County GOP ad touts Christian heritage (VA)

[struggle4progress]

Traci Moyer and William Ramsey
6:29 p.m. EDT October 29, 2015

... "Preserve our Christian Heritage! VOTE REPUBLICAN" on Nov. 3, says the inserted ad ...

... "It means that the local Republicans (probably the national party also) are bigots. Non-Christians not welcome. Pure and simple. ... I have been outraged since I opened the paper this morning and saw it. The only thing missing is the swastika" ...

"Christian heritage" of the United States is an idea that has been claimed by groups beyond the mainstream. The white supremacy group Council of Conservative Citizens pushes the political idea in its statements of values, according to the Washington Post. "We believe that the United States of America is a Christian country, that its people are a Christian people, and that its government and public leaders at all levels must reflect Christian beliefs and values," the group's statement of values reads. "We therefore oppose all efforts to deny or weaken the Christian heritage of the United States."

The Republican ad was designed by 87-year-old Larry Roller, who is a member of the Augusta County Republican Committee. He said he was aware of white supremacy groups using the idea of Christian heritage when he made the ad ...

http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2015/10/29/county-gop-ad-touts-christian-heritage/74794364/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

[Fumesucker]

1. Even here on DU "Godless" is considered the ultimate evil

In fact you criticized me when I chose to mention it here in the Religion group, falsely implying that I had not directly confronted the person making that slur.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218217072#post2

[struggle4progress]

3. This thread is about a GOP ad touting so-called "Christian heritage," that was written

by someone who says he was fully aware of the racism of the "Christian heritage" movement

If you don't like what I said in the unrelated thread you link, it would seem more appropriate to discuss your disagreements there

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I'm sorry, are you the host?

[cleanhippie]

7. Thank dog, no.

That experiment was a total failure.

[Lordquinton]

6. It's an important detail to discuss

That the right has dragged us so far that even on a liberal progressive site "Goddless" is used, and defended as an insult. This is not just a conservative issue, it affects liberal Christians who benefit from the extended religious atmosphere, or rather they aren't affected by it, and don't see why others might be.

As for the whole Nazi thing, it's a problem as well. If we're using Hitler as a barometer, that leaves a wide swath of evils that don't look so bad in comparison, and lets the Good Liberal Christians feel better about not being as bad as the other guys.

[Leontius]

2. I have lived in the upper Valley for forty years

it's always been conservative but the religious right changed the character of political discource here to condemnation of any liberal thought as alien to America with the arrival of reagan. What is left of a liberal community is almost drowned in a sea of religious conservative people but we still fight back. Only a few listen to what we try to say.

[cleanhippie]

8. Funny that you say these thing about the conservative fundies in your area...

Considering you share so many of the same views.

What's that about?

[Leontius]

9. Another thread another untrue claim by you about my views.

Did you know that serial liars have other distasteful traits as well?

[AtheistCrusader]

5. 40+ million Proestants and 20+ million Catholics of pre-war Germany can't be wrong, right?

The Comparison to the nationalism if the Nazi party is apt. Not flattering to christians, but apt. These people have already cheerfully visited the worst horrors in recorded history upon innocent humans.

But you know, probably not true Christians.