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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Late Night Open Thread: Why Do GOP Has-Beens Presume to Speak for Their Jesus?

Late Night Open Thread: Why Do GOP Has-Beens Presume to Speak for Their Jesus?

by Anne Laurie|  February 21, 20142:51 am| 56 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes

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WATCH: Former GOP House Leader Tom DeLay says God wrote the Constitution http://t.co/2XEBBdNs9o

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 20, 2014

So ‘The Hammer’ is trying to burnish his rep with the Talibangelicals, before the election cycle redirects all available media attention to GOP criminals who haven’t been indicted (yet).

In related nitwittery, (via Lt. Col. Bateman, at Esquire), Right Wing Watch transcribes the Biblical exegesis of (Ret.) Lt. Gen. Jerry “My God Is More Awesome Than Yours” Boykin:

“Now I want you to think about this: where did the Second Amendment come from? … From the Founding Fathers, it’s in the Constitution. Well, yeah, I know that. But where did the whole concept come from? It came from Jesus when he said to his disciples ‘now, if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.’

I know, everybody says that was a metaphor. IT WAS NOT A METAPHOR! He was saying in building my kingdom, you’re going to have to fight at times. You won’t build my kingdom with a sword, but you’re going to have to defend yourself. And that was the beginning of the Second Amendment, that’s where the whole thing came from. I can’t prove that historically… but I know that’s where it came from.

And the sword today is an AR-15, so if you don’t have one, go get one. You’re supposed to have one. It’s biblical.”

My emphasis. “Okay, that’s not what’s in the Book I’m supposed to be quoting, and it’s sure as Scripture not in the philosophy of the God-Made-Man I profess to worship, but hey! It’s a free country, until my guys get their hands on the levers!”

I’m not using the ‘Religious Nuts’ tag, because neither of these guys are actually religious — they’re just spouting words they hope will be magical, in defense of their own manifest shortcomings.

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  1. 1.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 21, 2014 at 2:55 am

    I always figured him for more of a Thor kind of guy.

  2. 2.

    srv

    February 21, 2014 at 2:57 am

    I do not know how much more stress the fabric of space time can take from these wingulartarisms.

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    Mustang Bobby

    February 21, 2014 at 3:14 am

    If God wrote the Constitution, how come there’s a typo in it? Doesn’t the Supreme Being have Grammar Check?

  4. 4.

    max

    February 21, 2014 at 3:17 am

    I’m not using the ‘Religious Nuts’ tag, because neither of these guys are actually religious — they’re just spouting words they hope will be magical, in defense of their own manifest shortcomings.

    I’m going to disagree in the case of Boykin. From the descriptions, he’s pretty much a stock Southern apocalyptic evangelical, that can’t wait for the End Times. (And a check to make sure I parsed it correctly – yep, born in New Bern, NC.) *What* he believes is a different issue. I’m tempted to call it ‘Mithraic Christianity’ which is about liking that Jesus guy, but doesn’t much want anything to do with that hippy dippy stuff, whatever that was about. And I quote:

    We as believers have been promised that we will spend an eternity with God.

    Last Saturday, I was doing a men’s conference in Fredericksburg, Virginia and I was praying during the worship service and something dawned on me and it was the Holy Spirit speaking to me. And the Holy Spirit said, “this is what I want you to share with My men today”, and I’m going to share it with you and this is what it is:

    One day, we’re going to stand before the gates of Heaven. Some of us want to be able to walk up there in a white robe and we want to sing Abba Father and Amazing Grace and we want to say to the Lord, “I worshiped You.”

    But I want you to think about this: Here’s the way I want to enter the gates of Heaven. I want to come skidding in there on all fours. I want to be slipping and sliding and I want to hit the gates of heaven with a bang. And when I stand up and I stand before Christ, I want there to be blood on my knees and my elbows. I want to be covered with mud. And I want to be standing there with a ragged breast plate of righteousness. And a spear in my hand. And I want to say, “Look at me, Jesus. I’ve been in the battle. I’ve been fighting for you.”

    Ladies and gentlemen, put your armor on and get into battle. God bless you.

    I am reasonably certain that if the Jesus of the Gospels is anything like the real thing and Boykin had been around at the time, Boykin would’ve been a centurion who was down with nailing Jesus to the tree. (That’s what you do with terrorists, amiright?) Thanks to the miracle of cognitive dissonance, Boykin is never going to comprehend that, but is nevertheless furious in his belief.

