Catholics Aren't Christians

"And that's why they vote for the Democrats."

It's obvious to sane people that the way some brethren practice Christianity is more symptomatic of their mental illness than enlightenment earned as the reward for a sincere search for higher truths. A pathology is clearly at work, but self-righteousness makes the sickness incurable. This caller from Augusta, Georgia is just such an example. Suffering under a toxic blend of delusion and stupidity, her fatuous, ideologically tainted theology is delivered with unequivocal conviction. Usurping her god's position of supreme judge, she delivers her wobbly reasoning as an absolute: Catholics would vote for Democrats because they aren't Christians.

She then goes on to say that Catholics pray to Mary, and that's why they're spiritually doomed. There; that settles it. God can finally take that badly needed time off, secure in that knowledge that He has as proxies all of these Republican Christians more than willing to share the load of godly responsibilities, especially the more wrathful ones: spare the rod, spoil the child; "eye for an eye"; "'Vengeance is mine,' sayeth the Lord"; that sort of thing. Why is it that this particular brand of Christian can't see what is so obvious to the rest of us?

Republican Vulgarity

It's a fact calcified in the thick collective skull of right-wing conservatives that all media personnel are liberal. It follows as assuredly as B follows A that those media personnel are all deserving of contempt, which can be expressed as vulgarly as possible. To the right-wing conservative's mind, vulgarity is not an issue,

since there is nothing more vulgar than a liberal. Therefore no low is too low. In this call, this man waylays Susan Swain by greeting her with some cordiality. Then he asks her a question about her anatomy, and uses the notorious four-letter word. Swain preserves her aplomb, reaches up and cuts the caller off, then moves right on along.

This has been done before, and the vast majority of times, when the caller is identified, he'll be a Republican. It's believable, since the attitude reflects the thinking they've picked up from their crass right-wing talk-radio idols, expressing the same disdain and snideness that's directed nonstop at liberals and the media in general. So far C-SPAN has resisted using a delay switch to prevent it happening again. It happens too infrequently to worry about, and they'd much prefer the spontaneity of the exchange. However, it's always shocking to hear, and it works like a kind of verbal terrorism that shatters open discussion. You wonder what such a homunculus does after his mission is accomplished.

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