[Vision2020] The Christian right's "dominionist" strategy

[Ted Moffett]

Bill McKibben, interviewed earlier this week by Amy Goodman on "Democracy
Now," after release from jail after being arrested at the Keystone XL
pipeline tar sands protest at the White House, said in the interview
regarding Texas governor Perry's recent comments about science and global
warming, "It's astonishing that someone is able to *make* George *Bush
look*relatively smart about scientific things.
*..."*
**
*Scary is right... Unbelievable!  This religious mindset discussed in the
article you referenced, and its connections to politics, reminds me in some
ways of Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" which was made into a
film, about a religious based tyranny: "In a dystopicly polluted rightwing
religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her
now rare fertility." *http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/atwood0408.htm

The McKibben interview can be experienced at website below:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/23/over_160_arrested_in_ongoing_civil

An excerpt on Perry:

*AMY GOODMAN:* Speaking of Texas politicians, Bill McKibben, I wanted to
play a comment of Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick
Perry, who recently claimed global warming is a hoax. This is what Perry
said at a news conference in New Hampshire.

*GOV. RICK PERRY:* The issue of global warming has been politicized. I think
that there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data
so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think
we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming
forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is
what is causing the climate to change. And I don’t think, from my
perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money
on still a scientific theory that has not been proven and, from my
perspective, is more and more being put into question.

*AMY GOODMAN:* That was presidential candidate Perry, the governor of Texas.
Bill McKibben?

*BILL McKIBBEN:* Rick Perry’s response to the drought so far has been to
have a statewide day of prayer. Now, I’m a Methodist Sunday school teacher,
so I’m completely down with prayer. That’s good. But in most theologies,
prayer works a little better if you aren’t at the same time trying to think
of every policy you can do to make matters worse. It’s astonishing that
someone is able to make George Bush look relatively smart about scientific
things. The Governor is completely wrong, of course, about the science. It’s
not only strong, it grows stronger with every passing heat wave and every
year of record temperature. There’s no scientific doubt.

The only reason that anybody is even considering building this pipeline is
because it’s going to make a few big corporations an immense amount of
money. And that’s why those corporations and the Koch brothers and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce are lobbying like crazy for it. We don’t have the money
to compete with those guys. All we have, the only alternative currency we
have, is our bodies. And that’s what we’re using.

It was interesting to be in jail this weekend and reflect—listen to some of
the people on the cell block reflecting on the fact that the last time they
were, you know, lying on the ground like this was in some church basement
while they were out campaigning for Barack Obama in that fevered fall of
2008. We’re incredibly hopeful that if the President does the right thing
here, it will remind a lot of us why we were so enthusiastic about him and
send a real jolt of electricity through people that are a little, frankly,
discouraged at the moment.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, deb <debismith at moscow.com> wrote:

> **
> After listening to a radio article, i investigated a bit. Scarey......we
> all best pay attention. These folks make Doug Wilson look like a sweetheart,
> and his Southern Reconstructionism look quaint....Get out the vote, people,
> 'cause these nut-baskets surely are!!!
>
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/21/posner_nar_dominionism
>
> Debi R-S
>
>
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