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I know that America was created by G-d and it was created by G-d, not for wealth, personal wealth. It wasn't created by G-d so that we would have the resources that we now have. It wasn't even created by G-d to have the freedom that we have now. America was created by G-d to spread the Gospel; to spread the word of Jesus Christ and to propagate Christianity. And the reason I know that is because my entire political career is exhibited by that. The L-rd walked with me …I came to Christ in the first year in Congress and now I've been walking with the L-rd [and] he has trained me and showed me why he created this nation: to spread the Gospel.

--former House Speaker Tom DeLay, in a sermon being promoted by the Religiopolitical Right group Vision America, quoted by Right Wing Watch 

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COME TO THINK OF IT, CERTAIN ELEMENTS AMONG THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT (PSEUDO MORE THAN LIKELY) ARE COMING TO THE DEFENCE of Jim Adkisson, as in the near-massacree @ the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship outside Knoxville yesterday as killed two and injured a number of others.

Epecially considering where a four-page letter which Mr. Adkisson hoped would serve as a manifesto justifying the same in case of his martyrdom blamed "liberals and gays" for preventing the 58-year-old assailant from finding work as much as his age. That, and a significant cut in his Food Stamp benefits recently.

In turn raising the prospect of the weird and unwholesome--not to mention pseudoreligious, for the most part--seeking to use Mr. Adkisson for their own depraved and misguided ends @ the expense of a largely poor and vulnerable audience all the more likely to support such travesties of faith by creating all manner of ur-atrocity propaganda suggesting that:

• Mr. Adkisson risks being a Martyr for the Christian Church and the Christian Faith as a result of his actions "being unduly interfered with by police***unfeeling about the special rights, privileges and powers traditionally entitled of Christians;"
• Mr. Adkisson's acts, deeds and exploits were "morally justified" in the interest of "weeding out apostates and apostasy from the True Christian Church" (to be seen here as being based on the Low Church model, a/k/a Fundamentalist or Primitive Christianity);
• Mr. Adkisson should be regarded as a "hero and model" for Right-Thinking Christian Youth to look to towards saving the Christian Church as much as America; and
• "all right-thinking Christian Americans" have an Imperative Moral and Patriotic Duty to subscribe towards Mr. Adkisson's legal defence costs, even if it means draining the widow's and orphan's mite towards such "Christian [and] American" ends and motives.

Ironically, though, many of those targeted for appeals to any Legal Defence Fund which these same "ministries" might consider setting up en bloc in Mr. Adkisson's name and behalf are perhaps themselves unable to find work, all the while blaming "liberals and gays" for "stealing jobs which rightfully belong to Right-Thinking Christian Americans" when, in Reality, the reason many such as fall for the Pseudoreligious Right can't find work is because of circumstances having nothing to do with liberals or gays--among them:

• Lack of adequate educational opportunities;
• Family background, especially where frequent moves from town to town were commonplace;
• Local socioeconomic conditions;
• General dysfunctionalism and hubris common to the Lower Classes;
• Past alcohol and/or drug problems;
• Unwillingness to face up to abuse and/or cruelty their parents may have inflicted upon them, especially where sexual trauma, injury or emotional harm came into the picture; and
• Overzealous influence of weird and/or unwholesome elements upon the mindset, especially of a religiopolitical nature.

(There are actual studies which confirm much of the above, thus putting paid to a favourite Religiopolitical Right argument that "lack of healthy and proper moral compass" is largely to blame for "welfare dependency" among the Lower Classes. Try a Google.)

Not Only That: There's also the likelihood that the funds thus raised out of fear of "Christian Persecution" in the name of Jim Adkisson through a United Front-stylee appeal could be improperly diverted for misuse and perversion among the several "ministries" because of "unexpected emergencies" on their part such as past-due purchases of air time on such radio stations daring to carry such "ministries" or equally-past-due credit-card bills in the name of the ministry as turn out including unauthorised personal expenditures on the part of the pseudoreligious behind same.

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IN CASE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A REASON TO MAKE YOUR TIME @ THIS BLOG ALL THE MORE PRODUCTIVE BY WAY OF ONLINE SHOPPING, consider this article from Down With Tyranny as could be said to "speak for itself" in explaining how His Fraudulency's Misadventures are likely to be paid for--if @ all.

And which, in its turn, could best explain my desire to donate part of the proceeds which Your Correspondent generates from online shopping towards Reduction of the National Debt.

Unless any of you can show valid and legitimate cause why the National Debt needs to be kept @ such high levels as it has been during His Fraudulency's depraved carnival of misguided power and arrogance, excused all along as being for G-d and Country. (With that in mind, please spare me the bromides and platitudes you may have about "political reasons" requiring the National Debt being kept all the higher.)