    Delay, on the other hand, is just a crook with some patter, so I’m sure he believes what he says as well, in the sense that he sells himself on his invented bullshit before another round of dropping the new spin for even newer spin. (Ask him about the wonders of aluminum siding!)

    max
    [‘Kultastic!’]

  5. 5.

    Chris

    February 21, 2014 at 3:19 am

    Why Do GOP Has-Beens Presume to Speak for Their Jesus?

    Because none of their arguments are good enough to stand on their own merits without an appeal to authority. In fact, they’re so shitty that it takes an appeal to the highest authority there is for them to have a prayer of going through (pun intended).

  6. 6.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 21, 2014 at 3:21 am

    @Mustang Bobby: It looks like you’re trying to write a religion-based constitution. Would you like help?

    • Explain how those are incompatible concepts.

    • Just help me write the constitution.

  7. 7.

    KG

    February 21, 2014 at 3:21 am

    So, wait, James Madison was god?

  8. 8.

    Mustang Bobby

    February 21, 2014 at 3:23 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Thank you, Clippy.

  9. 9.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 21, 2014 at 3:27 am

    @max:

    Some of us want to be able to walk up there in a white robe and we want to sing Abba

    I don’t think they’ll let him in actually.

  10. 10.

    KG

    February 21, 2014 at 3:28 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: actually, a religion based constitution isn’t impossible. It’s one of the reasons they wrote the first amendment the way they did. And if you look at constitutions in many Muslim states, they’re specifically religion based. Four members of the EU (Denmark, England, Greece, and Malta) have state religions. Sweden did too, until 2000. Our constitution is specifically secular, but that’s not necessarily a requirement

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    Fred

    February 21, 2014 at 3:28 am

    Isn’t DeLay supposed to be in jail? Oh that’s right. Jails are for the little people.

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 21, 2014 at 3:30 am

    @KG: I know, I thought of that afterwards. I still think they’re incompatible, personally, but you’re right.

    I guess I also think in our case they knew what they were doing, i.e. no state religion, just because well, look at us now, even with it mostly secular. We’re sort of fanatics, that’s how Europeans see us often.

  13. 13.

    KG

    February 21, 2014 at 3:34 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: pluralistic democracy, particularly one built on multi-generational immigration, such as the US, is incompatible with a state sponsored/mandated religion. There’s simply too much diversity within our society for a state religion to work. It likely would have torn the nation apart in the 1790s, whether because of a federal mandate or because states chose different religions/denominations.

  14. 14.

    ? Martin

    February 21, 2014 at 3:37 am

    Man, God really has a böner for slavery. He writes it into everything.

  15. 15.

    Chris

    February 21, 2014 at 3:37 am

    @max:

    But I want you to think about this: Here’s the way I want to enter the gates of Heaven. I want to come skidding in there on all fours. I want to be slipping and sliding and I want to hit the gates of heaven with a bang. And when I stand up and I stand before Christ, I want there to be blood on my knees and my elbows. I want to be covered with mud. And I want to be standing there with a ragged breast plate of righteousness. And a spear in my hand. And I want to say, “Look at me, Jesus. I’ve been in the battle. I’ve been fighting for you.”

    “No, you haven’t. The best thing I can say for you is that you’ve been fighting for your country. I am not your country. Your country is a human construct and a temporary one like all of them. I didn’t come down and die on the cross for your country or any other, I did it for all of humanity, including the ones you thought it was your duty to cheerfully blow to hell. That was the point. You want to fight for me? I told you how to fight for me. I told you to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, invite the strangers into your home, look after the sick and visit the prisoners. Have you been doing that shit? Why not? Which part of it was too complex?”

  16. 16.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 21, 2014 at 3:40 am

    @KG: There are other reasons as well. That it would work less well for us I mean. European countries have a long history that we simply didn’t have, and it’s tempered any desire to let religion have state power. Religion is for “weddings and funerals” they say in France, any politician preaching about Gog and Magog as part of a political effort wouldn’t stand a chance. There are excellent reasons for this, they’ve seen what happens the other way.

    Of course the people writing our constitution had the same history in a sense, and that’s why they did it that way, but I’m just saying there are reasons now that it would work far less well for us.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    February 21, 2014 at 4:05 am

    The well of ignorance never runs dry.

