Just don’t call it a crusade
by digby
Here Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and American Family Association’s Sandy Rios chatting about stuff on the radio at the Values Voters Summit:
Perkins: “Faith is a very strong component in a lot of lives of those who serve in our nation’s military… And you know, the counter to that, of course, the Islamic movement, one of their goals, their top of the charts goal, is to express themselves as a religious movement, a movement dedicated to Allah.
Rios: “They don’t hide it, they call his name when they murder, so we are opposing a movement that honors a god of death, really. So this is no time to be shy about who it is that we serve.”
Perkins: “Right, we’re 180 degrees from those that are pushing the Islamic religion, ISIS and others. Contrary to what the president says, they are Islamic and they are pushing that religion, which is the total opposite of Christianity.”
If there’s one thing you can say about Christianity, they’ve never pushed their religion …
Meanwhile, we have this at the same gathering:
When Rios asked [Retired General Jerry] Boykin if he felt “a powerful movement” toward Christianity in Israel, Boykin responded that he did, but “the movement is more powerful among the Arabs,” which he saw as a good sign for ultimately converting Jews.
“There are more Arabs that are citizens of Israel that are coming to Christ, coming to faith, than there are Jews,” he said. “But eventually those Jews are going to figure out these Arabs are worshipping a Jew, and that’s going to stop a lot of them in their tracks and they are going to try to figure this out, and I believe it’s going to usher in a revival when they do.”
Rand Paul was there trying to reconcile libertarianism with social conservatism. He hates war. He reverse life. He thinks it’s ok if you love your neighbor but it isn’t absolutely necessary. But people should probably love those who are close to them:
Each of us today must examine what is important in your life. For me, it can be summed up in a dedication from my book that I wrote, and this dedication was for my wife.
What are the important things? Scratch my head, silence enough to hear my watch tick. Time, have I time to even consider what are the important things? Even when I sit still, I sit still in a hurry. But beyond, between and above all else, you, the girl, my wife, my love, can and do complete all syllogisms my circular brain can create. For me, you are the important things.
For us, as a nation, as a people, we need to decide what are the important things. They’re not all in politics. They’re not all here in present that we can fully understand them.
I think there is crisis in our country. It’s not just a fiscal crisis. I think it’s a moral crisis. I think it’s a spiritual crisis. (Cheers, applause.)
Somehow I don’t think he’s got the message down quite yet.
This guy does:
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