Anti-American rhetoric not uncommon in conservative churches

March 19th, 2008 at 08:31am Pat Cunningham

 

Frank Schaeffer, a co-founder of the Religious Right, SAYS he and others have denounced America from the pulpits of conservative churches.

Schaeffer thinks Barack Obama is the victim of a “smear-by-association game.”

UPDATE: Schaeffer has more to say on this subject HERE, including some examples of what his famous father preached.

UPDATE II: Speaking of anti-Americanism, here’s a rant from right-wing nitwit Glenn Beck that seems not to have raised the hackles of the pseudo-patriots:

More and more Muslims now hate us all across the world, and it really has not a lot to do with anything other than our morals. The things that they were saying about us were true. Our morals are just out the window. We’re a society on the verge of moral collapse. And our promiscuity is off the charts. Now I don’t think that we should fly airplanes into buildings or behead people because of it, but that’s the prevailing feeling of Muslims in the Middle East. And you know what? They’re right.

UPDATE III: Schaeffer touched upon this in the first of his columns to which I linked above, but I thought we would do well to revisit it at greater length.  It’s a conversation between Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on Sept. 13, 2001, two days after the terrorist attacks for which they blamed America:

FALWELL: (W)hat we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact–if, in fact–God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

ROBERTSON: Jerry, that’s my feeling. I think we’ve just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven’t even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

FALWELL: The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this.

ROBERTSON: Well, yes.

FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way–all of them who have tried to secularize America–I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.” 

ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

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