Paranoia Strikes Deep

Very ominous trends, my friends.

Several stories are bubbling up here and there about a supposed "anti-Christian" bias in various institutions, principally the Government of the United States of America. Christianist politicians claim to be victims of widespread attacks by forces of bigotry against evangelicals.

Actually, the truth as the GTL sees it is that many groups ARE under attack - FROM the evangelical Right, not the other way around.

Here at the GTL we feel that one's religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are private and that citizenship alone is enough. No public profession of faith in one or another deity is required, appreciated, or welcome in our unique land where church and state are by design kept as distant as kissing cousins who can never marry.

When members of the dominant group claim to be victims of bias, at a time when they maintain an historically unheard-of level of power and influence, well, what we have here is a seething paranoia, one that will not simply go away and will not go underground.

Christianists in government say the judiciary has run amok and is waging war on them, yet it is their side that threatens violence against judges who refuse to scrap the balance of power between Congress and the Judiciary, it is the Right that wants to detonate the Nuclear option in the Senate so that the president can ram ultra-conservatives into life-tenure judgeships, and it is their side too that all but demand oaths of Christian loyalty from government employees.

Today I read about a spate of harassment at the Air Force Academy, where "patriotic" young Christians are threatening other cadets as "filthy Jews," "Christ Killers," or telling non-Christians they will go to Hell if they don't fall in line. Of course, evangelical groups seem to think that putting a stop to a bigot who is bullying the slim minority of non-Christians is itself an act of bias. The GTL calls it protecting and defending the Constitution, but why split hairs?

Today I am thankful for my right to keep and bear arms since I don't doubt that someday these Christianist radicals, out of desperation to spread the Good News of Jesus' loving wrath, and in frustration that his second coming is so long delayed, will rise up in an orgy of blood and murder.

For my own good, of course.

I don't imagine I can stop them. But as a wise man once said, "if they make us have a funeral uptown, then we're going to make sure they have a funeral downtown, too."

OUR FIRST READER RESPONSE

Eric F. saw our site and had this to say:

Hello GTL!

good to see another good guy with his heart, head, and gun hand in the
right place! And maybe we're getting to the point where those who
value the 2nd will have to use it to defend the First, as was always
intended... Anyway, I just wanted to ask you if you have a comment
section available, as I was unable to find one.

Besides that, I have never bought into the "Religious Right" leaders'
really believing in god, any god, except maybe Mammon, Odin or even
Shiva the Destroyer. It's like thinking a "snake oil" salesman really
believed his recently mixed blend of alcohol and turpentine and camphor
was really going to cure the suckers that he would shamelessly fleece
the next day. And, unfortunately, suckers and fools of all kinds are
still around in large numbers today, constitutionally unable to stop a
microsecond to think for themselves and question the provenance of the
blatant lies they are regularly fed by whores, thieves and traitors in
our government and media.

Anyway, before we ultimately win back our rights as free Americans, as
we most certainly will, and stomp these latter day fascists back to the
slime where they came from, let's keep our hand in with our favourite
"pistola" as you suggest, whatever it may be! ( make mine a well balanced .45 ACP
! )

best regards and good work, good luck, and good shooting!

eric c. forat

Psychosis is indeed the right word

Are you following what's happened since Terri Schiavo died?

Our moral superiors in Congress, having been scolded all the way back to Civics 101 by the Federal Courts, are now not only calling for the destruction of the independent judiciary by this Republican Congress, but for the blood of judges who dare thwart the will of the people by not letting them have their way. The Constitution be damned!

Witness Tom DeLay threatening vengeance on "activist judges" who refuse to enshrine the Christian Right's view of their morality as Law. He refuses to condemn violence against JUDGES. AMERICAN judges. In AMERICA.

Now, Tom, I don't mean to be petty, but are you sure this squares with Jesus' teaching?

America, I ask you: Is Tom DeLay, or George Bush for that matter, the kind of leader Jesus would really have wanted us to have?

The scary thing is that the Right really does believe the judiciary is rife with God- and America-hating hippies or pinkos who are thwarting the will of God.

Not the American people mind you, but God, as if two hundred years of American History hasn't taught them a single lesson about the dangers of claiming to represent that tired, old, morally challenged, Narcissistic deity of ours. That's all we need now, at this moment in history: Yahweh Moms.

So are "activist judges" the new Terrorists? Frankly it's hard to keep up with the endless parade of Boogeymen the Right has paraded past us in the past fifty years.

Communists.

Blacks.

Homosexuals.

Liberals.

Feminists.

Union members.

Teachers of Evolution.

Atheists.

Democrats.

Me.

You.