Texas state Sen. Charles Perry (R) on Tuesday compared the lack of religious influence in U.S. government to the Holocaust during a speech at his swearing-in ceremony.
“There were 10,000 people that were paraded into a medical office under the guise of a physical. As they stood with their back against the wall, they were executed with a bullet through the throat. Before they left, 10,000 people met their fate that way,” he said, recalling a recent trip to a former German concentration camp, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
“Is it not the same than when our government continues to perpetuate laws that lead citizens away from God?” Perry then asked. “The only difference is that the fraud of the Germans was more immediate and whereas the fraud of today’s government will not be exposed until the final days and will have eternal-lasting effects.”
Perry said that he believes God and religion have a place in government and that there is a “spiritual battle for the spirit of this nation and the soul of its people.”
He added that he will focus on abortion and same-sex marriage while in office.
“Roe v. Wade condemned 55 million innocent and defenseless souls that cried out for righteousness from a God who is just — we will answer for that as a nation,” Perry said.
H/t Raw Story
Sigh…Republicans can’t help but mangle Civics, can they? Nazis relied very heavily on religion- specifically Christianity- in order to rally the German people. Secularism is not a problem. Most Secularists would be more than willing to let people believe what they want- so long as it is not used to lie, bear false witness, or distort science, history, academia and learning.
Most of what people like Perry consider Christianity is not what God said at all, though. In fact, the Bible says that ‘life begins when blood flows’, which has long been interpreted as either when the woman gives birth or when the fetus’ movements are first felt. This is called The Quickening. Additionally, the Bible says nothing about homosexuality. Instead, the piece that they interpret to be about homosexuality is actually an admonition to men not to treat other men as subservient as they would treat a woman.
The idea that life begins at conception came into being in roughly the 13th Century when the Pope at the time bought into the idea that men carry around little copies of all human beings which he implants inside a woman’s womb, and that homonculus then grows in the woman’s womb and she contributes nothing but her ‘fertile field’ to the process of procreation.
The idea that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was about homosexuality did not come about into around the 10th Century from what I’ve been able to find. In fact, the early Church was welcoming to lesbians and gays, and even conducted many marriage ceremonies.
I have long felt pity for those Christians who have such a small God. After all, their God is so tiny that he can only create a world from whole cloth and sustain it for about 4000 years.
And yet… despite all common sense and need for good governance… these yahoos are about to take over the Senate and retain the house. Jesus H. Christ.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
“(Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below We’re All Go”
“Sisters, brothers and the whities
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They’re all political actors”
Curtis Mayfield
Sigh. Another person who wants the authority to make laws that directly impact my life, while believing that I’m not a “real” citizen since I subscribe to no religious belief.