Comments on: Elementary Elementaries http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2007/03/29/elementary-elementaries/ blog of a Spirit-filled, post-political, Reforming Christian. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:29:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Diane R http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2007/03/29/elementary-elementaries/comment-page-1/#comment-8351 Diane R Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:52:45 +0000 http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2007/03/29/elementary-elementaries/#comment-8351 You are absolutely right. The article at Sign of Jonah is wodnerful. I urge everyone to read it. IN fact I am going to talk about it on my blog too I think. You are absolutely right. The article at Sign of Jonah is wodnerful. I urge everyone to read it. IN fact I am going to talk about it on my blog too I think.

]]> By: Ken http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2007/03/29/elementary-elementaries/comment-page-1/#comment-8350 Ken Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:29:29 +0000 http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2007/03/29/elementary-elementaries/#comment-8350 <i>Also, there is this “christian conspiracy’ mindset that if Christian parents have lots of children and immerse them in the christian subculture, when these kids reach voting age, they will ‘vote out’ the evil liberal secular humanist ‘demoncrats’ and usher in the ‘Christian nation’ that was supposed to be forever lost on June 17, 1963 and eradicate ‘the big black cloud’ that is supposed to be over America.</i> Totem, isn't that the same as the Eurabian Mullah who said "ISLAM WILL CONQUER EUROPE! OUR WEAPONS WILL BE OUR WOMBS!"? And what is the significance of "June 17, 1963"? I'm pretty up on the First 1960s ("That Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" we threw away to screw in the mud at Woodstock), and I don't remember anything about that particular date. Most bloggers date "Sauron finally getting the Ring" -- the counterculture reaching critical mass, replacing the First 1960s with THE SIXTIES (TM) -- at around 1968. Oh, and for "Ushering in a Christian Nation", have you ever read the climax of Volume 12 of <i>Left Behind</i>? Where Christ has returned (more as a cosmic Kim Jong-Il than Aragorn Elessar), the cosmos is made new, Aslan's land spreads out ever onward and upward (at least as far as L&J can imagine, which isn't much), and the main character, in his perfected Resurrection body, can only think of "Now we can make America into a REAL Christian Nation"? Excerpt at: http://www.leftbehind.com/channelbooks.asp?pageid=1320 Full Slacktivist commentary and comment thread on the above excerpt at: http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2007/03/lb_the_missing_.html See if you can guess which comments are mine. Also, there is this “christian conspiracy’ mindset that if Christian parents have lots of children and immerse them in the christian subculture, when these kids reach voting age, they will ‘vote out’ the evil liberal secular humanist ‘demoncrats’ and usher in the ‘Christian nation’ that was supposed to be forever lost on June 17, 1963 and eradicate ‘the big black cloud’ that is supposed to be over America.

Totem, isn’t that the same as the Eurabian Mullah who said “ISLAM WILL CONQUER EUROPE! OUR WEAPONS WILL BE OUR WOMBS!”?

And what is the significance of “June 17, 1963″? I’m pretty up on the First 1960s (“That Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” we threw away to screw in the mud at Woodstock), and I don’t remember anything about that particular date. Most bloggers date “Sauron finally getting the Ring” — the counterculture reaching critical mass, replacing the First 1960s with THE SIXTIES (TM) — at around 1968.

Oh, and for “Ushering in a Christian Nation”, have you ever read the climax of Volume 12 of Left Behind? Where Christ has returned (more as a cosmic Kim Jong-Il than Aragorn Elessar), the cosmos is made new, Aslan’s land spreads out ever onward and upward (at least as far as L&J can imagine, which isn’t much), and the main character, in his perfected Resurrection body, can only think of “Now we can make America into a REAL Christian Nation”?

Excerpt at:
http://www.leftbehind.com/channelbooks.asp?pageid=1320

Full Slacktivist commentary and comment thread on the above excerpt at:
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2007/03/lb_the_missing_.html

See if you can guess which comments are mine.

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