Tea Bagging for Jesus
As a quick glance at the video tape makes clear, the supposed Tea Party movement is simply a continuation of the right-wing's failed 2008 presidential campaign by other means. (Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) spoke for Sarah Palin, John Cornyn, Michele Bachmann and countless others when he insisted, "We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party.") But as the sessions by Pastor Rick Scarborough and Judge Roy Moore at today's National Tea Party Convention show, the assembled Birthers, Birchers, Deathers and Deniers have seamlessly embraced the extremist religious right agenda. They are Tea Bagging for Jesus and they are in your face about it.
On that point, Pastor Scarborough is unapologetic. The Vision America founder and face of the "War on Christians" conference, Scarborough told MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Friday that he considered the event his organization sponsored "a good investment."
And Michelle Goldberg wrote in the American Prospect, what Rick Scarborough is investing in is new adherents to his particularly draconian right-wing vision:
In 2002, he left his post as pastor of Pearland First Baptist Church to form Vision America, a group dedicated to organizing "patriot pastors" for political action. That year, Falwell identified him as one of the new leaders of the Christian right. The author of books like In Defense of ... Mixing Church and State and the pithier Liberalism Kills Kids, Scarborough spent the Bush years organizing conferences that brought together conservative Republicans with preachers and activists working for the imposition of biblical law.
Among Pastor Scarborough's closest allies has been the disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom Delay. At his 2006 War on Christians conference, Scarborough defended His Hammer:
"I believe the most damaging thing that Tom DeLay has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office, which made him a target for all those who despise the cause of Christ."
As the indicted Delay left the stage, Scarborough urged him to "keep your eyes on Jesus" and informed the audience that "God always does his best work after a crucifixion."
While Rick Scarborough was scheduled to host a Friday session titled, "Why Christians Must Engage," at Thursday evening's Tea Party kick-off he conducted the "Organized Prayer Session for the convention & our nation." As Time described it:
By the end of the night, much of the room knelt in prayer - one of the pastors, Rick Scarborough, went after homosexuals several times to choruses of amens -- before watching a Tea Party video.
Then there's Republican candidate for governor and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore.
Former that is, because an Alabama ethics panel removed Moore from his position in November 2003 after he refused a mandate to remove a 10 Commandments monument from his courthouse rotunda. In response, as the New York Times recalled, Moore was unrepentant:
Moreover, Judge Thompson said, "the chief justice showed no signs of contrition for his actions."
Indeed, just minutes later, Mr. Moore strode out of the courthouse into a crush of his supporters and announced, "I have absolutely no regrets."
"We fought a good fight," he said. ''We kept the faith. But the battle is not over. The battle to acknowledge God is about to rage across the country."
And to be sure, Moore continues to wage that battle. In addition to his campaigns for office, Judge Moore is an outspoken supporter of Senator Richard Shelby's jaw-dropping "Constitution Restoration Act," which:
"...aims to reinforce states rights by clarifying that the Supreme Court and district courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases brought against a federal, state or local government or officer for acknowledging God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government."
And so it goes. Echoing Republican talking points from the 2008 campaign, failed GOP White House hopeful Tom Tancredo told the Tea Party faithful gathered in Nashville that Barack Obama is a "socialist." Tancredo also fired up the crowd, "You have launched the counter-revolution." Of course, the extremist right-wing counter-revolution urged by reactionaries like Rick Scarborough and Roy Moore has been underway for years. The Lord's Tea Baggers may now have a bigger stage, but they are delighting the same eager faces.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives.)
The Christanic Taliban is far, far worse a threat to the United States and to American citizens than any Islamic savage out there. These scumbag traitor cultists are right here in our neighborhoods, harboring the same ideologies as their Islamic colleagues.
If they want war, I am all for it. I think the Christofascists are enemies of all that is good in America. They spread their ignorant, supertitious fundamentalism, bigotry, sanctimony and political hypocrisy to the detriment of all the sheeple that follow them. They are a hateful cult. It is hard to believe that they do all of this in the name of Jesus, who espoused loving your enemy and religious humility.
Candideinnc
From some 30 years of operating a BBS and then The Skeptic Tank when the old DARPANet turned in to the Internet, I have observed the religious, their behavior and what motivates them.
A lot of it is they hate us for our educations, our intelligence, our morality and ethics which vastly exceeds that of the religioius, on average, but worse of all, they absolutely *hate* the fact that their superiors manage to live succesfully and morally without having to concoct deity beliefs.
The religious live in constant fear of death. The fact that the rest of us manage to deal with life and death and with reality without having to concoct delusional escapist beliefs is what the religious hate the most about us.
