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Michele Bachmann Isnt Stupid, Shes Dangerous - 6/16/2011 8:59:51 PM

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Michele Bachmann has a lesbian stepsister, which is not important except that she really dislikes homosexuality. You would think someone who is so pro-life would care more about the planet and not be so eager for its destruction and the End Times.

Reading this I feel like I'm living in some fictitious comic book story involving Superman or Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther saving the planet Earth. Reading about the craziness of Michele Bachmann and her religion and the possibility of her becoming Pres. or vice Pres. leaves me feeling dismayed.

Can anyone explain why her religion snuggles up to the corporatists who share the belief that our resources are here to plunder? For some reason I think she is Sanity's type of girl.

Michele Bachmann Isn’t Stupid, She’s Dangerous
By Sarah Jones

On Monday, Bachmann didn’t talk a lot about her religion. She didn’t have to—she knows how to signal it in ways that go right over secular heads. In criticizing Obama’s Libya policy, for example, she said, “We are the head and not the tail.” The phrase comes from Deuteronomy 28:13: “The Lord will make you the head and not the tail.” As Rachel Tabachnick has reported, it’s often used in theocratic circles to explain why Christians have an obligation to rule.

The majority of Americans can admire Bachmann on the surface, and tend to assume that her religious beliefs are similar to their own or the Christians they know, and this is where the danger lay. If you haven’t been subjected to the Dominionist Reconstructionist religious views, you wouldn’t have thought twice about Bachmann’s far right evangelical signal during the debate, “We are the head, not the tail.”

The problem isn’t that Michele Bachmann is a devoted Christian, it’s that her brand of Christianity is an Old Testament fire and brimstone two eyes for an eye sect. Her brand of Christianity is so extreme as to deny science and snuggle up to the corporatists who share the belief that our resources are here to plunder. And most disturbing is the worldview of good versus evil, of a coming rapture that wars and destruction would signal. This is a belief system that automatically disqualifies the believer from being a steward of our land and people, because they seek the End Times — the return of Jesus Christ.

We saw inklings of this thinking in George W Bush, but the new crop of Republicans are an even more extreme version of this belief system than W. It’s a belief system that denies reality, history, and facts in order to sustain itself, but even more troubling, if you look far enough under the hood, it’s a belief system that not only seeks the destruction of the earth, but welcomes it and encourages it.

What madness is this? While Bachmann’s extremist ideology has been tempered in the House by being one of many, it’s absolutely unconscionable to think of our country being led by someone who holds these beliefs.

Americans don’t wish to be governed by a religious extremist of any brand. The question is, will they see the wolf in sheep’s clothing before it’s too late? If 2010 is any indication of the general public’s awareness of this violent threat to democracy, I’m not comforted.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/michele-bachmann-dangerous

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