The Republicans own the Bible, in case you weren't up to speed.
Virginia Rep. Dave Brat, the GOP lawmaker who famously upset former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014 Republican primary, informed the world of his party's proprietary rights Monday while speaking with radio host Sandy Rios on her show, American Family Radio.
Brat was particularly incensed at President Barack Obama referring to the Bible in his partisan comments and criticism of the Republicans.
"He's using the Christian tradition and trying to bring about compassion by bonking Republicans over the head with the Bible," Brat said. "It's almost a comedy routine on what compassion and love is. He's mocking his enemies in order to compel a larger federal state using the tradition of love.
"Our side, the conservative side, needs to re-educate its people that we own the entire tradition. If you lose the moral argument, you lose the policy argument every time, so we need to reclaim the moral argument, where we're so strong."
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The Republicans own the Bible, in case you weren't up to speed.
I guess I must be slow on the uptake then!
The nonsense you hear from GOP these days is boggling ones mind!
Our side, the conservative side, needs to re-educate its people that we own the entire tradition
So when are you going to love the stranger, show compassion to immigrants and refugees, pay fair wages for hours works, stop withholding wages, seek justice for the widow and the orphan, free the captives and never insult people, all just like the Bible tells you?
You can have the entire tradition, jerkoff. Your delusional ownership of the moral highground that you think comes with it is grimly amusing. Morality is not shoving your dogmatically generated totalitarian bullshit down other peoples' throats. I love the way you dim bulbs are always saying "bring back freedom!", when taking freedoms away from people different from you is your top priority.
"The Republicans own the Bible"
Would that be the King James Version...?!
In that case, you may now proceed to hand over (along with 'The Football': the case-like device with the authentication codes to the biggest nuclear arsenal on the planet to PM David Cameron) the keys to the White House, Capitol Building & SCOTUS to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as she is the head of the Church of England: exactly like her monarch predecessor James I.
Otherwise, what was the point of your fighting against King George III: also head of the Church of England?
Do you want a state religion or don't you, Spoilt Brat...?! You might as well...:
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...considering how she appeared before Congress during her state visit in 1991.
Remember who authorised your Bible as you know it today. And considering what he - as well as George III & Elizabeth II - was, then enjoy your MC Escher-esque multi-dimensional paradox. As well as your secular state.
...just in case you weren't up to speed.
"Obama never mentions God, he's not a Christian."
"Sure he mentioned God but he means Allah."
"He's quoting the bible? How dare he, republicans own the bible.
@ Hasan Prishtina: Real True Christians© ain't got time for that hippy bullshit. No, we have REAL problems to solve--Planned Murderhood is making billions of dollars selling dismembered babies to whoever wants dead baby bits for whatever reason, we have to stop the homogheys from making all of us gay-marry our turtles, and someone's trying to stop good honest companies from making a fast buck by advertising raw sewage as a health tonic! Plus, taxes are too high and the Zero in the White Hut will take our guns any day now and freedoms and furthermore. I know that Jesus never mentioned any of this EXPLICTLY, but it's strongly implied, trust me on this.
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This is what American religious conservatives actually believe.
"Our side, the conservative side, needs to re-educate its people that we own the entire tradition. If you lose the moral argument, you lose the policy argument every time, so we need to reclaim the moral argument, where we're so strong."
They're usually at least PRETENDING to be serious, but the Rev leaves no doubt about this being a political campaign, rather than a real discussion of morality. Morality isn't his focus; winning is.
If the Republican party has its own book of worship and religious tradition, that would make it a religious organisation, and as such, it has no business interfering in government.
@ NeoMatrix: no, primarily the politically active American branch that tried to awkwardly bolt Ayn Rand together with a prosperity-gospel doomsday cult. They may have their own special retarded quirks, but many branches of Christianity don't give fuck one about most of the things that make American conservafundies hysterical. And they share many of those things with religion in general.
The Republicans own the Bible, in case you weren't up to speed.
Please allow me to fake I am christian :
"The Bible is a God-given gift to all mankind."
More prosaically, it's a litterature compilation that strongly influenced the whole world's history, and therefore belong to all humans, believers or not.
This isn't new, "The party of God" they've been telling all for years. The "Conservative, Family values (read church values)" party. Most aren't so blatant to just come out a suggest an actual ownership of the Bible or suggest other can't quote from it,,, but,, Huckabee, Cruz and Santorum have all criticized Democratic figures when they do AND when they don't.
Oh, and when they said party of God. they mean that nasty old Testament madman, even when they refer to Jesus these days it's the fiery sword wielding avenging son to come they like to invoke.
The Dems have had Bible-thumpers, too. Wm. Jennings Bryan and Jimmy Carter come to mind. And then there's the Nuns on the Bus, who almost certainly did not vote for Romney.
On second thought, the GOP does own sections of the Bible, like all the genocides and the wacky rules in Leviticus. All yours, guys.
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