What do you dislike most about the religious right?

They are truly a frothy sickening mix of so many ugly traits.

do themselves a tremendous disservice by preaching against Harry Potter books and Hallowe'en.

That's the most fun time of the year for a lot of kids and here there dreary-ass fundies are spoiling even THAT.

Shame on them.

it's me again......LOL :hi:

I hate how they think they own God,

the flag,patriotism,the White House,the courts,both houses of congress,all elections,the "news",the tv talk shows,the shoving their beliefs down our throats trying to make us all believe that it's their way or no way.......

in other words I hate how they have hi-jacked EVERYTHING. :banghead:

and you are right to call them on it.

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empty zealotry, bigotry.

All they do is condemn other people's actions. I believe that was the exact opposite of Jesus. He without sin shall cast the first stone.

they are coming to get us ALL.

they are a cancer, a lethal virus, a mental illness, and most of all un-god-like

their inability to shut the fuck up about it. I can't believe there is a single living human on the planet who does not at this time know where to go find Jesus if they are so inclined. It has driven me from sick of it to needing to remove myself from religious discussion entirely with those that want to evangelize me. The only remaining family I have are evangelical missionaries who want to take me to a wacko church and have me healed, not certain what from but maybe my nasty attitude?

I BELIEVE but that is never ever enough.

If I offended anyone I am sorry. When my brother was dying they decided to use that time to try to get to me. I have little tolerance for their kind anymore. AND all of the above.

and they all will murder millions in the name of their gods.

Americans to have to live by. The idea of codifying their narrow view of Christianity into laws and creating a theocracy in subversion of the Constitution is what I dislike most. All that is listed in the polls are symptoms/actions based on the politicized religious right's efforts to legislate their narrow view of Christianity onto all other Americans.

my religion from me and so many millions of others.

They have reduced Christianity to a series of slogans and bumperstickers and have lost its meaning.

They have made it a laughingstock and have made many of us ashamed to be associated with them.

They have preached a religion of hate and divisiveness, and have denigrated love and inclusivenes.

After so many centuries of religious acrimony, they have refused to learn the lessons of history and risk bringing back the dark days of Inquisition and witchhunts.

I have known many wonderful Christians and none of them back the theocratic push by the religious fanatic right and George Bush.

One thing I will give the LDS (Mormons), they refuse to accept tax monies or federal control.

be associated with them but you are a Christian? You could always go Methodist or Episcopalian, (What Robing Williams refers to as "Catholic light)

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the regressive fundamentalist churches as possible. Those are the ones I find to be an embarassment, and I resent some people identifying me with them.

I am a member of a Quaker meeting, and am currently attending a local UU church. I have worked on progressive issues with various Reformed, Congregational (UCC), Methodist, Catholic and Presbyterian churches and am looking to find a few others.

Where I'm living now, though, progressive churches are at a premium. There are a few UCCs and UUs and some very small Quaker meetings, but it's a fairly conservative area overall.

They can do what they like, as long as they don't bully everyone else.

in everything.

Their entire belief system, their goals, their values, their brainwashing techniques, their obnoxiousness, their idiocy, their sheeple attitude, their lack of empathy, their pomposity, their fantasy world, their lies, their vivesection of the bible, their lack of consistency and well--just about everything. When you put someone like Pat Robertson at the head of the RRR, it's very easy to despise everything they stand for.

the sinner"is just a facade for the anti-gays so they can swim in their hate. How many deaths has that one line caused?

I think a "what would Jesus do" saying is appropriate here...

the way they presume to speak for all Christians.

and their complete inability to subject their beliefs to any analysis whatsoever. And encouraging this mental desert in all others they meet.

Not meant to imply the op is stupid , just used
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But all of the above irk me :hi:

responsiblity from anyone than the minister owning the trust of the people that he preaches to. and ot take them away from christs lite instead of to christ is the worst in my book

Their insistance of trying to ram their beliefs down everyone's throat. I resent the hell out of that.

At my last job, I was taking an order over the telephone. The gentleman on the other end asks me if I had Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I told him this was not the time or place to discuss that. Personally, your religious beliefs are personal and are between you and your higher power. I resented the hwll out of that too.

The smug, superior attitudes that some Christians have about being saved. I know they're not perfect. Some in the religious reichstag use their religion as an EZ-Pass for getting away with almost murder.

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Actually, this is a beef with christianity itself: the self-proclaimed right to intrude on everyone with their supernatural worldview. Many are not intrusive, but it's an inherent part of the faith to go forth and convert. It's tiresome.

pompous or cliquey

the way they constantly speak for God, saying God wants this or God thinks that. Where do they get off speaking for God? Why doesn't anyone call them on it?

When you think about it, this behavior on their part is outrageous!

they are thinking every minute of the day about your hoo-ha and wee-wee.

and what you do with your hoo-ha and wee-wee.

i mean they really, really do think about what you do with your naughty bits.

:rofl: I NEVER thought of that but geeze you may be right!

