Thursday, August 14, 2014

Tea Party Leader Asks God to “Be Violent Against” GOP Establishment


Anyone who is trying to pretend that the civil war within the Republican Party is over is merely deceiving themselves.  Likewise, anyone who thinks Christofascists and Tea Party minions are nice and decent people is likewise living in a fantasy world.  Nowhere in America do we see a mindset as much akin to that of Islamic extremists than among the Christofascists of the GOP base who call on God to inflict death and mayhem on those they dislike.  They haven't begun beheading people yet, but the same contempt for others is at the root of their agenda.  A piece in Salon looks at the batshitery that passes as normal withing the ranks of the Tea Party and its "godly Christian" elements.  Here are highlights:
When it comes to saying crazy things, it’s pretty hard to beat Mississippi Tea Partyer Tricia Raymond’s claim that controversial right-wing journalist Charles Johnson was sent by God to save the United States. Unfortunately, Mississippi Tea Party chairman Roy Nicholson proved on Monday that he was more than up to the task.

According to a report in the Jackson Free Press, at the start of a speaking event in Flowood, Mississippi, hosted by Johnson, Nicholson delivered an opening prayer in which he asked Almighty God to do what Almighty God apparently does best: To “be violent against” establishment Republicans who disagree with Tea Partyers over how best to achieve their mutually agreed upon goals.

He continued:
We’re asking, Father, for two things. We’re asking, Father, that you would expose them, set division amongst them, set them one against another, bring confusion and fear into their camp, into their thinking, for the purpose of pulling them down, for casting them down out of their high offices and reducing them, Lord, to having no power in this state. So, Lord, that you might raise up and seek the righteous in the positions of power that this state might once more be a state that honors you in all that it does.

Father, we’re asking that in all of the tribulations were asking you to bring upon them, that it would work change in their heart — that you would use it to bring true Godly sorrow, that they might truly repent for their iniquity and their wickedness, for that they would be restored to you, that you would have honor in the state of Mississippi for the great works that you’ve done in correcting and purifying the government and rescuing and saving the worst of us.
These people are scary and a menace to constitutional government.  They belong in the political wilderness and need to be shunned by decent people.   It is this kind of people who caused me to flee the GOP years ago.  They are simply put, insane fanatics.

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