “Oh, on Planet Rove we believe in democracy. We plan to allow them to vote just as soon they understand what is in their own best interests.”

Film at 11:00. . .

Clinton says she’ll clean up after Bush dynasty

Fri Feb 1, 2008 12:01am EST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former First Lady Hillary Clinton addressed the question of political dynasties on Thursday with a one-liner that she hoped would allay concerns over two families dominating the White House for decades if she becomes president next year.

Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York, said she would “clean up” after Republican President George W. Bush just as her husband, Bill Clinton, had done after the presidency of Bush’s namesake father.

“It did take a Clinton to clean (up) after the first Bush, and I think it might take a second one to clean up after the second Bush,” she said to applause at a televised debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois. [snip]

The Clinton Cleaning Woman. . .

Dana Bash, Evan Glass, and Shirley Zilberstein of CNN, were all aware that hatchet man Bill CunningHam had made a slur of their network’s initials too, clever ‘tard that he is, but they filed this unbiased account of CunningHam’s “disparaging remarks” of Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton; oh, and the rest of their accomplices, the liberal mainstream media.

CINCINNATI, Ohio (CNN) — A supporter of John McCain, speaking at an official campaign event in Ohio attended by the Arizona senator, called Barack Obama a “hack, Chicago-style Daly [sic] politician,” and told the crowd “all is going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya around the table of Barack Obama.”

“World leaders who want to kill us”? Hmm. Who could he be talking about?

Evil Amenidijihadda-rama-ding-dong?

Evil Kim Jonga-rama Ding Dong?

Evil Dicka Ding Dong??

Evil Fox Rodga-Dodga Ailes???

“At some point in the near future the media, the stooges from the New York Times, CBS (The Clinton Broadcasting System), NBC (The Nobody But Clinton Network), The All Bill Clinton Channel (ABC), and the Clinton News Network at some point is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama,” said controversial conservative commentator Bill Cunningham, an Ohio native.

My goodness— he overlooked the Fox News Channel; well, surely Senator McCain would be willing to offer a perfunctory apology to the MSM for this hatchet job by his event announcer. . .

“That day will come and then you’ll know the truth about his business dealings with Rezko, when he got sweetheart deals in Chicago,” he added, “and the illegal loans that he received, at some point the media will quit taking sides on this and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they covered Bush, the same way they covered Cheney, and they same way they cover every Republican.”

Wow; this Bill CunningHam sounds like “a great American”— the same kind of “great American” he regularly praises for talking, well, like he does. He might even turn out to be “the great prophet from Ohio”— more-so than Obama is “the great prophet from Chicago.” He’ll need to be a prophet, since he’s predicted Obama has received “illegal loans” that will be discovered soon, and rescue his slanderous verbiage from being just another steaming pile from the slime pit of republican family value politics.

Cunningham also compared Hillary Clinton unfavorably to current First Lady Laura Bush.

Well— who paid him to take the friggin’ microphone? Did they forget to examine his fucktard credential? Did they miss the tell-tale crusty white foam at the corners of his pie-hole?

McCain was not on stage during these remarks. Immediately after the event, he distanced himself from the comments, telling reporters that he had been informed about “disparaging remarks” about his potential Democratic opponents.

“I have repeatedly stated my respect for Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, and I will treat them with respect,” he said.

“. . .While others, speaking at my official events, may say whatever they want; as that, my friends, is the way freedom will work when I’m president.”

“I regret any comments that may be made about these two individuals who are honorable Americans, we just have strong philosophical differences, so I want to disassociate myself from any disparaging remarks that may have been said about them,” he said, adding later that “I absolutely repudiate such comments, and again I will take responsibility it will never happen again. It will never happen again.”

“Better late than never, my friends. . .” (talking to the press now; the audience that had been slimed by CunningHam was already at the local Perkins.) “But my friends you know, these things happen, so I will gladly and honorably disassociate myself from them, and take responsibility from here on out that it will never happen again.”

As for the press? Well he hadn’t been “informed” that the “disparaging remarks” had covered their honor as Americans, too.

So fuck’m.

 

The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle— these constitute falseness. —The Urantia Book

 

UPDATE: Warning: The second video below is from the Hannity & Colmes thing from Fixed Noise Channel. If like me, you only rarely surf through Fixed Noise, you may find this video disturbing from a number of standpoints, not the least of which is the sheer stupidity of the conversation, the willful ignorance of the participants, and specifically the repulsive behavior of “our friend” Bill CunningHam. You might well ask, why bother showing this effluvia at all, then.

Two reasons. Yesterday, this. . . creature— hired by the McCain people to deliver some “red, raw meat” to the assembled Republicans, was a McCain supporter. After McCain “diss-tanced” himself from the vitriol of the bipedal varmint, he’s now thrown his support behind Hillary Clinton. Why? Hear it for yourself, if you can. But the second reason is even creepier. This ‘tard YELLED HIS ENTIRE FUCKING SCREED. While it’s entirely possible that a radio dick does not understand the purpose of a microphone, I think there’s a better explanation here:

Think You Want This Junk?

Cindy McCane with husband John Top Gun “Maverick” McCane

• Junk is battle-worn, seventy-two, cranky
• Contradicts own sworn testimony
• War with rest of world “just an unfortunate fact of life”
• Abortion: Nevah, nevah, nevah
  
• Believes in evolution
• Espouses Episcopalian and Southern Baptist Christianity

How About This?

Co-Commanders-in-Chief Clinton

• Junk is ambitious, sixty-one, double X, comes with Y chromosome baggage.
• “Change you can zerox” not working out
• Abortion: prochoice
• Believes in evolution
• Espouses Methodist Christianity
  

Or This?

Commander-in-Chief OBOMBA with the Mrs.

• Junk is wooly hot, forty-seven, charismatic
• Lacks killer’s instinct
• Abortion: prochoice
  
• Believes in evolution
• Espouses the United Church of Christ Christianity