Phil Robertson: GOP needs to ‘get Godly’

[maxrandb]

Source: Washington Post

Speaking to the Republican Leadership Conference here, the bearded Louisianan said the party and the country have moved too far away from the founding fathers' vision of religion's role in American government -- and that the current version of the separation of church and state is a "lie."

"GOP, you can’t be right for America if you’re wrong with God," Robertson said. “You want to turn the Republican Party around? Get Godly.”




Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/29/phil-robertson-gop-needs-to-get-godly/

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Later in his speechifying, he actually made sense

“I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me," he said.

[maxrandb]

1. Oh BTW

He apparently was introduced by the Wasilla Quitter, Sarah Palin.

What a tsunami of stupid this conference must have created.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Have you noticed that these guys seem to always know what the founding fathers wanted for

our government. I've always thought that if the founding fathers had wanted religion to play a role in government they would have written something into the Constitution that at least hinted at that, but I can't find it anywhere.

[MrScorpio]

3. What does that even mean? nt

[maxrandb]

6. As with just about everything Republican

it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to fit on a postcard or a 30 second soundbite to enthrall the stupid people that vote for the "stupid party"

From the Repub actions, "Get Godly", must mean give up all your possessions to the 1% and vote against Veterans benefits!

[Wolf Frankula]

35. It Means You Ought to Go to MY CHURCH

and run thing MY CHURCH'S way.

Wolf

[Mike Daniels]

4. Applauding the concept of monogamy while at the same time....

the GOP reelects adulterers like Vitter and Sanford while holding up multiple-marriage practitioners like Gingrich and Limbaugh as leading voices on the moral superiority of the GOP.

I guess when you're wallowing that deep in hypocrisy it becomes impossible to recognize what a joke your party has become.

[maxrandb]

8. You don't have to "be" Godly

you just have to "say" you're Godly

I actually thought they were Godly...they worship at the altar of the 1%

[longship]

22. Give a person the reputation as an early riser...

...and they can sleep until noon.

(paraphrase from Samuel Clemens)

This duck guy is a douche bag.

[leftyladyfrommo]

48. That is a really weird aspect of Republican politics.

Somehow it doesn't seem to matter if these guys are running for office.

It reminds me of Hobby Lobby making such a big deal about birth control and then stocking all of their stores with merchandise made in China.

It makes no sense at all.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. It did, in the 60's. And it's been a fucking nightmare ever since.

Compromise between the two parties used to be a thing.

That cannot and does not happen now. (Unless we cave to their inflexible demands.)

[broadcaster75201]

7. You mean Psycho-Christian-Fascism isn't enough? nt

nt

[maxrandb]

14. Reminds me of that Ghandi Quote

"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but Christians...they are not like him"

[Arugula Latte]

54. They just need to ramp it up a bit to go full-on Taliban.

[Happyhippychick]

9. Isn't that exactly what they did to fuck themselves up?

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Republican Leadership Conference?

Leadership?


The Republican Party has a real problem.

[KansDem]

11. Give it up, Phil...

The show's over. Your schtick isn't working anymore...

[ninjanurse]

12. Yes!!!

More religion! That's the winning ticket! Because the Republican Party doesn't have enough santimonious hypocrites and America wants more!
Seriously, though, this is a worry. Megachurches can get out the vote, and control local elections. The rest of us have to work even harder.

[freshwest]

32. Last two sentences say it all. Thanks!

[We scgov]

13. Founding Fathers were 240 years ago

Their culture, their contemporary outlook fit 240 years ago. Unless that world is where Robertson really wants to live (dying from a toothache at 35, no lights after sunset, sewage in the streets, even muzzle loading rifles) then we need to label these people as what they are, holding us back from moving into the .... I wanted to say "future" but really they don't even want us to move into the "present."

[shenmue]

15. No, some compassion is what they could use.

[maxrandb]

18. Their God is NOT a "compassionate" God n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

16. Thomas Jefferson was a founding father

And here's a sample of what he had to say about religion:

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

And, quite simply:

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

[LongTomH]

43. Thomas Jefferson and the Tyranny of Religion

[Jefferson23]

17. Yea, keep doing that GOP, it's been such a benefit for American society.

[n2doc]

19. "Get Godly"= Turn your brain off and let someone else tell you what to do

Preferably some self-appointed preacher. Or a Billionaire. Or some combination of the two.

