The oh-so-pious piece of crap that calls itself Nathan Bradfield writes that prayers in the Senate are OK, but only so long as those prayers are to his “God” and no other.
Read his bullshit and tell me that he isn’t arguing outright for government-sanctioned religious discrimination.
Here’s what happened when a Hindu priest tried to offer an opening prayer in the Senate. Notice that for all his mealy-mouthed lip service to the idea of diversity, Bradfield doesn’t have word one to say about the actions of his fellow hatemongers:
Take your sanctimonious sneers and shove ‘em where the sun don’t shine, Bradfield. Like the “Christians” in the video, you are a bigot, pure and simple.
UPDATE 07/13/07 12:14 PM EDT: As usual, John Scalzi gets it entirely right: what we have here are Jesus’ Dickheads:
Some people really and truly believe that what Jesus wants is for them to be dicks to everyone who isn’t their particular, mushy-headed stripe of Christian. And if it’s what Jesus wants, then it can’t be wrong. Now, I’m entirely sure that in their minds they can come up with a better explanation for their activities than “Jesus wants me to be a dick” — they may actually be able to find some internal calculus that has them being a dick out of love for us godless idolaters and saving our worthless heathen souls, even — but the rest of us can call it for what it is.
UPDATE 07/15/07 8:35 AM EDT: To no one’s surprise, Nathan deletes comments rather than engage in actual debate. Here are the comments that terrify Nathan. Drop by his blog sometime and remind him what kind of craven coward he is.
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July 13th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
kemibe
This isn’t the first instance of Nathan inventing alternate realities to suit his delusions about the United States being founded by Jesus Christ and the Constitution giving dominion over everything to Christians despite its actually not including language to that effect. It’s also not the second, or the fifth, or the tenth or eventhe hundedth. His whole shtick is libs and Dems are bad, Christians are great, and David Barton isn’t a lying sack of shit but a genuine authority and visionary.
Nathan is caught in that sloppy, ugly no-man’s-land between basic stupidity and willful prevarication. His political blather is calamitous enough, but you should have seen him try to debunk evolution. You can’t invent people like him (if this were possible I would have dismissed his site as parody long ago).
July 13th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
meatbrain
Don’t hold back, Kevin. Tell us how you really feel.
Indeed, there seems to be a strain of Christian (or, more properly, adherent of almost any religion) that has the ability to simply ignore that part of reality that doesn’t jibe with their preconceptions. Nathan is simply one extreme example of the breed.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Rev. BigDumbChimp
The whole post is complete garbage but this one line sticks out
But freedom to worship in the way you please doesn’t necessarily signify that all religions carry equal weight with the majority of our citizens or the government
The stupidity contained in that one sentence could melt Admantium (if you’re into that comic book thing) or cause whole generations of children to become logically sterile.