When gays think about being gay it is about family and friends and life. The hoo-ha and wee-wee parts consume about the same time that straights think about them.

i'd love for a woman to tell some fundy to stop thinking about her hoo-ha.

not a sex object"

"Stop using me as your "politically correct" excuse to talk about sex"

Just playing with the idea here. Would be great to see on a bumper sticker.

What I've always found most insidious about the religiosu right is their disengenuous attempts to reach out to Catholics and to try to trick Catholics into believing there is room in the religious right's manifold, by focusing on social issues, knowing that Catholics must be:

1.) Against the death penalty
2.) Against the Iraq War and most aggressive, unnecessary wars in general (what John Paul II affirmed)
3.) Willing to tackle poverty and condemn greed and selfish libertarian politics
4.) Respect Jews and not support Israel for the right reasons but simply out of a hideous desire to see Jesus come down out of the sky and promptly throw the Jews into fiery hell for all of eternity
5.) Willing to accept fellow Catholics of all colors from Latin America and Africa, whereas most Protestant Fundamentalist Conservatives are disgruntled white men who hate European-Protestant immigrants, much less brown skinned Catholics
6.) Supportive of those Catholics in Northern Ireland who have been oppressed, while Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson prefer to buddy up to bloodthirsty scum like Ian "kill-all-papists" Paisley

I had many Catholic friends growing up and none of them were like these right winged fundies. Now that I am in the south it seems like there are more Baptists than anything.

All of those things you listed ARE Catholic beliefs yet the fundies try and stuff them aside and include Catholics in their numbers - like the emails I get that way %85 of Americans believe in God as if everyone wants to turn the US into a Theocracy. It is really a very small % of people who believe this but they do things to make themselves look bigger.

The fundies need to be reminded that Catholics do not approve of war or the death penalty.

Hatred for people of different religions, or even different ideological positions within their own religion.

The only difference between the Religious Right in the US and Islamic extremists in the Middle East is the religion. Both are willing to use terrorism to achieve their goals.

not...I finally 'see' the Pagan-root in Christianity throug history. Extremely so in Religious Right. (i.e., Robertson's quotes on "killing world leaders, or Shrub and Pickle's "sign" to the camera of that hand sign (two opposing fingers up). A sign denoting pagan worship...but instead "defended" by their press "contacts" rather unconvincingly as support for a Texas sports team.

Aside from "accidentally" running over her "ex" boyfriend, Pickles has that UNDENIABLE 'serpant' look; and Shrub's reference to personal conversations wit God, justifying War, and approving torturure...do NOT at all allign with TRUE religious devotion, but rather the "Paganistic" basis of Christianity as explained in "DaVinci Code."

In short, the Religious Right, scares the be-jeeesus out of me.

is that now some right wing nut job can come along and try to claim that 73% of the poll takers here who chose - "other" - perhaps do not have a problem with all the above - although many commented that they would have preferred to answer - "all of the above" - besides nearly a 100% of polls having some sort of bias built in - the results can also always be taken out of context...

hijacking the Constitution, obliterating the seperation of Church and State, Chastity pledges, prosthletizing in return for aid to the poor in other countries, and on and on.

TC

I dislike the fact that "religious right" do not appear to be religous or right.

Jesus said love others as I have loved you - pretty simple to me. He did not say love others (except if they are gay, or poor, or without healthcare, a home or jobs, or a minority or preganant). He did not say only love white guys who are rich.

Even when WE don't want it!

Their forceful intolerance.

and piss-poor theology imaginable.

Why is it so easy for so many 'Christians' to marginalize Christ??? They'll quote OT passages and St. Paul 'til the cows come home, but I rarely hear the reich-wingers repeating anything JESUS said...

All of the above and their unending, unyielding conviction that they think they know what is "right" for all of us even if they have to kill us to prove it.

I get the same feeling from them that I get in an overcrowded elevator. Claustrophobia.

Not only am I a lesbian, but I'm all for sex toys and think the world needs better porn. This is in addition, to supporting birth control, HPV vaccines, abortion, free speech etc.

and more

You can look up a talking point of theirs right here on this board, sad really.

Homosexuality, abortion, HPV vaccines, etc. They are all matters of privacy.

I don't get why people can't deal with gays. Who cares? I'd rather live next door to gay people than the fighting crackhead straight couple I currently have as neighbors. I'd trust the average gay person to babysit before I'd trust my current neighbors, too.

I understand their problems with abortion, even if I disagree with them. I don't have a problem with them criticizing it, I have a problem with them trying to make it illegal.

The HPV vaccine controversy is just insane on their part.

....it would be their automatic assumption that whatever they choose to say or do is right and proper and that anyone who disagrees deserves every vile and belittling treatment they can dream up.

The fact that they are attempting to force me (and everyone else) to live my life by their religous interpretation is the thing that pisses me off most.

They need to stay the fuck out of my religious life.

For instance, how they are so bent out of shape about a fetus getting aborted, but don't care at all about people dying every day b/c they can't afford medical care.

Everything!

Since these are the two issues they REFUSE to budge on.