If you’ve been following along, you’re undoubtedly aware that nothing tickles the fundies more than the fact that they imagine the invisible dude in the sky has given them a special dispensation from that whole not-bearing-false-witness thing. From third-string ex-con fibbers like James Hartline to professional prevaricators like Tony Perkins to outlandish lying loons like Pat Robertson, nobody makes up shit like fundamentalist Christians.
Ed Brayton points to a reader of Andrew Sullivan‘s who has the full 411 on why the fundies are so mesmerized by Alaska’s Queen Esther Governor Sarah Palin:
Part of Sarah Palin’s irresistible appeal to her fundamentalist base is her ability to look at the camera with utter conviction and declare black to be white.
The ability to lie well is a valuable part of the fundamentalist psychology. My son isn’t gay, he just hasn’t found the right woman! Those rocks aren’t 50 million years old, they just look like it as a test of our faith! My sexless marriage isn’t foundering, it is filled with God’s spirit! The minister isn’t molesting little Maria, they’re just very close! It isn’t torture, it is being tough on terrorists!
Fundamentalists can recognize a truly audacious and talented liar from miles away. Instead of running the other way, as you might expect, they gather around the powerful liar, for they know that their own lies will be respected and protected by a leader who understands the paramount importance of preserving their whole system of denial.
I second Brayton’s “bingo.”
Comments
2 Comments so far. Comments are closed.Sexual Orientation is a choice, just like breathing, skin color and ethnic background. If it is a choice, then so are a whole host of others.
We chose this lifestyle, just as you choose to be heterosexual.
The only choice we have is to live the truth of who and what we are.
Religion, however, is a choice, just as hatred, bigotry, prejudice and self-righteousness and “Using the Bible As A Weapon of Mass Damnation”. “So I say unto you, let he among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” and “There is none righteous, no, not one”. Remember the one about the speck in my eye and the huge block in yours? Mr. and Mr. Fundamentalist, I have a little ditty just for you: “As you’re pointing the finger of blame at me, remember, aimed right back at you are three!”
Mac
Religion is a lifestyle choice, and most Americans shop around and change faiths throughout the course of their lives about as frequently as they change spouses.
Thankfully, more and more Americans are choosing to just say no to religion.