Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:16 PM

Brat - a Christian Reconstructionist and Ayn Rand follower

While I am happy about Cantor's defeat, I can't help but be worried about Brat.

It was only last week that people were sounding the death knell for the tea party and yet Brat has an over whelming win.

Brat basically ran this race on his own, without support from the major tea party backers. That is going to change and there is going to be a lot of money (and vitriole) thrown against Tremmell.

And looking at Brat's background he is going to garner a lot of votes from the crazies out there......

This is a good quick and scary read.............

Brat is a strict Christian Reconstructionist, which means that he supports a theocratic government and holds extraordinarily radical beliefs when it comes to the role that God should play in the lives of believers and non-believers alike. As far as Reconstructionists are concerned, the Bible is the standard for morality that all must adhere to and those in violation of its tenets as they interpret them — gays, blasphemers, the irredeemably sinful — should be subject to punishment by the state. In fact, Rousas John Rushdoony, who founded the Calvinist-based sect, declared that Christianity and democracy were “inevitably enemies.”
Lovely. Another asshole clinging to ancient superstition and ready to disregard thousands of years of scientific advancement and human enlightenment is likely going to become one of the 435 “superlatives” we’ve chosen to sit in our House of Representatives. There are plenty of reasons why this country is completely fucked and has been allowed to degenerate into utter madness, but the fact that we not only sanction a belief in bronze-age fairy-tales but actually elevate it to government office has got to be somewhere near the core of the problem. Both parties do it but only the GOP and its Tea Party insurgents have explicit intellectual violence actually written into their charter. They don’t trust nor care one bit about provable science, but they sure as hell will drop the name of the Lord every few minutes like there’s a Skinner Box treat in it for them.
And what’s worse is that Brat isn’t even some cynical prick pandering to his constituency — he’s a True Believer. In the year 2014 he holds tightly to the idea that everyone should be mandated to follow the commands of a 2,000-year-old book written by people who by modern standards knew almost nothing about anything.
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/06/dave-brat-jesus-not-another-one-of-these-aholes/

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Brat - a Christian Reconstructionist and Ayn Rand follower (Original post)	PumpkinAle	Jun 2014	OP
He is Catholic	yeoman6987	Jun 2014	#1
Wrong.	jehop61	Jun 2014	#4
http://davebratforcongress.com/about-dave/	yeoman6987	Jun 2014	#5
can they give him back to the Calvinsts?	jehop61	Jun 2014	#7
lol.	yeoman6987	Jun 2014	#9
Princeton Theological Seminary	Nonhlanhla	Jun 2014	#14
Catholics go to Protestant schools and seminaries and vice versa	yellowcanine	Jun 2014	#16
Classic case of hypocrite...you cannot be a Christian and follow Ayn Rand....so said Ayn Rand!	VanillaRhapsody	Jun 2014	#2
There's some hot, steaming cognitive dissonance for ya.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Jun 2014	#3
As a Christian I think that a Marxist is more likely to be a good Christian...	Arneoker	Jun 2014	#10
Wonder if Krauthammer thinks Brat will cut the mustard	Blue Owl	Jun 2014	#6
Someone should ask him about William Edward Hickman ...	eppur_se_muova	Jun 2014	#8
Be afraid, be very afraid. n/t	doxydad	Jun 2014	#11
The Tea Party has metastasized: "God commands us to stone gay Americans to death"	blkmusclmachine	Jun 2014	#12
The name says it all	Alex P Notkeaton	Jun 2014	#13
will be interesting to see where Cantor is placed next. This guy will do what the big Rs suggest if	Sunlei	Jun 2014	#15
Isn't it theoretically possible that he could be a Cynical Prick AND a True Believer?	AverageJoe90	Jun 2014	#17

Response to PumpkinAle (Original post)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 03:17 PM

yeoman6987 (14,449 posts)

1. He is Catholic

just like Nancy Pelosi, the late great Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and many others.

Brat - a Christian Reconstructionist and Ayn Rand follower

1. He is Catholic

4. Wrong.

5. http://davebratforcongress.com/about-dave/

7. can they give him back to the Calvinsts?

9. lol.

14. Princeton Theological Seminary

16. Catholics go to Protestant schools and seminaries and vice versa

2. Classic case of hypocrite...you cannot be a Christian and follow Ayn Rand....so said Ayn Rand!

3. There's some hot, steaming cognitive dissonance for ya.

10. As a Christian I think that a Marxist is more likely to be a good Christian...

6. Wonder if Krauthammer thinks Brat will cut the mustard

8. Someone should ask him about William Edward Hickman ...

11. Be afraid, be very afraid. n/t

12. The Tea Party has metastasized: "God commands us to stone gay Americans to death"

13. The name says it all

15. will be interesting to see where Cantor is placed next. This guy will do what the big Rs suggest if

17. Isn't it theoretically possible that he could be a Cynical Prick AND a True Believer?