Rick Scarborough Melts Down

This one's fun. Right Wing Watch reports that Rick Scarborough, leader of the religious right group Vision America went a little nuts recently.

He posted a pretty screwy message at his group's site, which RWW excerpts:

I once heard Adrian Rogers say that the reward for unrighteous living is unrighteous leaders, and that is exactly what God seems to be giving us for this time.

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Values Voters in America have been betrayed and we stand on the precipice of grave judgment if America does not repent. Radical Islam may be the tool that God uses to perfect His judgment upon a nation that began with such hope for the world, but one which has squandered it all in one generation of self indulgence. There is increasing public awareness of how radical Islam is preparing for all out Jihad on American soil.

Let me step in here. This is a common historical excuse for the failure of religion to save christians from calamity. When Scarborough calls jihadists 'the tool that God uses to perfect His judgment upon a nation', I'm reminded that the christian romans called the atheist Attila the Hun 'The Scourge of God' and claimed he was sent to punish Rome for not being christian enough. You'd like to think that people are more sophisticated now than they were in late Rome, but there ya go.

Back to the craziness.

So death prevails in America. The most innocent among us are now in jeopardy, while the Church sleeps on. This is not unusual, it has been going on for more than fifty years…but the stakes are now exponentially higher. Why? Because for the first time, it wasn’t JUDGES MANDATING IT BUT RATHER IT WAS VOTED ON BY THE PEOPLE…AND THE CHURCH STOOD BY AND LET IT HAPPEN!!!!

Here, I expect Scarborough was screaming, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

After wiping the spittle off his screen and keyboard, he finished:

It is entirely possible that to have liberal values being pushed on our nation by Congress for the next two years may be the best thing that could happen, although a very hard lesson for us to go through. It will show people a stark difference between conservative values and liberal values, and should motivate values voters to show up in even greater numbers the next time we have the God-given privilege to select our leaders again.

Two points, Rick. It's not a privilige, it's a right. And it's not 'God-given,' it's inherent. We've already executed that secular right -- and we used it to reject nutcases like you.

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