You are absolutely correct on this point. And why do they fear death so much? It's because they know they have 'sinned' in the eyes of their 'Lord' and they are not worthy, and unlikely to receive, his ultimate 'salvation'.
More pointedly, they fear death so much because fundamentally they are cowards. Their religion is the ultimate cop-out from taking responsibility for their own lives.
"A coward dies a thousand deaths. A brave man dies but once."
Hi DamOTlese!
Oh, the fun we had in Holysmoke, right?
I'm glad you've kept you site of quotes up, many of the posters are still active, Stan, Jeff, Tim, etc.
they hate America because they can't control us, rob us, f*ck us.
Thanks for your thoughts!
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Islamic militant extremist are not a sizable segment on the US population nor are the represented in either house of congress. The same cannot be said for the Christian Taliban. There is no greater threat to America at home or abroad than the Christian Taliban.
it's time the govt took tax exemption rights
away from all the gop churches......they are
political arms and not religious entities....
just a bunch of fucking homophobic racial bigoted
HYPOCRITES.
that said there was only about 600 people there. I thought several thousand were supposed to be there. Of course the MSM will estimate that there was 60,000 people there.
Don't you remember math? Zeroes have no value, so they add as many as they like.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Love it. You have managed to capture the core essense of Creationist lunacy. }:-} Epic.
we know for sure there were 10 baptists who weren't there.......they're still in jail in Haiti for trying to abduct 33 children..............just sayin'
My goodness, these people truly are deranged and delusional.
And, more to the point, dangerous.
The American Taliban, indeed.
BID
Come Sunday you will realize this event was not a wafer time.
TFR
Gets them out in the streets and into their wallets. If your thing is a mystical being that lives in the clouds teabaggin is a way of life
Politics is ugly
Not saying shit all those years while Dubya wiped his ass with American Law and conducted illegal wars on a fucking credit card. If Barack Obama were a white man none of this ridiculous bullshit would be happening.
These cowardly bigots have ZERO credibility.
That's why they adopted the more marketable K.
Kross, Krucify, Khrist, Klan + Kredibility.
It worked for K-mart and Kleenex as well.
TFR
Kleenex is at least good for something.
Not just white, but republican white.
BINGO!!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The buybull is the word of God. The Constitution was written by men. This is the crux of their justification for a holy war within the United States.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Ironically, that's also the justifications for their Islamic colleague's crimes against humanity and treason against their own Islamic governments as well.
Christanics point at their Islamic colleagues and demand that there goes evil, demanding that the two cults are some how different despite all evidence to the contrary.
"Tea Bagging for Jesus and they are in your face about it."
It's "quoted". Did someone REALLY say that? LOL
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
LOL. Why, whatever *could* you be thinking of? LOL.
It's amusing in so many ways. The antics of the cultists among us are *epic* when it comes to humor but these same insane loons successfully drag nations down with them in to their occult stupor, so much so that the United States is utterly incapable of successfully competing economically in a world economy against nations which *don't* harbor a plethora of cultloon traitors.
What's next? Glossolalia? Serpent handling? The appearance of the Virgin Sarah?
have to turn in their white robes and hoods before they entered the convention floor? Wow.....talk about a bunch of sickos!...I'm getting really tired of hearing their mystical BS.
A few funny things about the ten commandments controversy. Commandment number one, "I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me," is at loggerheads with a founding principle of America, one that is enshrined in the constitution and which predates the constitution by more than a century, that of religious freedom. Also, these so-called "Christians" neglect the fact that the one commandment which Christ cites as the most important, does not appear on the list.
These people will be so embarrassed if they ever develop the capacity to feel shame.
republicanism/conservatism i a mental illness!
I've been thinking that for a long time. But I also think they won't develop that capacity until they're near death at which point they won't suffer the consequences of guilt for nearly as long as I think they should.
I guess the Nazi Racist republicans are standing in the wings to see how this plays out these teabagger Idiots can't post a AMERICAN flag DUH! its the hotels Fault (notice the lack of accountability fits right in with the Fear and Hate Mongering do nothing republicans.
Oh! don't forget these Racist Nazi are in PERFECT alignment with the Nazi Republican now they want to re establish the Jim Crow Laws, anyone else see why I claim the Nazi Racist Socialist Republican is trying to see were the wind is blowing. These Anti American scum make it almost impossible to see who hates more, the republican DIMWITS or the BRAIN DEAD teabaggers.
.... for making a born-again atheist out of me.
It is always good to recommit and I was dangerously close to becoming an agnostic.
How were the donuts at this event?
TFR
There were plenty of nuts, and lots of dough.
Oh, and the donuts had hole sin them, just like their latest Savior's hands and feet.