  18. 18.

    MikeJ

    February 21, 2014 at 4:28 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    I also think in our case they knew what they were doing, i.e. no state religion, just because well, look at us now, even with it mostly secular. We’re sort of fanatics, that’s how Europeans see us often.

    There’s some argument to be made that the reason we have so many fanatics is because we don’t have a state religion. If we had an official church it would just be another arm of the government to be ridiculed or ignored

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 21, 2014 at 5:25 am

    Boykin should have been dismissed from the Army for the good of the service…no pension, for that shit. Unprofessional in the extreme. Disgrace to the uniform.

  20. 20.

    Skippy-san

    February 21, 2014 at 5:44 am

    @Mustang Bobby: For the win.

  21. 21.

    Alien Radio

    February 21, 2014 at 5:49 am

    Nobody Speaks for The Jesus

  22. 22.

    NonyNony

    February 21, 2014 at 6:20 am

    @Chris:

    I think he’d be too stunned at how Semitic Jesus looked to be able to say much of anything.

    St. Peter would meet him at the gate and he’d start screaming something about Ay-rabs invading Heaven and reach for his gun to try to liberate it.

  23. 23.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 21, 2014 at 6:57 am

    The fundie obsession with individual verses baffles me. I just went back and reread Luke 22. The sword line isn’t a sermon to the general public, it’s specific instructions for a specific situation. You might as well go back a few verses and write a constitutional amendment about asking people for cups of water. Hell, later in the chapter it turns out the whole point of the swords is so Jesus can tell the disciplines not to fight for him, and Jesus heals the guy they fought.

  24. 24.

    folkbum

    February 21, 2014 at 7:19 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: And later, when Peter actually uses the sword, Jesus yells at him to put it away (“Put up again thy sword into his place: for all tthey that take the sword shall die by the sword,” Matthew 26:52) and heals the man Peter injured.

    These kind of Christians are happy to nutpick the Bible, though.

  25. 25.

    aimai

    February 21, 2014 at 7:38 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Yup, I did the same, read the entire passage. In Luke Jesus is really conflicted, seemingly, about whether he is going to fight or surrender to his fate. He tries to tell his followers that they are all going on a long journey, as rebels and outcasts who will be “numbered among the transgressors” and that they need a sword but he is satisfied when they manage to find two and only two swords. As you say its a specific historical incident. In this specific historical setting two swords is laughable since Jesus seems to be going up against the whole roman army and everyone in power. He spends all night praying to know what the right thing is to do and to reconcile himself with his imminent death and he even scolds his followers for not doing the same. Relaxing, sleeping, and just following orders (even the orders to carry the swords) is represented as a “temptation” to be resisted with prayer. When they wake up, and the guards come to seize Jesus, one of the swords guys gets a little frisky and there is a very small ear cutting incident which Jesus stops, heals, and rebukes. Either, as you say, the “whole point” of the entire passage is that swords are not needed in g-‘ds work and that Jesus will go out a healer, not a killer or Jesus himself changes his mind midway through the passage and reconciles himself that there is no military/violent way for a man to avoid his fate.

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    Punchy

    February 21, 2014 at 7:40 am

    Please…PLEASE tell me that Boykin quote is from the Onion….otherwise, WOW.

  27. 27.

    Lurking Canadian

    February 21, 2014 at 7:40 am

    @Chris: One of the many things I have learned at Balloon Juice is the answer to the puzzle of how these “Christians” manage to ignore or outright violate everything Jesus taught. It turns out the explicitly don’t care what Jesus taught.

    As I understand it, the wingnut position is that Jesus’ earthly ministry was for the Jews of Palestine. Since they didn’t listen, and he died, everything he said while on Earth is null and void. The only Jesus that matters to them is the ass kicker in Revelation.

    Now, how you can hold that position and call yourself a “Biblical literalist”, I couldn’t say, but with that exception, their religion holds together. I mean, it’s got nothing to do with the guy they claim it’s about, but it’s internally consistent at least.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    February 21, 2014 at 7:57 am

    These guys need to take a step back and realize they’re really just the Christian version of the Mooslum fundamentals they claim to despise so much.

  29. 29.

