Post from Rapture Ready:

[dtotire]

I took a look at the Rapture Ready message board, and came across this gem:

LivingbyFaith
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Originally Posted by InGodWeTrust
He aint perfect, but I'm behind him all the way

Me too. It sure seems though,that an awful lot of people expect him to be perfect. He's a great president,I think he's one of the best this country has ever had.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
5."Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6."In all thy ways acknowledge Him,and He shall direct thy paths."

Unfortuneately, all the posts reflected this view

[sinkingfeeling]

1. If you think that you're goin' leave this world by a magic carpet ride, you wouldn't know if

Bush was a great president or the scum of the earth that he really is.

[alfredo]

11. It's not a magic carpet, it is a holy helicopter.

[YOY]

2. Cocaine is a powerful drug....

[youthere]

3. I heard a commentary on the radio last night about why fundies 'dislike the Dems so much..

and supposedly because Dems come across as "belittling" and "condescending" to people of "true faith" and that we make them feel stupid.

Gee..I wonder why.

[mwb970]

10. It's the same reason they don't like the French. /nt

[Beausoleil]

19. Nobody can be made to feel stupid

unless the seed of doubt is already there. They really feel superior to everyone else and are insulted when anyone disagrees. Along the lines of "Why do they hate Bush so much?", from the party of the Big Tent of Hate.

[Turbineguy]

4. Wow! Somebody needs a good

bowel movement. You can get plugged up and it can effect your thinking!

[tubbacheez]

5. Sounds like synthetic happiness.

Once they've made their choice, it suits them just fine.

[RebelOne]

6. More words of praise from the Rapture Ready kooks.

http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=1192

[lynnertic]

7. Why go to the Rapture Ready message board?

Why go to the Rapture Ready message board when your bandwidth just gives them money?

[RebelOne]

14. Because it's entertaining and good for a laugh. n/t

[mwb970]

8. The Rapture-Bush connection is fascinating.

There is really no logical connection between the ideas "There will be a Rapture" and "George W. Bush has been a wonderful president". The two statements come from entirely different realms. The only thing they really share is their evident, patent falsity. And yet, people who hold one of these unrelated false beliefs are overwhelmingly likely to hold the other as well.

How did these unrelated ideas get so tightly tangled together in some people's minds?

[dtotire]

15. Just Curious, with nothing else to do

[windy252]

18. I think it's sometimes because some pastors heavily imply

that the Republican party is the more "holy" one (I know, stop laughing).

[Batgirl]

22. so just how DID these unrelated ideas get tangled together?

http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htm

Spiritual Warfare
"We are not coming up against just human beings to beat them in elections. We're going to be coming up against spiritual warfare." (Pat Robertson at a 1994 Christian Coalition national strategy conference)

1991-1993: Religious Right Takes "Working Control" of the Republican Party -- Precinct by Precinct, State by State
WITH GOD AS THEIR CO-PILOT" by Joe Conason, Playboy, March, 1993
The rich Republicans of San Antonio's Bexar County consider themselves very conservative. And they are. But the politics of this new crowd gave them a bad scare. Not long after the Christian rightists staged their coup, the president of the Alamo City Republican Women's club just gave up and quit.
"The so-called Christian activists have finally gained control," she explained in her resignation letter, "and the Grand Old Party is more religious cult than political organization.

1980 -- A Watershed Year
Paul Weyrich, speaking in Dallas in 1980, captured the spirit of this new movement. He said,
"We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about simply spreading the gospel in a political context."

1994: A Watershed Year
By election time in 1994 Christian Coalition had distributed 40 million copies of the "Family Values Voter's Guide" in more than 100,000 churches nationwide. 1994 was the year Republicans took control of Congress for the first time in 40 years. It was also the year that Republicans made a huge gain in State Legislatures.

Bush-Cheney Campaign, 2004
Ralph Reed, former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition, relied on stealth tactics throughout the nineteen nineties. He no longer needs to use stealth. As a senior official of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, Reed attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention to ask pastors explicitly for their help in winning votes.
Mr. Reed delivered his remarks at a Bush-Cheney "pastors reception," paid for by the Bush campaign. The hosts were the departing president of the Southern Baptists and three other prominent leaders, and the reception was in a conference room of a hotel adjacent to the convention. As the pastors came in, a campaign aide collected about 100 signatures and addresses from ministers pledging to endorse Mr. Bush's re-election publicly, to "host a citizenship Sunday for voter registration," to "identify someone who will help in voter registration and outreach" and to organize a " 'party for the president' with other pastors" on specific dates closer to the election. (New York Times, June 18, 2004)

[liberal N proud]

9. Do you have to take hallucinogenic drugs to post on that site?

[Ilsa]

12. No, but you'll think you've done LSD. It's a bad trip. nt

[Hersheygirl]

13. To hell with being perfect,

I just want someone who is competent.

[OHdem10]

16. This is the perfect explanation for:

While GWB has terrible ratings nationally: when the Pollsters
poll Republicans Only, there are higher percentages staying
and hanging in there with him.

The RR are still supporting GWB unflinchingly on the War
and his presidency.

This illustrates why Impeachment is pretty nearly impossible
and why it is so darn difficult to get anything done about
the war.

The Democratic Base stuck with Clinton when the GOP tried
to impeach him. Had the base abandoned him, Impeachment
would probably occurred.

Rapture Ready gives one an idea of where Base Republicans
are. Good political information.

[Beausoleil]

20. Impeachment of Clinton did occur.

Conviction didn't. Otherwise, good point.

[EstimatedProphet]

23. Well, that and the fact that their case was a sham.

[BurtWorm]

17. If I "thought" like that, I would want the world to end to.

If Bush is the best the universe can cough up for a pres, just shoot me. :patriot:

[BurtWorm]

21. Hey! Just thinking like that for a second made me misspell "too!"

:think:

[KansDem]

24. Makes you wonder if all these posters are liberal DUers, posting incognito

DUers who go on such sites and pretend to be part of the loyal followers. They post in such subtle sarcasm that they remain undetectable while having fun at the regulars' expense. After awhile, all the regulars leave and in their place are the DUer's, still posting subtle sarcasm unaware that everyone else is a liberal DUer too!