The American Taliban Speaks

-bodhi: July 14, 2005

Most people are highly focused on George Bush's crimes, and they are considerable, but we should never forget that he is just the end product of a truly psychotic movement that has been slowly plotting and scheming it's way into power for the past 40 years. Only with this understanding can we eliminate their bitterly harmful influence. They set themselves at odds with the Taliban not just because they want to destroy them, but because they ARE them. They are the flip-side of the same evil coin. One side tossed about in the Mosques, the other side, changing hands in the Church. In their subconscious self-loathing, they wish to destroy the "other" because they see in their opponents, the worst that exists in themselves.

Here then, are the thoughts of the most prominent member of this collective psychosis:

Ann Coulter

• "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
• "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed.'"
• "Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."

Beverly LaHaye (Concerned Women for America, wife of Tim LaHaye, author of the "Left Behind: series of novels)

• "Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."

Bob Dornan (Rep. R-CA)

• "Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'"

Fob James (Governor of Alabama)

• "Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!" "A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy."

Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)

• "Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!"
• "American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!"
• "If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it." 
• "You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!" 
• "Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death."

Gary Bauer (American Values)

• "We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."

Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)

• "The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion – must be denied citizenship."
• "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."

Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action)

• "When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."

George H. W. Bush Sr. (President of the United States)

• "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

George W. Bush (President of the United States)

• "I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision. (To be tolerant of the Wiccan religion.)"
• "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
• "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
• "This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while." 

Henry Morris (Institute for Creation Research)

• "When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data."

J. B. Stoner (White Supremacist)

• "We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS."
• "AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out."

James Dobson (Focus on the Family)

• "Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world."
• "State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."
• "Today's children... They're damned. They're gone."

James Kennedy (Center for Reclaiming America)

• "The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."

James Watt (Secretary of the Interior)

• "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."

Jay Grimstead (Coalition on Revival)

• "We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."

Jerry Falwell (Head of Liberty "University")

• "We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself."
• "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."
• "The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."
• "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
• "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

Jesse Helms (Sen. R-NC)

• "The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."
• "All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction."
• "Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."
• "Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches."

Jimmy Swaggart (Jimmy Swaggart Ministries)

• "The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Also, will they believe what the Media says, considering that its aim is to steal, kill, and destroy?"
• "Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."
• "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it...Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."

John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute)

• "The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."

Joseph Morecraft (Chalcedon Presbyterian Church)

• "Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."

Joseph Scheidler (Pro-Life Action League)

• "I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."

Kay O'Connor (Kansas Senate Republican)

• "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote." (You're not an "old-fashioned" woman, you're an "idiot".)

Keith A. Fournier (Catholic Way)

• "We need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture."

Lester Roloff (Texas Homes for Wayward Youth - jailed in 1973 and again in 1975 for child abuse for the harsh punishment techniques used in his homes. Was allowed to re-open his homes by, you guested it, Governor George W Bush.)

• "Better a pink bottom than a black soul."

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin

• “George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”

Pat Buchanan (Presidential Candidate)

• "Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
• "There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The negroes of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."
• "Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."

Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition)

• "The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers."
• "Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history."
• "When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals – the two things seem to go together."
• "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
• "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
• "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period."
• "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."
• "[Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns."

Randall Terry (Operation Rescue)

• "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
• "Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies."
• "I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like – and if you have babies, you have babies."
• "When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."
• "There is going to be war, [and Christians may be called to] take up the sword to overthrow the tyrannical regime that oppresses them."

Rick Santorum (Sen. R-PA)

• "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [Gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!"

Robert T. Lee (Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments)

• "Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse."
• "You do not have the right to be wrong, regardless of what any man-made or demonic charter says."
• "Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."
• "Do you realize that the only thing that gives democracy existence is sin? The absence of democracy is perfect obedience to god."
• "The best way to insure the earth is never over populated is for sensible and righteous governments to clear all forms of atheism and heresy."

Ronald Reagan (President of the United States)

• "For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."

Rush Limbaugh

• "Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
• "If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
• "There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them."

Chief Justice William Rehnquist

• "The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."

Michael Savage (Savage Nation)

• "Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig."