05/22/06 "Information
Clearing House" -- -- America has lost
its way. We are a confused nation, beset on all sides by
fear and paranoia. After the orchestrated 9-11 attack on
New York City and Washington D.C., and its follow-up
anthrax attack on Democratic legislators, Americans of
all stripes rushed en masse to George Bush's Fools' Gate
to trade their morality and compassion for empty
promises of security. The consequences of that Faustian
trade are unbelievable. In order to be safe we signed a
pact with Decider Bush to condone any atrocity he could
dream up so long as it happened in other lands to other
men, other women, other children. He agreed, and further
decided that no law conjured up by mere man applied to
him, especially the U.S. Constitution, and demanded we
sacrifice our freedoms as collateral for this evil pact.
How easily we were fooled! Fat, indolent, and full of
self-righteous pus, we were ripe for harvest. We are at
the mercy of The Decider, who is manipulated from behind
the scenes by unelected neo-Straussian thugs lusting for
the matrix of a One World Order. They are joined by
Christo-fascists soiling themselves at the thought of
gaining dominion over the government apparatus and
realizing their dream of stoning gays and liberals to
death, and by rapacious corporations intent on
ransacking the universe until it is stripped of all
treasure and resources. Although their agendae differ,
this greedy axis shares a single goal -- that of
complete power and control -- an area where morality
dies aborning. They also share one other critical
attribute -- they are aggressively anti-American --
traitors contemptuous of representative democracy who
will not rest until every last vestige of it is wiped
from the face of the earth.
The war they are waging is on us.
We have lost much over the past five years, but nothing
as profound as our spirituality. The religious among us
are little more than blind sheep milling around,
stumbling in single file in the direction of the loudest
voice blaring from Tower of Babel churches and media
ministries. They are unable to discern good from evil
and incapable of recognizing the filthy hypocrisy of the
religious right's fundamentalist theocracy. And there
are more of them every day -- God's warriors eagerly
following the divinely inspired Bush into a dark world
of assassination, torture, murder and madness. Bush is
"born again." He said so himself. God talks to him.
Would he do anything that was not God's will?
I wonder if there is just one true Christian who can
look at what Bush has done in the last five years, and
what he is threatening to do in the next three and say
that Bush is "born again"? Do Christians not know their
own God? Did not God warn us to be vigilant against the
"Deceiver" masquerading as a messenger of light lest we
fall prey to, and become a part of, the evil swirling
around us? Are we not responsible for discerning the
nature of the beast -- the false prophets sent out into
the world?
I do not recognize this devilishly destructive, violent
god of the evangelical religious right who has sent Bush
on his genocidal mission. The God I am familiar with is
the One to whom my mother knelt in tearful prayer each
night and raised her sweet, wonderful voice in praise
each day. He is the One to whom David sang in Psalm 5:4
--"For thou are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil may not sojourn with thee. The boastful may not
stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers. Thou
destroyest those who speak lies; the Lord abhors
bloodthirsty and deceitful men."
Do not be deceived. Emerson says that virtue or vice
emit a breath every moment, and each breath Bush, Pat
Robertson, Jerry Falwell and the hypocritical Republican
Christo-fascist machine emit are putrid blasts of evil
lies. As Carolyn Baker
writes so succinctly..." The religious right of
twenty-first century America is anti-American,
inherently violent, and a cruel, tyrannical, punitive,
force of death and destruction. "
Baker says the "unredeemed, the unbelievers, the poor,
the feminists, the gay and lesbian, the disabled, the
homeless, the mentally ill, the addicted, and those who
are conscientiously following divergent spiritual paths
of their choice, are suffering in the wake of Christian
fundamentalism’s devastation of the economy, the earth,
and the human race." She says adult human lives do not
matter to these people and, unless we follow their
tenets, we deserve to "burn in hell for all of eternity.
Hence, we are expendable, inconsequential, and a force
to be conquered, broken, imprisoned, or killed."
How easily these creatures who have never served their
country in uniform send others to be maimed, broken and
killed in an endless "war on terror," which is nothing
but an abstraction whose reality lies in the mind of the
beholder. Day after weary day the bodies pile up at the
feet of the stubborn, mean-spirited Bush and the beast
he has unleashed upon the world whose thirst for blood
cannot be quenched. There have been
2,471 Americans slaughtered because of the shameful
lies told by Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald
Rumsfeld and others -- and especially by the
dishonorable Colin Powell who carried the beast's water
all the way to the United Nations. Hundreds of thousands
of innocent Iraqi and Afghanistani men, women and
children have perished on the alter of Bush's god, who
is even now panting to bury his fangs in the throat of
Iran.
The present-day "religion" has little to do with
Christianity. It is all bloody politics. The Republican
party is little more than a fascist religious cult whose
goal is to take over this republic and rule it by the
cold compassion of the Old Testament God. For those who
doubt that consolidating power and controlling politics
is far more important to the religious right than saving
souls, Katherine Yurica reports in her
The New Messiahs text that Pat Robertson announced
publicly on his
700 Club at a time when the
religious right was gaining dominance, “We have enough
votes to run the country -- and when the people say,
‘we’ve had enough,’ we’re going to take over the
country.”
Yurica said there was never any doubt of the ultimate
goal of not only Robertson, but Jerry Falwell, Tim
LaHaye and many others. "What is dominion?" Pat
Robertson asked his television audience, “Well," he
said, "dominion is lordship, to reign and rule."
And kill. The scent of innocent blood sends these guys
into nearly as wild a frenzy as it does Bush, Cheney and
Rumsfeld. Falwell recently announced in trembling
excitement, “You’ve got to kill the terrorists before
the killing stops. And I’m for the president to chase
them all over the world. If it takes 10 years,
blow
them all away in the name of the Lord.”
Robertson has called on his followers to pray for the
deaths of Supreme Court justices. He has called for the
assassination of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez no less than
three times. Both Falwell and Robertson openly blamed
the attacks of 9-11 on gays, lesbians and pagan
liberals. If Robertson weren't so dangerous the
blasphemous "chats" he claims to have, wherein he
trivializes, demeans and ridicules the Creator of the
entire Universe, would be hilarious. Just last week
Robertson babbled that God gave him a heavenly weather
report. "If I
heard the Lord right," he said, "storms and possibly
a tsunami would hit US coasts this year."
And, in April, God helped him cure a woman of her
asthma. Robertson said fortunately he had his wife with
him -- "this haunting woman...very attractive --
striking brunette, 45 years old, you know thin, 5'8"
kinda thing..." Robertson said he prayed, "Lord, what's
wrong with her?" And God said,
"ask her about her sex life." Robertson and God
argued for a bit before Robertson asked her about her
marriage, which she said was "wonderful." He turned back
to God, reminding us again that he had his wife with
him, and asked, "Lord, what's the matter?" God insisted,
"Ask her about her sex life." So, as soon as ol' Pat
asked her about her sex life and she said she didn't
have any, God cured her of her asthma.
The beasts who would destroy us --
will destroy
us -- if we are not vigilant -- walk among us not as the
hideous demons they are, but hide their true nature
behind the masks of their twisted ethos, disguised as
bumbling, arrogant fools. Thanks to them, America is no
longer a Beacon of Freedom to the rest of the world, but
a flickering ray of shame and derision. Thanks to them,
God has become a symbol of hate and terror. Because of
their lust, the American Flag is now America's funeral
shroud.
Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former
civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a
regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
Contact her at: rsamples@sirinet.net. © 2006 Sheila
Samples
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