American Heathen®

(Editorial Comment from the American Heathen® radio show – Air Date 09/25/09)

Anti-Abortion, Anti- Health Care Bill, Anti-Gay Marriage, Anti-Obama, Anti-Secularism, Anti-Socialist… The word “Anti-” seems to be the big fashion statement for the Christian Nationalist Party.  They seem to think that the word “Anti-” gives them license to say and do anything they want, that anything is justifiable, as long as the result is getting exactly what they want.  When they, or the word “Anti-” , is questioned they claim that they are persecuted by Anti-Christians, Anti-Patriots and a whole host of other “Anti’s”.  Cries of persecution have also become their vogue since they lost the ‘08 election with self-induced victimization as par for the course when it comes to their rhetoric.  Their claims of socialism, communism, fascism, decent into a mythological hell… all are fallacies that feed their propaganda machine.  Much like a terrible two year old tantrum, these unwarranted and absurdly ridiculous tirades are devoid of logic and reason. The tantrums are a self-absorbed, ego driven, skydaddy laden fit, a  pitiful need for attention.

As witnessed at the 9/12  march on Washington D.C., the Tea Bagger cry babies, a large part of the CNP base, with their myriad of signs, slogans and chants, underscored an important aspect of the party.  The base of the CNP doesn’t just have a few nuts dangling from the tree, it is festooned with them.  In fact, every branch of the CNP is collapsing under the weight of these fruits.   All demand immediate attention be paid to them, their conspiracy theories, their lies and conflagration.  And, they are willing to do anything to achieve those goals.  They’re “Anti-Everything”.  Sad but true.  But, when you take a good hard look at their claims, not one holds up to facts and evidence.   From the halls of Congress to the airwaves of media madness, from the back porch of the trailer to the blogosphere, from the  Courtroom to the Constitution,  these zealots wantonly step all over themselves, and everyone else, with every spoken or written word.  They make claims, so outrageous, so absurd, and without evidence, that one has to wonder how much hatred and bile it really takes to manufacture all of it.  But, manufacture they do, and it’s all “Anti-” this and “Anti-” that.

How many of you really believe this “Anti-” dung?  I mean, if you take a good hard look at the left, you don’t see a whole hell of a lot of “Anti-” anything.  For the most part, the left, albeit a bit spend thrift at times, doesn’t seem to dial in on the “Anti-” vitriol.  But, the CNP will whine about that, and take  issue.  They’ll say that secularism is “Anti-Christian”, that legal abortion is “Anti-Life”, that Gay Marriage is “Anti-Marriage”. They toss out “Anti’s” like they were rice kernels at a wedding!  But, how many bills are introduced each year by anyone other than the CNP that are “Anti-” anything?  None that I’m aware of.  I could be wrong, but as far as I can see, the only “Anti-” legislation being pushed in Congress comes from the CNP.   The “Anti-” crowd seems to relish “Anti-” everything, including “Anti-Semitism” and  “Anti-Civil Rights”.

“Anti-”  A word which bears the brunt of our current uncivil discourse, and a political party that wields the word with abandon, in an effort to seize control of our lives and strangle our liberty.

How much “Anti-” does it take to overthrow a country?  Give them any more “Anti’s” and we’ll soon find out.

“I don’t believe it!”  It’s a phrase heard everyday from members of the Christian Nationalist Party when presented with hard evidence and facts on any subject.  When all else fails, they resort to the back-up phrase, “Well, they’re left leaning”.  Of course, the last statement IS true.  How can it not be when the CNP is so far to the right that they’re on the verge of falling off the right edge of the planet! (my tribute to the Flat Earth fundies out there) Any evidence, fact, or clarification, on any issue that doesn’t fit the fundamentalist/dominionist/christian nationalist world view, is summarily dismissed as left, secular, against the skydaddy…  Simply put, if they don’t agree with it, it’s wrong.

Folks have always measured things from their own perspective, as they should.  We all have opinions.  But, where opinions become useless is when they discard evidence and fact in favor of supposition and fallacy.  The Christian Nationalist Party is ripe with supposition and fallacy.  In fact, they will go so far as to outright lie, using the ignorant and complacent American electorate as players in their shell game.  With well placed shills, the game takes on a more ominous tone as the “yes” men and women of the party concoct ridiculous plots and story lines more befitting of a bad television drama or sitcom, and spamulate everyone within eye shot and earshot. These zealots fuel the game with more bullshit than the electorate can handle, causing the average citizen to wobble, dizzy already from the sheer volume of dung being thrust down their throats to begin with. Americans, for the most part, are unable to handle information that takes them more than thirty seconds to read or  sixty seconds to hear.  So, this kind of silent indoctrination is the perfect way to supplant fact with fiction.

Recently, I responded to an email spamulation (spam designed to mutilate facts in favor of dogma).   I said the spamulation was utter bullshit, and pointed the spamulator (the person responsible for forwarding the spamulation) to EVIDENCE that showed the fraudulent nature of the spamulation.  Needless to say, the spamulator shot back with:

“I see little to call it UTTER BULLSHIT. The first quote wasn’t obamessiahs, fine, drop it. The rest are still his and don’t change the meaning just because a few words were left out. SNOPES is a major left leaning organization. Admitted by snopes when they originally started, since removed from their website to make them seem more centered. Factcheck.org is a typical left leaning site as well. Simply read their interpretation of the health care bill.”

I bolded, italicized and underlined the “don’t change the meaning…” to show just how ignorant and ridiculous the sheeple of the CNP can be.  This response is TYPICAL of CNP members and their ilk.  It’s always “lefty”.  This brings me to an important point…

Members of the CNP believe in a skydaddy without evidence.  Is it really surprising then that they would believe anything else without evidence?  No.  It is not surprising.  But, you have to ask yourself how dangerous this blatant ignorance can be, from both a domestic policy position, as well as a foreign policy position.  If hard EVIDENCE and fact are this easily discarded, what will these zealots do to liberty? What happens to diplomacy?  What happens to the face of war?  And, more importantly, we expose ourselves to something more dangerous than any terrorist can concoct.  Our enemy is not overseas.  It’s right here, in our own yard, and they are determined to wipe honesty, integrity, and liberty from the face of this country.  And the CNP will say… “I don’t believe it!  You’re a lefty!”