It is refreshing to hear someone from time to time call something by what it actually is.  Frank Schaeffer is a former evangelical christian whose father was one of the most influential in the budding fundamentalist movement back int he Sixties and Seventies.  Schaeffer recounts his life in the memoir Crazy For God.

This is a man was was there, involved, part of it.  Doubtless many who did not snap out of it along the way think he’s a traitor, that he’s been possessed by Satan, that he is evil.  Yet that still doesn’t answer the criticisms he brings to the subject.

A recent poll in New Jersey has revealed that one in three right wing voters believe Obama is the Anti-Christ.  I will let the video take it from there.

LaLa Land.  That’s about as accurate as one can be.  What the fundamentalist movement has created of itself is a situation in which absolutely nothing can penetrate the wall of doublespeak and obfuscation they have built around themselves.  They are a community living within a tautology, and they cannot allow themselves to see it.

I agree with Schaeffer that it is time to encircle them and move on.  But this is a democracy, wherein all voices have at least a theoretical right to be heard.  We do not have a pat, rigorous response politically to the introduction of absurdisms into the public discourse.  We waffle, we try to be polite (which they do not) we try to be reasonable (which they take advantage of and disrespect) we try to, ironically, turn the other cheek in the face of their fallacious onslaught of nonsense.

As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar….and sometimes an idiot is just an idiot.