The Idea of Progress » religion http://www.theideaofprogress.com We are what we pretend to be Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Quote of the Day http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2007/12/09/quote-of-the-day-2/ http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2007/12/09/quote-of-the-day-2/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:20:00 +0000 The Idea of Progress http://www.theideaofprogress.com/?p=313
“J.F.K.’s speech was to reassure Americans that he wasn’t a religious fanatic…Mitt’s was to tell evangelical Christians, ‘I’m a religious fanatic just like you.

- Jon Krakauer, quoted in the New York Times.

If you haven’t already had the opportunity, I’d recommend Krakauer’s excellent and frightening book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, which tells the story of the Mormon church, which is more interesting and disturbing than you might think.

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“Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.”

–Mitt Romney, speaking today, Thursday December 6th.

Mitt Romney, shut the fuck up.

Seriously.

Combining ideas like ‘freedom’ and ‘religion,’ and making them sound inseparable, is as asinine as telling someone they’re either with you or against you. The concepts, while often intertwined, are not the same damn thing. And more often then not, religion is used to extinguish freedom, often under the maxim, “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.”

Shut up, Mitt Romney, and go back to that hole you crawled out of.

Wow, am I angry.

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It seems to me that every time we hear of a flood or earthquake or terrorist attack, the blame lay on the ’sinners.’ “It’s because people are gay/ voting Democrat/ listening to rock music/ fornicating without permission from the church.” God hates everyone that we do.

Well, lightning struck a statue of Jesus this week in Colorado. I’m assuming by that rationale that God either hates statues or Jesus, I can’t figure out which. It reminds me of an event in the 1960’s…It was during the whole “The Beatles are bigger than Jesus” debacle. Seems that a radio staion in Texas was broadcasting anti-Beatle sentiments, and the tower was destroyed by lighting. Now that’s funny.

This reminds me of the late (not late enough) Jerry Falwell. I don’t know if you saw Christopher Hitchens on Hannity and Colmes (and I can understand if you, like me, would rather have your prostate checked than watch Fox News), but it’s really funny.

Bill Maher had a lot of things to say, too. I usually consider him a blowhard like Dennis Miller, but I have to admit, I thought this was amusing.

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Talk about last week’s news. I just want to remind everyone that he’s gone.

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