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RNC Warns of Dems' "Gov't Without God"
The Republican National Committee has a new feature on its web site, a quasi-satirical "news" site which imagines the headlines a year from now in an America when Dems control Congress. It's called America Weakly (Get it? Weak-ly.) One item is rather curious: a daybook listing for a fictional seminar to promote “A Government Without God.” So we guess that means that the GOP agenda officially includes a government of God -- i.e., a theocracy. We have only one question: which party is really being caricatured by this site?
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Unfortunately, we don't have to wonder about an America with a Republican President and a Republican Congress:
Stagnant or falling wages
3000+ dead civilians from terrorist attacks
2600+ dead soldiers
Almost 20000 wounded
Anti-US sentiment abroad at an all-time high
Out of control spending
Massive deficits
High gas prices
Laughable "homeland security" measures
Total disregard for civil liberties
And so on and so forth...
The Republicans delusional "satire" can't top any of these clusterf*cks.
September 8, 2006 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I feel that if there are people in the government that truely belief in God and are not using Him to get votes or to do monsterous things I think it should be ok to use His name as long as it is done with honesty. I feel it is ok for them to say God Bless you at the end of a meeting or at the end of a speech if you truely believe in Him don't do it to make you look good with the Christians cause I am a christian and I don't believe the Bush administration.
September 8, 2006 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm curious, and I don't mean this disrespectfullly: how would a "God" ever be so pliable as to be "used" for anything? My definition of "God" doesn't include any reference to Him being so weak and malleable that He can be used for whatever purpose someone wishes. In fact, my understanding of God is that he uses us for His purposes, instead.
How do you determine whether I truly believe in God when I say God Bless you at the end of a speech, or are just making an automatic statement which means nothing to me, or am pandering to Christians? I notice when I sneeze that a lot of people say "God Bless you" to me - I doubt that they give the slightest thought to what that means.
Hoppy in Sacramento
September 8, 2006 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like to go back and read the US Constitution occasionally. I did so just yesterday. Nothing I read in there gives God a role in our government. In fact it prohibits Congress from doing just that, by saying, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." So, I certainly hope the Democratic administration in office in January 2009 will follow that Constitution and establish a government without God.
Hoppy in Sacramento
September 8, 2006 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hear Democrats are having a hard time talking about religion in an effort to appeal to swathes of the American public who have migrated to the god-friendly GOP. Here's what you do.
Acknowledge that religion has an important role to play in American public life. Assert that government has no position on religion other than preventing the promotion of any one faith. Religion, furthermore, is defined that which promotes the unifying and life-affirming, not division and prejudice. This way the world's religions are all equally protected, but there is no mention of superiority amongst religions. And the only religions which are taken seriously are those that are positive, which eliminates the moral relativism of having to protect hateful minority religions, including fundamentalism, East and West.
Was that so hard?
September 8, 2006 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink