The Moment of Reckoning!

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The Christian Mafia, of which Inhofe and Coburn are dons, gets a rough going over by a good Christian right media source!


All in the family
Behind the scandal-tainted C Street house is an organization big on protecting its own and small on church ties and theology | Emily Belz, Edward Lee Pitts
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/15778


"But the lack of church discipline and structure is "a serious missing element in this whole thing, both in the lives of the individuals involved, and in the Fellowship organization as a whole,"


"Regarding Fellowship participants, Sen. Inhofe explained, "Some of them are Muslims. Some of them are Christians. But they meet in the spirit of Jesus, so it's not a denomination thing, it's not even a Christian thing, it's a Jesus thing."

"In addition to "a number of issues raised about their theology," Lindsay said, "there are elements of the Fellowship which indeed are not in line with what we would consider mainstream evangelical theology."

"One of the most publicized relationships is with Chuck Colson, a former Nixon adviser convicted in the Watergate scandal and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries. Colson has described the key role the Fellowship and Doug Coe played in his conversion in his 1975 memoir Born Again, and he is quick to praise the group's work in his life as a young Christian. But Colson told WORLD he now has concerns about politicians using the C Street group, for example, as a replacement for church. "It's a mistake," he said. "A leading figure ought to belong to a church."

 Following the money
| Emily Belz

"The Fellowship reported a $2.5 million surplus on $19 million in revenues, according to its most recent tax filing in 2007....."

Now, don't you think you should question the credibility of our senators and maybe start to look to an alternative to Coburn? Unless you want Whacky Weligious Wingnuts to further destroy our states image.

[Conan71]

You do realize that early Christians met secretly, in small groups in each others houses to avoid persecution don't you? 

Your obsession over the C-Street gang is like the birthers or troofers.

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You do realize that early Christians met secretly, in small groups in each others houses to avoid persecution don't you? 

Your obsession over the C-Street gang is like the birthers or troofers.

Obsession or major story of a secret government within the government?

You don't hear outrage about open weaponry at political gatherings from these types.... curious.

[FOTD]

Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital."


Johann Hari: Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason
How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-republicans-religion-and-the-triumph-of-unreason-1773994.html

"The Republicans want to defend the existing system, not least because they are given massive sums of money by the private medical firms who benefit from the deadly status quo. But they can't do so honestly: some 70 per cent of Americans say it is "immoral" to retain a medical system that doesn't cover all citizens. So they have to invent lies to make any life-saving extension of healthcare sound depraved."

" How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality? It begins, I suspect, with religion. They are taught from a young age that it is good to have "faith" – which is, by definition, a belief without any evidence to back it up."

"This kind of mania can't be co-opted: it can only be overruled. Sometimes in politics you will have enemies, and they must be democratically defeated. The political system cannot be gummed up by a need to reach out to the maddest people or the greediest constituencies. There is no way to expand healthcare without angering Big Pharma and the Republicaloons. So be it. As Arianna Huffington put it, "It is as though, at the height of the civil rights movement, you thought you had to bring together Martin Luther King and George Wallace and make them agree. It's not how change happens."

  If somebody used "faith" to guide their selection of a car, mortgage, or brain surgeon, they would be cheated, bankrupt, or dead.

[Conan71]

Oh ye of little faith...