Glen Beck Head Christian in Residence

     Who in the world does Glen Beck think he is?  The head Christian in Residence.?... He had alot to say about the first lady's prayers, and in his opinion, since he had never heard these types of prayers ,he accused the first lady of saying prayers that were not Christian....

Sorry but who the hell does he think he is.?.. I think it is time to take Glenn Beck off the air of Fox, and any other show this man does...  Is he  the christ?.   To hear him speak, it sounds as though he thinks he is christ , and parayers in which he does not believe in....      what... does that mean they are not prayers....  Does he now answer prayer as well...

     To me Glenn Beck is like a little troll, and has nothing to do with the christian religion at all....  I know he thinks he is the be all and end all of christianity.... but in my opinion this man  is a small troll, trying to be something he is not.

TEA PARTY NAZI DEBACLE

     By this time, surely everyone has heard about candidate Rich Iott (r), endorsed by the tea party, and his Nazi re enactments of real SS battles.  Why anyone would find this activity a 'fun' bonding experience with ones son is beyond me.
     Iott has neglected to address any Jewish voters he might have offended, though he does address veterans in an e-mail to the Atlantic Magazine.  He also said the re enactments never were meant to disrespect anyone who served in our military or who had been affected by tragedy of war. He stated he had immense respect for veterans who served our country valiantly, and that, that was one of the reasons ,"I have actively studied military history through my life.

     Makes this blogger wonder whether it was only the waffen SS military he studied, or was it American military as well. 
     Oddly enough, the day this story broke, Iott's picture and his name on the roster , disappeared.  I mean ALL pictures of him.  Bit to late, to cover up Mate.
     The day of the pictured re enactment,  the WIKING group was practicing an all to real battle.  The group was the 5. SS 'Wiking!'.  In that photo was an actual  veteran of that battle, named 'Herr Schneider.  The pseudonym taken by Rich Iott, I believe is the most telling.  He went under the name of 'Reinhardt'.. the extra 't', will not throw off anyone who knows the dark history of Germanys real reason for their war.
     With out the 't', the name is Reinhard, Reinhard Heydrich one of the most, if not the most, sinister characters of the third reich.  Second only to Hitler, and father of the Final Solution. So important to him was his mission of annihilation and extermination of the Jews of Europe, that after his death, by assassin's bullets, all of the death camps, and all camps taking part in the Final Solution specifically, were given the name 'Operation Reinhard.

     I have seen that some posters on forums look at this as if it were the same as Civil War' enactments.  And I remember one poster who was a bit miffed ,saying, "It's just a man's hobby."  I don't agree with waving this away with a hand, saying it is nothing.  I feel this is something very different, and sinister.  My father was nearly killed in that war, as I am sure ,so were some of yours.  11 Million people from nation upon nation in Europe and surrounding areas, were brutally murdered by Hitler's war, specifically the SS, and his paranoid lunacy.

     Unbelievably, posters continued their rampages on Liberals being cozy with communists, and that the communists began their trek into the United. States in the 1920's.
     In other words, and I really was scratching my head with this, Liberals are worse than the Nazi SS?  How does someone think this way?.
     Then, the original poster of the 'Liberals' story  posted this crackpot thought with glee, "Well, Thank God the Liberals are being voted out. "
     Yes ,Poster, Thank God indeed, but for who?  I bet no one is thinking ,"Maybe now we can get some Nazi, SS members into congress, instead of those nasty ,liberal communists.
     But, this really isnt about the 'liberal',,'communists', socialists', 'Marxist', northeastern eletes' ,who, 'run hollywood', and the 'liberal media' or 'banks, or even wallstreet'.
     Come on then, I challenge any of you who would rather a Nazi instead of a Liberal.  Isn't this spouting of hatred of 'un patriotic', anti american, anti liberal, anti socialist, communist, hollywood owning, northeastern elitist, banking, media, anti wallstreet,  Isnt this what the conservatives and the very right wing Tea Party has been  whining about the entire time now, especially since a black man was voted into the white house?  And as now the 'right against muslim and Islam has all but dissipated;  It's the Jews isn't it? those Jew bankers, listen now, It is there as plain as day... Jewish Liberal thought, northeaster Liberal commie Jews.  And then, of course, as we have all been told by Rick Sanchez, the Jews own all of the media outlets, newspapers, and Hollywood.
    And  now, that dirty little secret, that the entire world knows.   Jews are going to take over the world with a vast Zionist conspiracy... but SHHHH- dont let anyone in on this, we want this strictly mum, secret, tell no one.
     Absolutely then, let's root for the Nazi party, not the Tea Party.  The Nazis need to take over American government.... Please, anything but those dastardly Liberals
 
    

The SBC& Aggressive Political Conservatism

     Interplay of culture, biblical inerrancy, as well as racial circumstances taking place in the 1960's moved the SBC aggressively pursue political conservatism, and would embrace in 1979 with an election of a new presiding officer for the church. For many decades the convention leaders cut slack to moderates on social themes ,if only to keep peace and continue to bring converts to Jesus. The peace was destroyed however, when liberals in the SBC began pushing increasingly controversial positions.
     Disagreements about evolution as well as racial desegregation was not regarded as a road the SBC wanted to travel. The conservatism in the church now felt the need to take back,and reorganize control.
     In 1997, South Carolina conservative Oran Smith in his 'The Rise of Baptist Republicanism', accused that the spreading of the gospel, which had been the priority  had been usurped by attention toward policy; "What began as natural loyalty and confidence had changed into a dangerous policy, and out of church-building megalomania and a belief that the SBC had a particular 'divine mission' came a certain presumption.
     over and above Civil War border states, SBC was in southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, southeastern Kansas, easter New Mexico, as well as rural counties in Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska.  This expansion was of major benefit to the Republican party as leadership southernized and took up political partnership with the SBC.

