Misinformed Christians
August 9, 2009 by Dave Dubya
Maybe you saw the woman holding her Bible up in the air and chanting “This is the only truth.” She was one of group of conservatives following instructions to disrupt Democratic representatives meeting with constituents. Perhaps she was inspired by Republican lobbyist Dick Armey’s Freedom Works’ guide “Rocking the Town Halls-Best Practices.”
Maybe she was following Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. It’s a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying organization that’s run by a former hospital executive and generally slippery greedy fellow named Rick Scott. Or maybe she was taking her cue from Americans for Prosperity. They’re listed on the RecessRally.com page under the name of their own subsidiary, Patients First. The national chairman of Americans for Prosperity is the 19th richest man in the world. A man named David Koch.
These are organizing forces behind the Right Wing offensive against the free speech and democracy being attempted at these meetings. The Republican Party tells us, “What Democrats call mob rule, the average American calls democracy. These kinds of despicable characterizations of middle-class Americans smacks of elitism.”
So let’s get this straight. The 19th richest man and his fellow Republicans are in no way promoting anything resembling elitist interests.
Right. And Hitler’s Brown Shirts were promoting democracy by doing the exact same thing. The Brown Shirts were charged with disrupting political opponents’ meetings.
Now, I’m not saying these duped citizens are Nazis. Although Rush was telling his brain-dead listeners today how much Democrats are like Nazis. You all know how famously those Nazis promoted nationalized health care and questioned their military/industrial complex. Oops, that last part was from Republican President Eisenhower. He fought against the Nazis.
What I AM saying is these conservatives shouting down meetings are doing the same thing Hitler’s Brown Shirts did. And I’ll bet there were many German Christians among them. Many German Christians believed Hitler was one of them. They were misinformed and blinded by ideology, of course. Today we see many American Christians who are similarly misinformed and ideological.
Let’s take a look at what misinformed Christians have been up to and see if we can find any historical pattern.
Misinformed Christians set out to kill for Christ on their Crusades.
Misinformed Christians launched a bloody Inquisition.
Misinformed Christians burned people at the stake in Europe.
Misinformed Christians hung “witches” in Salem.
Misinformed Christians followed Hitler.
Misinformed Christians believe Obama was not born in the US.
Misinformed Christians believe Obama is a racist.
Misinformed Christians don’t want government-sponsored health care.
Misinformed Christians want VA health care for veterans.
Misinformed Christians want to keep Medicare.
Misinformed Christians don’t know VA and Medicare are successful government-sponsored health care.
Misinformed Christians believe government-sponsored Health care is Communism.
Misinformed Christians are frightened by Socialism.
Misinformed Christians do not know what Socialism is.
Misinformed Christians watch Fox News.
Misinformed Christians believe Right Wing propaganda.
Misinformed Christians are frightened and angered by Right Wing propaganda.
Misinformed Christians repeat Right Wing propaganda.
Misinformed Christians don’t know Right Wing propaganda is funded by Mammon.
Misinformed Christians believe government sponsored health care will kill old people.
Misinformed Christians don’t know for the top 10 corporate health insurers profits are up over 430% the past 7 years.
Misinformed Christians prefer the insurance companies influence our politicians.
Misinformed Christians believe in free speech.
Misinformed Christians will disrupt others’ right to free speech at meetings.
Misinformed Christians follow instructions titled “Rocking the Town Halls-Best Practices.”
Misinformed Christians don’t care that “Rocking the Town Halls-Best Practices” was funded by corporate money.
Misinformed Christians shill for corporate profits against the public’s health.
Misinformed Christians serve the interests of Mammon.
Misinformed Christians forgot Jesus said, “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”
Misinformed Christians don’t care that health care costs cause bankruptcy.
Misinformed Christians would prefer $10 trillion go towards war than care for our own.
Misinformed Christians want to deny health care to millions of Americans
Misinformed Christians forgot Jesus healed the sick.
Misinformed Christians forgot who said, “Blessed are the merciful”.
Misinformed Christians believe we are a Christian Nation.
I think I see a pattern here…
Misinformed Christians aren’t very Christian at all, are they?
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Great post. It amazes me that this GOP propaganda machine can continue to instill fear as they have for the past eight years. Sadly, that vocal base, the “Moral Majority” types (read: loud minority) still warp their faith to be the rationalization for the conservative cause. Terrifying. Thank God for Rachel Maddow and her compatriots bringing all this to light, and for blogs like yours that get the word out. Keep fighting the good fight!
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The only informed Christian is Jesus Christ. The rest of us can either follow Him or deny Him. A misinformed Christian is no better or worse than a misinformed Muslim (i.e., Islamic Extremeist). Both are a dangerous to society. Both need to humble their ways. Both need to be open minded and not judge others.
religion is a crutch for those who cannot grasp thier own insignificance. the time is fast approaching when secular peoples will have to fight these fanatics with more than honest debate and fact. they live in an alternate universe where facts are optional. i am so tired of the democratic leadership trying to appease them. if thier only tactic left to them is to disrupt a meeting then they are a bankrupt ideology.
“Many German Christians believed Hitler was one of them.”
“Misinformed Christians followed Hitler.”
Not a big surprise since Hitler was a Christian:
“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice…. And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people…. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited.”
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922
“It will at any rate be my supreme task to see to it that in the newly awakened NSDAP, the adherents of both Confessions can live peacefully together side by side in order that they may take their stand in the common fight against the power which is the mortal foe of any true Christianity.” -Adolf Hitler, in an article headed “A New Beginning,” 26 Feb. 1925
“We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls…. We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity… in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.”
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Passau, 27 October 1928
“We are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfill as a national government the task which has been given to us, swearing fidelity only to God, our conscience, and our Volk…. This the national government will regard its first and foremost duty to restore the unity of spirit and purpose of our Volk. It will preserve and defend the foundations upon which the power of our nation rests. It will take Christianity, as the basis of our collective morality, and the family as the nucleus of our Volk and state, under its firm protection….May God Almighty take our work into his grace, give true form to our will, bless our insight, and endow us with the trust of our Volk.”-Adolf Hitler, on 1 Feb. 1933, addressing the German nation as Chancellor for the first time
“The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life…. The National Government regard the two Christian Confessions as the weightiest factors for the maintenance of our nationality. They will respect the agreements concluded between them and the federal States. Their rights are not to be infringed…. It will be the Government’s care to maintain honest co-operation between Church and State; the struggle against materialistic views and for a real national community is just as much in the interest of the German nation as in that of the welfare of our Christian faith. The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavouring to develop them.”
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933
“The Catholic Church considered the Jews pestilent for fifteen hundred years, put them in ghettos, etc, because it recognized the Jews for what they were”…. I recognize the representatives of this race as pestilent for the state and for the church and perhaps I am thereby doing Christianity a great service by pushing them out of schools and public functions.”
-Adolf Hitler, 26 April 1933
“The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie.”
-Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933, writing to the Nazi Party
“We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech in Berlin on 24 Oct. 1933
“We have experienced a miracle, something unique, something the like of which there has hardly been in the history of the world. God first allowed our people to be victorious for four and a half years, then He abased us, laid upon us a period of shamelessness, but now after a struggle of fourteen years he has permitted us to bring that period to a close. It is a miracle which has been wrought upon the German people…. It shows us that the Almighty has not deserted our people, that He received it into favour at the moment when it rediscovered itself. And that our people shall never again lose itself, that must be our vow so long as we shall live and so long as the Lord gives us the strength to carry on the fight.”
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech to the “Old Guard” of the Party at Munich on 19 March, 1934
“No, it is not we that have deserted Christianity, it is those who came before us who deserted Christianity. We have only carried through a clear division between politics which have to do with terrestrial things, and religion, which must concern itself with the celestial sphere. There has been no interference with the doctrine (Lehre ) of the Confessions or with their religious freedom (Bekenntnisfreiheit ), nor will there be any such interference. On the contrary the State protects religion, though always on the one condition that religion will not be used as a cover for political ends….
National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary it stands on the ground of a real Christianity…. For their interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the symptoms of degeneracy in the world of to-day, in our fight against a Bolshevist culture, against atheistic movement, against criminality, and in our struggle for a consciousness of a community in our national life… These are not anti-Christian, these are Christian principles! And I believe that if we should fail to follow these principles then we should to be able to point to our successes, for the result of our political battle is surely not unblest by God.”
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Koblenz, to the Germans of the Saar, 26 Aug. 1934
“The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.”
-Adolf Hitler, in his proclamation to the German People on 01 Jan. 1939
“If positive Christianity means love of one’s neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.”
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the “Old Guard” at Munich on 24 Feb. 1939
“God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work….
Only He can relieve me of this duty Who called me to it. It was in the hand of Providence to snuff me out by the bomb that exploded only one and a half meters from me on July 20, and thus to terminate my life’s work. That the Almighty protected me on that day I consider a renewed affirmation of the task entrusted to me….
Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts….
In the years to come I shall continue on this road, uncompromisingly safeguarding my people’s interests, oblivious to all misery and danger, and filled with the holy conviction that God the Almighty will not abandon him who, during all his life, had no desire but to save his people from a fate it had never deserved, neither by virtue of its number nor by way of its importance….
In vowing ourselves to one another, we are entitled to stand before the Almighty and ask Him for His grace and His blessing. No people can do more than that everybody who can fight, fights, and that everybody who can work, works, and that they all sacrifice in common, filled with but one thought: to safeguard freedom and national honor and thus the future of life.”
-Adolf Hitler, in a radio address, 30 Jan. 1945
http://www.nobeliefs.com/speeches.htm
Awww, Rusty, ya didn’t have to go and blast off on these guys just for me…heck, you had me at “Touch me again, and I’ll call the cops.” What? Oh, wrong Rusty. Oh well, I still love ya, and you know I love this article.
Whoever posted the Adolf Hitler citations, I see that the list was compiled by a Jim Walker. Would this be the same Mr. Walker who ran the “FriendlyAtheist” website? If so, he was doing rather poorly, last time I heard, and I hope he’s doing better now. He had some really thought-provoking arguments that left out all the negativity and gave believers a fair platform for rebuttal.
Oh holy fuckamoly..I did NOT write this..Dave did! I am so sorry Dave that I forgot to change the name of the author. Fuck!
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Dusty,
Unlike many of those I rant about, I am happy to forgive.
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Your new article is now up..with YOUR name on it Dave.
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Man, I knew it. Sure, just keep lettin’ her get away with it. Fine. What-ever.
LOL..hush Tom!
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