Fox & Friends' God complex
June 16, 2010 9:35 am ET by Simon Maloy
If there's one thing Fox & Friends loves, it's religion. Christianity, to be specific. The Fox News morning show hosts relish and celebrate those who are outspoken in their Christian beliefs and will not hesitate to defend anyone who mentions God in the public square. Except, of course, if that person is President Obama.
Implausible as it may seem, the crew of Fox & Friends this morning -- the same people who fawningly report on pro-God billboards and rally to the cause of book-banning activist Christians -- criticized the president for asking Americans to pray for the nation and for the people of the Gulf during his speech last night. Gretchen Carlson claimed "some people" said Obama's words were "disingenuous" because they came "from a president who does not go to church on a regular basis." Who exactly was saying that? We never find out, but "some people" can't be wrong, right?
Just how ridiculous was this situation? Thrice-married adulterer Newt Gingrich was forced into the position of lecturing his Fox & Friends hosts on how to be a good Christian, telling them that they had to be "generous" to anyone "prepared to publicly recognize God."
That's me in the spotlight
i'm losing my religion
trying to keep up with you
and i don't know if i can do it
oh no, i've said too much
i haven't said enough
and i know, i know "i'm making this stuff up"
Gretchen Carlson, someday "The Poet's" gonna ruff you up.
Keep on talking, cause i'm tracking every single word you say.
Yes you're my mission, someday "The Poet's" gonna Rhyme you away.
This is common among fanatics of most religions. They think they've got exclusive access to "the truth", and everybody else is going to burn in Hell for eternity. Maybe such theological schadenfreude is what attracts them to religion in the first place.
Even among Christians, some sects think all the other sects are doomed to Hell. Evangelical nutbags like Sarah Palin think Mormons like Glenn Beck are destined for eternal torture at the hands of their loving God. The Mormons, of course, are just as delusional, with their magic underwear and post mortem conversions.
It's madness.
I don;t knoww if you saw it, but awhile back I wrote a piece on my blog observing that regardless of how religious you are, you can usually find someone who (1) is more religious than you are, and (2) that you consequently think is at least a little crazy. Now, if you realize jsut how many people that applies to - just about everyone - you can establish a clear positive correlation between the amount of religious someone is and they amount of crazy they are.
Moderately religious people? Very little crazy. Evangelicals? A lot more crazy. Cults? A whole lot of crazy. Terrorists? Well... you get the idea. And I really believe this hodls true of ALL religion - Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddism, Wiccah... you name it. All ask me to accept things that are no better than superstitions as absolute truths. And THAT'S just CRAZY! And naything they preach that IS a unversally inherent good is something that already preached bu secular humanists anyway, without all the other mental baggage.
So I posed the question... If the amount of crazy I am (all else being equal) is "X" times the amount of religious I am... WHY would I want "X" to be anything but ZERO?!
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Just sayin'.
Most of the devoutly religious people I've known have been batsh*t crazy.
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LOL
(That also explains how Fox happens to know what they're all saying!)
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But I don't watch Fox, so I shouldn't even know what I'm saying.
Gretchen Carlson claimed "dumb people" said Obama's words were "disingenuous" because they came "from a president who does not go to the same church they go to on a regular basis."
Incidentally, Gretchen should check on how often President Reagan went to church.
Jerry Elsea
And that's not a criticism, by the way. I don't blame them for being angry... and they deserve to be paid.
This country was founded on freedom of religion—or freedom FROM religion, and all citizens, religious or atheistic, should have equal say–we certainly suffer equally.
The only “god” who we should be praying to right now is probably The Great Spirit of the Native American culture, because He/She is the one who is the shepherd of the Earth, which man has continued to rape since the industrial age. Once Mother Earth has been pounded into submission—where are we gonna go?
So, politicians (and Faux & Fiends), STFU about gods and praying…just quit defiling Mother Earth for profit and start figuring out a way to redeem what little resources are left, or praying will be the least of our problems.
Oh, and BTW—-Newt Gingrich, you wretched excuse for a human being–YOU should NEVER invoke the name of God or even begin to criticize anyone for not being godly enough. YOU are one of the most sinful hypocrites of the Rethuglican or of any other party, and apparently have no shame.