This adds new spin to my view of what's going on at the RNC right now because you still hear a little bit of talk God here and there, but it's different. When Mitt Romney talks about God, he's not talking about our God and he has yet to give his speech yet.
But we now have a party that is allowing people to pray at the Republican National Convention who don't have the slightest similarity to us, when it comes to our view of God, at all. At all.
It wasn't that long ago that Pat Buchanan at the 1992 RNC was talking about the great culture war and being a Judeo-Christian nation and how important it was to hold that all together because that was the foundation upon which our country was built. And he was right. He got skewered for it, but he was right.
And look how far we've come. Now, 2012 we have somebody from an Eastern religion offering the invocation at the Republican National Convention. I'm not saying people from different religions can't vote Republican, but what this really is is a syncretism that is kind of seeping under the door like a gas.
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No, no, this is good. You tell all your followers to stay home and not vote, Janet. Better still, get them to vote for the Christian Party or something. Yeah, do that.
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"'An Eastern Religion'. But... isn't christianity...?"
No, christianity is obviously not an eastern religion. Eastern religions are followed by them dark skinned or yellow folks. Christianity is followed by good white folks just like Jesus.
"It wasn't that long ago that Pat Buchanan at the 1992 RNC was talking about the great culture war"
He said religious war. Like my real religion is going to have a war with your false religion. Because only my real religion is entitled to run the country.
I'm not saying people from different religions can't vote Republican
Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose any elections, would we? However, once you have their vote they can pretty much fuck off, right?
"...but what this really is is a syncretism that is kind of seeping under the door like a gas."
- Lady, its a bit late to complain about syncretism in Christianity, about 2,000 years too late!
People of different religions than you! OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not saying people from different religions can't vote Republican
except you are.
And look how far we've come.
And I'm relishing every tear you cry.
I hope this sort of thing destroys the Republican party, I really do. I'm getting tired of the rest of the world looking at the U.S. as the special ed. student of the West.
Christianity is an eastern religion, you dolt. Just not as far in the east as India. It doesn't come from Europe and it sure as hell doesn't come from America. It's from the Middle East, also known as the Near East.
By the way, I'm all for this kind of bigotry because it narrows the Republican base even further. If everyone who doesn't worship the proper White Anglo Saxon Protestant God is ousted from the party, the less votes they'll get and the quicker they'll die off.
"When Mitt Romney talks about God, he's not talking about our God and he has yet to give his speech yet."
I have not read things about his platform: you seem thus more bothered your candidate is an "heretic" than you're interested to defend/critic his program.
"I'm not saying people from different religions can't vote Republican, but what this really is is a syncretism that is kind of seeping under the door like a gas"
You have just said, before, that "eastern religions" and heretics have no place in the RNC.
Now I understand why Muslims switched from the GOP (before 2001) to the Democrat Party.
And christianity was a eastern religion, a offshot of Judaism, born in Palestine.
The question of why an officially secular political convention is has a religious invocation at all aside: Can Sikhism be called "an Eastern religion"?
Yes, it is from the Punjab, and along with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism can be called an "Indian religion". But if by "Eastern religion" we mean "religions common in East Asia", then the list is East-Asian Buddhism, Taoism / Chinese Traditional / Confucianism, Shinto, and a few other things.
Either way, the quote indicates a lack of knowledge about almost the entire world.
And look how far we've come. Now, 2012 we have somebody from an Eastern religion offering the invocation at the Republican National Convention.
Stop it before it starts!!
Next thing you know the RNC will be letting niggers, uhh darkies, uhh people of color, uhh blackies (oh shit, whatever niggers are called these days) be delegates and maybe even letting them vote. Heaven help us!
What happened to the good old days of the GOP? No niggies, no Jews, no women, no catholics, none of them Muzzies or other turban beards, etc. Just pure clean WASPs.
Now we have Catholics, even Mormons all over the place. Yuck!
No wonder God sent a storm to the RNC. He wanted us to clean up our house and get rid of the fluff.
Eastern Orthodox ? that would be so cool.
do you mean hindu, moslem, cult of Khali, little elephant dude , Vishnu .. oh wait ... Remo, master of Sinanju and the current avatar of Shiva ! sadly I missed that ;(
"When Mitt Romney talks about God, he's not talking about our God and he has yet to give his speech yet."
Romney prays to the wrong god, and Obama prays to the right one, but...he's...well, you know...
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kind of seeping under the door like a gas.
Oh oh. Is this a Godwin?
Swede, you really don't know much about Mormonism. Mormons believe in a God who was once a man, became a God, had physical sex with Mary, etc. And look up Kolob some time. And that faithful Mormons will go on to become Gods with their own worlds to create and rule.
It is certainly less similar to Christianity than Judaism is, although it seems to have been smoothing some of this stuff out over the last few decades. They've always played the "same words, different definitions" game to make it sound like they believed the same things as Christians, and making it very hard to verify exactly what they actually believe, but it does look like they're increasingly 'spiritualising' some of their previously core beliefs, that they even used as mocking points in speeches to show how much more 'real' they were than Christianity.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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