Richard Land (Right wing leader): "Obama will eat our planet whole!!!111!!!"

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OK, he didn't quite say that, but he seriously did say that Obama will destroy our civilization pretty much all by himself.

n a recent speech, Richard Land declared that the policies of President Obama and Democratic members of Congress will utterly destroy our society and declared that only conservative Christians can save this nation from complete annihilation:

Civilization stands at a fork in the road and will either ascend to greater heights or tumble into barbarism unless Christians reassert the value of all human life and absolute moral truth, Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land told a Founder's Day audience at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said the future of civilization turns on two fundamental questions: Is moral truth real and knowable or is it merely a preference? A question of human value follows: Is mankind of value because of who we are -- our essence -- or only for what we can do?

These questions are at the heart of policy debates over abortion, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and health care reform, Land said Oct. 6.

Christians must engage the culture in order to meet Christ's mandate, he said ... The need to be salt and light has never been greater, Land said, citing the current debate over health care reform.

"We are being subjected as human beings by those who do think truth is relative, and by those who do think that human beings are defined by their functionality to what I call biological bigotry," Land said. "And it is a bigotry that is just as perverse, just as anti-Christian and anti-Gospel as the racial and ethnic bigotry of our past. It says that certain human beings are less valuable than other human beings because of their biological condition and their age."

Land called President Obama's chief health care adviser, Ezekiel Emanuel, the "poster boy" for this kind of thinking. Emanuel is the brother of Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and a member of a presidential commission that Land said will "make decisions on what your doctors are allowed to do to treat you, and what they will not be allowed to do to treat you in the future."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/land-obama-destroying-our-civilization

How come Land doesn't already consider us in a state of barbarism? Even if one does consider abortion to be murder, it is still dwarfed by the number of lives that malnutrition or horrible sanitary conditions take every year.

I guess non-Americans don't count as humans, huh? If there is any threat to our culture, then it comes from fetus-worshipers like you Land, not Obama.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. The SBC doesn't speak for me.

[PVnRT]

2. Dick Land?

Yep.

[OHdem10]

3. Land, One of Top Jobs in Southern Baptist Conv. Most influential

leader Religious Right.

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4. I love how unashamed they are of their idiocy.

I wish I could see the cringing of the moderate republicans who read this stuff.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Not if the giant-Putin Head caribou Barbie warned us about gets there first.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Dear Mr. Land, Pfffffttttt. Yours is not the only religious path. Yours isn't even the

only Christian path.


Where is your support for universal single payer healthcare? Do you stand with Unions and stopping the loss of jobs to other nations? What about stewardship of the planet?

Seriously, if those are the only issues which matter to you then you are blinded to the reality of the multitude of problems that face us, in which case you aren't the person we should be taking advice from. (Although the stands you are taking on the few issues you do feel matter disqualified you to begin with.)