If the mullahs play their cards right, Islam could be poised to win millions of converts in the US. The religious right, that warmongering and authoritarian brand of Christianism, is full of potential Muslims. Islam is more in keeping with their religious beliefs, and they could have all the self righteousness and legalism they can handle without all those inconvenient teachings of Jesus. Nobody could throw Jesus’ teachings about peace and love in their faces when they advocate slaughter and war. Nobody could admonish them for not loving their neighbor when they advocate repression.
Don’t Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and those of their ilk seem more like mullahs than pastors? Pat loves to issue fatwas, after all, and I recall Jerry proclaiming jihad on more than one occasion. Unloading the baggage of peace and love that comes with proclaiming Jesus as lord would really let them live up to their potential as theocrats. Sure, they’ll have to learn a new holy book, but there are probably Cliff Notes.
What the religious right wants is what the Taliban had. And they can’t get it if they are obliged to be merciful, to forgive, to love, and what have you. It’s time that they faced facts and dropped Jesus in name. They renounced his teachings long ago, and now he is just a kind of mascot for them, like Colonel Sanders was for KFC after he sold out.
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This is actually going on in Texas right now...
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