Black smoke.

I didn't come into the blogosphere with much frustration, pity or contempt for the religious right, but I certainly am leaving it with those sentiments.

Any so-called christain who attempts to impose their will on me or my government can take their bible, their cross, their hypocricy, and their unearned sense of moral superiority...

and just shove it.

Levelheaded wrap up of god v. fillibuster.

Good headline: Justice or Just us?

This is truly scary.

AL MOHLER: "We want to communicate to all that we are not calling for persons merely to be moral. We want them to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, because we don't just need instruction, we need salvation."

He is author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.

Mr. Mohler, who joined Bill Frist and others in a Christain Telecast promoting hatred and hoping to change the American system in order to suit current needs, is what one might call, bear with me, antidisestablishmentarian.

Break it doun for us, Rev.,
REV. JOSEPH PHELPS: "Well, the Constitution, the First Amendment sought to disestablish religion, to not have an established religion. In junior high school, I learned this long word with 28 letters, antidisestablishmentarianism. I never knew what it meant. Now I do. It is Al Mohler and that group. They want to redesign, redefine our nation's history, no longer being disestablishment people, but going back and creating a strict religious theocracy."

Jesus Bleeping Christ, you can't be serious, can you Rev.? Is that pesky First Amendment getting in the way again?

At least somebody understands.

"The Republican Party is being transformed into the political arm of the religious right, with the White House and the congressional Republican leadership pledged to make evangelical doctrine the law of the land for the entire American people. This has the most ominous implications for the US constitutional structure and for democratic rights."

Take back the scriptures?

Sorry, I'd prefer to remain in the educated, rational, secular minority than launch some lame-duck plan to develop a faux-sense of values and spirituality in the Left in order to win back blind-faith religious. I won't pander to anyone who would despise me for being 'godless,' much less try to impose their BS voodoo jesus mumbo jumbo on me. This is extremely agrivating.

I can't believe there are so many stupid people in this country. What's worse is that they are teaching their kids to be stupid.

It's so damned depressing.

Strange Bedfellows.

Abe Foxman and Karl Rove are spinning a strange political web, as the Jewish Anti-Defimation League (ADL), once a staunch critic of anti-semitic groups such as the Christian Coalition and founder Jerry Fallwell, have entered into a marraige of convenience.

Foxman has already made waves (perhaps rightfully) in criticising the leadership of the Million Man March (due to Minister Farrakhan's leadership)and has been outspoken in defense of Israel's stake of the Holy Land.

But perhaps it makes more sense than it seems, fanatacism is a strong item to have in common.

"At the heart of the Foxman-Reed-Falwell collusion has been a fierce opposition to the Oslo Accords and to the land-for-peace efforts overall. In the twisted world of the Christian Right, any kind of just, two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is a sin against God. For Christian Dispensationalists like Falwell, Robertson, and Reed, Middle East chaos is a hopeful sign that the End Times are near, and that the final Battle of Armageddon, in which the Jews and Muslims of the world will either convert to fundamentalist Christianity or die, is on the immediate horizon. The fanaticism of the Christian Right is, in many instances, in sync with the fanaticism of the Jewish Fundamentalists who murdered the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, for daring to make peace with the Palestinians."

"These are the murky waters into which the ADL's Abe Foxman has waded over the past decade. It is no wonder that Foxman now reportedly shows up on the roster of political opportunists and hacks, who have been dispatched by White House sleaze-meister Karl Rove, to wage political warfare against those who dare to challenge the "mandate" of George W. Bush, including those who would put the full weight of the U. S. behind a just peace between Israel and Palestine."

The Disappearing Wall

Excellent Op/Ed piece.

Are Bill Frist and Tom DeLay (who is in enough hot water on his own) looking to adopt Bush's "winning coalition" of the evangelical right in order to use them for votes in 2008?

Frist is walking a delicate tightrope... very dangerous.

Christians launch crusade on film.

"A spate of hostile reviews that are due to appear in the increasingly influential religious press this week will urge America’s 80m born-again believers to avoid the £100m ($1.6m) film."

But be sure to catch Mel Gibson's masterpiece "Passion of the Christ."