Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Selective Morality of Christianists

I am frequently stunned by the mind set of Christianists who have blindly acted as cheer leaders for the Bush/Cheney regime even thought it is increasingly obvious to anyone with more than a borderline retarded IQ that Bush and Cheney are guilty of war crimes under the standards applied after World War II. The fact that Bush claimed to be an "born again" Christian and that his regime pushed an anti-abortion and anti-gay agenda apparently trumped any other moral considerations. But then again, in my opinion, the Christianist care NOTHING about what is done to innocent non-Christians who can be slaughtered indiscriminately without one pip out of the Christianist leadership. These folks are morally bankrupt and are anything but true Christians. Rick Warren is a case in point as highlighted by Andrew Sullivan:
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Rick Warren, Torture And Bush. Warren says he believes that the Bush administration engaged in torture, as is now indisputable. But in his many conversations with the president, he never brought it up:
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BELIEFNET- Did you ever talk to President Bush to try to convince him to change his policy?
WARREN - No. No.
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BELIEFNET- Why not?
WARREN -- Never got the chance. I just didn't.
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But he managed to discuss abortion with Obama, and, so far as I know, Obama has never aborted any fetus. But Bush has authorized the torture - even to death - of many, many prisoners. Warren says that Bush would have had to have brought the subject up to earn his moral censure. But even now, Warren refuses to say that the president is guilty of a moral failure.

1 comment:

Pinkbeard/Barbarrosa said...

When General Franco and other fascists and rebellious military staged an uprising against the democratic Spanish Republic in 1936, the Catholic Church immediately declared it a "holy crusade" against unbelievers, liberals, socialists and so on; bishops approved mass executions and priests assisted to many of them. During the long Francoist dictatorship the church was always happy and totally on his side, in spite of the fact that unaccountable thousands were murdered or imprisoned. Just one more example