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In reply to the discussion: Okay, here's a question about this nonsense going on with birth control [View all]MicaelS
(8,747 posts)16. It allows them to flog the old "War on Religion" meme
        That people of faith in the US are "oppressed" by "secular" government, and the "Antichrist" is just around the corner. 
This whole "guillotine" thing is the key here, it's a  "dog whistle politics for prayer warriors" theme
Supposedly in the Christian Fundamentalist worldview when the Antichrist takes power, he will execute those who do not worship him by guillotine. 
Santorum: Obama leading Christians to the guillotine
During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an overt hostility to faith.
When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches  trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles, Santorum explained.
As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong]  this is what the court said  that if believe that, if believe whats taught in Genesis, if you believe whats practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.
He continued: They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then whats left is the French Revolution. Whats left is a government that gives you rights. Whats left are no unalienable rights. Whats left is a government that will tell you who you are, what youll do and when youll do it. Whats left in France became the the guillotine.
When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches  trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles, Santorum explained.
As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong]  this is what the court said  that if believe that, if believe whats taught in Genesis, if you believe whats practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.
He continued: They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then whats left is the French Revolution. Whats left is a government that gives you rights. Whats left are no unalienable rights. Whats left is a government that will tell you who you are, what youll do and when youll do it. Whats left in France became the the guillotine.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/13/14015/8393
Dog Whistle for Prayer Warriors - Palin as Victim of Blood Libel]
Some of her supporters believe themselves to be the most persecuted and oppressed minority in American history.  Their media warns that Christian patriots are the new Jews, headed for a holocaust at the hands of a "dangerous Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition." 
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                        Okay, here's a question about this nonsense going on with birth control [View all]
							justiceischeap
							Feb 2012
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        You mean this crap is a diversion so the media can ignore whatever the clown car Congress and
        valerief
        Feb 2012
        #1
      
        
        Yep.  The same control freaks that hide the pedophiles in their midst.  nt
        Ruby the Liberal
        Feb 2012
        #28
      
        
        I could almost laugh at the irony, if these people weren't such scary, crazy fucks. 
        CrispyQ
        Feb 2012
        #31
      
        
        They think most swing voters are Catholics, i.e. Reagan Dems and they think this plays to them
        stevenleser
        Feb 2012
        #27
      
        
        Thanks! I saw some of the interview but got a call in the middle of it. n/t
        justiceischeap
        Feb 2012
        #35