On Rightwing Christians: Have you noticed something odd about this Ashley Madison scandal?

[FourScore]

Thu Aug 27, 2015 at 11:15 AM PDT
On Rightwing Christians: Have you noticed something odd about this Ashley Madison scandal?
by SemDem

Since the Ashley Madison scandal broke, I have noticed a distinct lack of condemnation from you rightwing christians.

Where are all the youtube hate videos against the subscribers practicing adultery?

Where are the droves of protestors picketing AshleyMadison.com like Planned Parenthood?

It's pretty clear where Jesus stands with cheating on your spouse. In case you missed the Commandment of "Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's wife", Jesus laid it out:

In Mathew 5:27-30 he said if you even look at another woman with desire, then cut out your eye because it's better to "lose one of your members than to have your whole body go to hell".

Lust > Cheat > Hell. Pretty straightforward. There were other things He directly condemned, like divorce. Yet He was most clear on His biggest pet peeve: excess wealth.

Yet those are three things that today's rightwing Christian doesn't care about.
Massive greed? That's called "prosperity gospel" now. The parable of Lazarus? They root for the rich guy in hell.

Divorce? Adultery? Child Molestation? whoopsey-daisies. No big whoop.

But gays and abortions? That's where they burst arteries! Two issues Jesus said NOTHING about. Both of those things existed during His time. If they are the epitome of evil, you'd think they'd at least warrant a mention. But nothing.

So what about actual sins that are specifically mentioned and given no leeway at all in the Bible? Meh.

In fact, on Mike Huckabee's old cheesy talk show five years ago he featured Ashley Madison's CEO to tell "his side" of the story. Yes, Mike disagreed with what Ashley Madison was doing but then added "I could be wrong".

Seriously, go to 11: 43 of this video. That's what he said:

There is no ambiguity in the Bible about adultery. And yet, while the Bible says nothing about abortion, here is Huckabee defending Paraguay's awful decision to force an 11-year old raped by her stepfather to bear a child. Here is a man who said he would not be against using federal troops to stop women from getting abortions! Here is a man calling for mass arrests over gay marriage. This is the same guy who convulsed with anger over gays being allowed to be happy.

In fact, Santorum, Huckabee, Cruz, et. al have said nothing about the AshleyMadison scandal or a word of condemnation to their millions of subscribers. Maybe they are worried about alienating some supporters, but that means their virulent rants on nonissues become even more meaningless. It's almost like they are full of something....

Clearly there is no righteous, religious hate espoused for those who abuse or leave their marriages like there is for those who are in stable, homosexual relationships. Despite what the Bible says, these guys SWEAR to me that they know exactly who Jesus hates.

And I find it absolutely amazing that it always happens to coincide with their preconceived prejudices. Go figure.

I'll bet if Jesus said to love their enemies, they'd find a way around it. (Oh wait...)

So you will have to excuse me when I roll my eyes over your next meltdown. Where is the indignant condemnation now?

Where is your moral outrage against these sinners?

You'll rally like crazy against things not even in the Bible, but ignore and stay silent about AshleyMadison.

I guess it's hard to condemn something that you probably have an account with.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/27/1416041/-On-Rightwing-Christians-Have-you-noticed-something-odd-about-this-Ashley-Madison-scandal

[AuntPatsy]

1. Needs kicking for continued exposure of the truth

[peacebird]

2. K&R

[arcane1]

3. And adulterers get cakes made for them without hassle n/t

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. "Christians" I know are very adept

At following mostly only the biblcal edicts that suit them in the moment, while expecting everyone else to follow them all.

An example would be the railing and whining they do against same sex relationships, citing Levitcus, and it is ONLY in Levitus, while munching a ham sandwich and wearing blended frabrics that are also prohibited by Levitcus.

[MisterP]

14. it's not like the OT is that keen on usury, either

[Huddie94]

32. Where "biblical edicts" conflict with "profit," "profit" wins. Hating Pope Francis

is becoming their core tenet for practical ideology. That man does not worship profit.

That's what I see as the modern conservative, neo-fascist take on Christianity.

This Ashley Madison scam generated huge profits. Also huge tax cheating worldwide.

20,269,675 paying male customers. They checked for messages and had to pay to get messages. If the average duration of account activity is a year that gives total revenue over the AM site lifetime at (20 million times $19 a month times 12 months) = $5 billion.

That's a good year for Bernie Madoff's old scheme. Galt Gulch Capitalism at its high trumpish best. (Trump made his big money from being connected with NJ's sleazeballs and getting the first gambling license in Atlantic City. Long time partner with S&A Construction, a mob operation.)

1,492 female accounts that ever, even once checked for messages over the lifetime of the AM web site. That's 1,492 of the total of 5,5550,687 "female" tagged accounts. One can assume that some women were browsers only -- that the total for browsers+fakes = (5,550,687 - 1,492) = 5,549,295.

Full article at Gizmodo.

Scam these stupid men for $5,000,000,000. Get away with it. Make pay-offs to Canadian conservative pols to assure protection. How could anything be more Christian? And as to Pope Francis, he don't get no cut.

