Letting God know who to vote for

June 2, 2006

I’ve heard about awkward combinations of religion and politics, but this is ridiculous.

The [tag]Republican[/tag] state convention in Hempstead, L.I., opened, as many do, with a prayer. But the [tag]invocation[/tag] from Msgr. [tag]Jim Lisante[/tag], a Long Island pastor and Fox News commentator, cut right to the chase.

Lisante opened with a call to Republicans “to remember to love each other” – and to supporters of Bill Weld and John Faso not to “hate the other guy.”

That’s because “the other guy, whoever he is, is still better than [tag]Eliot Spitzer[/tag].”

So, Rev. Fox News delivered a [tag]prayer[/tag] about the Republican being better than the Democrat? I’m no theologian, but I’m not sure what the scriptural defense is for this.

Once again, it’s not [tag]secular[/tag] liberals stripping [tag]religion[/tag] of its spiritual significance, it’s conservative Republicans.

Someone has to clue in this Rev. Fox. Nothing about two thousand years of Christian history could be clearer than the obvious truth that the people who disagree with you just a little are to be damned to hell while those who disagree a lot are worthy of every effort of conversion and tolerance.

So naturally, Weld and Faso supporters have to “hate the other guy” more than they hate Spitzer. After all, they agree on so much more, and thus what they disagree on much be SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT 😉

  • That fellow Campos was on The Colbert Report and mentioned that religion and poltiics shouldn’t mix.

    He said that injecting poltics into religion is the same as mixing horse manure with ice cream.

    If the right wing fundies want to accelerate the marginalization of Christianity in America then they’re doing a bang up job. This is why a large chunk of Europe became secularist and church attendence is sinking in reaction to these folks.

  • I guess Lisante’s defense would be that he’s being a tough, sharp-edged Noo Yawker, just makin’ a little joke heah, fuggeddaboutit.

    But really he just sounds like a jerk.

  • Only the church own real estate in the USA. All others who calim to be home owners only rent from the government. The rent is called real porperty taxes. Those who fail to pay are evicted, their property sold at auction to someone who will pay, at least the amount of rent in the rears. The church pays none and owns some of the best. The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California is a prime example of government supported religion owning some of the best property in Orange County. It doesn’t take a genious to see that violates the first amendment to the constitution, “no law shall establish religion.” The tax laws clearly contribute to the establishment of the Crystal Cathedral and it’s continued operation.

    The difficult thing for most to understand is that the notion of democracy, the real thing with minority rights is only as old as the constitution. Right away they whittled that down with constitutional slavery. We know better and so did they at the time. But it was how things had always been done. Religion is just like slavery in that sense. It’s how things have always been done. The time has come to end that and form “a more perfect union.”

    The Bible, the source of the license to violate the constitution is now a proved hoax. That’s so radical, so unexpected that it is easy to pass of as the rantings and ravings of the insane. But it comes from the written historical record. The reason it has not surfaced before is that it is written in hieroglyphics. The writing on the wall, (hieroglyphics often appear there) has now been read. Even the Bible speaks of the unreadable writing on the wall. Well, it’s been read and the actual source of the information in the Bible found. It’s a hoax!

    The end to nonsense like the above is at hand. All the amo needed to blow the reverands away, fairly tax all real estate and not just home owners and legitimate businesses, is there. A lot of here to fore skeptics are now seeing that it’s so. The Bible is a proved hoax with proof better than used to convict Scott Peterson. So take heart. It’s just a matter of time until someone decides he/she is being taxed unfairly and gets a lawyer for a nice class action law suit. California can pay off it’s massive debt by simply collecting all real property taxes due.

    You can see the proof for yourself and tell your friends and neighbors about it at http://www.hoax-buster.org “Patriotism is not dead.” That web site is free and doesn’t accept advertising or donations. Over 42 million Americans alone agree with the finding, read the actual hieroglyphics or not. There’s enough pictures to convince the open minded. People all over the world are visiting the site. Is the pen mighter than God’s representatives? God’s representatives have government on their side. Not government of the people, BY THE PEOPLE. Is the government they, God’s representatives have in mind for the people or for themselves? The wisdom of the people shall prevail.

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