Congressional GOPers' Pretend Work: A Bible Resolution

My first thought was... this has to be a joke. 

America is struggling through an economic crisis of historic proportions.  Unemployment is rife.  Our troops are fighting Muslim extremists overseas.  The environment is an absolute mess.  Serious health care reform is the merest glint on a distant horizon, with conservatives fighting progress on that issue every step of the way.

And what is the GOP offering legislatively to bring positive change to the lives of ordinary citizens?  Why, they're introducing a measure to designate 2010 as The Year of the Bible! 

Fourteen Republican lawmakers with apparently too much time on their hands and no solutions to offer the country are pushing a resolution that will not address the nation's problems or advance prosperity or even untangle their previous governing mistakes.  Indeed, the only voters who will be impressed by this shallow piece of congressional theatre are the religious fundies who once hallelujahed George W. Bush into office.   

Jill Richardson writes on Kos:  Is anyone else sick of living in the United States of Jesustan? And, um, why are these 14 Congresscritters wasting their time with silly stuff like this when we've occupied 2 foreign countries and our economy is in the tank? Is it because they think the only possible way out of the mess the Republicans created is to pray? I mean, that's SLIGHTLY less obnoxious than being merely the "party of no" but it still doesn't get us anywhere.

Three of the fourteen elected officials hawking this horseshit are from my home state of Texas - Reps. John Carter, Kenny Merchant, and Louis Gohmert.  Two are from Georgia.  The others hail from various southern states with the exception of Jim Jordan of Ohio and Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan.

Never doubt for a moment where lawmakers of the fundie Christian persuasion place their priorities.  Your problems: 2.  Their self-created political problems: 8.  Pushing a theocratic agenda down the throats of everyone else: 10.

Comments

[vjack]

My attempts to send trackbacks never work, but I wanted you to know that I linked to this great post at http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/05/get-ready-for-year-of-bible.html

[Max P.]

Thanks, vjack!

[Bee Girl]

The Year of the Bible? Why not make is a decade? A century? Good grief. I guess the fundies will be pissing themselves in anticipation.

[Jeff Eyges]

There'll be parades and county fairs, and exaltation from the pulpits, no doubt - like Nero fiddling while Rome burned from the fire he himself had set.

[sue]

while we are in such a crisis-economy, health care, school violence, crime, etc- the Bible is exactly what we need! it contains answers to all these problems and more-look what's happened since prayer was taken out of public schools?? anyone who thinks this is silly needs to understand where this country is headed without the Holy Bible!

[EH]

For anyone who understands the repercussions of original sin, will know that the Bible is not some silly book. I can only pray, "yes pray", for all those who are so confused as to believe that your time here on earth is about you. If You want to fix problems, how about you educate yourselves on the two rules that allow us to have a clarity of mind and heart: 1. Do not put any others above God himself, 2. Love and serve thy neighbor, as God has loved and served us. History tells us how prophets of that time foretold the coming of Jesus, and the price he would pay for us. Imagine, if we loved thy neighbor enough to help them. The economy, health care, school violence, crime, ect..., all of these have evil behind them. Greed, selfishness, self-serving, uncaring. All you have to do is look and see that all of us are being tested, and as a nation we are failing horribly. Even the Church (Catholic - only one with a direct tie to the Apostles who walked on this earth with the Savior, Jesus Christ), has its own demons to battle(also foretold). Those who believe, understand why recognizing the Good Word of God may just be what helps us become better people. If we improve who we are, all else will improve with it, but understand that only through suffering are we able to recognize the meaning of our lives. Think about 9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, The Congo, ect... All of these, and its atrocities remind us that we have good inside. We remember in these moments that we are all Human Beings first and furmost. We tend to care about each other in times of crisis. When this country started we recognized a self evident truth, All are created equal, and that we all have unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. How can man have such wisdom unless they too were tested? I don't need for our congress to recognize the Bible, because I already do. Becuase of that, I welcome those who are not afraid to stand up for what it offers even if all non-believers are able to do is criticize without knowledge of what you are condeming. I will pray for all of us good, bad, indifferent, atheist, republican, democrat, independent. May God Bless us all!

[Cassandra]

We need a "Year of the Bible" like we need a another war.

Xtians, stop pushing your religion on the rest of us!

[Mark]

"Fourteen Republican lawmakers with apparently too much time on their hands and no solutions to offer the country are pushing a resolution that will not address the nation's problems or advance prosperity or even untangle their previous governing mistakes."

The Bible has the answers to all these things. How ironic for you to say that.

[David Kline]

"and no solutions to offer the country are pushing a resolution that will not address the nation's problems or advance prosperity or even untangle their previous governing mistakes."

I'm just wondering how many of you have really, I mean REALLY, read through the bible and understand it. Not many on this site with the exception of EH. Because if you had, then you'd see that this book IS the answer to all the "problems" you all have articulated so far in this blog. Along with EH, I will continue to pray for those of you whos eyes are blind, hearts have holes, and are still searching for "something" that you'll never find.
DCK

[Jack]

The bible is philosophical backwash. I'm not devoting my time to a book that's been through so many hands that it might as well have been a one dollar bill.