"He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,”lied Republican candidate Rick Santorum to an assemblage of Tea Bag idiots immediately after having categorized President Obama's "values" and his "agenda"as being
“not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology,”
Yes, some phony ideal is on the agenda. A phony ideal involving liberty, Democracy and a constitution that never mentions God or gods or scriptures of any religion and declares that there shall be no religion in government. Science is a phony ideal to sanctimonious Santorum too because we all know that Senators Jesus, Mary and Joseph agree with the oil companies and that the president's job, as 'Rick' told the 'baggers, is to keep gas prices down (and the subsidies up, no doubt.)
No sir, all that Washington, Jefferson and Madison secular prattle is phony and if we're looking for full employment, a decent quality of life and personal liberty you must turn to The Christian Scriptures which forbid us to charge interest on a loan or obtain a divorce or marry whom we will or even to enjoy sex when it isn't only for making babies. Some churches I won't mention have interpreted it to demand a king chosen of God rather than an elected government, but don't bother Rick with that. It's already on his agenda.
So why is this sex-fearing, woman hating, half-witted fake theologian; this lame-brained Longinus and meretricious medievalist mewling about theology while pronouncing Ernulphian maledictions on what he pretends are President Obama's values, cursing them one by one? Because theological statements don't have to be true, you see; don't have to be supported by evidence and are easily and frequently used to do horrible things to people. Cognitively impaired, confused and historically ignorant "conservatives" seem pre-lubricated to receive ecclesiastical wisdom without discomfort and Faith invents facts as well as it rejects them to the despair of brother Ockham.
So Obama, who thinks a Harvard Law degree makes him as good as a white. Christian man, agrees with Justice Scalia that religious freedom does not legalize acts done in the name of religion and yet, conservatives still want to shove the notion that he's a radical, Liberal, Christian-hating Sodomite Commie up the national hoo-ha and true to form, the 'baggers assume the position and take it.
How can any curse suffice?
Ernulphian malediction? Fanatastic! Thanks for sending me to find out what that is:
ReplyDeleteFrom Bishop Ernulphus in Lawrence Sterne's "Tristam Shandy:
"May he be cursed in living, in dying. May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying, in working, in resting, in pissing, in shitting, and in bloodletting!
May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body! May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly! May he be cursed in the hair of his head! May he be cursed in his brains, and in his vertex, in his temples, in his forehead, in his ears, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks, in his jaw-bones, in his nostrils, in his fore-teeth and grinders, in his lips, in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his hands, in his fingers! May he be damn'd in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach! May he be cursed in his reins, and in his groin, in his thighs, in his genitals, in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toe-nails!
Maledictus sit vivendo, moriendo, manducando, bibendo, esuriendo, sitiendo, jejunando, dormitando, dormiendo, vigilando, ambulando, stando, sedendo, jacendo, operando, quiescendo, mingendo, cacando, flebotomando.
Maledictus sit in totis viribus corporis. Maledictus sit intus et exterius. Maledictus sit in capillis; maledictus sit in cerebro. Maledictus sit in vertice, in temporibus, in fronte, in auriculis, in superciliis, in oculis, in genis, in maxillis, in naribus, in dentibus, mordacibus sive molaribus, in labiis, in gutture, in humeris, in harnis, in brachiis, in manibus, in digitis, in pectore, in corde, et in omnibus interioribus stomacho tenus, in renibus, in inguinibus, in femore, in genitalibus, in coxis, in genubus, in cruribus, in pedibus, et in unguibus."
PS. I'm going to cross post your excellent rant on PE. I had the beginnings of one myself on Santorum's sanctimonious mewling over President Obama's "phony theology."
This, of course, will endear him to those who know nothing about the Constitution but dream of amending it to eliminate everything they imagine is unXtian.
Bravo.
Oh, Little Ricky is adorable, isn't he? He said earlier that "If the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian," which will give him coverage for the media.
ReplyDeletePlus, the average reporter (and his editor) has allowed themselves to be cowed by attacks by Santorum or Gingrich any time they ask a controversial question.
So now, when he dog-whistles that Obama isn't Christian, with comments like "it's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology," nobody in the media will dare insinuate that he's suggesting Obama is a scary brown Muslim type. Oh, no, sir!
It's cute, isn't it?
The man, and I am using the word loosely with respect to Santorum is a both a hypocrite and disturbed individual. If given the opportunity "which he won't" he would attempt to force his brand of morality on us all.
DeleteThe idea of President Santorum is so absurd and so frightening that it's hard for me to think about what it would be like. Sure we've had our share of preacher/presidents and a lot of Americans want just that, but it would be such a fundamental departure from what we were supposed to be as a country.
ReplyDeleteSantorum is so far right he's pretty much sailed over the edge. That he has any support at all -- even 1% would be too much -- is troubling, to say the least. Yet here we are with Santorum poised to win or do very well in the Michigan GOP primary. It suggests that MILLIONS of Americans have absolutely no idea what the proper role of government in their or our lives is. They think winning an election means you get to impose your religion on the losers.
ReplyDeleteNo, it means millions of Americans just DON' T think. Period.
DeleteI’m trying to understand this descent into Insane Asylum Hell that has become the GOP, and perhaps one approach is recap recent events … starting with the midterm election of 2010. It was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, jobs. Yet, when the TeaHoos won control of state legislatures, their agenda pivoted to abortion, labor union busting, and voter ID bills … everything BUT jobs and the economy. Why?
ReplyDeleteI have often tried to point how the GOP excels at wedge politics to atomize the electorate. If the public is focused on jobs and the economy, then it is logical to use hot-button wedge issues such as abortion and false allegations of election fraud to distract voters from their bread-and-butter concerns. Notice, for instance, how Santorum’s theology and values bullshit has dominated headlines. Little noticed under this bullshit are recent economic reports that blunt GOP criticism of Obama’s stewardship of the economy. The middle class has never been the primary client of the GOP, and I doubt the Republicans give a crap about jobs and the economy. As in 2010, I believe their real agenda is about subterfuge and bait-and-switch politics.
Regrettably, I think their agenda receives little discussion. Suppose there is a secret strategy to deadlock the primary process and have a brokered convention. The advantages are obvious: Party insiders get their first choice candidate, create a sudden groundswell of enthusiasm from their base, and bypass the traditional vetting process.
During an interview recently, Karl Rove was asked this question. His answer was “impossible” which, knowing the lying sack of shit that he is, usually translates into “highly probable.”
Dino,
ReplyDeleteSo far over the edge that right, left and center have no reference points and no meaning.
Oct-O-pus,
Perhaps they're very crafty folks and this holy rolling circus is a distraction from rising markets and falling unemployment, but I hope they keep it up. I hope they give us candidate Rick Santorum with Reverend Phelps as VP while Karl Rove melts onto the floor like the wicked witch.
And I hope he refuses to back down or compromise, even to the extent of allowing contraception if the offending woman wears a scarlet letter of some sort and has to go everywhere with an escort ringing a bell and chanting "unclesn - unclean." Hell, let him call for chastity belts and burkas, cry havoc and let slip the bats of lunacy.