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A few of you have tried to take me to task for being anti-religion. Some of you have gone as far as to accuse me of hating God.

First off, the latter of you are frigging idiots. Not buying Pat Robertson's crap is not the same as turning my back on the Creator. If you pull your head out of your sphincter long enough, you'll begin to see that.

As for the others, you're probably right. I draw a severe line between being religious and being spiritual. If the former involves listening to angry, politicized rabid hate spewers, then, yeah, I am all against that. And that is primarily what I see out of organized religion today. When they aren't trying to subborn the political process or take away people's civil rights or extort money out of the government, they are resorting to preaching some twisted "it's not you, it's them" brand of religion that puts more focus on saying the right words than doing the right deeds.

Frankly, I want no part of it. That ilk is about as spiritual and Christian as a kid smoking dope in his basement listening to Marley music is a Rastafarian. You can't go through the motions; you actually have to BE what you profess to be. And from what I've been seeing; these hypocrites certainly are not.

In any case, let's take a snapshot of the Talibangelicals today.

Amazingly enough, it is still newsworthy to comment that Bush's policy are driven by twisted evangelical motives, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. Here's a story concerning missionary work in Africa, particularly that of Purpose Driven fame Rick Warren. I admire his dedication but totally question his focus.

Here at home, pseudo-Christians are looking to create enclaves of their form of morality. You know, the kind that's pro-White, anti-women, anti-gay, anti-anything but some twisted "Leave it to Beaver" episode. South Carolina is a choice for some, probably due to its history as a bed of racism and secession. Incidentally, I'm all for letting the southern states leave again. They take all our tax money and reinstitute racism. What's to like?

Meanwhile, the owner of Domino's Pizza, when he isn't funding abortion clinic bombers/assassins of doctors, is buying trying to build a city in Florida dedicated entirely on extremely strict Catholic beliefs. I think he should be able to do it. That said, I also think the residents of that city should have their rights restricted and we shouldn't have to pay for one piece of asphalt, one street light, one hate-filled textbook they plan to brainwash their children with. They should also have to face mandatory military service to this nation just so - at some point in their lives - they actually have to face what living in America is really like.

But I'm just kind of an ass like that.

Here's an article related to the rise of the religious Right and its threat to the rest of us.

Where has this gotten us so far? Well, we have Supreme Court justices receiving death threats from "compassionate" conservative psychos. We have a Democratic party so cowed and afraid of being labelled allies to terrorists that they refuse to stand up to Bush, even when one of their own is leading the charge. We have the GOP calling the shots in the media, even as it still cries about a non-existent liberal slant. Hell, even the Secret Service parades around mascarading as FOXNews reporters, though FOX and many others don't seem to have a problem with that.

But not everything is coming up roses for Bush and his pseudo-Christian base. Indiana, a state so full of conservative racists that it might as well have sided with the Confederacy, has lately had doubts about Dictator Bush. According to the Boston Herald, solid Bush supporters say the following about the Iraqi people: "(A) lot of them are worse off today than they were under the dictatorship." Strong opinion against the efforts of a guy you voted for twice. And let's be honest, even Iraq's former Prime Minister says the country is in a civil war. And he should know better than Bush. He lives there, instead of going over once a year for photo ops with fake turkeys like Bush.

Some of it is Iraq, some of it is Bush's inability to protect our country. For example, pertaining to the Dubai ports deal, one local says of his fellow residents, "(T)hey don't want someone with a turban running our ports." I did warn you they were racists, right?

Meanwhile, evangelicals themselves are warning Congressional Republicans to "do better" on their issues on this election year.

And sometimes you can be too successful. GOP stalwarts have forced through a bill in South Dakota that bans all abortions. It is probably unconstitutional even in this day and age, and goes beyond what even most ardent Republican members publicly wish for. So now they are squirming, caught between their rhetoric that sides with now-successful zealots and the rest of the electorate. It's called chickens coming you to roost you idiots. Choke on it.