Comments on: Veteran Republican Mike Lofgren writes about the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism and how the GOP devolved into anti-intellectual nuts. https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/11/veteran-republican-mike-lofgren-writes-about-the-rise-of-politicized-religious-fundamentalism-and-how-the-gop-devolved-into-anti-intellectual-nuts/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/11/veteran-republican-mike-lofgren-writes-about-the-rise-of-politicized-religious-fundamentalism-and-how-the-gop-devolved-into-anti-intellectual-nuts/#comment-17307 ER Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:35:08 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19975#comment-17307 <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/10/bartons-jefferson-lies-book-yanked/" rel="nofollow">Rewriting History</a> The unholy marriage between Christian Fundamentalism and jingoistic Conservative politics is one of the most alarming trends in modern American social life, comparable to the conflation of Islamic Fundamentalism and Arab nationalism. No doubt we will soon be hearing from the apologists "well, at least its better than socialism". No, its infinitely worse. The Commies never claimed to have Jesus on their side. That these people are so eager to spread their legs for these medieval troglodytes is all the evidence I need that there is nothing they aren't capable of in order to further their reactionary economic agenda. Rewriting History

The unholy marriage between Christian Fundamentalism and jingoistic Conservative politics is one of the most alarming trends in modern American social life, comparable to the conflation of Islamic Fundamentalism and Arab nationalism. No doubt we will soon be hearing from the apologists
“well, at least its better than socialism”. No, its infinitely worse. The Commies never claimed to have Jesus on their side.

That these people are so eager to spread their legs for these medieval troglodytes is all the evidence I need that there is nothing they aren’t capable of in order to further their reactionary economic agenda.

]]>