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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/17/2009 : 05:14:08
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Or: A turd by any other name still stinks. Religious Right' seeks kinder, gentler moniker
By Wendy Norris 2/16/09 7:35 AM
Evangelical leaders are bellyaching that their self-anointed “moral majority” vocabulary is working against them, according to a story in Christianity Today. So they're on a new mission to erase the hard-edge, politically intolerant-sounding catchphrases from the lexicon of journalists.
But finding an accurate shorthand label is vexing. Not all “religious conservatives” are Christians evangelicals. Extremely pious groups such as the Amish, Orthodox Jews and strict Muslims don't back anti-civil rights ballot measures or act as self-appointed guardians of socially conservative American political intercourse.
According to Christianity Today, very few people today will own up to the term “Religious Right” — which was coined in the '70s by Moral Majority co-founder Jerry Falwell — even if it applies to them. So instead, the moral is disown the label and blame the messenger:
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This could get interesting  . Will the Christian Crusaders open their tent to other sects/faiths in order to appear a little more easonable? I doubt it. Will mainstream journalists cease to use "Religious Right" in their screevings? A little more likely, as many of them are no more than panderers to start with. Will the news blogs, other than Drudge of course, go along with it? HAH! Not very freakin' likely unless they have a serious attitude modification -- which will only happen when Quetzalcoatl returns.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 02/17/2009 06:01:58
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2009 : 06:37:27 [Permalink]
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Gee, Filthy, could it just be that they have made a "bad name" for themselves?
Do you think that we might be able to come up with some alternatives for Falwell's "Religious Right"?
I will come back here with a few suggestions soon.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2009 : 07:04:41 [Permalink]
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Okay, a start:
Christianazis (or Xtianazis)
Jesucrites
Holy Controllers
Raiders of the Bronze Age
That Gang of Death Cultists Who Want to Take Over and Kill All the Gays, Pagans and Atheists But Are Really Nice, Moral People
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2009 : 08:20:15 [Permalink]
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I like all of these, although I would shorten the third one to 'holy 'trollers'.
To use the quote from Steve Benen (from the Washington monthly):
| If the movement's leaders believe ‘religious right' has become synonymous with extremism and hatred, perhaps the movement should be less extreme and hateful. |
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Falwell’s Folly
