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I often wonder, given sufficient whisky and irony and time: Has there ever been a more delightfully inept, wince-inducing oxymoron in the tortured American lexicon than conservative Christian?
I am almost completely serious. I stumble across this strangled term frequently in the media world, usually in reference to this or that corporate executive, pinched titan of industry or misguided political movement, and every single time I feel a strange twitch shoot from my brainstem down to my soul, a sudden seizure of meaning as the phrase falls back and implodes into itself, like a confused little star that thinks its an enormous sun but is really just a speck of flaming space dust.
Im over at Mother Jones, reading of the vast ugliness that is the family DeVos, a wonderfully power-mad, union-hating clan of exceedingly rich (keyword: Amway), exceedingly white Republican males over in Michigan, rivaling the Koch brothers and Coors clan for title of Most Despising of Everything You Love. Hey, for the .0001 percent, its a very popular competition indeed.
Like most of the super-rich, they are men (and a few women) who think they know something of the world, of culture, of God and heroic success, but instead appear to only know greed and money and empire and patriarchy and a certain cold-blooded detestation of anything free-thinking, independent-minded, progressive, humble or compassionate. Do you know the type? Of course you do.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/01/28/the-myth-of-the-christian-conservative/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)out loud
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)They call themselves Christians, that's what they are.
Doing "God's Work!", the battle-cry of all those throughout history who used whatever god was current as their excuse to rob, steal, oppress, and kill in order to gather wealth and power unto themselves.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Personally I wish more would wake to the fact that people who wear their God on their sleeve are using that as a way to get whatever it is they're after.
I respect the person who lives a life of Christianity but not the ones who use it as a crutch.
The holier-than-thou types I have no use for.
I like the people who I have no idea of how they believe when it comes to religion. To me they're up a notch or two further than the ones who feel they need to let me know.
I'm non-religious and I'm comfortable with that.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Content aside... reading him is fun.
madokie
(51,076 posts)kwolf68
(7,365 posts)GOOD
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I've always gotten the impression that Morford doesn't really like ANY Christians.