    Egypt Steve

    February 21, 2014 at 9:01 am

    There’s also this:

    Jesus said, “put away your sword. All those who live by the sword will die by the sword. So if they pull a sword, you pull a gun. If they put one of yours in the hospital, you put two of theirs in the morgue. That’s the way of my Father in Heaven.”

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 21, 2014 at 9:10 am

    @Egypt Steve: That is from Paul’s Letter to the Chicagoans, right?

  31. 31.

    The Red Pen

    February 21, 2014 at 9:11 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    The fundie obsession with individual verses baffles me.

    FWIW, the technical term for this is “proof-texting.” The word is usually said with a derisive tone.

    The sword line isn’t a sermon to the general public, it’s specific instructions for a specific situation.

    Furthermore, when the disciples say, “Hey, we’ve already got a couple of swords,” Jesus basically says, “OK, you can stop talking now.” There’s a definite sense, particularly in the original text, that Jesus thinks they’re missing the point.

  32. 32.

    Paul in KY

    February 21, 2014 at 9:17 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: Agree. he sure got off light for shooting his mouth off & endangering all our troops in Iraq/Afganistan.

    You know, though, that that is typical for general officers (not being held accountable, giving each other the mildest punishments).

  33. 33.

    Paul in KY

    February 21, 2014 at 9:20 am

    @Egypt Steve: 1st Nugent, Chapter 3, verse 16

  34. 34.

    BubbaDave

    February 21, 2014 at 9:26 am

    No, you haven’t. The best thing I can say for you is that you’ve been fighting for your country. I am not your country. Your country is a human construct and a temporary one like all of them. I didn’t come down and die on the cross for your country or any other, I did it for all of humanity, including the ones you thought it was your duty to cheerfully blow to hell. That was the point. You want to fight for me? I told you how to fight for me. I told you to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, invite the strangers into your home, look after the sick and visit the prisoners.

    As Fred Clark (Slactivist) says, “That’ll preach.”

  35. 35.

    divF

    February 21, 2014 at 9:29 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    France particularly knows that sectarian strife isn’t worth it. Henri IV said, “Paris is worth a mass”, as he casually converted from Protestantism to Catholicism to obtain the crown.

  36. 36.

    Comrade Dread

    February 21, 2014 at 9:42 am

    I know, everybody says that was a metaphor. IT WAS NOT A METAPHOR!

    Actually, most people I know say that in context it was done to fulfill the prophesy that Christ would be numbered with the transgressors. Messianic cults at the time typically ended in armed revolt against Rome. Having armed disciples would lend credence to the charges of the priests that He was planning to rebel against Rome.

    And most people say that because when St. Peter decided to actually use the darn sword, Jesus told him to put it away and healed the man Peter had hurt, and because the early church decided to follow Christ’s example and accept prison, beatings, or death rather than engage in violent self-defense, probably harkening back to the “Do not fear him who can kill the body…” teachings of Christ.

  37. 37.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 21, 2014 at 9:44 am

    @The Red Pen:

    There’s a definite sense, particularly in the original text, that Jesus thinks they’re missing the point.

    When I read the gospels, ‘missing the point’ seemed to be the main role of the apostles. Jesus gathered together idiots, murderers, the poor, the rich, priests and non-Jews, and used them to say to the world ‘See? ANYBODY can live a good life, even these chuckleheads.’ He spent a lot of time lecturing them on why they were less wise and faithful than random people he met on the street.

  38. 38.

    Aaron S. Veenstra

    February 21, 2014 at 9:56 am

    IT WAS NOT A METAPHOR! But also, the sword is a gun.

  39. 39.

    The Red Pen

    February 21, 2014 at 10:00 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    When I read the gospels, ‘missing the point’ seemed to be the main role of the apostles.

    I certainly hope whatever reality exists behind the stories, the actual apostles were smarter. I think that the “Duh, I don’t get it, Jesus,” gambit allowed for a lot of expository dialogue in the narrative. It was either that or a lot of the “As you all know…” trope. Tedious either way.

    Michael Bay would have dispensed with all that and just have Jesus and Herod turn into giant robots and fight each other.

  40. 40.

    Fred

    February 21, 2014 at 10:22 am

    @Aaron S. Veenstra: Wellll, now yer just gettin’ picky!

  41. 41.

    Rafer Janders

    February 21, 2014 at 11:32 am

    I’m not using the ‘Religious Nuts’ tag, because neither of these guys are actually religious —

    No True Scotsman Fallacy.

    they’re just spouting words they hope will be magical, in defense of their own manifest shortcomings.

