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Brownback vs His Lunatic Supporters

Sam Brownback proves he may not be as crazy as his base of support by distancing himself from Blogs4Brownback and the equally wacky Baptists For Brownback.

This is a statement released from the Brownback campaign:
“Baptists for Brownback is clearly a parody. Frankly, our campaign is flattered that an individual would take hours out of their day and sit behind a computer anonymously to make a parody of Senator Brownback and his consistent, conservative positions on the issues. It certainly is one of the weirder hobbies out there.”

While BFB and B4B look like parody sites, they sadly are not.

This is the reaction from BFB:
"Heavenly Father,

We humbly ask You to strengthen Sen. Brownback’s resolve to resist the forces of evil pundits and divisive presidential candidates who demand renunciation of those who support him"

What a bunch of screwballs.

Clearly B4B is in a state of denial:
"Does anybody think for even a second that someone charged with the great authority to speak on behalf of a presidential campaign would be so unprofessional as to dismiss a supporter with insults, without even having attempted to have contacted the supporter in question to verify the legitimacy of the site?

Come on! There is no way that someone in that position of authority would be that careless, reckless and unprofessional."

More Crazy Brownbackers

Here's a comment from Blogs4Brownback:
"Apes are just creatures twisted by Satan to mock Jesus by giving EVILolition credibility. Further more they are naturally lust crazed for human women. Since they are not natural creatures they should be exterminated forthwith as the tools of evil they are."

Slow News Day

Is there really nothing more important going on than a collapsed bridge?

This Is Priceless

Gee, I Wonder What Religion This Is

A 49-year-old was killed by police after trying to exorcise his granddaughter.

"A bed had been pushed up against the door; the officers pushed it open a few inches and saw Marquez choking his bloodied granddaughter, who was crying in pain and gasping, Tranter said.

A bloody, naked 19-year-old woman who police later determined to be Marquez’s daughter and the girl’s mother was in the room, chanting 'something that was religious in nature,' Tranter said."

Are All Fundies Anti-Palestinian?

This interesting article in the New York Times says that there is a significant chunk of evangelicals who are in support of a Palestinian state. It says that there are lefty elements within evangelicalism that are going against what I thought was the status quo for Bible Bangers.

"In the last year and half, liberal and moderate evangelicals have initiated two other efforts that demonstrated fissures in the evangelical movement. Last year, they parted with the conservative flank by campaigning against climate change and global warming. This year, they denounced the use of torture in the fight against terrorism."

This differs from the other evangelicals who support Israel unconditionally because the Bible tells them to and because they believe that Israel's expanse into the West Bank is necessary for Christ's return. Basically they support Israel so Jesus can come back and send all the Jews who live there to hell.

It's good to know that there are alternative voices among American hardcore Christians, but they are far from the loudest voices. There are still plenty of evangelicals who say that, “Bible-believing evangelicals will scoff at that message [that a Palestinian state is a good thing]."

There are still plenty of Christians who argue that, “The Palestinian people have never owned the land of Israel, never existed as an autonomous society." Because, of course, if a community of people that has cultivated a section of land for over a thousand years is not "an autonomous society," it should have no right to live there.