But I don't see any evidence that any one of them ever read the New Testament.
They love the idea of Jesus, just not the Jesus who spouted the socialist idea's in that part of the bible they don't want to acknowledge.
They don't want God who forgives. They want God who avenges.
These are some really sick f@%s!
Jesus is their excuse for self-righteous indignation and going to war.
No no, the New Testament is for Pagans and other heathens. Christanics get to pick and choose what they will read and believe in the extant classical Christanic mythologies, penciling in what their gods and goddesses "forgot" to mention.
it's time to have an AfA Convention..........Atheists for America.........:).........That would put a twist in their undies!
tea-baggers are the "christian-right"? so jesus was a commie-hating, gay stomping, gun-loving, wolf-hunting bozo who carried a flag, not a cross. tea-baggers can't recite the ten commandments but will tell you what they mean. which is what they want them to mean. hey tea-baggers, better watch what you do on sundays. tea-baggers think "turn the other cheek" is a gay expression!
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism." Benito Musolini
I'm sure that corporatists find these Christian extemists every bit as useful as the Republicans do.
Was it Ron Paul who said, "Fascism will come bearing a cross and waving the American flag"? I guess you could add to that, "and tea bags dangling from their hats."
> I'm sure that corporatists find
> these Christian extemists every
> bit as useful as the Republicans do.
Oh Hell yes. A willfully ignorant, occult, stupid populace is an *obeying* populace, one that does not question the Fascist State when it comes to the elimination of rights, freedoms, and liberties, and gladly accepts the levy of taxes for the enactment of terrorism around the world an dtreasno against themselves.
Republicanism is at core occult stupidity.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
We really need to find some other name to call these folks who call themselves Christians yet pervert its tenets. I'd call myself something other than Christian, but I'm tired of sacrificing just to appease these petulant children and mindless sheep. BTW, an Atheists for America convention sounds wonderful as long as they don't succumb to the same "our way is best; all else is just evil" mentality. At least the speeches would be based on fact, not fear.
> We really need to find some other name
> to call these folks who call themselves
> Christians yet pervert its tenets.
In what way do these insane Christanics pervert Christianity? The cult has *always* been comprised of hate-filled, insane loons like this.
Someone coined the term "Christianists". I wish I could take credit for it.
Their movement has already shown signs of confusion...wait till they further attempt to reconcile.
Interpretation is key, let us see whose god is greater... reality be damned!
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Tom Delay was 'allegedly' crucified according to this pastor. by whom? and so therefore hes 'comparing' Delay, a failed human being, to Jesus. the individual that is thought of when the word 'crucifixion' is mentioned. i think this pastor may need to reread some of his scripture. i dont know which parts because i dont read scripture. and i certainly wouldnt take it literally. tom delay, what a joke.
Curses on those churches that use the Lords name in vain.......
Let the dead bury the dead!
old are perfect candidates for believing that the President was born in Kenya, and that there's a secret plot to kill Grandma. *sigh*
And to think I used to be an evangelical...
I've never seen change without a fire
> And to think I used to be an evangelical
WTF? You means there's a cure?!
onto a bit of skepticism the entire time. It was when I stopped telling myself I was doing a very bad thing for wondering why nothing I was taught was helping my PTSD and bipolar, and realized that my senses and mind weren't lying to me that, that I decided to get out.
It's a long story, but I used to belong to a faith healing/prosperity gospel church...
I've never seen change without a fire
Faith healing. Good bloody gods! One of the worse aspects of occultism, in my opinion.
is all your fault if you didn't pray hard enough, and brain disorders such as bipolar are sinful.
Glad I got out.
I've never seen change without a fire
Oh yeah, didn't pray hard enough or at the right gods or didn't believe hard enough, yep.
The classic bunko fraud: Sell the rubes, marks, and suckers a fraud and when it turns out it doesn't work, blame the victim.
'Course another reason why faith healing never works is one didn't hand over enough money to the Christanic priesthood. Money makes everything work right.
landlords to pay their rent at a later time or piecemeal, but still wrote a $100 check during the offering time...
I've never seen change without a fire
An ATM for God ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
You know, my father always had a bit of an atheistic streak growing up (his father was a preacher, mostly without a church), and the one thing he hated was pastors that lived off of their parishoners. Grandpa always had a day job that paid his personal bills no matter what, and Dad always held pastors to that standard. I guess I do too.
I've never seen change without a fire
And yet if omeone robs a bank and gets away with $100, it's a felony with prison. The cultists do it and they're treated like heros.
James Packer, a close friend of Tom Cruise, was recruited into the organization during a vulnerable time in his life.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Ah yes, Australian megacrook, isn't he?
involved with was bad, but sometimes Scientology gives me even more of the heebie jeebies...