During the period from 1894-1895, while the large denominational churches lost their members to Pentecostal and other sects. The SBC did not.  The turn-of-the-century SBC was rural, lost cause dedicated,(lose of the south in the Civil War), unsophisticated, revivalist,  and evangelical, but not as of yet, fundamentalist.  They put strength in the people of the ex-confederacy, and its role after the war, was sectional identity, and a mix of biblical conservatism and revivalism.  The SBC became the church of  back country South.

The beginning of the twentieth century, the SBC became THE fastest growing congregations and also became an important teaching ground for American fundamentalism. The crisis surrounding the Civil war was a scriptural one.  But they had nurtured biblical literalism.  In that first decade after world war 1 there was a conservative, biblical counter reaction to the new culture which produced radio, cars, short skirts, and the jazz age had come into being.  At this, the SBC spoke about anti modernism.

Southern Baptists were at the fore front in drafting "The Fundamentals". This way of thinking gave fundamentalism its name (1910-1915). Then in the 1920's the SBC promoted Prohibition, and the anti-evolution movement helped to convince state legislatures to ban the teaching of Darwin's theory in Florida, North Carolina Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana
Fundamentalism, historically, referenced to American protestants, who reacted harshly and negatively to science and were militantly against reading the bible any other way than absolute literal reading.
     TODAY, fundamentalism is applied to militant extremists who DEMAND ,others embrace their way or "hit the highway." By the year 1990 "southerners" were in Pennsylvania, New York, the Old Northwest, the Great Plains, California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. 'Southern' no longer was a region ,but a culture ,evangelical culture. The tremendous size of the SBC represented a thrust in the direction of the 'southernization' of American religion as a whole". Journalist Applebome's book, 'Dixie Rising', contends that in 1942, when they had spread to California, they had set up churches in every state in the U.S. The ills of society, according to the SBC, were liberal sociology, and government social-welfare planning and programs and that these ways of thinking 'get in the way of individuals personal responsibility and salvation. All the answers lie in the bible and coming to Jesus. These attitudes maintained racial divisions.  The beliefs of the White southerners were unadaptive of the legislation that many southern blacks favored.

information gleened from 'American Theocracy'.    to be continued   more or less the recent new religious and political battlegrounds.

TEA PARTY roots, Fundamentalists and Evangelicals

    Just as the founding fathers,Jefferson,Madison, and others, had feared, arguments over new states centered around electoral balance and slavery.  From the old South,1787 thru 1848 , a westward movement had populated Missouri, Arkansas, Texas with a southern leg in Florida.
     Yankees needed canals and railroads to begin their immigration toward Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Both North and South vied for admissions of new states.  Then the Mexican war ended leaving California as a new American state.  But California, admitted in 1850, was included as a free state tipping the balance over to the North.  The south then realized, to much chagrin, that there were no remaining territory for slave states.
     Senators  Jefferson Davis and Albert Brown ,of Mississippi, set their eyes on cuba as well as Mexican states of Yucatan  as well as two others in Mexico.  These alternatives though were given the nix in the late 1850's.  Now confrontation between North and south looked much more likely. 
     The North-South bitterness  underscored the political, religious as well as cultural preperation for open armed combat in 1861.  The long road of frustration, hopes, and dislike of one for the other was fueled by specific religious concerns, one of which was the different interpretations of what the bible said about slavery, and these subjects helped to begin the civil war. The light then was laid, and showed the conduct on both sides with an equality of righteousness.  These clashes of scriptural interpretation and denominations was as a 'Hidden Civil War.'

     Paul Harvey, historian of Southern religion, explained how "white southerners after the war created their own civil religion, with its own theology, myths, rituals as well as saints."  and through the first part of the twentieth century,even though the North gave a nod to the segragation in the south .. The southern writer, John Egerton wrote 'The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America'.  In it he described how southern culture, especially evangelical religion, gained influence in the rest of the country, and that is was BILLY GRAHAM that had "taken the old-time religion of his native South into the nation and the world.  Firmly establishing himself as THE single most influential figure in the Southernization of American religion."  Two decades later An Atlanta based Times correspondent wrote what was an extention of Egerton's thesis in his book' Dixie Rising' (1996) where he identifies the southern roots not just in country music, but of the nation's CONSERVATIVE tide, the rise of states' rights groups and the spread of Southern Baptists into the North.