Mr. Stupid Comes to Town

OK, so I’m going to make Evangelicals more angry with me than I have already.  Of course if you’re an Evangelical and you’re living according to the teachings of the guy you’re supposed to be preaching about you won’t get angry but then how many Evangelicals do that?

News today: Huckabutt, aka, Huckabee, aka, Stupid, has floated the idea that he’s the one to lead the Evangelical Right.  If that’s not the most Evangelically WRONG idea I don’t know what is.

Check the news today.  It’s headlines.  Can I barf now?

I don’t like being unkind.  My heroes are Jesus and Buddha.  Neither of them would approve of this post.  I almost said, “I’m sorry,” but the truth is, I’m not.  I’m so agrivated with people who will so NOT use their brain for anything at all but chase the most rediculous people and follow the most rediculous ideas simply because it’s the “popular thing among Evangelicals” or your totally mis-informed pastor said so or some knucklehead talking HEAD on TV said so…. good grief, people are you  EVER going to wake up at all?

You have voted for idiots and brought this country to its knees.  Have you not NOTICED how screwed up this country is because YOU voted for BUSH?  Hello?

Today I am frustrated.  I have a problem with cowards and my son has not learned that, he did something very cowardly, so I’m a bit testy today.  You know what?  YOU are a coward if  you don’t have the guts to really LOOK at what these people are saying.  Chicken! Bock Bock!

Check down and see the post I made a while back called “Stupid.”  The man Huckabee has his head up his…. (expletive deleted) so far he can check the spots on his own liver.  I mean, come on, people.  Can’t you see that? How on God’s green earth could you follow such a person?

I am usually critical of nasty-mouthed name-calling bloggers who show no respect to anyone including themselves.  Really, it bothers me.  But dingidy dad-gummit, how wacked can some folks get?  I spent decades trying to get knucklehead Evangelical friends to get off their rear and get them to do stuff like they’re supposed to.  They were always afraid to walk the streets with tracts and preach but they could follow stupid talking heads around like …well, like sheep.  Baaaaaaah.  (Ask me why my car doesn’t grace the parking lot of that Mega-pseudoChurch any longer.”  From Pat Robertskunk to James Dobsnot  to  Huckaboob, have you no shame?  If you’re going to pick a leader pick one with brains, will ya?  Pick one that cares about making real a difference, one that will lead you to truth and will teach you how to be humble.  Find one that does not love his gold watch and cadilac!

OK, so, headline in the Washington Times: “Huckabee at forefront of evangelical revival.”  What Revival?  …I go on…

Quote: “He has become the leader of a new generation of Christian conservative voters,” said Rex Nelson, who was communications director when Mr. Huckabee was Arkansas’ governor. “The old leadership has either passed on in the case of [the Rev. Jerry] Falwell or become either irrelevant or out of touch — the Pat Robertson endorsement of Rudy Giuliani proves that.”  And Huckabumble ISN’T out of touch?

Next  Quote: “There is nobody else you can identify outside of Mike Huckabee as a leading person to take on that role, really in a new era where evangelicals care about a lot of things like the environment and working with the poor,” Mr. Nelson said.  Oh, yeah, Evangelicals care about the environment and the poor.   I see all those tiny, efficient cars in the parking lots of our local Super Churches, don’t I?  I bet all of those buildings have those cute little florescent bulbs in them.  And none of those glaring electrical vacuums called spot lights are turned on towards the pulpit, especially since the pastor is wearing K-mart Suits and a General Dollar watch and twelve-dollar loafers from Wallyworld?  Uh, huh.

Not.  How many of those Cadilac Escilades are parked over in poor town full of grits and gravy after church?  No, they’re down on the South Side (in Lufkin, at least) at upscale eating places.  And don’t you ask what I’ve been doing, either.  I’m not the ones out there claiming I’m “giving it all for Jeeeeesus.”  (Sorry, Lord, I should not have been sarcastic with your name.)

Another quote: “We are running one of the most cost-effective political campaigns in modern American history, chiefly because of the governor’s ability to communicate and the campaign’s ability to excel on the earned media front,” said Kirsten Fedewa, who has contributed to Mr. Huckabee’s media strategy for years.   (emphasis mine)  Want to know who the greatest human communicator was that ever walked this earth?  A man who lead millions?  A man who persuaded hundreds of thousands to do his bidding?  Guess again.  His name was Adolf Hitler.

Is Huckabiddybiddy Hitler?  No.  But he certainly doesn’t deserve to be followed because he gave a good speech.  I had a pastor once who could make people cry.  He was very good at preaching against “sexual sin.”  At least he was until he knocked up a member and destroyed his family and his church in one little poke. (pun intended!)  Stop listening to talking heads and stupid fools (OK, I know the warning but I can’t think of a better word).  Use your HEAD and look into your own HEART and figure IT out!

I am a (usually) dedicated traditional Unitarian.  I follow the teachings OF Jesus, not the junk people say about him.  Go back to the Gospels, people, and read them for yourself.  See if you match up.   Are you living selflessly?  Are you hoarding riches?  (This means living in big houses, wearing rollex watches, sitting in front of your HD-DVD Five-thousand-dollar big screen, and driving SUV’s, by the way.)

If you claim Huckabiddle as your political leader then you are terribly misguided and extremely politically naieve.  But if you claim him as your SPIRITUAL leader then you’re so far from what Jesus taught then there’s only one interjection I can think of: WOE!  Well, there is another but I’ll save it.

I feel better now.  And you’re mad at me!  What else is new?

Ted.