Demons and devils and spooks OH MY!

If these people aren't totally crazy, they aren't anything...

Demons and devils and spooks, oh my!

Queen of Heaven? Axis of Evil? Prophecy chants? Demon strongholds? Generational curses?

What are these people, spiritualists, animists or something? The whole belief system reminds me of the superstition common to primitive cultures or those held in thrall by a paternalistic religious structure...

Oh, wait. That's it.

My bad.

Yeah, another "WTF???"

Doing battle against the Queen of Heaven. Ok, suuuuuuuuure:

Ana Mendez and her "task force"

and what in the world kind of rational bitch could they have with the Amish?

You Just Can't Make This Shit UP!!!!!

Wackaloons? Crazed and delusional? Insane? Lala Land? White cots and padded cell territory?

Oh, yeah, these people just keep getting stupider and stupider and stupider. This from NPR:

"Holy Highway"

This isn't even funny. There is no way something this completely delusional could be funny. It's not even pathetic. It's just plain, old damned stupid.

They seem to be living in the middle ages, superstition rampant, paralyzed by fear of the unknown or unknowable? What possesses them to give themselves over to such foolishness?

This just make no sense at all. Absolutely none. It is so far beyond the pale of rational, responsible adult thought processes that I have no vocabulary to describe it. I mean, really! How can people be that stupid and live?

The Crazy-people Show

OK, this is mean-spirited but these people are nuts.

Duggar Family

and they have their own television show.

and they are just creepy. eeeeewwwww

The world is going bonkers, honestly.

Arm-twisting buy the religious right

Party Poopers?

Uh huh. Another example of wanting to have it both ways. My way or the highway, dudes.

*barf*

Treasure hunt for books

Getting a copy of Balmer's new book, mentioned yesterday, has turned into a treasure hunt.

One vendor after another is sold out. So, on to the next vendor.

Also ordered these:

"Scandal of Evangelical Politics, The: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World?" by Ronald Sider

"Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America" by Balmer

"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America" by Chris Hedges

That should give me plenty of material to think about.

I'm not anti-religion, I am just not in favor of politics masquerading as religion, or vice versa. I don't personally think that a person's religious views or his adherence to a particular set of beliefs gives much insight into personal behavior.

Changing the subject, yet again, this is an enlightening article from Intellectual Conservative:

"Clear Thinking" Counterfeit Conservatives

The author, Sartre, gives probably one of the best dissections of the Neoconservative value and belief system I have seen. I'm not an intellectual conservative by any means and the website the article was posted on annoys me no end, but this is a good article just the same.

Add another one to the Gotta Have list

This book by Randall Balmer, God in the White House.

Here is a NPR story about the book, along with an excerpt.

NPR