If you
can define the parameters of an argument, you will likely win the argument.
There is
a poison in American Religion. It is politics.
It
started in the eighties when one third of a modern day version of an Anti-Christ
in the form of Ronald Reagan, an actor, was helped into his cushy CEO crony job
with the aid of southern bigots aka as “born again” Christians in the form of
Jerry Falwell Incorporated.
The
television evangelists labeled their Edsel version of religion televangelism. There were no warning labels on the make it
up as you go along programming and or snake oil product and the resulting wealth
brought out the vote for a washed up black and white film “B” Hollywood Actor in
1980. Every marketing success spawns repeat and imitation.
There is
a poison in American Religion. It goes
beyond the Bush “Black Purse” ongoing bribe given to churches to dole out soup
but not condoms to the poor.
There
used to be a fairly decent Religion section the British Newspaper The Guardian.
It disappeared one night that coincided with the visit of King Benedict the
German of the Vatican 108 acre based money laundering empire.
In fact,
I don’t recall The New York Times ever being big on religion or where religion
would be booked except in the leisure section is in fact it ever existed.
I guess
no doubt the editorial staff heard about all the Religious Politics or is it
Political Religion that has poisoned the modern and or virtual American Town
Square. FOX NEWS moronity sells papers so to speak and attracts sponsors.
On to the
scene of the past few years is the Harvard educated Conservative Ross Douthat
to explain modern religion to a seemingly godless liberal New York Times readership.
No truth to the rumor that the NYT needed an emergency midnight loan to survive
one day back when and the Knights of Columbus, the Roman Catholic Church’s “Black
Banker” came through in a pinch, and Ross now has a bought desk, boutique
stall, at the grand old lady of news as a concession or condition of that emergency
Vatican backed loan?
Anyway, I
keep seeing wanna be memes popping up from time to time based on the NYT Vatican
Desk in the form of "TC" theologically correct Ross Douthat articles on a truly
global news site that has room even for a token puissant or is it pissant opinion pundit like
Douthat.
Memes
flow through the blogosphere. There are whole chucks of Catholic and or right
wing “Born Agains” or the new flavor of the month title is “evangelicals” blogs
that repeat, reverberate and praise the Douthat Vatican echo chamber.
There was
quite a stir about the dangerous “Pantheism” theology threat of the Movie
Avatar that Ross probably got nominated for a Pulitzer on. Straight off the secret? GOP/RCC daily
talking points sheet. Wink. Nod.
In a way,
Douthat is the Ivy League version of the Beer and Sauerkraut Bill Donohue at
the Catholic League directed toward the Church Militants, “igorant enlightment”
for the lower classes on the right and wrong American Catholic PC political
opinion and positions of the hour, day and month these days. It is not like the Catholics ever read the NT.
Which
brings me to the latest politically labeled religion piece by Ross trying to
piss on Mainstream American Protestantism.
I have
read many blogs in response of this piece of political trash masquerading as
religion.
Give it a read and form your own individual opinion while you still have that option in a "free" America.
When did
any Christianity become “Liberal” or “Conservative”?
Those are
political terms!
And once
this form of "Boutique Journalism" courtesy
of the RNC and Ross Douthat interjects terms like liberal or conservative into
the opinion page of the Beard NYT, then the parameters of the argument are
already set. The argument is won by the controlling out of touch corrupt 1% elites trying to use one more ploy to prostitute religion into a political matrix of the 2012 election.
Christianity
is neither liberal or conservative. It just is.
And for
those of you that need a visitor’s guide to Christianity, take the Douthat tour
and drink in his religion and in the end wake up in bed with dross of the soul.
Your
soul.
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