Friday, October 22, 2004

Watching the 700 Club Spin

It's Christian Fox news light.

On reporting voter fraud, they say both parties are equally guilty, nevermind that there isn't a single report of Democrats ripping up Republican ballots (correct me if I'm wrong).

The 700 club says:

"The liberal media is trying to make us think our vote doesn't count."

Most disturbing, however, was this little jump in logic. It went something like this, from the blue-eyed, light haired, younger looking Pat Robertson clone:

"With the supreme court in Florida knocking down ten commandments in courthouses, and ten commandment issues in courts all over the nation, and judges finding the words "under God" unconstitutional, it is so important that we [Christians] vote. The constitution says nothing about stopping the expression of religion in the public square! It simply says that the government must not establish a religion. But we have a long American history of religion in the public square, we began as a Christian nation, and Christian expressions of faith should not be stopped.

Where did we get from religious expression to just Christian expression? Why couldn't he just continue to say religious expression? Because that's not what they want or mean, they mean CHRISTIAN nation, CHRISTIAN expression. Come on, they certainly do want to establish one national religion. This isn't about the expression of a mosaic of religious faith, which I fully support, they are only interested in those who have faith in Jesus.

Now blue-eyes is making a mesmerizing, meditation inducing appeal to let Jesus into your heart (direct) "...close your eyes, and pray along with me, and I promise, Jesus will hear, he'll answer, and you'll find joy."

Now there's an 800 number, packet's free. 1-800-759-0700 I wonder if they ask for money later...

Pat Robertson has produced an ad promoting his book called Courting Disaster and says 5 "activist" supreme court judges are trashing our constitution.

Judges are usually anti-activist (work from precedent), both conservative and liberal judges can make changes that are considered activist (new interpretation). When Bush got appointed president 5 to 4, the judgement was one of the most activist decisions on record.



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