[HenryWallace]

49. American Pluralism!

"Mike disagreed with what Ashley Madison was doing but then added "I could be wrong.""

The god of Capitalism coexists with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

If you are economically successful it must follow that you have been blessed by God!

Is it any wonder that a high percentage of these guys have serious personality disorders!

[libdem4life]

5. Did anyone bring up it to the Westboro Church folk? They missed it too?

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. Huckabee has a very special place ready for him in Hell.

[hifiguy]

7. The cricket-laden silence

has been very notable.

[jalan48]

8. Born again hypocrites.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Oh, COME ON ... you know they're just waiting to hear ...

... if their own names come up. And a lot of them will.

Until that happens, best to lay low and shut up.


(PS: Kicking for one of the most righteous rants ever posted to DU ! : )

[Sophiegirl]

11. +1

eom

[Historic NY]

18. It like waiting for a train wreck when you know its coming....

[flygal]

21. LOL Perfect!

[Augiedog]

10. Amen!!!

[nikto]

12. Rightwing Xtians feel they have already been saved and do not seek advice or truth

RW xtians are not hard-headed.

Effectively, they do not have heads to be hit upon.



It's the way they have structured themselves to function in life.
Literally, an INTENTIONAL, programmed, lack of thought-process.

Best defense there is against hated realities.
Fascists everywhere have depended on it for decades.

Gotta' go with what works.

[Tsiyu]

13. That's because the majority of fundy Xtians

don't agree with a word of what Jesus says. Notice how they quote Paul and Deuteronomy and not he who is "the way, the truth, and the light."

My sister was talking about this yesterday: "They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me"

Also, many of your die-hard fundies have been divorced. But they are forgiven.

I can tell you this, if Jesus ever shows up in Tennessee, the populace will stone him to death for being too dark-skinned --if the cops don't throw him in jail first.

[LiberalArkie]

15. You just don't understand, Jesus Christ has nothing to do with Christianity. Christianity is about

the teachings of Moses not Jesus. That is why it is called Christianity. You silly people keep forgetting we live in Bizarro universe.

[passiveporcupine]

16. Religion has always been about

He was most clear on His biggest pet peeve: excess wealth.

Yet those are three things that today's rightwing Christian doesn't care about.
Massive greed? That's called "prosperity gospel" now.

Condemning other people while ignoring your own Moat...in other words, religion is interpreted as needed for each individual cause.

I know there are good people out there who think they are good because of their faith, but it's not true. They are good people because they want to be good, just like most atheists do.

Oh, and that sin thing? All they have to do is ask for forgiveness, and it's all AOK.

[3catwoman3]

17. Claiming/believing one has been been forgiven...

...by god seems like such an easy out with no limit on how many times it can be used.

[yourout]

29. It's the forgivness debit card.....if it's running a little low you

crank out a few hail marys and get the balance back up so you can get on with the next great sin.

[fasttense]

35. It's like that old joke: I use to pray for riches and wealth then I realized God doesn't work that

Way. So now I steal what I want and ask for forgiveness later.

[Lorien]

50. Ha! That's perfect!

And all too true of the Talibornagains. Truly some of the most morally bankrupt people on the planet. The proof is in the statistics on just about every socital ill in the Bible belt; divorce, domestic abuse, alcoholism, child abuse, child porn...you name it, and they have more of it!

[ToxMarz]

19. Because those are *wink *wink just being a guy sins.

Yeah, it's a sin, but you know, we're guys!. So to atone for our sins we will double down on the other sinners (gays, abortionists, non-Christians, ...) with zero tolerance. You know, cause we're just being guys. God gets it, cause, well, he's one of us guys.

[senz]

20. They don't care about "sin" -- they care about patriarchy.

Cheating on your wife is no threat to patriarchy. But women having sex without consequence is a threat to patriarchy. So, too, are men loving men and women loving women, because patriarchy requires men owning/controlling women and women being subservient to men.

And that stepfather who impregnated his 10-year-old step daughter? He's the ultimate patriarch. To allow that girl to get an abortion would be an insult to the man's sperm.

But patriarchy aside, men who have sex with children or who are serial rapists should be candidates for castration. They've earned it.

[Kber]

22. And yes

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. Notice also, that the usual swarm of right-wing trolls

that usually infest the DailyKos comments do not seem to be weighing in on this one?

[Huddie94]

34. ALM took 20,269,675 x $19 x active-months-per-male for access to faked

female accounts. Faked profiles. Faked everything. A very few live, real female users.

There's a full analysis of the data dump at GIZMODO.

That's a huge amount of money. A world class scam. So far they are getting away with it. Also they are getting away with not paying taxes on their loot.

20,269,675 active checked-for-messages male accounts. But only 1,492 active female accounts including test accounts. That's all the "female" accounts that checked for messages even once.

Fewer than 1 "live" female accounts for every 10,000 "live" male accounts.

