Mother Mary Rants

There is a large cult whose members delude themselves that they are Christians. They worship the Bible, usually the 1611 translation, as if it were as infallible as God is, including such hilarious passages as Exodus 17:8-13. They act as though God is a vending machine and prosperity equals righteousness. Their heretical and blasphemous "Rapture," in which billions who do not belong to their cult will be gruesomely murdered by Jesus, is sure proof that they are anything but Christian. Through their behavior they demonstrate their belief in the righteousness of capital punishment; preemptive warfare (just like Jesus!); harassment and murder of abortion clinic staff members; depriving homosexuals, women, and liberals of their human rights, if not their lives; and impoverishing the poor while enriching the wealthy. Their earnest desire is to do away with modern science in favor of "intelligent design" and to transform modern jurisprudence into an Inquisition-like mechanism of fascism. They are literally the Pharisees of the modern world.

These arrogant, biased heretics called themselves fundamentalists or evangelicals until those terms became synonymous with "ignorant bigots." They then called themselves born-again Christians until that term became synonymous with "ignorant bigots." Today they oxymoronically call themselves the Moral Majority, the Religious Right, and the Christian Right. They remain ignorant bigots.

Now they are busily attempting to subvert democracy in the United States by making a state religion out of their Taliban-like cult. With the ongoing, enthusiastic help of the Bush administration, they are well on their way to succeeding.