Posted on 09/18/2008 5:21:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Get the scene. The McCain/Palin ticket wins in November and soon afterwards mobs of wild eyed bible-toting evangelicals will burn stacks of books in giant bonfires. Sound ridiculous? Well, that is exactly what Andrew Greeley is laughably claiming in his latest Chicago Sun-Times column ominously titled, "Next Chapter for radical right: Burn books." Years ago, Greeley sounded somewhat sane but lately he has gone off the deep end such as his claim in June that it is racist not to vote for Obama. Greeley's latest sanity-challenged screed presents a bleak future of crazed book-burning evangelicals taking over the country. Try not to laugh too hard as you read Greeley's rantings (emphasis mine):
Let's fill some trucks with books, drive them downtown and burn them in front of the Chicago Public Library. Let's drive other trucks to the regional libraries and burn them, too . . . I mean the books, not the libraries, though libraries are the source of the problem. If it weren't for the libraries, it would be hard for innocent young people to be corrupted by the filth pouring out of the country's printers.
Instead of burning books or libraries, perhaps we ought to start smashing printing presses. They have served as tools of sin and the devil since Herr Gutenberg invented them.
When the radical evangelicals take over the White House, lists of books that one shouldn't read or in fact are forbidden to read will spread around the country like wildfire, you should excuse the expression. Unless a much tighter control is imposed on distribution of books, the morals of the country will continue to deteriorate, which will in turn weaken us in the long war on terror.
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And that only happens because liberalism defines sin to be that which I do not do to actualize myself. In the world of liberals, you're either all you ever wanted to be or you're a disappointment.
I think I knew you were from these parts. I’m at St. Luke’s in Mint Hill. Unfortunately, the barbecue pit is way off at the picnic shelter. We just wear coats to Mass during the winter!
Drivel and filth. Drooly filth? Filthy drivel?
From what I’m hearing you might want to get a nice warm one. Might be cold this winter.
I have a heavy alpaca shawl that I wove myself :-). However, I’m not sure I’ll be able to lead the Spanish choir while wearing a wool scarf over my ears!
We are looking at a hard winter, I hear. I need to get my Boy Scouts to work on an emergency survival plan.
No way to surreptiously slip them on and off just before the hymns? Anyway, I looked your church up and the ministry looks quite expansive. It suggests a large congregation. But, of course, large in number does not imply large in tithe. I would hope for you that your folk give generously but in our church, that has dwindled to a veritable trickle.
We have around 1,200 registered families. I’m not sure what that comes to in individual count - my family is 10, but many are smaller :-). And I could un-bundle before I sing, or keep a cup of hot tea by my feet.
Our collection is pretty good, it keeps up with the bills, but the main building doesn’t lend itself to comfortable heating. High roof. We have the current land and building paid off, and a growing fund for new construction. However, we’re expecting to have to move because of a mall going up across the street and environmental restrictions on *our* building. (Not the mall building, of course ... this is North Carolina.)
It’s crowded, but cheerful and lots of fun - sort of like my house!
I hear you. I tried to found a mission here in my adopted home town but couldn’t find a building available that was far enough away from the non-religious buildings to permit the landlord to rent to us. We ended up meeting in my garage. Then my pastor simply pulled the plug.
We’re...looking.
And do what if Obama wins? Shove their heads up their asses even further?
I should hope so. Let’s use pseudo priest Greeley’s poorly written attempts at fiction for starters. Writing that bad deserves to be burned.
Andrew Greeley is a soft-core pornographer masquerading as a Priest.
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