Coming soon to an America near you: Islamo-atheism

[FBM]

What an insufferable, shameless twat. How could we simultaneously become an atheist country and embrace Islam. Thing is, the dimwits in the audience would be just the ones to buy such oral diarrhea.

Gingrich fears 'atheist country ... dominated by radical Islamists'

Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,” in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.

Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. Hagee's endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy.

McCain ultimately rejected the endorsement over remarks Hagee had made about the Holocaust, in which he appeared to say that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel, in accordance with biblical prophecy.

"God says in Jeremiah 16: 'Behold, I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave to their fathers. ... Behold, I will send for many fishers, and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them.' That would be the Jews,” Hagee had said in an earlier sermon.

“Then God sent a hunter,” his sermon continued. “A hunter is someone who comes with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter."

McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement of his campaign after learning about the comments in May 2008. "Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them,” McCain said at the time.

Hagee then withdrew his endorsement of the Arizona senator, which he had offered three months earlier.

One irony of McCain rejecting Hagee’s endorsement over his Holocaust remarks is that the Texas evangelist leads the Christian Zionist movement. Hagee is founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel, which features Elie Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors at its events.

Here’s what Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church on Sunday evening, according to Politico:

"I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9," Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."

The former House Speaker held up his own faith (he converted to Catholicism two years ago) as proof of his undying patriotism. He lashed out at the college professors and mainstream media he says are seeking to wipe out the Founding Fathers' Christian values. And he targeted the judges who he charges are effectively re-writing the Constitution.

But Gingrich was mum on his own controversial past, one of martial indiscretions and divorces that have made courting religious conservatives a tall task as he nears a likely presidential run.

Gingrich’s church appearance comes amid a broader campaign to court religious conservatives.

On Monday, Hagee released a statement praising Gingrich's appearance at Cornerstone. “It was such a great honor to welcome Mr. Gingrich to our church, and hear him describe the centrality of faith in our nation,” he said.

The statement also included praise for Hagee and his wife, Diana, from Gingrich.

“It was truly an honor to be with John and Diana at Cornerstone," Gingrich said. "Their dedication to serve is inspirational.”

[Dory]

Jon Stewart called him out on that

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-m ... share_copy


Heh, Republicans used to care. They used to attach fearmongering words in a logical, non-paradoxical manner when they construct sentences. Now they're just throwing everything into the mix!

[FBM]

Jon Stewart called him out on that

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-m ... share_copy


Heh, Republicans used to care. They used to attach fearmongering words in a logical, non-paradoxical manner when they construct sentences. Now they're just throwing everything into the mix!

Thanks, Dory. I haven't been able to keep up with TDS lately. Yeah, I think the Republicans' scattergun approach to sound biting is a sigh of desperation. I hope so, anyway. On the other hand, it would be quite interesting to find out how a secular atheist country might be somehow run by Muslims.

[drl2]

Atheist muslims get their 72 virgins in this life!

[Dries van Tonder]

Atheist muslims get their 72 virgins in this life!

I'm still 71 short then

[HomerJay]

Jon Stewart called him out on that

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-m ... share_copy


Heh, Republicans used to care. They used to attach fearmongering words in a logical, non-paradoxical manner when they construct sentences. Now they're just throwing everything into the mix!

Can't watch in the UK

[DaveDodo007]

Jon Stewart called him out on that

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-m ... share_copy


Heh, Republicans used to care. They used to attach fearmongering words in a logical, non-paradoxical manner when they construct sentences. Now they're just throwing everything into the mix!

Can't watch in the UK

+1

[affirmedatheist]

The Republicans should just change their name to the Christian Fundamentalist Party and be done with it.

[Clinton Huxley]

Wouldn't islamo-atheists have to behead themselves for heresy? They aren't going to get very far.

[Svartalf]

You said it FBM, Newt has been an unsefferable twat ever since he was majority leader for bush the elder, which means what, 22 years not counting that he probably was before but that wasn't so obvious.

[Svartalf]

Atheist muslims get their 72 virgins in this life!

I'm still 71 short then

You still got one more than me.

[Atheist-Lite]

Atheist muslims get their 72 virgins in this life!

I'm still 71 short then

You still got one more than me.

That won't last long.

[FBM]

Wouldn't islamo-atheists have to behead themselves for heresy? They aren't going to get very far.

You said it FBM, Newt has been an unsefferable twat ever since he was majority leader for bush the elder, which means what, 22 years not counting that he probably was before but that wasn't so obvious.

I just can't imagine this guy ever being anything other than an insufferable twat.

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[Atheist-Lite]

[Existentialist1844]

I am sure this was posted already

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- ... 03544.html