One of the things religious fundamentalists like to do, is conflate all their opponents into one huge mass of people, groups and things that are trying to wipe them out completely. I’d remarked on how the Religious Right in the US does this, just last evening, in a forum on Delphi Forums, and I cited as an example Newt Gingrich stating the hilarious non sequitur that “secular atheists” are “radical Islamists.”
The reason for this is their limited, primitive, and binary point of view. In the eyes of religionists, there are “the good guys” and “the bad guys,” all operating on the exact same teams, all working toward the same two goals, and there is no one and nothing in between. They very seriously believe that if you are not with them, you’re against them, and everyone who’s against them is doing so together, under one banner, as a single team, and with a unitary command structure.
As another example, this is why the “Obama is a secret Muslim” notion is so powerful and enduring: It’s an overt claim that the evil Leftist president the R.R. so vehemently hates, also just happens to be a member of the religion it most hates. Coincidence? I think not.
In any event, yet another Christofascist has linked the enemies of the Christian Right … Satan and Leftism. The Devil himself, you see, commands the political Left in the US (WebCite cached article):
End Times broadcaster Jan Markell hosted Michael Coffman this weekend to discuss his new book Plundered: How Progressive Ideology is Destroying America, which argues that progressives seek to engineer America’s demise in order to create a world government.
Markell, of course, claimed Satan was behind it all.
“Satan has used in some cases evil people, in some cases he’s used well-meaning people, but nonetheless the formula of progressivism doesn’t work, it is totally destructive,” Markell said. “These folks would say they don’t need God because they are God, government is a God.”
A lot of people toss the term “demonizing” around, although they almost always use it metaphorically. But Markell is not. She means it literally: Progressives are working with the “the ‘Real’ Satan” — Lucifer, aka the Devil himself — and his demonic hordes.
Note that she’s lying when she says Progressives state explicitly that “government is a God.” I know no Leftists or Progressives who’ve ever said any such thing. She’s woven that accusation out of whole cloth, because she’s projecting her own subjective worldview onto her enemies. This makes her a member of my “lying liars for Jesus” club.
There is, of course, the obligatory Right-wing radio appeal to food hoarding:
Later in the interview, she called on people to begin storing “at least six months’ worth of food” before progressive policies bring about hyper-inflation, which she says may occur “in the next couple of years” and will “throw our economy into such a turmoil that we don’t get food delivered for as much as six or eight months.”
I wonder if there are advertisers on these shows benefiting from this appeal?
Audio clips are available right here:
Because I’m a non-believer, the R.R. would certainly throw me in with Leftists, Communists, Islamists, and yes, the dreaded Satanists — even if I don’t fully agree with any of them. In their minds, I’m a committed member of the Vast Left-Wing/Satanist Conspiracy. If that’s the case, then count me among them! All hail Satan!*
Photo credit: PsiCop original graphic, based on Mt 12:30a.
* Just kidding: I can no more “hail” the metaphysical being known as Satan, than I could worship a deity or anything else of the sort.