Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:10 PM
SamKnause (4,568 posts)
2. Republican Evangelicals are inconsistent at best.
The are hateful, spiteful, evil, ignorant, and insane.
I am tired of ***** footing around this issue.
All religious fanatics (globally) should be called out at every opportunity !!!
ZZZzzzzzzzz ... physician heal thyself ...
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:10 PM
Star Member hedgehog (35,208 posts)
...
I suspect that Reagen sic won in part due to a lack of enthusiasm for Carter. Just a reminder for us today to support the Democratic nominee even if our first choice doesn't get that nomination.
Comes close to the truth, and then careens away. The American people rejected Carter because he was a micro-managing inadequate failure.
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 01:30 PM
Star Member ruffburr (956 posts)
4. Reagan-
And his cohorts rigged the election with Iranian co-operation , ...
Speaking of careening, off "we" go into
ConspiracyTheoryLand. Is this the version where mid-50YO G. H. W. Bush, former WW2 torpedo bomber pilot, takes the controls of an SR-71 after (probably) not having flown a plane in over 30 years and flies off to Paris to meet with the Iranians, and ...? Geesh, what a fantasy-world-dwelling moron ... not worth an exclamation point or three ...
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 03:56 PM
Star Member loyalsister (8,557 posts)
10. Reagan played that masterfully
The Billy Graham crusade was in full force in the 70s. Prosperity theology and end times horrors played right into Reagan's greed is good message right along with the hawkishness in the Middle East that served to reinforce the end times messaging.
Billy Graham was not into "Prosperity theology" or "end times horrors". Though maybe that degree of ignorance of 1970s Evangelical Christianity would make that mistake understandable. And the 1970s Pre-Mil-Pre-Trib-
Late-
Great-
Planet-
Earth theology that was popular at the time came close to having an, "It's all going to burn and we won't be here, so why bother," attitude toward politics (an over-simplification and painting with a broad brush, but I'm willing to point that out, since it speaks to the complexity of people this DU-member has never cared to understand).
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 04:36 PM
Star Member loyalsister (8,557 posts)
16. And they were held in giant arenas
It was really disgusting. I remember that my parents attended one and afterwards, my dad would yell "I am prosperity!!" whenever he was feeling discouraged.
Graham Crusades were held in "giant arenas"? How horrible ... that 10s of thousands came every night to hear and consider Billy Graham's message! I can see that striking fear into the heart of a Lib/Prog on DU!
But this post is pure, entirely false,
unadulterated-by-truth,

, for the simple reason that Billy Graham has never taught "Prosperity Theology", nor anything close thereto. And I don't think anyone else was doing arena/stadium crusades in the late 70s. For that matter, those who did/do teach the prosperity "gospel" would never say, '"I am prosperity!!"' That just isn't their vocabulary. So this whole "my parents attended one" is a

intended to get DU-Cred-Points (and probably a slander of his/her possibly dead parents).
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 05:00 PM
Star Member Scurrilous (27,637 posts)
19. Reagan also eschewed church attendance.
He did it (so he claimed) to protect his fellow church goers who might be put at some sort of risk (terrorists? ninjas?) if he sat among them on Sundays. Said the preacher was cool with it. The Lord too.
Ummmm ... no. Reagan declined to attend church - the one fact in this post - but did so so that the inevitable Secret Service entourage would not distract other worshipers or disrupt any church's services. What this DU-member omits (or of which this DU-member is ignorant) is that Reagan arranged for a minister to come to the WH and do a private service (IIRC, staff members who wanted to could attend). As for, "some sort of risk (terrorists? ninjas?)," this is just an anachronistic slander. Terrorism wasn't a threat yet on US soil, and would-be assassins like Hinkley (whose failure - barely - I'm sure is a disappointment to some DU-folk to this day) would have had but one target, Reagan.