Religions is a tool of the right wing

Religion has been a tool of he right wing and the status quo for centuries.  The Germans viewed World War 2 as a struggle between religion and atheism  the Germans actually had more Teutonic crosses on their aircraft than swastikas. Of course, the swastika has been called a "twisted cross."

Oddly, the right wing in the US picked up where the Germans left off . in the 1990s Ronald Reagan used the evangelical community to win a presidential election. Although George HW Bush was less enamored with religion than his son, Karl Rove used religion to elect his son, GW Bush.

GW Bush even tried to give the US welfare system to church leaders after the election, but the church leaders balked at the idea stating that wasn't the mission of the churches.

Rightardia has a secular humanist slant on the world that some might call that view agnostic atheism. By using the term agnostic we mean we have no special knowledge that God exists or does not. We have no idea. At the same time the religious community has offered scant evidence of god's existence  Many religious people take a Gnostic view in that they have special knowledge of god's existence.

Pat Robertson is a good example of this when he says he knew who will be the next president.

Robertson later admitted he got God's message wrong suggesting Robertson believed God had told him that Mitt Romney would win. Robertson also said the president's policies do not reflect what American believe.  Of course, Obama had a convincing election win both in popular vote and electorally. Obama won by more that 4.5 million votes

Don't forget Billy Graham either. He invited Mitt Romney to his church and then removed the Mormon faith form the Billy Graham cult list to give the Republican an election a boost with evangelical.  Right after the election, the Mormon Church went back on the cult list when officials from Graham's church admitted they had made a mistake about the Mormon faith.

Many years ago Sinclair Lewis made a famous quite about fascism:

American fascism has elements of capitalism, religion and jingoistic patriotism  Another world for fascism is corporatism.

Churches has always looked toward corporate sponsors for church contributions and have reminded their flock to look the other way when corporate abuses were occurring. Why worry about the here and now when paradise is waiting for the obedient in heaven?

Is it possible that a supreme being created the universe?

Certainly, but why would a supreme being need to be worshiped or hang around one small planet in he middle of a very large universe?

Even the Founders believed the universe was inhabited by other intelligent worlds and that there were probably sentient beings who are a lot smarter than the people on earth. Many of the founders were also deists. They believed in God, but not in organized religion.

In fact, it  is rumored that Ben Franklin was an atheist,

Thomas Jefferson even edited the Bible.

"The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition is especially notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels which contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages indicating Jesus was divine," 

Of course, these same  four gospels  of gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the ones that are embraced by evangelicals and fundamentalists. 

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
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Humor Gazette: Michele Bachman had to be a history major

Rightardia added the bat because we are so used to seeing it with Michele.



This is presidential material, folks. Michael has replaced Sarah Palin as the darling of the Tea Party. 

At least the Humor Gazetter didn't put bats around Bachmann like most Democratic artists do.

Why do they do that?

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The Republican mythos

The GOP would like you to beleive that they represent the heritage of the Founders. However, founders such as Jefferson, Franklin and Madison were not conservative.

Are you surprised in Texas they want Jefferson out of the history books and replaced with a Founder who thought the US was a Christian nation.

That is the second big myth: the US was founded as a Christian nation. In fact, the Establishment Clause (the first Amendment) makes it clear there is no official state religion or religious tests. The Treaty of Tripoli also makes it clear that the US is a secular state.

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli reads:

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

According to Frank Lambert, Professor of History at Purdue University, the assurances in Article 11 were "intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers." 

Article 11 has also been cited by 21st-century church/state separatists as one of several documents — including the Federalist Papers papers and the Declaration of Independence — that demonstrated, according to author Brooke Allen, that the Founding Fathers "... were not religious men".

The Senate's ratification was only the third recorded unanimous vote  ever taken. The treaty was printed in the Philadelphia Gazette and two New York papers, with no evidence of any public dissent. 

It is risky to judge the founders by the standards of today. Historians call this present-mindedness. For example, conservatives may say that the Founders were clearly not socialistic, but socialistic thought didn't become well known until the 1870s.

The Republicans tried to take credit for the voting Rights Act of 1965. Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. 

Many Republicans supported both laws but both laws were hallmarks of the Johnson administration.  After the laws were signed many Democratic Dixiecrats became Republicans. The exodus of southern Democrats from the Democratic party was a big factor in the Reagan counter-revolution in the next decade.  

Now Glen Beck is suggesting that the legacy of Martin Luther King was Republican and Christian. No record exists of MLK ever being a registered Republican.   

King was nonpartisan in word and deed. King was driven by a moral conscience that was affirmed growing up in the historical black church along with his deeply held belief in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  

According to Byron Williams, neither party has the right to lay claim to his great legacy. Of course, MLK is a hero in the Democratic party, but Democrats have rarely claimed King was a Democrat. Democrats have claimed MLK's legacy and this is why blacks and Hispanics voted overwhelmingly Democratic in the 2008 elections. 

Republicans have made a ludicrous claim that MLK was in their political party.  

When you a minority party you are forced to provide konservative kool aid to the party faithful using Fox News, NewsMax and talk radio. 

It also produces politicians like Sarah Palin and George w. Bush, who are bull shit artists.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
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The Onion: Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light On Nation's Creepy Founding Funny Uncles

July 28, 2010

Historians now believe the Founding Uncles were among the first to uncomfortably push the limits of the First Amendment.

PHILADELPHIA—In what is being hailed as the most significant historical discovery in recent memory, workers renovating Independence Hall last month unearthed a vast trove of documents penned by the nation's Founding Uncles, a group of off-putting, largely disreputable, but nonetheless influential relatives of America's early heroes.

"Washington, Jefferson, Madison—these are names we associate with great deeds," said historian Leland Collier, one of the researchers cataloging the more than 200-year-old cache of personal journals, correspondences, and breast and phallus doodles. "But the lives of Ichabod Washington, Lenny Jefferson, and Chuck Madison tell a very different story, and for the first time we're learning about the vital contributions these awkward and mildly offensive Founding Uncles made to our young nation."

"The United States would not be the place it is today without these pioneering creeps," Collier added.

This is one of the funniest Onion pieces we have seen in a while.  The right wing likes to deify the Founders, but historian Charles A. Beard had a diffrent view.  

His study of the financial interests of the drafters of the United States Constitution (An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution) seemed radical in 1913, since he proposed that the U.S. Constitution was a product of economically determinist, land-holding founding fathers. He saw ideology as a product of economic interests (Wikipedia).

see the rest of the story at : http://www.theonion.com/articles/newly-discovered-documents-shed-light-on-nations-c,17793/#enlarge

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Agit-Pop: The Founding Fathers

In 1776 the Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of British tyranny. Now they're back to throw off the yoke of British Petroleum — and the other peddlers of influence who have befouled our fair democracy by pushing Congress to pass the Fair Elections Now Act.

There's a new force in American politics, and by "new" we mean 230 years old. That's right - the Founding Fathers are back, and they're leading a revolt against the corporate tyranny that threatens our democracy.

First they punked lobbyists in DC, then bankers on wall Street Because when it comes to democracy... which corrupt knaves should Ben Franklin & Co. pay a visit to this summer? Is it:
Michelle Bachmann? John Boehner? Ben Nelson? The choice is yours - vote now.

Learn more at FairElectionsNow.org.

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