[lbo-talk] Barack Obama/Christianity

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org>
>
>On Nov 8, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>... If you let that toxic stew simmer for decades, it's really no wonder 
>>that holy rollers are running the country now.  The electorate will be 
>>baying at the moon next.
>
>I think it's a gross exaggeration to say that holy rollers are running the 
>country. I think that the statistics will show that the majority of Bush's 
>voters were in fact not "holy rollers" (whatever you mean by that) ...

Nothing good.


>... and of course nearly half the electorate, and a lot of the non-voters, 
>don't support Bush. The holy rollers have more political clout than they 
>did some decades ago, but they are far from being in complete charge of the 
>country.

I'd say the circumstantial evidence is strong that religious loonies are in 
complete charge of the country.  Above all else, the election results 
represent adamant denial of reality -- belief that Iraq was responsible for 
9/11, that Bush has alleviated rather than worsened the potential for 
terrorism, that the US can pile up endless external debt while telling other 
nations to go fuck themselves, etc., etc.  That amount of fantasy is 
compatible only with a thoroughgoing religious worldview.  Faith, as Mark 
Twain memorably observed, is believing what you know ain't so.

Carl