In Metaxas' broken mind, Obama is Hitler and America needs to stop him now. Metaxas sounds perfectly reasonable-- he isn't drooling or screaming-- until you listen closely to what he's actually saying and realize he's mentally ill. Equating a regulation in the Affordable Care Act that requires employer insurance packages to include contraception coverage with Nazi atrocities probably makes a lot of sense to people who follow Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann... but it's this kind of hysterical hate talk-- this time in plain paper wrapping-- that is tearing the country apart.
“This HHS mandate,” Metaxas warned the matter-of-fact way of a psycotic in the grip of a delusion, “is so oddly similar to where the anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer found himself” early in the Nazi era. “If we don’t fight now, if we don’t really use all our bullets now, we will have no fight five years from now. It’ll be over. This it. We’ve got to die on this hill. Most people say, oh no, this isn’t serious enough. Its just this little issue. But it’s the millimeter... its that line that we cross. I’m sorry to say that I see these parallels. I really wish I didn’t.”
This is what Clarkson means when he explains how elite Christian Right "thinkers" are imagining revolution and encouraging whoever gets suckered into listening to their bullshit to do the same. Clarkson says that this doesn't necessarily mean that they are organizing or stockpiling bullets. "But it does mean," he says, "that they are trying out giving people a vision."
And this asylum escapee, Metaxas is not alone.
An Opus Dei Catholic priest C. John McCloskey wrote an essay that is a 30 year look back from the year 2030 describing how the Church was persecuted; that Catholics and evangelicals joined forces in a bloody civil war; and succeeded in breaking up the U.S. into independent regions. If Ayn Rand hadn't been an atheist she and John McCloskey might actually have been parents in more than ideology to freaks-of-selfishness like Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, and the rigid ideologues of today's Republican Party.
McCloskey recently published an update of his paranoia driven essay. “I-- or perhaps my thesis” he wrote, “received quite a bit of vitriolic criticism from the elite mainstream media and even from the late Tim Russert on Meet the Press. A goodly number of faithful Catholic writers also found it dark and threatening, however, although I had intended it to be positive and optimistic.” “My avatar priest,” he continued, “looked back from the vantage point of 2030 to reflect on recent ‘history’: the story of American Catholics who became confessors and martyrs to the faith as the federal government of the ‘Culture of Death’ persecuted them.” In his original essay, McCloskey’s avatar, Fiar Charles, explained how “the great battles over the last 30 years over the fundamental issues of the sanctity of marriage, the rights of parents, and the sacredness of human life have been of enormous help in renewing the Church and to some extent, society.” McCloskey’s literary device allows him to avoid openly seditious language, while suggesting that conservative Catholics and allied evangelicals should prepare for civil war.
Is this is what crazy that Conservative Catholics and evangelicals are brewing? Sounds just like the nutty shit that radical Imam's come up with to convince young men to strap bombs to themselves.....Same crazy, just a different language....
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