Falwell Plans for 'Evangelical Revolution'

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-11-11 01:50am

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Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-11-11 01:54am

Jeebus, can't someone stop this man?

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-11-11 01:58am

Oh fuck no. Not again. I don't want more fucking material for my fundie guide.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-11-11 02:03am

Gandalf wrote:Jeebus, can't someone stop this man?

The Democrats seem to have taken up crying like girly men when not being sodomized like prison bitches by Karl Rove. They lost the election to the most despised and stupid men to have held the office since Nixon by one of the largest margins in recent history. So I'd have to say, no, probably not.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-11-11 02:05am

Oh fuck. Just... Oh fucking fuck.

I don't have any idea how his bullshit crusade will affect me, but I'm pretty sure it eventually will. He is Bad Juju...

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-11-11 02:11am

This actually poses a serious question: How far can the Evangelicals take it in the United States? Granted they may be able to do massive and not easily repairable damage to the government. Granted their infection of education will create an even larger generation of rabid ignoramouses. But isn't there a point when even the faggot-hating, gun-loving hillbilly truck driver goes "Whoa there, you can't take my girlie mags!"?

This has to burn itself out somewhere, the only question is how much damage it will do before then.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-11-11 02:24am

Lazy Raptor wrote:This actually poses a serious question: How far can the Evangelicals take it in the United States? Granted they may be able to do massive and not easily repairable damage to the government. Granted their infection of education will create an even larger generation of rabid ignoramouses. But isn't there a point when even the faggot-hating, gun-loving hillbilly truck driver goes "Whoa there, you can't take my girlie mags!"?

The question isn't how far can they take it, it's will they be allowed to. The hardcore few will take it all the way if they can. It's going to be the opposition that determines that and right they're not doing so well. The balance is close enough, and the damage more of lip service than actual devotion. The problem is the younger generation hasn't done shit and the older generation is, well, gutless too often.

Lazy Raptor wrote:This has to burn itself out somewhere, the only question is how much damage it will do before then.

It's a nice hope but it's not going to just burn. These are people that are insanely devoted and don't take no for an answer.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-11-11 02:24am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Oh fuck. Just... Oh fucking fuck.

I don't have any idea how his bullshit crusade will affect me, but I'm pretty sure it eventually will. He is Bad Juju...

Does this help?

"Quarantining people with AIDS is no more unreasonable than quarantining cows with brucellosis, but its not going to happen because homosexuals constitute a potent voting bloc and cows do not" -Jerry Falwell in 1985

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-11-11 02:27am

Stormbringer wrote:
Gandalf wrote:Jeebus, can't someone stop this man?
The Democrats seem to have taken up crying like girly men when not being sodomized like prison bitches by Karl Rove. They lost the election to the most despised and stupid men to have held the office since Nixon by one of the largest margins in recent history. So I'd have to say, no, probably not.

Well, if we give all our money to the ACLU...

Seriously, though it will not be stopped no matter who's in the White House because, if the past is of any indication, the BHEFAs will stack the local school boards and governments with themselves. So, the ACLU actually is our only hope

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-11-11 02:36am

Stormbringer wrote:The question isn't how far can they take it, it's will they be allowed to. The hardcore few will take it all the way if they can. It's going to be the opposition that determines that and right they're not doing so well. The balance is close enough, and the damage more of lip service than actual devotion. The problem is the younger generation hasn't done shit and the older generation is, well, gutless too often.

So then what? If the fundamentalist movement in America reaches critical mass, and we continue to become even more alienated, ignorant and backward the potential impacts on science and education could drag the country down. A superpower that's now merely a nuissance to the rest of the world could become a genuine threat that must be dealt with. Would a stupid, poor America that's becoming increasingly stupid and poor quietly become a third-world nation, or launch one last, desperate crusade?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-11-11 02:45am

Lazy Raptor wrote:So then what?

Well, hopefully it won't get that far. The problem is the opposition has just been gutless, lazy, or stupid. I'm sick to death with the crybaby mentality when they've done so little and screwed up so much.

Lazy Raptor wrote:If the fundamentalist movement in America reaches critical mass, and we continue to become even more alienated, ignorant and backward the potential impacts on science and education could drag the country down.

It's not as easy to do as you think. The US could still be a major power even as a fundy state. The thing about US fundamentist is they're not regressive in the same way as in Afghanistan or such. They don't object to material technology in the same way. It's tinkering with ourselves that gets to be the problem; and even then it's a hell of a selective thing.

To get us to the state of a third world country would take deliberate effort. We might be stuck playing catch up but the US isn't so badly off as to wind up another Middle East or Africa.

Lazy Raptor wrote:A superpower that's now merely a nuissance to the rest of the world could become a genuine threat that must be dealt with. Would a stupid, poor America that's becoming increasingly stupid and poor quietly become a third-world nation, or launch one last, desperate crusade?

Well, the chances of it coming to the US being a third world country are slim to nil. But if we did it would probably be pretty messy.