    Um, yeah. That’s what makes them religious.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    February 21, 2014 at 11:39 am

    @Rafer Janders:

    No, I get what Anne Laurie is saying — she thinks that DeLay and Boykin are saying these things cynically, not really believing them, because it will get them extra points from the folks who actually do believe them.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    February 21, 2014 at 11:48 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Fred Clark at Slactivist has been doing a lot of posts lately on “clobber texts” and reading the Bible selectively and linking that kind of reading directly to the “Biblical” justifications for American slavery — here’s just one of them.

    As with so many things in American culture, it’s all about defending slavery and racism.

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    February 21, 2014 at 12:10 pm

    @Mnemosyne: As with so many things in American culture, it’s all about defending slavery and racism.

    Yes, it’s sadly ironic, that in creating a culture where everyone had a shot, they would immediately follow it up with, “Except you. And you. And you and you and you.”

  45. 45.

    Greg

    February 21, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Mormons believe that the US Constitution was “divinely inspired” and that the US has been chosen by God for…. well, for whatever.

  46. 46.

    Citizen_X

    February 21, 2014 at 12:30 pm

    One day, we’re going to stand before the gates of Heaven. Some of us want to be able to walk up there in a white robe and we want to sing Abba

    Whew. Thanks, General. Some of us were worried that Heaven might not be completely faaab-u-lousssss!

  47. 47.

    Cervantes

    February 21, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    I’m not using the ‘Religious Nuts’ tag, because neither of these guys are actually religious — they’re just spouting words they hope will be magical, in defense of their own manifest shortcomings.

    I don’t know how you distinguish Boykin from a religious person. He’s been spouting this sort of nonsense for a long time and before religious audiences. For example:

    [Ato] went on CNN and he laughed at us, and he said, “They’ll never get me because Allah will protect me. Allah will protect me.” Well, you know what, I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol. When Ato was captured, three days later, Gen. Boykin went into his cell and told him to his face: “You underestimated our God.”

    That’s him explaining how he (Delta Force) defeated Osman Ato, a Somali warlord in the early ’90s.

    And here he is on the subject of Election 2000:

    George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

  48. 48.

    Ian

    February 21, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:
    I almost forgot about that annoying paper clip and its insidious suggestions

  49. 49.

    chopper

    February 21, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    I know, everybody says that was a metaphor. IT WAS NOT A METAPHOR! He was saying in building my kingdom, you’re going to have to fight at times. You won’t build my kingdom with a sword,

    it was not a metaphor! ok, yeah, it was a metaphor.

  50. 50.

    slippytoad

    February 21, 2014 at 3:59 pm

    @Chris:

    I’ve said baldly and I think it should be said LOUDLY.

    When someone tells you “God wants” just IGNORE the God part. Replace it with “I” as in “the speaker.”

    Now, if you listen more carefully, and remember the motivation of the speaker, you’ll discover that God wants whatever he does, curiously enough, and even if it’s not a Godly thing to want.

    I don’t know why some people are so mother-fucking dumb, just head-smacking fucking retarded, that they do not have the ability to see through these kinds of con-artists. But, so many of them are, and they just happen to be conservative.

  51. 51.

    slippytoad

    February 21, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States.

    On that subject, Boykin was 100% correct. He was in fact an illegitimate President, as we all know.

    God is not a legitimate elector, Jerry Boykin. You should try reading the Constitution if you’re not too fucking illiterate to do so.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    February 21, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    @slippytoad:

    Or, as Anne Lamott said:

    “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

  53. 53.

    dmhlt

    February 21, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    If God REALLY wrote our Constitution …

    Then why did it need Amendments?

  54. 54.

    Rafer Janders

    February 22, 2014 at 12:14 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    No, I get what Anne Laurie is saying — she thinks that DeLay and Boykin are saying these things cynically, not really believing them, because it will get them extra points from the folks who actually do believe them.

    I don’t know about DeLay, but Boykin CERTAINLY believes it. He’s been spouting this nonsense for years and years.

  55. 55.

    mmc

    February 22, 2014 at 1:51 am

    He was simply quoting from the Book of Armaments I believe those verses came right before the instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch…

  56. 56.

    Cervantes

    February 22, 2014 at 8:42 am

    @mmc: Good call!

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