Martin asks: Are the views of the christian right christian? Dear Martin, WHOAH! Easy – you’re getting Ask DUNDERBRAIN! started with a bang. This is a big one to chew, ok – BREATHE – here we go… A year ago I wrote a blog called “The Death of the Christian Right” right after Obama was elected. Everyone had their own hopes for the new change being issued in with a president boasting change. Now that I look back on it Obama was kinda like Santa to a lot of us. Everyone had this idea of what his presidency would bring. […]
Republicanland
I’ve been noticing a lot, especially in the wake of the revolution that the majority of the Republican Party doesn’t even exist on the same plane of reality as the rest of the country, or each other for that matter. Jim DeMint, a Republican representative from South Carolina recently spoke to GOP officials in Myrtle Beach and, of course, had some good old fashioned Republican style criticism to throw around. It seems to me that every Republican seems to now have different opinions as to what it means to be a Republican. Sen. DeMint seems to think that the foundation […]
The Death of the Christian Right…
Last night we all watched and participated in a monumental moment in history. No, I don’t mean the whole “black president” thing. What I’m talking about is the beginning of the end for the Christian Right. What is the Christian Right beyond an outdated means of saying you’re superior without giving any real reason or motivation for that superiority? It’s a symbol. It’s a symbol of more than Christianity; in fact it has nothing to do with religion what so ever. It has to do with power and those who hold it, and it appears that power has now shifted. […]