[maxrandb]

20. I think I get it

he must have meant to get "Goldy", not Godly...at least if they got more "goldy" someone would buy from the advertisers on AM radio.

[geardaddy]

25. Get more Goldy.

Like this guy?

[Blue Owl]

21. Hey Phil go woo some mallards

n/t

[jwirr]

23. Back to the theocracy. If that was what the founding fathers (forget the founding mothers) wanted

why didn't they create one? Because that is what much of Europe was offering at the time and many of the people who immigrated were running from that idea.

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Perhaps he's got a point

People who self-identify with the Christian right can start by reading the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). They don't seem too familiar with it.

[corkhead]

26. Is he talking New Testament? Seems they've got the Old Testament down pat.

[maxrandb]

33. I call these folks "Old Testament Christians"

They call themselves Christians, but they haven't got past the Book or Leviticus in their bibles yet.

[SummerSnow]

27. What? I thought they were the party of Jesus?

[corkhead]

28. get "Godly", I thought it said get "Godfrey"

[Arugula Latte]

53. I thought they were against morphing British pop singers.

[Tom Ripley]

29. That affected rumbling you hear is the sound of William F. Buckley rolling over in his grave

While Buckley had no problem pimping God and politics (see his first book), I imagine he would be horrified by that redneck.

[onehandle]

30. Jesus Christ Was A Librul.

You pathetic Palin wannabe.

[tabasco]

31. Not good, decent, charitable or generous --

but "godly," whatever the fuck that means.

To con-man Robertson, it means hate on the gays and more tax breaks for the rich.

[jmowreader]

34. Translation: "Go full-on Taliban, y'all."

Mr. Robertson, and all the people who think this way (there are many), need to explain the difference, besides the symbol on the house of worship, between "getting Godly" and Sharia law.

[Arkana]

36. Yes, please, more God shit.

Cause that's what the GOP needs--more God stuff.

[Arthur_Frain]

37. Nobody goes "full God"!

[yellowcanine]

38. Yep, just what the GOP needs, make the G stand for GAWD!

What am I missing here?

[mysuzuki2]

39. What the fuck would this asshole know about it?

[radicalliberal]

40. Of course, he misses the "good old days" of Jim Crow.

Yep, really godly.

[Earth_First]

41. Yeah, that's what we need...

[maxrandb]

47. WGWJC

What Gun Would Jesus Carry?

[Blue Idaho]

42. Which one?

Or which ones?

[BadGimp]

44. there's always the God card to pull out

Eom

[GeorgeGist]

45. More data to support the hypothesis ...

that God is the product of mental illness.

[maxrandb]

46. John Boehner misunderstood this as "Republicans need to get GOLDY"

[leftyladyfrommo]

49. I think he is just repulsive.

Why do people watch that show? But then, why do people watch any reality shows?

[Mz Pip]

50. It's already too Godly.

The GOP is full of theocrats and it makes for bad government. This country is falling behind in science due to no small part because of the anti science twits that populate local school boards and regional government. Enough already.

[saltpoint]

51. I could do with a lot less "Godly." eom

[agentS]

52. In a weird way, he might be right.

Let's look at his line here

“I guess the GOP may be more desperate than I thought to call somebody like me," he said.

Just look at the General Discussion or the Politics 2014 (or even Breaking News): how many threads do we have with some GOP idiot saying (or doing) something more heinous than what the fake Duck Hunter guy said 6 months ago?

The Man About to Represent N.Texas Thinks That His Opponent Was Controlled By Satan http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014815837

Democrat Turns The Tables and Blasts House Republican for Voting Against VA Funding
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025024427

Senators Alexander, Corker angered American Legion with VA votes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025029791

Glenn Beck Blames Progressives for CA Drive-By Shooting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017194716

Poll Shows Tea Party Doesn't Believe In Science
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017194691

Chris Christie quietly implodes: Why his big “accomplishments” have fallen to pieces
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251365254

The GOP’s Grifter Problem
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251365208

Montana House candidate: If immigration isn’t halted, GOP faces ‘extinction-level event’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251365184

All these threads are from this week alone! It's a sad sack party if they need Phil the Fake and Sarah the Flake to rally the troops.