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The following is another one of those God-awful religious right produced “America is in a moral crisis” video.
How many times does that make it? What are we? A country or Erica Kane from All My Children.
One of these days, I am going to do a google search on all of the times the religious right have claimed that this country is in a “moral crisis.”
Seems to me that a crisis denotes a coming catastrophe and if this country hasn’t gone over the abyss yet, then someone or some people are yanking our chains.
From Religious Right Watch:
America is on the brink of collapse, and Truth in Action Ministries is warning in a new film, as a result of gay rights, liberalism and secular government. The group unveiled The Price of Freedom following a series of films blaming America’s ills on the IRS and homosexuality, calling for its criminalization. The film features Mike Huckabee, anti-gay activist Harry Jackson, Liberty Counsel’s Harry Mihet, Movieguide’s Ted Baehr and tea party activist Paul Jehle, along with the predictably ominous scenes from gay rights rallies and parades. Others participating in the film include Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land and Congressmen Todd Akin and Cliff Stearns.
“We have created a future for our children which is very negative in the sense that if they live in a socialized culture, in a perverse culture, all of the pillars of society are going to be pulled out from under them,” Baehr asserted. Jackson spoke of a “head-to-head battle” between “liberal, secular people” and the church, which Mihet said can prevent “moral chaos.”
Watch highlights here:
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The only crisis I can see is the ramped-up assault on the American system of government and the society it’s created by a bunch of anti-American theocrats who want do destroy the country.
I console myself with the thought that videos and statements like these are sure indicators that they know they are losing the battle and will soon crawl back under their rocks for a generation or two. My main worry is that they are such easy marks for the plutocrats, who are the real threat.
Patrice has this essay
http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/faith-crazed-raptors/
and its dangers to civilization where there is this
“However when murderous superstition is made the fundament of society (as in the Late Roman empire, Islam, or the Aztecs), this is savagery. Theocratic savagery is a cover for plutocracy unchained. That lethal disease is the surest way to kill a civilization.”