Don't Step On My Jaw

[crabby_lioness]

After all I've been through it takes a lot to gobsmack me, but good old Sara pulled it off:

Palin: Obama Seems To Want To Return To The "Days Before The Civil War" When People Were Not Considered Equal

So, Barak Obama wants to return to the days when he, his wife, and his daughters would have been slaves?  Facing legally mandated rape and torture with no recourse every day?  Is that what she's saying?

You figure it out:

I know the Paul Revere remark should have been fair warning, but....

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[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

I basically regard the modern GOP as a conglomeration of sociopaths & psychotics, so I'm beyond surprise at any crazy things any of them say. As for Palin, she left Catholicism when she was 14 to join a church that believes in witches & had a guest minister who was responsible for some people in Africa being killed as witches, so I think you can guess how I regard anything that comes out of her mouth.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Her church is a bit loonier than that according to some research I've been doing. I'm still getting all the references together but here's the gist:

In the early 20th Century massive relocation resulted in many rural poor fleeing to the cities. In 1901 the Methodists began recruiting poor formerly rural whites and black. In 1902 this resulted in a schism when one church modified it's services to adapt to the customs of the Appalachian poor whites, including possession, speaking in tongues, and racism. They broke off from the Methodists to form the Pentecostals. They also recruited heavily among the poor and eventually had another schism over racism resulting in the formation of the Apostolics, i.e. "the only church since the Apostles to get it right", which include both the Apostolic churches and the Assemblies of God.

In the 1930s a preacher who was also a KKK member caused another schism over racism by introducing "The Third Wave", which has it's own take on the creation myth. In their mythology Satan fathered Cain on Eve. Cain's demonic descendents, known as "the Serpent Seed", still walk the Earth, looking human but serving demons. They are inherently evil.

Originally of course "the Serpent Seed" were black people, but that was immediately denounced as a heresy by the other Apostolic churches. The Third Wave people said, "Okay, the Serpent Seed are anyone who disagrees with us."

In Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah (http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Gomorrah-Inside-Movement-Shattered/dp/B004P5OPAM/) about the 2008 election, he interviewed many Apostolics and most of Palin's home town. According to him, they now have a new definition of "Serpent Seed". Now it means smart people, intellectuals, especially those with a college education, including Bible colleges.

I haven't found independent verification of the "smart people are demon spawn" notion yet, but it explains a lot. It ties in with Santorum's odd anti-college remark. It explains how they could have visible signs of "driving demons" out of towns (they're actually driving out smart people). Most tellingly, it points back to the underlying fear in the 1996 book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in America, that smart whites would ally with smart blacks against dumb whites, a Doomsday prediction (for dumb whites) that actually true in the 2008 election with both sides allying behind the black intellectual Barack Obama. No wonder Obama literally looks like Satan to them.

This is Sara Palin's church, and it's the Domionism and demonic possession kicks the evangelicals are on. It's becoming the dominant church among the evangelicals, and a powerful force in Africa and South America where church leaders often hold national political offices.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

I was actually aware of some of that, though the "Serpent Seed" doctrine is something I hadn't encountered before. It does rather explain Sister Sarah's assertion that Obama wants to go back to slave days; believers are doubtless convinced they're in peril of being enslaved. Looks like projected guilt to me.

Anyway, Republican Gomorrah is already on my reading list, but it sounds like I should move it to the top.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Good grief, the question at the beginning made my eyes glaze over. Then she doesn't help much with an answer that doesn't answer anything. I'm delighted by the notion that Barack Obama needs Sarah Palin to explain equality of colour to him, though. He must be so grateful to her.

Why do the Republicans not just ask her to leave the party?!

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Why do the Republicans not just ask her to leave the party?!

The sane ones would like to, but there are precious few sane Republicans around these days and she's the darling of the nutters.

[talcat.livejournal.com]

She's out of her tree and REALLY didn't think about this one did she?

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

It's literally Logic For (Racist) Dummies.