I've never seen change without a fire
Yeah. Scientology is *the* worse when it comes to brainfucking to elicit money from the rubes. The Scientology crooks are in Haiti trying to sneak behind police lines so they can be photographed for public relations frauds and to rook and swindle money out of people who want to donate to help Haiti, just like the fucking crooks did in New York:
http://www.cosvm.org/
People who deliberately work to disrupt relief efforts in the aftermath of a terrorist attack are working for the terrorists.
'Course the Scientology crime syndicate doesn't kidnap children and try to abduct them back to the United States for slavery. No, it took some criminals in the Christian religion to do that.
I would have loved to have gone and just walked around. But, I'm afraid they would have been able to identify me pretty easily as not one of them. It would have been like the end of the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" where Donald Sutherland points his finger at Veronica Cartwright and made that weird fucking noise. Then I would have been screwed.
infiltrating for a day. If by some chance I got past that, the fact that I don't wear loud American flag clothing would give it away, and if not that, then when I opened my mouth it would be over! :)
I've never seen change without a fire
More like the Star Trek episode, "The Return of the Archons." You know, "Save us, Landru! Guide us!" and "I heard him! He mocked the Law Givers!"
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
The Tea Party has packaged itself as the "patriots" who are trying to bring back the "true" America of the founders and the religious right has packaged itself as the "true Christians" who are trying to fight back the godless liberals.
It's a match made in Hell. I wouldn't be so concerned if the MSM would stop acting like every bat shit crazy belief warrants serious attention instead of the ridicule it deserves. The MSM wants ratings so they invite these people to spew bullshit and give them credibility. They need to be laughed at and sent packing.
Then we have the "most trusted name in news" (people trust con men till they are shown for what they are) airing and promoting this junk as if people just discovered a little over a year ago that Washington spending was out of control. The previous 8 years don't even exist anymore. It makes me want to puke.
Burn the books at (4:40)
That don't work so well in today's society... Though I'm not good at texting
I love a challenge :)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
LOL! So much easier for the Christanic Taliban to burn truthful writings they didn't like when they actually *burned*. LOL.
Fucking insane cultists.
Science gives us our technology.
Some of them do see the future and it is indeed frightening...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
There's also irony in that. These frothing loons hate science because they think that it deducts from or terminates their deity constructs (which science does in so many ways.)
But science drives technology, and yet these frothing loons have no compunctions against utilizing the artifacts of science: Clean water, high-protein food yields, waste reclamation, materials sciences, everything that makes Westernized socities actually work, these frothing idiots should reject, just as they reject science.
Remember when the fucking loons were emergent in the 1980's? Doonsbury comic strips depicted these cultists very well, as did Bloom County.
In one comic, a Christanic Taliban loon representing the "Moral Majority" (sic, sic) walked in to a record store and told the rocker type behind the counter that he or she (the Christanic cultist's gender was indeterminate) that he or she wanted something truly evil to burn.
The guy behind the counter informs trhe Christanic cultist about Blondie records, "She's one wicked chick," the rocker informs it.
"Fine, I'll take three dozen."
LOL.
This Faux correspondent oddly refers to keynote speaker Palin as 'my best friend Debbie' but captures the electricity in the air at the convention.
Foxy Roger was married to Norma Ailes?
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Talk about the insanity of the so called "faith healers" and scientologists, part of these guys are mormons, the cult of the century.They rewrite everything. Having to pray to Joseph Smith, to pray to Jesus, to get to God is all part of this mormonizing tea bag process and brain washing. I was brain washed. How about multiple wives (but don't tell). Scott Brown is a mormon and tea bag sympathiser. Watch out for the crazies....they're cult christianics. Not one of 'em are Buddhist(now that's a true faith). Poor Jesus. He's really gotta be pissed off at these demonic worshipping tea leaf baggers. All 1100 of 'em.
The Cristians in this country have declared war on blacks, immigrants, gays, pro-choice women, atheists, agnostics and basically anyone else who isn't white, conservative or Christian so if there is a war on Christians I say, it's about fucking time there was.
NEW THEORY SUGGESTS PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO RELIGION FOR 16 REASONS ╬
So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics and Baptists. In a nation that has long been mostly Christian, "the challenge to Christianity … does not come from other religions but from a rejection of all forms of organized religion," the report concludes.
I want my country back :-/
Study the symptoms not the virus...
selfishly turns boy into pawn in gay-adoption battle
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I was somewhat amused by reading through the comments about tea-bagging. Sounds as though a bunch of the posters are regular practitioners!
And a question: Why would this site (or any other) so readily expose its adherents by adopting such a truthful name?
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