A sample of male accounts has activity running over one year. If you do the arithmetic for 20 million male accounts over the lifetime of the site, that gets about $5 billion taken in worldwide.

ALM paid taxes on tens of millions, not the full income generated by this activity.

Cheat on taxes ????? That makes you a RW Hero. A Romney. No wonder Huckabee sucks up to the CEO.

No wonder the RW trolls are directed away from the AM story. It's capitalism at its worst.

[Hotler]

24. Ill kick this........... n/t

[MarianJack]

25. K&R for a very well stated point,...

...and true, too!

PEACE!

[NewJeffCT]

26. If any Democratic politician anywhere

even the local dogcatcher - shows up the website, you know it will be the worst thing in the world.

[BeanMusical]

27. +1

[NewJeffCT]

42. If I recall, in the months after 9/11

I think it was Fox News that scoured the entire country looking for news of anybody in the US saying anything negative about America and/or positive about Al Qaeda/Islam/the Middle East outside of Israel... the best they could come up with was an obscure college professor from Colorado, who of course generated nationwide outrage and represented all Democrats and liberals.

[bvar22]

56. Blll Maher got fired, and caused serious outrage when he siad,

"You know, it took some courage to fly those planes into the towers."

[SunSeeker]

28. Why isn't Westborough Baptist picketing Ashley Madison?

Can they only object to one "sin"? So many sins, so little time, eh?

[NJCher]

30. it's kinda' hard to organize a protest or a picket

When your name is on the list and it's, well, only a matter of time...


Cher

[TNNurse]

40. Well, if they are not on the list

their friends and relatives are.

[ecdab]

31. RW Christians only take a stand against things they believe that they will never do or ...

have never done. It's all about feeling morally superior by coming together with other like minded simpletons to condemn people not like themselves.

The foundation of RW Christianity is anything but morality. It's about making those who are foolish enough to believe in Invisible Sky Beings feel good about themselves and the choices they have already made in their lives in exchange for cold hard cash.

[Mc Mike]

33. Handmaid's Tale, that's the 'utopia' they envision. nt.

[Hoppy]

37. Almost correct. They would welcome sex with the babe but get rid of the wife in the sex act.

[Mc Mike]

38. Could be, Hop.

[DhhD]

36. Since Jesus said nothing about abortion and gays, Christians feel like they can make judgment

even though judging someone is against Christian principles.

IMHO: The problems of Sodom and Gomorrah were that the city officials were doing nothing about sexual assaults because they were the leaders of the rape culture, themselves. Years of abuse leads to anger and the display of repeated behavior that becomes accepted.

If ever a National Guard was needed, it would have been needed then. Seems like the Christians would join Democrats who want to put a stop to a, Culture of Rape, that the GOP finds acceptable.

So it is very reasonable to say that RW radical fundamentalist, are a part of a culture of rape, now, as they were back then.

[pangaia]

39. Who is Ashley Madison?

[NCjack]

41. Names of super RW Xians on the list? /nt

[sarge43]

43. I think this answers the question

Easy bet he isn't the only rightwing butt hole on that list

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141190921

[Sunlei]

44. where is the list of names of USA. gov paying accounts? all the other countries go after their gov p

people.

[Rex]

45. Maybe they are being silent, because their names are on the AM list somewhere?

Bile Fuckabee, Frothy Mix and Carnival Cruz strike me as the exact right type of hypocrites to have an account with AM!

I bet dollars to donuts at least ONE of those asshole dingbats has an account!

[Initech]

46. Because the "Christians" in question are 95% of Ashley Madison's base.

[DirkGently]

47. Huckabees of the world object to who people ARE

... not what they DO. Over and over again, hatred expressed as religious piety is just cover for plain cultural bigotry.

It's a general conservative principle, and the philosophy behind any kind of identity politics.

"We need more _____ people and less _____ people" is just bad human psychological wiring, but it winds people up emotionally.

If we'd focus more on what people do, instead of making assumptions based on their immutable characteristics, we'd solve a lot of problems at once.

We need more people who think, and fewer people who fear.

[colorado_ufo]

48. While you are quite correct about Ashley Madison and the Right Wing Christians,

I think Jesus's main aim may have been more at hypocrites than adulterers, although the Bible clearly speaks against adultery. In other words, Jesus was emphasizing the same point you are. He spoke of hypocrites almost more times than anything else.

[liberal N proud]

51. Hypocracy is high on the list of Republican values.

[TeamPooka]

52. #Bazinga

[saturnsring]

53. Kickity-kick

The marriage of two people of the same sex will not affect my marriage but infidelity will

[d_legendary1]

54. These are the same people who were ready to stone

the adulterer until Jesus asked if any of them sinned as well. There's your reason as to why nobody is going after the Ashely Madison crowd. I'm willing to bet most of them were on that list as well.

[rladdi]

55. Not really we all know the the Republicans are rapist, sex abusers. So many of them are on the

list. The very people who profess to GOD, yet have no morals.

[saidsimplesimon]

57. Thank you, Canadians are showing US

the way to straight talk.